Energy Prediction

The futurists around the world believe that in the coming decade or even before that, the solar cells will produce electricity at the prices that will compete with oil. The consensus is that the cost will become very competitive with the other energy sources by year 2012 to 2015 and some experts also believe that by 2013 10% of US energy will produced by solar and wind power.

Mobile phones and unprecedented innovation

Mobile phones will continue to be a trend in the coming months or may be in the coming years. As the mobile technology improves and more and more applications and innovations are introduced for the mobile phones, the usage of the mobile phones will increase exponentially and it will remain one of the hottest trends in the market.

Wireless Power Transmission

I cannot believe that Wireless Power Transmission technology has already been developed. I thought about this a few years ago and we were just talking about it a few months ago during one of our residencies at school. Intel researchers demonstrated a method to throw electricity a few feet without wires. This method is based on MIT’s research. This method can light up a 60-watt bulb with 70 percent efficiency. Read more about is here
http://www.pcworld.com/article/152683-3/15_hot_new_technologies_that_will_change_everything.html

Create Family Tree

Family Tree is a great site to create your family tree. Although we need to be careful about putting our personal information on the Internet but if you feel comfortable with putting minimum information, then this is a great tool.

http://www.familytree.com/

- It provides a graphical view that shows all the relationships and these relationships can be further explored
- It provides each person in the relationship to add, delete or modify its relationships
- It provides several search functions to search for individuals in out of the relationship

Optical Illusions

This video discuses something that we all have experienced at some time in life, and that is Optical Illusions. Beau Lotto discuses optical illusions created by colors and patterns and how brain interprets them.

1. Colors enable us to see the similarities and differences between surfaces
2. Brain finds patterns and relationships in information and associates them with the behavioral meaning



http://www.ted.com/talks/beau_lotto_optical_illusions_show_how_we_see.html