A robot will teach coding to kids

 A robot has been developed to teach kids of all ages the coding. 

The robot named Root looks just like a smoke detector but is actually a sophisticated robot. A magnetic surface, wheels, and an impressive arsenal of sensors allow it to navigate a classroom whiteboard. But Root isn't actually programed to do anything. Its tasks and functionality lies on a child's imagination. 

The robot is capable of driving and drawing as well as playing music, but Root needs instructions to operate, a line of code. Zivthan Dubrovsky of Harvard's Wyss Institute recalls testing out Root with kids for the first time.

Using a tablet connected wirelessly to the robot, level one introduces kids to the principles of programing using an interface of simple commands and pictures. As they become more adept, they jump to levels 2 and 3, at which point writing computer code becomes second nature, according to Dubrovsky.

The team hopes to partner up with education companies to develop curriculums based around Root with the hopes of enticing schools to add the robot to classrooms.

"By adding a robot into the classroom you are actually adding a third agent into the classroom and you enable a new interesting way of teaching where the students can become the teachers, teaching the robot to do things," Dubrovsky said. While at the same time learning a new skill, one that is increasingly important in a digital world where knowing how to code could become just as important as knowing to read and write.

(Source: Reuters)

ISRO Scientists developed a new silica aerogel to keep Soldiers warm in freezing temperatures of Siachen

          Indian scientists at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, India’s premier rocket lab have created a new way of keeping our soldiers warm in the freezing temperatures of Siachen. They developed silica aerogel or blue air and is the world’s lightest material.  The aerogel can not only useful on earth useful in space too owing to its excellent thermal resistance. This material is also sometimes referred to as frozen smoke and it is so delicate that it can even be placed on flower’s head. This material is very useful for those who work in extremely cold environments.

           Apart from this lightest material have also multiple uses as it can also be used to insulate rocket engines. What remains to be highlighted here is this aerogel could have possibly the life of Lance Naik Hanamanthappa Koppad and his fellow soldiers’ lives from the frozen bite that took their lives. 

Amazing Facts about Mobile Phones

• Nokia 1100 which was launched in 2003 was the bestselling phone handset in history with more than 250 million pieces sold. Once again Nokia is trying to come back into the market with the same model name but with a smartphone.

• The first commercially available mobile phone, Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was sold at $4000 in United States in March 1984.

• In 2012 apple sold more than 340,000 iPhones per day than means it sold around 4 iPhones per second.

• Do you know how much bacteria contained on your mobile phone? It carries 18 times more bacteria than toilet handles. Because you will wash your toilet but you can’t wash your phone.

• In Japan 90% of mobile phones used are waterproof because they use the phones even in shower.

• Do you wonder who made the first phone call? The first mobile call was made by Martin Cooper in 1973. He was a former Motorola inventor

• In Britain around 855,000 mobile phones are dropped and flushed in toilet every year. This is about 1.5% of the UK’s population.

• About 70% of world’s mobile phones are manufactured in china.

• Around 80% of the world’s population of the world has mobile phone. That is around 6 billion people own mobile phones out of 7 billion world population. But only 3.5 billion use a tooth brush. Also this number is lower than who use toilets, only 4.5 billion have a toilet.

Interesting science facts that you wonder

These are the most interesting fact of science that blow off your mind

1.      Light would take 13 seconds to travel around the Earth.

2.      If you drill a tunnel straight through the earth and jumped in, it would take you exactly 42 minutes and 12 seconds to get to the other side.

3.      A single bolt of lightning contains energy enough to cook 100,000 pieces of toast.

4.      An average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in his lifetime.

5.      More germs are transferred while shaking hands than kissing.

6.      The human brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second but is aware of only 40.

7.      An average person accidentally eats about 430 bugs each year of their life.

8.      There are more living organisms on the skin of a human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.

9.      Human saliva contains a painkiller called opiorphin that is six times more powerful than morphine.

10.  Girls have more taste buds than boys.

11.  Koalas sleep an average of 22hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.

12.  A dog’s sense of smell is 1000 times more sensitive than a human.

13.  There is a waterfall in Minnesota called Devil’s Kettle where the water flows into a large hole made of rock. Several studies have been done and scientists still don’t know where the water ends up.

14.  In 1952, a European scientist released a bacterium into the wild which almost eradicated the continent’s rabbit population. There was a 90% reduction in france and 95% in the united kingdom.

15.  In 2009, scientists used cloning to bring back an extinct species. It lived for about 7 minutes before dying due to a lung defect.

16.  There is a cave of natural gas in Turkmenistan known as the “Door to Hell”. In 1971, Scientists lit the cave on fire on expecting it to burn for a few days. It’s still burning.

Now you can print Pizzas

A Machine called ‘Foodini’ that prints eatables

Are you hungry and there is no food? Just take a print out and eat it. Yes it is possible; you can now just print your favorite dishes like pizzas and burgers. You can also print far from the machine through your mobile. A newly startup company from Barcelona in Spain, called Natural Machine, came up with a new 3D printer Foodini that can print eatables. Lynette kucsma, co-founder of the company says that the machine called as Foodini uses the same technology as that of a 3D printer, and deploys edible ingredients squeezed out of stainless steel capsules instead of plastics. It was due to the single melting point of the plastics and whereas with food it was different temperatures and textures. The price of the Foodini will be quite high. Foodini is priced at around 1000 dollars. It has been described as a mini food manufacturing plant with the size shrunken down to the size of an oven. It can print a wide range of dishes, from sweet to savory. There will be a touch screen connected to a recipe site in the cloud and users would also be able to control the device remotely using a smartphone, and share their recipes with the community. The company reported that they had tested the machine and the food prepared by the machine was liked by everyone. If you are eager to buy this exciting machine you have to wait few days. The machine initially was targeted for professional kitchens and it announced that soon the consumer version will be introduced. The Foodini machine would be available in the market in mid-2015.

Amazing Statistics of the social Networks

Amazing Statistical facts on the social Network

The usage of internet is growing rapidly throughout the world and hence the use of the social networking also. Here are some of the amazing statistics of various social networking sites such as Facebook, Google+, and Twitter etc.

Facebook

·         An average Facebook user spends 21 minutes on Facebook per day.

·         Currently 1.35 billion monthly active users on Facebook.

·         21% of Facebook users are only from Asia which is only 4 percent less than Asia's population. And there are 228 million daily active users in Asia.

·         72 present of the online adults login to their account at least once in a month.

·         Regular users of Facebook mobile about 488 million.

·         23 percent of Facebook's users check account five or more times in a day.

·         Facebook has 42 million "Pages" with 10 or more likes.

·         There are a total of 864 million active daily users of Facebook.

·         Only 43 percent of Facebook users are male, while 57 percent of Facebook users are female.

·         An average Facebook user has about 130 friends.

·         More than 1 million websites have integrated with Facebook in various ways.

·         Every day 250 million photos are uploaded to Facebook.

Google+ Statistics

·         Every day 625,000 new users enter into Google+.

·         In America Only 8 percent have a Google+ profile page.

·         In a day Google +1 button is used 5 billion times by all users throughout the world.

·         Google+ costs about $585 million and has taken over 500 employees to build.

·         Among all the Google+ users in the world 42 percent are single and 27 percent are married.

·         An average Google+ user spend 12 minutes per day on the Google+.

·         68 percent of Google+ users are Male while only 32 percent are female.

·         An average active user spend over 60 minutes a day across Google products

·         Websites which use the +1 button generate 3.5 times the Google+ visits than sites without the button.

·         At least 60 percent of Google+ users log in daily.

·         At least 80 percent of Google+ users engage on a weekly basis.

·         There is about 48 percent of fortune global 100 companies are on Google+.

Twitter Statistics

·         The average Twitter user has tweeted 307 times.

·         Since the rise of Twitter, there have been a total of 163 billion tweets.

·         56 percent of customer tweets to companies are being ignored.

·         USA has the maximum number of Twitter users of 107 million users, followed by Brazil with 33 million users.

·         An average user follows/followed by 51 people.

·         32 percent of Internet users use Twitter.

·         69 percent of follows on Twitter are suggested by friends

·         YouTube is the most followed brand on Twitter is with 19 million followers

·         The USA's 141.8 million accounts represents 27.4 percent of all Twitter users

·         In every second 11 accounts are created on Twitter.

·         34 percent of the marketers have generated leads using Twitter.

Instagram Statistics

·         Since the beginning of Instagram nearly 4 billion photos have been shared in it.

·         For every second there are about 575 likes and 81 comments by the Instagram users.

·         The Android version of Instagram has received over 430,000 pre-registrations.

·         Each day more than 5 million photos are uploaded to Instagram.

·         40 percent of brands have adopted Instagram for marketing.

·         It just took 10 months for Instagram to reach the milestone of having 150M pictures uploaded.

• In a short span of six-months, Instagram's average daily mobile visitors have been increased from 886,000 to 7.3 million visitors.