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Why You Should Spend Time Doing Nothing, According to Science

6/2/2018

Taking an objective view at "doing nothing". Relaxation is not merely quelling stress, it needs to involve deep deceleration. As science is proving it, doing this is not only important for one's health but also increases productivity and overall personal performance...

Read on: Why You Should Spend Time Doing Nothing, According to Science

#PersonalKaizen #PersonalLean #personaldevelopment #SandhyaUBhat #personalization

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Consuming & Contributing: is this the way to balance our energy consumption?

3/17/2018

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Managing our energy consumption has been an important talk within the global energy and earth sustainability circles. It seems like finally this Danish Utility company may have an answer in the form of a Virtual Power Plant- where the contributors to the grid consume power in the night.

Is this a true solution and our answer for a balanced, sustainable future? Read on: How your car could be part of a 'virtual power plant'

#VirtualPowerPlant #SolarEnergy #SandhyaBhat

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Survival of the Fittest

3/16/2018

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Adapt or die: better known as “Survival of the Fittest” has been at the heart of Darwinian wisdom and philosophy how life evolved on earth. This evolved the mammals from an amoeba and the human from our close cousins- gorilla. BUT, how does it feel when we expect robots to soon join this race and we will need to compete with them for survival.

Even though robots are not going to eat our food or outpace us during our run from predators, atleast not of yet- they are surely coming for our jobs. And though many would not want to admit, it is a sad part of life- that for many- their jobs are their means of survival. Maybe not as a species but surely as a family unit. Read on to learn more Adapt or Die…

#survivaloftheFittest #AdaptorDie #SandhyaBhat

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Robotic Bees: Drones Could Potentially Pollinate Our Crops

3/15/2018

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Retail giant Walmart has just filed for a patent for Autonomous Robot Bees! It seems like soon we could be having these robotic bees pollinating our crops. This is supposed to help address the dire situation of declining bee-population due to a phenomenon called colony collapse. Declining bee population has been of major concern, since bees pollinate nearly one-third of the food we eat. So, this may assure good crop pollination, but can robotic bees truly address nature's way of working.

It is always wonderful to read about innovation in technology. but, the philosophical question remains, we have yet to completely define and live by our humanity, how will we incorporate "living technology" in our life!!

Read the full article titled, A Giant US Retail Corporation Just Filed a Patent for Autonomous Robot Bees.

#CropPollination #RoboticBees #InnovationinIT

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Robots are developing a mind of their own?

3/11/2018

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What happens when AI meets robotics? What will happen when robots have a mind of their own? As if dealing with erratic humans was not enough, very soon we may have to bear with robot- as they are rapidly replacing our jobs and infiltrating our lives at an amazing pace!!

Though right now, this still has the "glow" of innovation and feels like living an episode of Star Trek or the set of Matrix. What the social and psychological implications will be of such a move, needs to be considered sooner rather than later... Read on to learn more: What happens when AI meets robotics?

#AIandRobotics #ArtificialIntelligence #InnovationinTechnology

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Medical Technology: Wearable technology for stroke patients

2/25/2018

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It is always amazing to see technology transform our lives in tangible ways and what can be more tangible than having technology change how we or our loved ones can live a better quality life. Medical technology has been around since technology took on a strong foothold, but every day new research in being done in medical devices that will help enhance our lives and speed up our healing.

This news video from BBC, titled Wearable technology for stroke patients explains how doctors in the US are using wearable technology to help stroke patients have a speedier recovery.

#RecoveringFromStroke #MedicalDevices

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Digital Nose Technology: when smart phones can "smell" obnoxious odors

2/24/2018

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Mobile World Technology Congress 2018 (MWC 2018) saw a smart phone that could "smell" obnoxious odors! The applicability of this functionality is limitless. Phones have been keeping us safe and saving our lives for many years now by dialing the emergency 911 with a mere touch of a button or some code button-combinations (which comes in handy when in threatening scenarios).

But if our phones start smelling and detecting odors around us, then they could be programmed to detect if seemingly ordinary smells are containing dangerious levels of toxic chemicals. Hopefully in the near future, a warning from our smart phone could be protect us from toxic concentrations of household VOCs (Volatile Organic Chemicals) such as those found in paints, cleaners and so on...

Watch BBC- Technology news video titled: MWC 2018: Smell-sensing CAT S61 smartphone sniffs out glue to learn more...

#DigitalNose #SmellingSmartPhone

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Why You Should Spend Time Doing Nothing, According to Science

Consuming & Contributing: is this the way to balance our energy consumption?

Survival of the Fittest

Robotic Bees: Drones Could Potentially Pollinate Our Crops

Robots are developing a mind of their own?

Medical Technology: Wearable technology for stroke patients

Digital Nose Technology: when smart phones can "smell" obnoxious odors

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