Transparent Screens!

Ever wondered how it will be like, to have a transparent screen in laptops?!
Won't that be great to see through the LCD screens of laptops? Have a look a this:

Of course, you can take snap of your laptop and add any image in it using any of the photo-editing software like, Adobe Photoshop, or Gimp. But these images are not "photoshopped", yes, you read it correctly. These images are NOT manipulated using any software! They are they are hot images(word pun intended) direct from the camera. Can you believe taht!? Yes, sometimes our senses fail to convince us.

Here are some more samples to baffle ya :

Again , these are NOT photo-shopped.

Here is the detailed description of the trick involved:

1. Take a picture of the background without the laptop.
2. Then, load that picture into the laptop and crop[cut] it according to the effect and set that as wallpaper.
3. Then, place the laptop so that the laptop wallpaper aligns smoothly with the original background.(now, it will look like the laptop screen is transparent)
   
4. Using professional photography skills, take a snap of the laptop with the background.

The last two steps are the most important ones and demand great skill & patience.

As i said, no need for photoshopping skills here, only photography skills and creativity to inspire people.

Here are some which is a step ahead of others(blatantly, with some photoshopping):




Relish more of this kind here. and also here.

All the images posted here are NOT mine. All belongs to the original authors in Flickr.

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Be Proud to be an Indian!!

India 's first space craft to Moon,3.84lakh km away.
India is the Nation to spend a spacecraft to moon.

The unmanned Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft blasted off smoothly from a launch pad in southern Andhra Pradesh to embark on a two-year mission of exploration.

The robotic probe will orbit the Moon, compiling a 3-D atlas of the lunar surface and mapping the distribution of elements and minerals.

The launch is regarded as a major step for India as it seeks to keep pace with other space-faring nations in Asia.

It was greeted with applause by scientists gathered at the site.

The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi says there has been a lot of excitement about the event, which was broadcast live on national TV.

Competitive mission

One key objective will be to search for surface or sub-surface water-ice on the Moon, especially at the poles.

It will also be able detect Helium 3, an isotope which is rare on Earth, but is sought to power nuclear fusion and could be a valuable source of energy in future.

Powered by a single solar panel generating about 700 Watts, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) probe carries five Indian-built instruments and six that are foreign-built.

The mission is expected to cost 3.8bn rupees (£45m; $78m).

CHANDRAYAAN 1 1 - Chandrayaan Energetic Neutral Analyzer (CENA) 2 - Moon Impact Probe (MIP) 3 - Radiation Dose Monitor (RADOM) 4 - Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) 5 - Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) 6 - Chandrayaan 1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) 7 - Solar Panel

The Indian experiments include a 30kg probe that will be released from the mothership to slam into the lunar surface.

The Moon Impact Probe (MIP) will record video footage on the way down and measure the composition of the Moon's tenuous atmosphere.

"Chandrayaan has a very competitive set of instruments... it will certainly do good science," said Barry Kellett, project scientist on the C1XS instrument, which was built at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory in the UK.

C1XS will map the abundance of different elements in the lunar crust to help answer key questions about the origin and evolution of Earth's only natural satellite.

Researchers say the relative abundances of magnesium and iron in lunar rocks could help confirm whether the Moon was once covered by a molten, magma ocean.

"The iron should have sunk [in the magma ocean], whereas the magnesium should have floated," Mr Kellett told BBC News.

"The ratio of magnesium to iron for the whole Moon tells you to what extent the Moon melted and what it did after it formed."

The instrument will look for more unusual elements on the Moon's surface, such as titanium. This metallic element has been found in lunar meteorites, but scientists know little about its distribution in the lunar crust.

Chandrayaan will also investigate the differences between the Moon's near side and its far side. The far side is both more heavily cratered and different in composition to the one facing Earth.

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket will loft Chandrayaan into an elliptical "transfer orbit" around Earth.

The probe will later carry out a series of engine burns to set it on a lunar trajectory.

The spacecraft coasts for about five-and-a-half days before firing the engine to slow its velocity such that it is captured by the Moon's gravity.

India, China, Japan and South Korea all have eyes on a share of the commercial satellite launch business and see their space programmes as an important symbol of international stature and economic development.

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Liver Transplant for 7 months child

THURSDAY, October 9, - In a unique surgery of its kind, Indian doctors at the Apollo Indraprastha Hospital in New Delhi have performed a successful liver transplant on a 7-month-old child.

Sivojit Paul was born with a condition called biliary atresia. In this condition there are no connections between the liver and the intestine. Therefore bile is not excreted and this can lead to a fatal condition. The only way out is to perform a liver transplant.

Sivojit, who is based in Kolkata, came to New Delhi two months ago with severe jaundice after a surgery to connect the liver and intestine failed in a Kolkata hospital. His mother Munmun Paul told reporters they were referred to Delhi by the Kolkata doctors.

Doctors at Apollo said they could not afford to wait because the child's condition was rapidly deteriorating. Generally liver transplants are not attempted until one year of age.

gastroenterologist Dr Anupam Sibal and his team found Sivojit's father Indranil Paul to be a fit donor. A part of his liver was taken to be transplanted into his son.

Biliary atresia is not a common condition. Only 1 out of 12,000 babies suffer from this condition, which cannot be treated unless a liver transplant is performed.

While doctors expect Sivojit to make a complete recovery and lead a normal life; he still has to take anti-rejection medicines all his life.

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Moon halo

Did u notice the night sky on Friday(12-sep-08)?
The sky was clear and the moon was unusually bright and it had a bright big ring around it.
Yes, you read it right!
Moon had a ring around it, and i was excited to see it.

I was pondering over the cause for such a rare phenomenon. I googled for it and came to know that its called moon halo and the explanation for the same is as follows:

Moon halos are caused by tiny ice crystals that have gathered twenty thousand feet above the ground, as thin, wispy clouds. These clouds are so thin, you might not notice them at night, if it weren't for their effect on the moonlight. Incoming light rays from the moon are bent--or "diffracted"--by these ice crystals at an angle of twenty-two degrees. This means that in addition to the direct moonlight, you will also see diffracted moonlight in a circle twenty-two degrees away from the moon. Like a rainbow, this halo can even be slightly colored; red on the inside, and blue on the outside.
For more info about moon halo, click here.

And here is the interesting part:
sight. Actually, a halo in winter doesn't have absolute significance; but during the warmer months, it usually foretells the coming of a thickening of warm air overhead; in most cases, a long, slow rain should eventually arrive in about 12 to 18 hours!!

Wow, thats indeed a great news !!

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