Crazy Green Ideas!!

1. Hotel offers free meal to guests who are willing to generate electricity

The Crown Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen , Denmark , is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike attached to a generator. Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity - roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness. They will then be given meal vouchers worth $36 (26 euros).

2. Disco pub gets electricity produced by people dancing at specially modified dance floor

 
All the flashing strobes and pounding speakers at the dance club are massive consumers of electrical power. So Bar Surya, in London, re-outfitted its floor with springs that, when compressed by dancers, could produce electrical current that would be stored in batteries and used to offset some of the club's electrical burden. The club's owner, Andrew Charalambous, said the dance floor can now power 60 percent of the club's energy needs.

3. Brothel offers discount to eco-friendly customers who use bikes 

 A Berlin brothel came up with an innovative way to attract customers during the economic crisis, and do something to help avoid climate change at the same time. They're offering a discount to patrons who arrive on bicycles. According to Thomas Goetz, owner of the 'Maison d'envie' brothel, the recession hit their industry hard. Customers who arrive on bicycle or who can prove they took public transport get a �5 (�4.30) discount from the usual �70 (�60) fee for 45 minute sessions. (Link).

4. Company creates a desktop printer that doesn't use ink nor paper 

 
Who says printers only use paper to print documents? It's time for you to meet the PrePeat Printer then. Different from conventional printers, PrePeat adopts a thermal head to print on specially-made plastic sheets. These plastic sheets are not merely water-proof, but could be easily erased, just feed the sheets through the printer again, and a different temperature will erase everything or just write over it. Also claimed by the manufacturer, such one sheet could be used up to 1,000 times so that you'll reduce your expenses on paper for sure.

                  5. University constructs a green roof as a gathering place

 

Green design is an enormously popular trend in modern architecture, just take a look at this amazing green roof at the School of Art , Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore . This 5-story facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and symbolizes the creativity it houses. The roofs serve as informal gathering spaces challenging linear ideas and stirring perception. The roofs create open space, insulate the building, cool the surrounding air and harvest rainwater for landscaping irrigation. Planted grasses mix with native greenery to colonize the building and bond it to the setting.

      6. Designer creates a sink that uses wasted water to grow a plant

 
Made of polished stained concrete, the Zen Garden Sink has a channel that allows the water used while washing your hands to water a plant. Created by young Montreal designer Jean-Michel Gauvreau the sink comes in single or double basin model. The sink is designed in a way you won't get your plants all soapy. There is a main drain at the bottom of the basin for soapy grime. Your little plant friend just gets whatever you choose to dole out. 

 

7. Designer creates a shower that forces you to leave when you've wasted too much water

 

20% of our total domestic energy usage is from hot water for showering and bathing. That's over 6 times the energy usage of domestic lighting. So designer Tommaso Colia came up with his eco-friendly shower design that will force you to get out when you take too long and waste much water. The eco_drop shower features beautiful concentric circles that will rise to force you to stop showering when you take too long, and accordingly save water. 

 8. Designer creates light-switch that changes colors to teach children how to save energy

 

Teaching the importance of energy conservation is the goal of this design from Tim Holley. He calls it Tio, and it's a ghost-shaped light switch that gives kids a visual reminder of how much energy they've used by leaving lights on. Tio starts out green and smiling. If the light is left on for more than four hours, he turns yellow and looks shocked. And if you dare to leave that light on for more than eight hours, sweet little Tio turns into a raging red hulk, complete with frowny mouth and angry eyes. But he won't just visually remind your kids about their energy habits; information from the light switch is sent to Tio's computer program so the entire family can see how they're doing. In a brilliant piece of visual positive reinforcement, Holley's program lets kids grow a virtual tree � which gets bigger and healthier the more energy they save. 


9. Environmental company creates a staple-free stapler to avoid staple pollution

 


Staples are supposed to be so bad to the environment that a company decided to create a staple-free stapler. This product promises to make collation eco-friendly. Instead of using those thin metal planet-killers, the staple-free stapler "cuts out tiny strips of paper and uses the strips to stitch up to five pieces of paper together." You can even order them customized with your corporate logo so you can, you know, brag about what your company is doing to stop the staple epidemic. 

10. Designer creates an iPhone charger powered by a hand grip

  A green idea that gives you a great hand workout as well. Charge your iPhone by a hand grip! This concept is called You can work it out, designed by Mac Funamizu.

 

A Tree That Bleeds Red Sap - The Dragons Blood Tree

The Dragons Blood tree (Dracaena Cinnabari) is a rare type of tree originating in Socotra archipelago, a small group of four islands in the Indian Ocean. Also known as the Galpagos of the Indian Ocean, the group of islands is host to a number of fascinating species. Found in many surrounding areas, including mainland Yemen, the tree contains a marvelously red resin called Dragons Blood, which has been used for a variety of purposes throughout history. Starting in the first century AD, Dragons Blood was used as a dye and medicine to treat respiratory and gastrointestinal problems. Later uses include a blood coagulant and treatments for diarrhea, fever, dysentery, ulcers in the mouth, throat, intestines and stomach, as well as an antiviral for respiratory viruses.

Dragons Blood also has a history in ritual magic and alchemy. Apparently Dragons Blood can increase the potency of neopagan witchcraft spells for protection, love, banishing, and sexuality. Often touted as red rock opium, the resin is often sold as a narcotic, although its effects are mild at best when smoked. The bizarre shape of the blood tree helps it survive arid conditions and areas with limited soil. The shading helps the seedlings survive in the harsh environment.

Rare and Natural Phenomenal of the World

1. Sailing Stones

The mysterious moving stones of the packed-mud desert of Death Valley have been a center of scientific controversy for decades. Rocks weighing up to hundreds of pounds have been known to move up to hundreds of yards at a time. Some scientists have proposed that a combination of strong winds and surface ice account for these movements. However, this theory does not explain evidence of different rocks
starting side by side and moving at different rates and in disparate directions. Moreover, the physics calculations do not fully support this theory as wind speeds of hundreds of miles per hour would be needed to move some of the stones.

                                            2. Columnar Basalt

When a thick lava flow cools, it contracts vertically but cracks perpendicular to its directional flow with remarkable geometric regularity-in most cases forming a regular grid of remarkable hexagonal extrusions that almost appear to be made by man. One of the most famous such examples is the Giants Cause way on the coast of Ireland, though the largest and most widely recognized would be Devils Tower in Wyoming. Basalt also forms different but equally fascinating ways when eruptions are exposed to air or water.

                                               3. Blue Holes

 

Blue holes are giant and sudden drops in underwater elevation that get their name from the dark and foreboding blue tone they exhibit when viewed from above in relationship to surrounding waters. They can be hundreds of feet deep and while divers are able to explore some of them they are largely devoid of oxygen that would support sea lifedue to poor water circulation - leaving them eerily empty. Some blue holes, however, contain ancient fossil remain that have been discovered, preserved in their depths.

                                                                             4. Red Tides

Red tides are also known as algal blooms sudden influxes of massive amounts of colored single-cell algae that can convert entire areas of an ocean or beach into a blood red color. While some of these can be relatively harmless, others can be harbingers of deadly toxins that cause the deaths of fish, birds and marine mammals. In some cases, even humans have been harmed by red tides though no human exposure are known to have been fatal. While they can be fatal, the constituent phytoplankton in red tides are not harmful in small numbers.


                                                                  5. Ice Circles
 

While many see these apparently perfect ice circles as worthy of conspiracy theorizing, scientists generally accept that they are formed by eddies in the water that spin a sizable piece of ice in a circular motion. As a result of this rotation, other pieces of ice and flotsam wear relatively evenly at the edges of the ice until it slowly forms into an essentially ideal circle. Ice circles have been seen with diameters of over 500 feet and can also at times be found in clusters and groups of different sizes as shown above.

         6.Mammatus Clouds

True to their ominous appearance, mammatus clouds are often harbingers of a coming storm or other extreme weather system. Typically composed primarily of ice, they can extend for hundreds of miles in each direction and individual formations can remain visibly static for ten to fifteen minutes at a time. While they may appear foreboding they are merely the messengers - appearing around, before or even after severe weather.

7. Fire Rainbows

  A circumhorizontal fire rainbow arc occurs at a rare confluence of right time and right place for the sun and certain clouds. Crystals within the clouds refract light into the various visible waves of the spectrum but only if they are arrayed correctly relative to the ground below. Due to the rarity with which all of these events happen in conjunction with one another, there are relatively few remarkable photos of this phenomenon.

8.Sinkholes

 

 

Sinkholes are one of the worlds scariest natural phenomena. Over time, water erodes the soil under the planets surface until in some cases, quite suddenly,the land above gives way and collapses into the earth. Many sinkholes occur naturally while others are the result of human intervention. Displacing groundwater can open cavities while broken pipes can erode otherwise stable subterranean sediments. Urban sinkholes, up to hundreds of feet deep have formed and consumed parts of city blocks, sidewalks and even entire buildings.

 9. Penitentes

Named after peak-hooded New Mexican monks (lower right above), penitentes are dazzling naturally-forming ice blades that stick up at sharp angles toward the sun. Rarely found except at high altitudes, they can grow up taller than a human and form in vast fields. As ice melts in particular patterns, valleys formed by initial melts leave mountains in their wake. Strangely, these formations ultimately slow the melting process
as the peaks cast shadows on the deeper surfaces below and allow for winds to blow over the peaks, cooling them.

10. Lenticular Clouds

 

                                Ever wonder the truth about UFOs? Avoided by traditional pilots but loved by sailplane aviators, lenticular clouds are masses of cloud with strong internal uplift that can drive a motorless flyer to high elevations. Their shape is quite often mistaken for a mysterious flying object or the artificial cover for one. Generally, lenticular clouds are formed as wind speeds up while moving around a large land object such as a mountain.

11. Light Pillars

 

Light pillars appear as eerily upright luminous columns in the sky, beacons cast into the air above without an apparent source. These are visible when light reflects just right off of ice crystals from either the sun (as in the two top images above) or from artificial ground sources such as street or park lights. Despite their appearance as near-solid columns of light, the effect is entirely created by our own relative viewpoint.
 

12. Sundogs

 

Like light pillars, sundogs are the product of light passing through crystals. The particular shape and orientation of the crystals can have a drastic visual impact for the viewer, producing a longer tail and changing the range of colors one sees. The relative height of thesun in the sky shifts the distance the sundogs appear to be on either side of the sun. Varying climactic conditions on otherplanets in our solar system produce halos with up to four sundogs from those planets perspectives. Sundogs have been speculated about and discussed since ancient times and written records describing the various attributes of our sun date back the Egyptians and Greeks.
  

13. Fire Whirls

 

Fire whirls (also known as fire devils or tornadoes) appear in or around raging fires when the right combination of climactic conditions is present. Fire whirls can be spawned by other natural events such as earthquakes and thunderstorms, and can be incredibly dangerous, in some cases spinning well out of the zone of a fire itself to cause devastation and death in a radius not even reached by heat or flame. Fire whirls have been known to be nearly a mile high, have wind speeds of over 100 miles per hour and to last for 20 or more minutes.

14. Orange Moons

This last phenomena is something most people have seen before - beautiful orange moon hanging low in the sky. But what causes this phenomena - and, for that matter, does the moon have a color at all? When the moon appears lower on the horizon, rays of light bouncing off ithave to pass through a great deal more of our atmosphere which slowly strips away everything but yellows, oranges and reds. The bottommost image above is true to the hues of the moon but has enhanced colors to more clearly show the differences in shade that illustrate the mixed topography and minerology that tell the story of the moons surface. Looking at the colors in combination with the craters one can start to trace the history of impacts and consequent material movements across the face of our mysterious moon.

 

Tips for whitening teeth.

Home remedy for whitening teeth:

Brush with backing soda.You can also mix it with tooth paste  to
counterbalance the salty taste of backing soda.

Dentist admit that it is safe to use backing soda on a wet toothbrush
for brushing purpose .Expert have suggest that this remedy shows 
result fair quickly.

Yogurt Is Not Always Good For Health !!

1. Yogurt and yogurt is not a form of

Yogurt and yogurt as a country or provided as in fact are two perfectly dissimilar products. Cow’s milk yogurt is pure undergo fermentation should form the nature of its categories of milk. Yogurt has a high nutritional content. As standard, every 100g yogurt must hold at least as well to 2.9 g protein. Though nutrient content in the form of yogurt reached merely one third of them that is about 1 g protein in 100g.

2. Per day should eat two cups yogurt

Despite favorite yogurt to where you also should not eat too much, particularly after meals can be made by the weight of your body up rapidly. Fan Di, you should not eat yogurt after meals is by itself yogurt holds a definite amount of heat so if you eat right after they eat just intends you add more energy into the body and increased additional weight is inevitable.

With healthy, preferably every day eat merely one or two cups yogurt. And the greatest time to use the dishes after a meal is about 30 minutes to an hour to regulate the advantageous bacteria for gut.

3. Yogurt cans Warming

By fear of the advantageous bacteria in yogurt after having ruined so many high temperatures merely definite cold yogurt, but in fact this is not exclusively accurate. The warm yogurt not merely does not affect the nutritional value of milk but also augment the activity of bacteria of milk, increase the safety of the health effects of milk. Let soak in the novel box yogurt about 45 degrees and warm to the touch in warm box that you can use.

4. Yogurt can not coordinate with any food

If you eat yogurt with the food processing meat has high fat content such as Greek ribs, sausage, cured meat, then you’ll possibly be harmful to your health. This is because acid unhurt H2S03 in foods can be combined with amines in milk constructs carcinogens. And if you use yogurt with other antibiotics such as, erythromycin, Sulfa intends you shall manually ruin the advantageous bacteria in milk. But you all can rest guaranteed when combined with yogurt food containing starch such as rice, bread, noodles, dumplings, monitor contractors…

5. Yogurt does not assist weight loss

Meaning the merely yogurt that brings people to lose weight is to construct a sensation of belly and thereby it can compact the amount of food in the meal afterwards. Whereas the energy is high in yogurt than usual milk so if you eat a set of course shall require increasing waste vat. So if you are in the regime of the weight loss, please select the type of low-fat yogurt or yogurt with energy. This type but do not smell as aromatic cool song fat yogurt does not isolate you shall be less risk of weight grow because there is no glut heat buildup.

6. Not against starvation in yogurt

When hungry, the pH in the human belly is ever higher and this harm to advantageous bacteria in yogurt, work to strengthen health yogurt thus abridged significantly. Therefore, the greatest you should merely eat yogurt after meal about 1-2 hours, by this service in your belly have been diluted away, the belly pH is appropriate for dairy bacteria multiply. Eat yogurt at night is fine for health, but memorize to brush after eating in time by some bacteria in yogurt and other acidic substances that can harm teeth.

7. Not everybody is eating yogurt

Yogurt is fine but does not intend that anyone can use it. Children under one year old should not be used. People go outside or abdominal ache, the intestinal illness should be cautious. In addition, patients with diabetes, atherosclerosis, cholecystitis and pancreatitis are greatest to ignore sour milk with sugar and high fat content if not more and more serious illness. Conversely, those who regularly drink alcohol, smoking, working on computers, or those with constipation, osteoporosis, heart disease, should ever use yogurt to get better health.

Now This is a Yacht

MUKESH AMBANI HAS JUST ORDERED THIS YACHT.......

COST 20 MILLION EUROS WILL BE PARKED AT BREACH CANDY, Mumbai 

A famous French shipbuilder and one from Monaco joined hands together to build this yacht with enormous dimensions. Its 58 meters long and 38 meters wide.

The yacht... with a floor area of 3400 M² (36600 Sq. feet.)

with accomodation for 12 passengers and 20 crew members.

This is a "green" yacht.

It use green energy for 20-30% fuel savings and 40-50% electricity consumption on board.

Therefore it has 900M² (9700 Sq. feet.) equipped with solar panels, producing a daily output of 500 kW.

With an area of 200M² (2150 Sq. feet.) it completely covers the third deck. This is the view of the bedroom and bathroom. The sea view is great and there is a private terrace of 25 meters length.
The Dining Room

 

The dining room opens onto the sea view.

                  Suites for the guests

The yacht has the shape of a horseshoe and has a retracting glass solar panel roof... so everything is bathed in a sea of light

The spacious lounge.

For the guests.. 5 suites with sea views situated on the middle deck. There is also a reading room/lounge.

India Launched Cheapest Tablet At $35

The HRD ministry distributed its low-cost tablet to 500 college students from all over the country on Wednesday. The device that took six years to develop and was once subject to widespread ridicule comes dirt-cheap at Rs 2,250.The government would pick up 50% of the cost and a student will be able to buy it for Rs 1,125.

India released a $35 laptop / Tablet PC for students and teachers in colleges and Universities. The device is currently not available for sale in the market as government has decided to launch it for students in 2011.
The year 2011 would be a technologically effective one as the once high priced laptops are getting low in their price. This laptop would bring the buyer, savings up to 50 percent.

According to reports, it is clear that the laptops would see a noticeable fall in their price which would be lesser by Rs.4800. National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology is supporting this project to enlighten the more and more students. There may be many methods to spread education but this one would prove to be an innovative style of imparting knowledge.

The education which would touch the lives of every student through this mode of technology would be possible easily. Thus, these laptops would be available at lesser cost. This style is meant to edify the large population to widen the horizon of knowledge among all in every aspect of life. This project has plans to sell the laptops at remarkably lesser rate.

As a part of India�s National Mission for Education, Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) 504 universities and 25,000 colleges countrywide would be the recipients of these laptops.

This project was the outcome of experts coming together. The IT specialists came up with this idea at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and IIT Bombay. These laptops are going to be given out by HRD ministry. It is being considered that these laptops would prove to be an asset for the students and will give them opportunity to excel in education.

By 2011, the newbies who wish to try their hands on computers would get funding of 50 percent on the purchase of each product. The Government of India has planned to reduce the price of the computer by Rs.4800. This initiative is undertaken as an element of National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology. It is an effort to offer the high definition interactive education.

The Centre purports that these laptops would be offered at such a low price because they are a source of spreading literacy via technological methods. This mode of education would help create the awareness among the masses. The laptops are really going to see a huge drop in price.

Under the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT), connectivity is projected to be offered to 504 universities and 25,000 colleges throughout India.

This project was a result of discussions on this project with a group of experts at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and IIT Bombay by the human resource development ministry. The human resource development ministry would send out these laptops. This product is expected to bring bright prospect for learners.

Initially, when the low priced laptop were being planned to introduce, the officials ruled out that its price would be around Rs.500. But, now it would be almost three times the price that was estimated earlier.

The project of launching this product is running successfully and it would be available to students, about after five to six months. It is been reported that this low cost laptop would be low in price but the final price of the product would be determined depending upon the transportation cost.

The Rs.1500 Laptop would be seeing a great deal of success and the expectations are already high that this would be popular. The launching this laptop at Rs.1500 is seen as one of the major steps which would be taken to brighten the future of Indian students.

Sakshat is the latest Tablet by the HCL technologies with the collaboration of Government of India. Although full technical specifications have not been made public, but in general have a very basic set of components are sufficient for most users, especially for a child. Highlights its 5, 7 and 10-inch touch screen with which will enhance the team.

According to the first out look of the Tablet the unit is a basis hand held device which has only one basic features like 2GB of RAM, web-conferencing, PDF reader unzip, WiFi, camera and USB connectivity.

The Company will first introduce only 100,000 units at this price. The whole project is covered under the technical educational awareness among the people of India.

Sakshat Tablet Features and Specifications:

* 5, 7 and 10 inches display
* 2GB of RAM
* PDF reader
* Unzip
* WiFi
* Camera
* USB connectivity
* Internet browsing
* Zip and PDF Reader
* OpenOffice
* Internet Browser
* Wireless communication for audio/video
* Cloud computing option
* Remote device management
* Support open source Flash players
* Playback: AVCHD
* Multimedia I/O interfaces: DTV, IPTv, DTH
* Video out and Headphone jack
* Solar Power Charging Option
* SIM Card Slot
* Wi-Fi and USB Port