Make First Aid Easy!

Customized Band Aid With kids at home you do have to keep an assortment of shapes and sizes of band aid at home. More often than not, I use it for the placebo effect; a strip plaster round the superficial cut on the finger works better than any medicine, cuddling or kisses. The Long and Short Plaster does away with the need of stocking up assorted sizes and works like a tape dispenser. Cut out the right size and use it. Designers: Miyeon Kim & Hoyoung Lee Courtesy: YANKO DESIGNS

26/11 - Should we just remember or LEARN!

Its the anniversary of a very unfortunate event in Mumbai and all media - print, electronic & outdoor et al. Many are en-cashing the opportunity while many are on the streets paying homage to the unfortunate lives.   Have been hearing across radio today - We will NOT Forget. Mumbai will NOT Forget. That's a debate here - should we just remember or LEARN?   Personally speaking I think its time learn from mistakes & not JUST remember what happened a year back. We have learnt - hence we have posted police outside all hot spots like restaurants, Hotels, monuments, fortified (Really) our bays, water boundaries etc etc but is that enough. Do we really think - they will attack the same spots, via the same route???? I sincerely doubt. Its a constant vigil issue and more to do with alertness and not PANIC - what we are doing is waiting to press the panic button.   Just recap - what happened on that fateful day. They came, they killed, disrupted life, panic, threatened & got killed. Do we all remember seeing these round dome like things at important locations, junctions across city? They were installed with huge budgets & fanfare. The monies spent on these were our money - tax payers money. They were supposed to keep an eye on the suspicious movements. I remember seeing one at Gate of India myself - LONG before this happened. Now answer these few questions:    A. Was it worth the money when the very purpose was defeated - BADLY Defeated. B. When the very purpose was to vigil - why was it not functional - did anyone paid any heed after having spent our hard earned money? C. Why the police force had to rely on CCTV footage by private parties - what happened to CST CCTV? D. Metal detector gates installed at stations - do they work. NO - they are just installed & beep with every passer by - guards are used to it by now. Why?   Hence the crux of the matter is - we remember what happened and try correcting when the damage is done. 1. CCTV & frisking started at stations after the July railway attack. 2. Vigil at hotels & multiplexes after 93 blasts 3. Tightening of water front securities after 26/11 4. Forming NSG after 26/11 5. Vehicle checking after surat blasts   Now mull over these: 1. Try & think of other passage they can take. 2. What avtar they can take? 3. Other weak spot to attack? 4. Modes of travel?   Have you ever thought - ambulances can be the safest to travel, hence hospitals be the weak spots (Again), medical attendants can be the avtar & road be the passage.   Ambulances are free to break the signal, take wrong entry, go uninterrupted, straight to hospitals. As per my limited knowledge, they don't have any code of conduct for operating.   - Are they scrutinized before they are pressed into action?  - every other political wannabe first gifts an ambulance for public use. Most of them you see are sponsored by these parties. - they go unchecked at signals, road blocks etc.   My suggestion (if it reaches right people) is to have GPS compulsory for all Ambulances, let them have smart radio chip that can detect the authenticity of these vehicles remotely. Have one governing body to monitor the no of ambulances pressed in service etc.   It gives me chills whenever I am thinking of the next possible mode. And no when I am talking all this - it is for INDIA & not only Mumbai. Other cities are as important to INDIA as mumbai.   My point expressed, now lets debate & I invite your viewpoints.   Jai Hind!   Naveen Jalan Mumbai +91 98204 15646

Double Crossing Tap

I wonder why no one thought of this before; what the Cycle-Basin is proposing here is very simple. Depending upon what you use the tap water for, you decide whether the gray water can be recycled or not, and then accordingly use the bottom tap to drain out the water into a bucket or let it go down the drain…literally. If you're cleaning up some veggies, then naturally you can recycle that water for watering your plants. Get the drift? Designers: Jie Hu, Hanwu Lin, Ran An, YuanFeng & Xianjing Zhang Courtesy: Yanko Designs

No more fraud auto fares: Thanks to ex-Infy techies

By siliconindia news bureau Bangalore: In a city like Bangalore several commuters depend on the autorickshaws to travel from one place to another, but not always do they get to pay the correct fare as sometimes they are demanded extra money by the drivers. Now with a technology developed by four former Infosys engineers - Sudarshan H.S., Pavaman Athani, Sairam Rajamani and Rahul R.S., a commuter can verify the fares demanded by the drivers with an automatic SMS telling what they should be paying for the distance travelled. Using this service called 'Latlong' people can text message the area from which they start their journey with their destination, to receive an instant message on the fare they must pay, reports Deccan Chronicle. "Latlong provides information on the approximate autorickshaw fare and the distance in kilometers. This allows the user to check the exact distance travelled and confirm if the meter reading is accurate. The service has been a hit. We have received nearly 50,000 SMSes so far," says Sudarshan, CEO of Onze, the firm which has come out with the concept. So successful has been the service that the Onze is now looking at launching Latlong in other cities as well. "We will be launching the service in Chennai soon," says Sudarshan. For using this service the commuters need to send their message to 9008890088.

Amazing Innovation....everybody with a mobile would like to have one

For some odd reason, Apple has decided to keep the charging cord for the iPhone pretty short. When you compare it to the Nokia or Motorola chargers, the wire is a teeny-tiny tad! Not that long wires are a help, but either ways, you never are going to be happy with wire lengths! The solution lies in cool accessories like this MI-O Cell Phone Cradle. Keep the phone close enough to the socket and wrap the charger wire, neatly around the expandable wings! Happy Happy Wires! How does it work? Position device between electrical outlet and handset charger. Insert charger cable into small opening on either side of platform to securely hold handset in place. Coil charger cable around expandable wings on device base. Designer: Cagnina Design (courtesy Yanko Design Web)

Mind Blowing Music System!

Tanker Thats all Rolly Posted: 03 Nov 2009 12:55 AM PST On the lines of the pet Rolly by Sony is the Mint Tank Music Player. It's the sorts that follows you around, obeys your commands and doesn't complain if you ignore it. Features include USB connectivity, Bluetooth, WiFi, 2 High Output Speakers, Remote Control and endless track system to follow you around. When two tanks are within the same vicinity, they kind of communicate with each other and playback music with 3-D sound effects. Quite an awesome pet! Designers: mintselect @ mintpass