Buckykite

Buckykite : Even though it looks more like a bunch of Buckyballs. Ivan Morison and Sash Reading created the kite, which is also sort of an art project (and called "Three Cubes Colliding"), out of some sort of aerospace fabric and connectors they designed and 3-D printed themselves. source-popsci.com

 

 

Some of Best Ice Hotels in the World

Romanian ice hotel - The hotel where the reception is ALWAYS frosty! Romanian guesthouse made entirely of ice (including the glasses)

 

HOTEL DE GLACE QUÉBEC-CANADA 

 

Just 23 miles from Quebec City (and 150 miles from Montreal), the Hotel de Glace (you're in French-speaking Canada here) is the most accessible ice hotel, so it gets many day-trippers coming to check out glacial architecture. That includes the vast lobby with its 5.4m-high ceiling (adorned with a candelabra lit by fibre optics), an ice bar where drinks are served in glasses made from, er, ice, an indoor ice slide, a chapel (where the warm-hearted get married) and an ice café. For this reason you won't be hanging around in bed for too long in the morning – lest you become an exhibit – but, anyway, the cool air will have you out of bed fairly sharply. Yet between 9pm and 9am guests have private access to outdoor hot tubs and a sauna.

It happens only in India

It happens only in India

Exciting Small cars - Can You Make one?

Exciting Small cars - Can You Make one?

Fed up with Corruption - Man Launches Snake-attack to Teach Govt Officials a Lesson!

source-daijiworld.com

Fed up with Corruption -  Man Launches Snake-attack to Teach Govt Officials a Lesson!

 

 

Happy New Year 2011

A Very Safe, Happy and Prosperous New Year to All Our Valued readers.

 

We must take a pledge today to:

 

1. Stop Ragging in all the Institutions and make Indian Education System a Ragging Free Place.

2. Make Indian Institutions a Innovation Place Where Innovative Ideas are generated.

3. Make Indian Institutions a Leader in Education and Research.

 

Ragging India Team

HOW TO REDUCE GREEN HOUSE GAS AT HOME

Not every family can afford to fix solar panels to their roofs or erect a wind turbine, but there are still steps you can take to save energy and therefore money.

1. Switch your electricity supply to a green tariff that promises to supply electricity from renewable sources.

 

2. Save on your heating bill by insulating and draught-proofing your home.

 

3. Switch to energy efficient light bulbs. They can use one quarter the electricity and last ten times as long.

 

4. Recycle paper, plastic, glass and metals. You not only save natural resources, but the energy that goes into making and transporting them.

 

5. Choose products that have less packaging -then you have less to recycle

 

6. Don't leave electrical equipment, like TVs and computers on standby they can use up to 75% of the electricity they use when turned on.

 

7. Take your mobile phone charger out of the socket when not being used.

 

8. Turn your thermostat down 1°C – you could save 10% on your fuel bills.

 

9. Only use your washing machine when there is a full load. Set your washing machine to warm or cool washes.

 

10. Fix leaking taps. A hot tap dripping could waste enough water each day for one bath.

 

11. Don't overheat your water. The recommended level is 60°C.

 

12. A full freezer uses less electricity than a half empty one – and if that isn't a good reason for buying more ice cream….

 

13. Kettles – if you don't need a full kettle of water don't boil a full kettle of water!

 

14. Dry your washing outside on the line when the weather is fine.

 

15. Hang reflective foil (with the shiny side facing the radiator) behind radiators fitted to outside walls to reduce heat loss.

 

16. Line your curtains and close them at dusk.

 

17. When choosing electrical appliances, make sure what you are buying is energy efficient.

 

18. Wearing t-shirts in winter and turning the heater up is just silly, put on warmer clothes.

 

19. Remember to turn the lights off when you leave the room ...... unless somebody else is still in the room!