medical science technology and its career prospects
The Indian institute of technology – Kharagpur (IIT-K) offers a 3 year-professional post graduate programme in medical science and technology for medical graduates. This has tremendous career prospects. Innovations in technology have led to spectacular advancements in modern medicine. To meet the challenges posed by medicine in the 21st century the country needs a new breed of medical professionals who will be able to understand the fusion of medical science with technology and can bridge the two disciplines. With this philosophy in mind, the IIT-K established the school of medical science and technology in 2001. This is the first centre in India where the physicians are trained in technology in the time tested IIT system. The School of Medical Science and Technology also has a mandate to further research and develop technology as applied to medicine.
With the two fields merging rapidly there is a need for people who are qualified in both the disciplines and well versed in upcoming thrust areas for research. This programme will impart engineering skills to medical professionals and train them for state-of-art medical research in the frontier areas of medical imaging & image analysis, telemedicine & tele-surgery, bio-sensors & medical instrumentation, bio-markers & their applications in diabetes & oncology, reproductive biology, contraceptive development & infertility management, molecular biology & tissue engineering, preventive & primitive health care, comprehensive health information system for disease management, development of cancer drugs, bio-medical implants & devices, brain research & cognitive neuro-science, and nano-technology & MEMS in medicine. After the completion of this course, the medical professionals become well equipped to fill the void that separates medical sciences from advanced technology
City breaks noise barrier
Short messaging service (SMS) campaigns advocating a quiet Diwali, advertisements asking citizens to follow the 10-pm deadline for bursting crackers and children lining up on Peddar Road with banners propagating a noiseless Diwali: None worked.
Silent zones, earmarked this year following the Bombay High Court’s intervention, were far from silent and environmental activists were swamped with complaints.
Sumaira Abdulali, of the Awaaz Foundation — which monitors noise levels — received at least 40 complaints of the 10-pm deadline being violated and crackers being burst even near major hospitals like KEM in Parel and Breach Candy in Warden Road, both silent zones.
“There was no police presence anywhere,” said Abdulali. “While citizens have become more aware, we still need the authorities to enforce the deadline and patrol silent zones.”
But Sheela Sail, deputy commissioner of police (enforcement), said, “We have not received any complaints regarding noise pollution on Diwali night in silent zones.”
A Linking Road resident who did not wish to be identified said this Diwali was worse than last year’s. “Since I have an asthma problem, I had to close my windows because of cracker smoke. People were bursting crackers till 3 am on Sunday.”
The noise, however, was only restricted to the last three days instead of a week as is the usual practice, said Carter Road resident, Roshan Dabhoiwala.
There were pockets where citizens did not need monitoring. At Marine Drive most people voluntarily stopped bursting crackers at 10 pm.
“By 11 pm everything was quiet,” said Sunayana Sadarangani, a Marine Drive resident. “Earlier, Diwali would be a nightmare. A lot of children have given up on crackers this year. And when I went for a walk at 6 am, it (the promenade) was sparkling clean.”
At Kalyan’s Lok Gram Society, which has been paving the way for a noiseless and pollution-free Diwali since 2004, more than 100 children did not burst crackers.
Karbonn Rolls Out K560, K460 Multimedia Handsets In India
Karbonn Mobiles, the Indian joint venture between Jaina & United Telelinks, has made announcement about the launching of two new handsets including K560 and K460 in the Indian market.
The newly launched phones are targeted at entry level customers seeking features rich multimedia handsets at an affordable price.
The Karbonn K560, which is a dual SIM phone, has a touchscreen display along with other goodies. The phone has a personalized music interface together with a Wolfson Audio Codec on the MP3 player.
With a screen size of 2.4″, the handset has dimensions of 113mmx51mmx10.95mm. Other features of the phone include a FM Radio, Video recording, Video Player, 2 mega pixel camera, A2DP Bluetooth support, and GPRS/MMS/WAP.
Karbonn K460 is another bar-styled Dual LCD mobile phone that boasts of a 300 hour standby time. The phone, which is specifically designed for users who want a device having a long battery life, comes packed with a FM Radio, multimedia player with equalizer, voice recorder, VGA camera, Bluetooth, Mobile Tracker, GPRS/WAP/MMS, 1000 Phonebook Capacity, and expandable memory up to 2GB (Micro SD).
The company also said that it aimed to grab 7 to 10% share of India’s multimedia phone division.
While talking to media persons, Mr. Pradeep Jain, Karbonn Managing director, told that they have decided to make an investment of around Rs 100 crore during the existing fiscal to set up operations and push the sales.
Chandrayaan-2 will reach skies soon
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has completed the design process of its ambitious moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, after successfully launching its first ever unmanned Channdrayaan-1 earlier this year. ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said that the space agency is currently working on the orbital flight vehicle, while it will get lunar craft from Russia under mutual agreement.
Mr. Nair added: ”The landing of the rover would be decided after we analyse the data sent by Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. Now we are set to build a prototype of Chandrayaan-2 and this would happen next year. We will build upon our success with Chandrayaan-1.”
He said that ISRO has received some important climatic and radio based clues from its first mission, and it will try to overcome causes of malfunctioning, like experienced by ‘Star Sensor’ on Chandrayaan-1, in April this year.
Mr Nair expressed satisfaction over the success of Chanrayaan-1, adding that ISRO has achieved 95 percent of the scientific objective of Chandrayaan-1 while the remaining would be achieved in the coming months.
The ISRO Chief further added: “The redundancy factor would be the utmost on the minds of the scientists working on Chandrayaan-2 after their good experience with the first mission.”
desktop innovation
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. The rapid proliferation of notebooks and laptops so deftly captures our imagination that we wonder if this is beginning of the end of the desktop PC era. Yet, before going the way of the dino without a whimper, PCs are trying to reassert themselves in innovative avatars. The once venerable and ubiquitous box CPU box and clunky, cumbersome monitor is metamorphosing into a sleek, svelte all-in-on PC panel.
Supremely space saving design aside, this brave new breed of single-unit CPU-cum-display PCs offer some compelling innovations. The HP TouchSmart (Rs.90,000, hp.com), for instance, boasts a vibrant touch-sensitive 22-inch screen. This means you don’t really require to hunt for your mouse or peck at your keyboard to wade through menus as you prowl the hard disk, looking for a particular song or want to play/stop a movie. Oh yes, there’s a wireless keyboard and mouse of course to facilitate all that from afar as well.
Nipping at the TouchSmart’s heels comes a PC almost as touch-feely to operate but costs almost half: The ASUS Eee Top ET1602 (Rs.44,000, asus.com). Okay, comparing price tags is unwarranted here as the low-end Intel Atom N270 propelled, Windows XP running 15-inch Eee Top is really a desktop version of a netbook, lacking not just the raw processing power of the Intel Core2Duo driven TouchSmart but also most of its other fullsome specs. Nonetheless, innovative PC, it is.
The 22-inch Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 (Rs. 69,500, lenovo. com) on the other hand, while not boasting a touch-sensitive interface, gives you a trackpad on its wireless keyboard along with a mouse (yes, again wireless) and a full function remote for Windows Media Center audio/video playback and its in-built TV tuner. The remote also doubles up as a Internet telephony handset for Skype calls as well as a Wii-like, motion-driven on-screen object controller for gaming. So when you play golf or tennis with it, rather than tapping keys, you actually go through the physical motions of swinging the remote to hit the ball!
Red Bull Helicopter
There are othe so-called aerobatic helicopter acts out there, but nothing like the Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Biohm Bo-105. In the hands of the right pilot, it loops, rolls does vertical rolls, and flips.
Unlike other helicopter, this one is built with a rigid rotor and rigid mounted main transmission, both of which are bolted onto the airframe so that the machine handles like a sports car, without slop or slack in the control stick to the left, the Red Bull Bo-105 rolls all the way around, without the rotor tilting or bending.
Aaron is fairly new to the airshow circuitr. This will be the second season he filies aerobatic shows in the Red Bull Helicopter, but he has more than 17,000 hours of helicopter fight times. He has done flighting testing with infrared night-vision equipment, cropdusting, flight instruction, film flying aerial photography, heavy sling work, cattle herding, traffic reporting banner towing- nearly any job a helicopter pilot can do.
Air Space
Airspace means the portion of the atmosphere controlled by a particular country on top of its territory and territorial waters or, several generally, any specific dimensional portion of the atmosphere.
* Controlled airspace exists where it is necessary that air traffic control has some form of positive executive control over aircraft flying in that airspace.
* Uncontrolled airspace is airspace in which air traffic control does not exert any executive authority, although it may act in an advisory manner.
Plasma Technology
The process of image creation in Plasma screens is a complex bit of science. There are two glass plates that contains inert xenon and neon gases sandwiched between two layers of long electrodes. One layer of electrodes sit on the rear glass plate and the other forms the transparent screen at the front. The ones in the front are covered with magnesium oxide. These electrodes are charged by passing electricity. The charging causes the gas to ionize and form plasma. In color panels there are cells coated with phospor, which when charged produce pixels of different colors. This forms the image. This technology is somewhat similar to the one in color CRTs. At present all leading brands manufacturing these type of plasma technology television. The price range of this type of technology is from 3,00,000 – 10,000 rupees.
HD Video streaming Device
What is a HD TV or a Video streamer? High end video devices are nothing but devices which streams video from the web or a wide network. These devices are generally networking devices that works on the basic protocols like TCP/Ip and so on. These devices are used to mstrean the video that we need and different from televisions. There is a huge data base or a sever which is globally available and there are lot of audio and video information which may be one of our favourite, in case of television programs we have to watch the desired program at the time it is telecasted. But using these devices we can stream and watch the desired program or video or listen to the favourite audio by down streaming from the web or a service provider. These devices come with features like recording and program schedule management. This is just a fact that we would like to share.
Riviera Chronograph
Baume & Merciers legendary model, the riviera, underwent a complete restyling last year and was granted a second lease of life that glowa s bright as the first. Continuing with its creative momentum on the riviera line, the new Riviera chronograph XXL now also comes with a rubber strap. With a 43 mm- diametre bezel, it emenates power and viality. The four black screws that fasten the satin-finished bezel to the case give the watch just the right dose of modernity and exquisitely finished details. Top performance materials like vulcanisd rubber for the strap and triple folding security clasp and the luminescent coated Roman numerals for perfect legibility contribute largely to making this model the thorougbred that it is.
