Volvo with a Volt

Here's one problem companies face when trying to build practical electric cars: Batteries are heavy. If you want to give an electric car more range, that means you need a bigger battery, which means a heavier car, which means it takes more energy to move it. It's a tricky problem.

Volvo might have a solution. The Swedish car company recently announced that it has been working with Imperial College in London to develop a "composite blend of carbon fibers and polymer resin" that can serve as a car's body panels while also functioning as a battery, storing and releasing energy. Future Volvos could be literally made out of batteries. The company's press release candidly admits that "at the moment this is just a fascinating idea," but it does add that "tests are currently under way to see if the vision can be transformed into reality."

If it can, electric cars might get a whole lot cheaper, and the same material could be used to shrink the size of anything that requires a battery: think cell phones and laptops.

Source: https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/enhanced/en-gb/media/preview.aspx?mediaid=35026

Smart Fingers

Heard of Smart Chips, Smart Eyes, Smart Cells. How about Smart Fingers, 

Go back into the history of measurements and we know that in the ancient times, body parts used to be the standard for measurements; hence ‘a foot’. The need for uniformity paved way for the metric and imperial systems that are now commonly used. However our basic instincts still make us want to use ‘a span’, ‘two finger spaces’ or ‘an arm’s length’; old habits die hard I guess! To resolve this and bridge the gap between digital accuracy and human approximations is the Smart Finger. It is a device that caps your thumb and forefinger (or any 2 fingers) and uses the signals relayed between the two finger points to calculate the measurement.

• The Smart Finger is made from silicon to offer a comfortable fit to any finger size.
• It can help measure length, breadth, and volume in a very intuitive way through simple button operations.
• The distance (measurement) is calculated on the basis of the time taken by the signal to beam from one finger tip to the other and back.
• The measured distance is displayed through LED.
• The device sports 2 buttons that help display the measurements in different units, record and store the measurement, calculate volume and area plus view the information in text format (details on how to operate are explained in the images).

Energy Server

Yes, It is an Energy Server and it produces Electricity! 


There have been many companies which have been and will be working to get to the zenith of fuel technology. But very few have surpassed the labyrinth of obstacles to be the most efficient energy provider. 


Here is one such company, Bloom Energy, based out in Sunnyvale, California. Co-founded by an Indian Scientist working as an Advisor for NASA, KR Sridhar. 


So what is this product called Bloom Box and what makes it one of the most sought after energy efficient device by most huge corporations? Accordingly, Bloom Box is like an industrial-sized refrigerator, that sucks up oxygen on one side and fuel (natural gas, biomass, etc) on the other. Reports say that Bloom Energy bakes sand and cuts it into little squares that are turned into a ceramic, which are then coated with green and black “inks.” Using a special process,  Bloom Energy creates these ceramic discs and stacks them together interspersed with metal plates of “a cheap metal alloy.” The bigger the stack the more power the Bloom Box will create. Below is a video of how Bloom Box looks like:





For more visit, 
http://www.bloomenergy.com/products/