Can we eat Technology ?

Its really amazing to be in an era where technology is innovating like never before but at the same time this world is witnessing a unprecedented shortage of food around the world and sky rocketing prices of basic consumables like wheat and rice. They say that the developing countries like China and India are consuming more than in past hence this is causing a great imbalance in Demand and Supply for the basis food across the world.

The world on one side is chasing a dream of making the world a global village by "WIRELESSing" everything around itself, on the same time, is constantly reminded of not to loose focus on the the very very basic thing to live. So even if we achieve everything we still need air to breathe, food to eat and home to live and thats why we need to wonder sometimes "Can we eat technology ?".

There can be lot of reasons behind this food shortage which can be anybody`s guess like
1. Increase in consumption of food in Developing nations.
2. Since there is a big migration of people from small towns who were farming in developing nations in search of other employment due to uncertain changing patterns of climate.
3. Use of BioFuels is growing in the developed nations.

Have a look at the following two Videos.

Wheat shortage around the world


ABC world news coverage on the Global Food Crisis in China, India, Indonesia, Egypt
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4628750

In a single breath we talk about "3G iPhone is arriving" and at the same time we listen/see "People are fighting for a loaf of bread". Unbelievable !

Sakura Blooms Again !

Date : 5th April 2008
Occasion : Sakura (Cherry Blossom)
Place : Ueno Garden, T.G.I Friday
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During the week or two (3rd week to 4th week of march) for which the Sakura (National Flower) blooms to its best in Japan, japanese people flock to the gardens and hold places under the Sakura trees, bring up lot of stuff to eat and drink and party all day long. During these weeks, even on the working days too, lot of companies organize there "Ohanami" (Japanese for "to see flower") parties where the newest and the youngest in the office are given a task of securing the place and arranging the party. Just chill and enjoy the garden we went to which is called "Ueno Koen" with friends namely Sukhdev, Darren, Rajan, shraddha along with me n swapna.It had a long street with Sakura Trees on both the sides, a fountain, a shrine, some interesting food stalls, museum and very very crowded shopping street of "AmeyaYokocho" among other things.

So sit back and enjoy the photo tour.

Why Google`s "Street View" is not enough ?

This is the greatest time for Media related innovation happening throughout the world. When the companies like "Google" and "EarthMine" are coming up with option of static photography of the world, there arise one more innovative company who thinks static imagery is not enough. The company is "Immersive Media" who have started taking videos of the streets as a complete 360 degrees view(except the bottom of the camera), and a user can play it like a video and with the movement of the mouse can see through the video in that angle/he or she wants. Looks simple but just think about the possibilities of such a camera. Try it your self.
1. Play the video below.
2. Click and drag the mouse in a direction which you want to peep into.
3. And the focus will follow your mouse direction giving you a feeling as if you are turning your head while driving.



Take 1
Just imagine such a camera as a surveillance camera where it takes the 360 degrees of video and some mishap happens. The authorities can completely go through the video after the crime happened and find out what went wrong.

Take 2
Wandering in city and looking at all the tourist area as if we ourselves have shot it.

The possibilities are endless !

OLPC and Intel Classmate Laptops for Developing Nations !

How 6 degrees increase in atmospheric temperature can change our world ? (NG Special)

Part1


Part 2

Boom Shuffle - Create your own radio stream - Music Social !

Update on 2009/05/10 : Looks like boom shuffle service is not anymore.

If you love discovering/listening new music...go ahead

Following playlist was prepared on a site called
http://www.boomshuffle.com/
where you can go and select various artist , albums (some limitations there, since its in beta) and create your own playlist, share it with your fiends and on the top of it embed it somewhere like I have done below on your site. Also its very interesting to discover new playlist created by other people throughout the world and discover the new songs.

For now you also need to select at least songs from 15 different artist because they say
"In order to play full streams of the tracks in your mix, it must include a minimum of 15 tracks from 15 different artists. If it contains less than this number, you can only play back 30-second samples until you add more songs by different artists to your mix. This allows us to comply with requirements related to internet radio. The more tracks that you add from different artists, the better your playback experience will be."

So like orkut, facebook, myspace for your mesages.., youtube for videos...this is for your music..


check it out yourself, its fast and easy.

Chasing the snow !

Place : HanaKiKou Ryokan, KawaBa, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Date : 2/1/2008 to 4/1/2008
How to reach : Omiya Satation(大宮駅) to Numata Station(沼田駅) through Limited Express Minakami 3(水上３号) by Train takes 1 hour 40 min.
From Numata Station(沼田駅) to Bessyou(別所) Bus Stop by Bus takes 47 min.