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Solar Car from Sion Motors
Solar Car from Sion Motors
Since the Electric Car resolution started, I have wondered why wouldn’t anybody want to use the car itself to produce energy. A car is driven in the open and therefore exposed to sunlight during the day. Photovoltaic cells convert sunlight to energy using a principle called the Photo Electric Effect; the discovery of which got Einstein the Nobel Prize. Why not Solar Car then?
One of the arguments…
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3D Printing to Build
3D Printing to Build
3D printing promised to end all manufacturing and change supply chain forever. It has not deliver on that promise, yet. For a period of time it seemed like 3D printing would only be used by geeks to play with. To build quick and easy components for electronics.
Very specialised application for 3D Printing in healthcare began to emerge where the tech was being used to print skin grafts. This…
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Blockchain Evolution
Last year was when most of the non-nerdy world woke up to Crypto-Currency and Blockchain. For the most part this was thanks to the fact that Bitcoin was on a tear and was doubling in value every few weeks!
Blockchain is the fundamental technology which makes crypto-currencies possible. Blockchain essentially stores all data in the form of blocks. These blocks are connected in the form of a chain.…
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Causing Death
Does not sound like a good thing to do. Also, works horribly if the business you are involved in is going to end up doing precisely that.
And still the car industry thrives.
When motor cars were first introduced, there were a large number of accidents that took place.
In the entire state of Ohio there were 2 cars in 1985 and they managed to find one another!
The first fatality in 1907
Things…
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Why the Electric Future will not deliver
Why the Electric Future will not deliver
The future may well be electric, but it is not going to come be the way we may imagine it to be.
We are busy designing and building a future where Lithium Ion batteries will dominate almost everything. The truth of the matter is that, the chart above tells a different story. There is limited Lithium and more important Cobalt on the planet. We will hit a wall in terms of supply sooner than later.
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Driving Virtually
Nvidia gave a demo yesterday which can only be described as wicked cool! They seem to be working at the absolute cutting edge of technology.
They drove a car completely virtually. It just blew my mind! Just watch the demo video embedded below and let your mind be blown as well! Starts at around 12:40.
Actually, the fact that Apple had an event yesterday and I am writing about Nvidia here, hurts…
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Selling Privacy
The entire social media business has been premised on selling your private data to actors who have the money to buy it. But what happens when those actors are not looking to just sell you goods; but an idea – That your country is going to the dogs!
It creates the possibility that entire elections can be manipulated using the very same data that allows a company to sell you baby wipes because you…
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Did you know? - Bite the bullet
Did you know? – Bite the bullet
You may have heard of the phrase – ‘bite the bullet’. It is used to describe the act of doing something unpleasant or difficult, which you have been putting off.
Anaesthesia was discovered by accident in 1840’s
American physician Crawford W. Longnoticed that his friends felt no pain when they injured themselves while staggering around under the influence of diethyl ether. He immediately thought…
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Building a world for the self-driving car
Building a world for the self-driving car
I was reading today morning and I saw this blog talk about the potential of self-driving vehicles being able to see around corners of the street by reflecting lasers.
We have built the world around us with the assumption that ONLY we will use it; which has been a fair assumption to make until now…
The roads, the traffic signs, the markings on the road, everything is built for a world where a…
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Milk
Milk is not something that we are naturally meant to consume, but milk has become an essential part of our diets. The dairy industry has grown and continued to grow in recent years to just quench our thirst for milk.
Now startups are looking to disrupt how we get our milk and meat.
Humanity’s procurement of animal-based foods has remained stagnant for a long time. In the case of milk, we grow…
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Future of Electronics
The impact that graphene is going to have on the future of electronics cannot be underestimated. Graphene is a carbon structure which is one atom thick. Image a sheet of carbon only one atom thick being used for building a whole host of solutions including batteries and advanced circuits.
Now scientists are finding a way to print grapheneon anything that is made of carbon, including your bread…
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Blockchain and Governance
I came across this article a couple of weeks back.
The idea is one of 35 that Bloomberg Philanthropies selected from over 300 applications for the testing phase of its 2018 US Mayors Challenge. The challenge asked American cities for technology and data solutions for their most pressing challenges and awarded up to $100,000 in grants for each winning city to experiment with and refine their…
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Prime Numbers
Modern Cryptography is based on prime numbers. When the research started out on cryptography, they were looking for what is called a reversible function. While most mathematical functions are reversible, they are also very easy to crack through.
If you wish to know more about how we arrived at this point, I advice a more detailed piece I had written on cryptography.
If I said 21 is the product of…
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Tipping point - Autonomous Cars
Tipping point – Autonomous Cars
Autonomous technology is the holy grail for future of automobile. It will not only upend the automobile industry but also real estate, retail and many others. It is only fair to say that every company with enough cash in their wallets have been trying to get into the game. Apple, Alphabet (read Google), Tencent, Uber, Didi Chuxing are some of the bigger names aiming at this market. Apart from…
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The Myth of Talent
The Myth of Talent
Talent is a myth, I was told… Now I believe it.
In order to arrive at perfection in any area of pursuit, you need to put in 10,000 hours of practice. Let us put that time in perspective. If you put in about 3 hours of practice a day, which is hard, you will do approximately 1000 hours of practice a year. So 10,000 hours of practice is a decade of undying commitment to a cause!
Now the objection…
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Anatomy of an Investment
Anatomy of an Investment
Investors determine their investments in various companies based on a variety of criteria. Ultimately, the investor wants to see the startups scale and grow to be a large enterprise. In order to be able to do this, the company must have certain fundamentals right. Having sat through several hundred pitch sessions, these are some of the things the investors look at, often in the order below but…
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Manufacturing and Jobs
There was a time when the hinterland was where all the jobs went. People in the cities bought what was produced in the hinterland. Then shipping and air transportation took off big time and it made more sense to transport things that to produce them in your own country. It was easier to specialise and transport than it was to generalise.
As technology and manufacturing evolved this is going to…
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