Heat to Sound Conversion - A new electricity source

Air movement owing to temperature difference between opposite ends of hollow pipes can create flute like sound. Resulting sound can drive piezoelectric sensors to generate electricity. An interesting development. Take a look at a detailed account of its mechanics and potential.

Theft Prevention & RFID Technology

An interesting application of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Technology - DVD & other media theft prevention

Media Server is Interesting but Does it Have a Future

First, what is a Media server; imagine an interesting machine sitting in one of your rooms. This machine has capability of storing all the movies or music that you care. It can send movies & music to all the TVs, Music Players and other home entertainment devices. Yes, this machine is media server that you can use to store thousands of DVDs & CDs and play it on demand from any room of your house.

Now coming to the question of future, this is how I see it. As internet connectivity becomes faster & cheaper, i-tunes of the world will compete with home entertainment storage devices including DVD, newly introduced Blue-Ray and consumer centric media servers.

The future is about accessing your song or movie from Internet and not from your home. You need not worry clutter of DVDs or even exotic media server box when it comes to your living room of future.

If you want to read more on his topic, here is a useful comparison between DVD, Blue Ray & Media servers.

Clean Tecnhology - Heat Recovery System

A heat recovery system captures waste energy in the form of heat and converts it into heat energy. You can use this converted energy for other applications such as to heat water.

Some of the companies are saving ton's of money using creative ways to convert energy waste in one part of the business to save energy in the other part, for example, tapping heat energy waste from AC coils to heat water.

Thinking about a way to tap your home kitchen-cooking-range heat exhaust & to use that to save water heating bill? You are not alone.

Technology - A Powerful Change Agent

Technology is awesome when it comes to driving social changes, hence this blog. There are few who would doubt the power of technology as a social change agent.

From early evidence of technological power in saving humanity from Malthusian grim prognoses of hunger doomsday to late adventures of Googles's game changing impact on the world, technology has always lent a helping hand.

This blog is my effort to create a platform where able people can write about evolving technology in simple and approachable language. If you read a lot about technology and can write about it in simple words, drop me a note and I will add you as one of the contributors to this blog.

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