You have seen in many movies specially in Terminator, the bionic women use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes.

Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.

The lenses were tested on rabbits for up to 20 minutes and the animals showed no adverse effects.

People may find all sorts of applications for it that we have not thought about. Our goal is to demonstrate the basic technology and make sure it works and that it's safe," said Parviz, who heads a multi-disciplinary UW group that is developing electronics for contact lenses.

Installing and removing the lenses would be as easy as your normal lenses. But you have to wait till the engineers make this bionic eye fully comfortable for human being.

[via Futurismic]

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Google recently launched the iGoogle Themes API, which allows for user-generated iGoogle Themes. Now, anyone who can design a webpage can design an iGoogle theme.

The Themes API lets you create custom designs for iGoogle. Themes are visual designs that personalize iGoogle pages for millions of users.  Themes are not just static designs--they can change throughout the day to reveal a visual storyline, message, or anything else.

iGoogle Users and Developers have been clamoring to know when they can develop themes for the iGoogle homepage, now you can design your personal iGoogle theme. You can create themes with your interest like Nature, Humor, Animals, Technology or what you like.

My favorite theme is EarthLight designed by Yves, this theme will dynamically change to match your time of day, including local sunrise and sunset times.

To inspire theme designers, Google released custom themes from innovative designers Yves Behar, Mark Frauenfelder, Troy Lee and John Maeda.

In addition to it, Google also released a Theme Directory, similar to Google Gadget Directory. If you don't want to create a iGoogle theme then you can select themes you like from this directory.

How to Create a iGoogle Theme | iGoogle Theme Directory

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Yesterday, the first day of Macworld, Google officially announced the improved interface for iPhone users. The previous version, launched just over a month ago, with Google suite of web applications including Search, Gmail, Calendar, Reader, and more -- into one easy-to-use interface.

Google is making the applications faster and improving their usability. Here is a list of the improvements announced by Google.

• Improved UI: The applications look and feel slicker, and they are easier to activate, navigate and use via a touch-screen.
• Customization of default tabs: Now Google users can have easy access to their favorite applications by customizing the applications that appear on the Google.com menu bar. Users simply choose their favorite Google applications to bring them to the front menu, ensuring that they'll be close at hand whenever they're needed. Switching between applications is effortless, as users only need to sign in once to access their Gmail, Calendar, Reader, Docs, and Picasa accounts.
• Speedier Gmail: New emails will automatically show up so there's no need to manually refresh inboxes. And the new auto-complete feature for contacts makes composing emails faster than ever.
• Speedier Calendar: With our new month view, users can glance at an entire month of appointments.
• iGoogle: Now Google users can access their iGoogle gadgets on the iPhone. Everything they've customized on their iGoogle homepage including weather, stocks, and news feeds now appear on their iPhone's. To go to iGoogle, simply click on the iGoogle link on the Home tab. You can customize your iGoogle page on your computer at www.igoogle.com.

On further Google says,

These new features provide iPhone users with a desktop-like Google web application experience in terms of ease-of-use, speed, and feature richness but optimized for the iPhone. This experience is made possible by the iPhone's general usability and the capabilities of its web browser, combined with Google's innovative mobile web applications. We plan to expand this experience to international versions of the iPhone and to other platforms that offer similar usability and browser capabilities. One of our goals is to support platforms that are fulfilling the promise of the mobile web - like the iPhone - and to ultimately deliver unique and compelling mobile experiences that improve people's daily lives.

To experience the new app's interface on your iPhone, simply visit to www.google.com on the iPhone Safari browser. To see all the Google mobile products and services, visit mobile.google.com.

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Voyage is an RSS feed reader with a difference. It's been carefully designed around the content it displays. Add RSS feeds from your favorite sites and let voyage pull all the information together for your reading pleasure.

RSS voyage is designed using FLASH to give you the experience of 3D environment. This service is provided by Andy Biggs who is a senior flash developer.

When you enter the website you will see a flash loading process, voyage by default loads a number of popular rss feeds. If you want, you can add your favorite feeds to it and can delete the default feeds.

You will see the titles are floating like in the space. If you click them, it will display the summery of that post and a link to the source. Posts are organized by date. If you want to browse the feeds simply scroll the space of feeds using your mouse wheel or you can use your keyboard arrow keys. There is a horizontal timeline to scroll posts by hours.

Enjoy your Reading, Share the experience with our readers if you want.

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Google introduced a new feature in Gmail. This Gmail feature lets you create your personal mailing list using contact groups. This feature is compatible with IE7 and Firefox 2.

This feature is very helpful for those people who email updates to their friends, relatives or employees often. In general, if we have to email to a large no. of peoples frequently then we have to remember individual names or email  addresses. Sometimes we miss one or more of them.

But now, with the help of Gmail, you can create contact groups to which you email updates often.

To create Contact Groups, do the following simple steps

1.  Login to your Gmail account

2.  Click on "Contacts" from the left-hand navigation list

3.  Then click on the group icon

After giving a name to your group, brows for contacts you want to add to it. You can find them by clicking “All Contacts” or by searching by name or email address. Once you locate the contact by click on it, then select the group from the drop down menu in the right-most pane.

Now, while composing the email, in the To: field you just enter the name of your group and click  on "Send". Your email will be sent to all your contacts of that group.

Google is providing us more convenient ways to use Gmail more efficiently.

They say,

While this feature is great for creating efficient ways to email small groups, we encourage you to use Google Groups to manage large ones.

Thanks to The Official Gmail Blog to explain all this.

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DecentURL is a URL redirection service which not only shortens your long and ugly URLs but also coverts it into a readable and meaningful format.

You may know many of the URL redirection services, these redirection services shorten your url and point it to the destination page. The destination page which is long and ugly looking, if it is a affiliate link then it displays your affiliate id on it.

But the problem of these URL redirection services is, they include any randomly generated combination of Numbers and Alphabets. For instance,

http://www.text-link-ads.com/?ref=45239     by shortening this URL it becomes

http://tinyurl.com/3yluyu         this is URL is shortened using tinyurl.com

Unlike these services, DecentURL allows you to type and create a meaningful URL as you like. For instance,

http://www.text-link-ads.com/?ref=45239      by shortening this URL it became

http://text-link-ads.decenturl.com/digitalpassion

It can grab a title automatically, and it always includes the domain in the resulting URL to protect you from going places you didn’t want to.

Isn't it COOL.

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The secrete messages in Google's 2008 logo revealed. Google put silently two hidden messages in its 2008 logo. Google is celebrating 25 years of TCP/IP and the New Year.

Following are the two messages, with its meaning.

1) In this message Google is showing a cable making 2008.

2) The second message shows "SYN SYN/ACK ACK" on the bottom of the logo in little colored dots (see carefully).

What is syn syn ack ack?

The syn syn ack ack is referred as a "Three Way Handshake."

To establish a connection, TCP uses a three-way handshake. Before a client attempts to connect with a server, the server must first bind to a port to open it up for connections: this is called a passive open. Once the passive open is established, a client may initiate an active open. To establish a connection, the three-way (or 3-step) handshake occurs: Wikipedia

The "SYN" flags are requests by the TCP stack at one end of a socket to synchronize themselves to the sequence numbering for this new sessions. The ACK flags acknowlege earlier packets in this session. Obviously only the initial packet has no ACK flag, since there are no previous packets to acknowlege. Only the second packet (the first response from a server to a client) has both the SYN and the ACK bits set. linuxgazette.

In the neverending journey for sockets to shake hands, there has always been the cordial behind the scenes introduction. To imagine life without SYN/ACK would be akin to imagining life without the Internet. And that's quite scary. thinkgeek.

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