The Government of Japan has finally woken up to reality and decided to shelve the two-decade long robo-project codenamed “Thalaiva 2.0” initiated to replicate Rajinikanth in the form of a robot. The project involved some of Japan’s top minds from their top tech companies and so far had cost the Japanese an amount ten times more than the round underground thingamajig built in Switzerland, pushing the Japanese economy into a decade long economic tailspin.
August 19, 2010 | Filed under
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A robot programmed to function as priests at marriage ceremonies has been caught on hidden camera in a compromising position with a wedding planner, shocking millions of i-faithfuls worldwide. The shocking visuals were played repeatedly on a regional news channel here, which clearly showed the robot as I-Fairy, the latest product of Japanese company Kokoro, while the face of the wedding planner was blurred beyond recognition.
May 28, 2010 | Filed under
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After a month long auctioning, the Department of Telecommunications not only declared the process over, but also revealed the path-breaking technology that differentiated 3G over the 2G spectrum. The third generation spectrum would have many more colors than the seven traditionally acknowledged in the spectrum – Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, and Red – better represented by the acronym VIBGYOR. As a result, the government could earn 70,000 crore rupees, much higher than it had expected.
May 19, 2010 | Filed under
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With a special police force to protect them from evil doers, statues of Mayawati could now peacefully speak up their mind on Twitter. Sounds unbelievable? But this has been made possible by Avinash Singh, a final year Electronics and Communication Engineering student at IIT Kanpur, who has designed a gadget that could create automated tweets for Mayawati statutes based upon the surroundings and ongoing events in the vicinity.
January 30, 2010 | Filed under
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Google continues to learn from facebook; after opening up Google Wave for third party developers and introducing better networking and sharing features in it, Google has now tried to integrate the “suggestions” features of facebook into their latest offering – Nexus One, the android phone by Google. Based upon your call and chat history, Nexus One will suggest a list of people to call when you update your status.
January 9, 2010 | Filed under
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Several families in different cities of India were duped by a conman who sold them ordinary bottled water on pretext of selling water found on moon. The residents believed the conman as they had earlier read and heard the news about water being discovered on moon by Chandrayaan. The conman had showed them fake pictures claiming that the moon water was bottled and sanctioned by ISRO.
September 24, 2009 | Filed under
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Several people went crazy with joy as local IIT Nerd Abhay Prakash S. spent an entire day of abstinence from recounting silly experiences from his time at IIT Madras (Metallurgical and Coconut Engineering Specialization). But their joy was short lived as Abhay ended his day of abstinence at 7.00 PM and promptly recounted a series of anecdotes filled with IIT slangs that none in his audience of neighborhood friends (and their parents) could follow.
September 23, 2009 | Filed under
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