Can Nanotechnologies rid world’s water borne diseases like diarrhoea?.
Jyothi Kiran, Sunday, September 20, 2009 | Category: Health 
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98 % of the children in the developing world are dying due to water borne diseases. The people most at risk of arsenic poisoning are in Bangladesh, India and Nepal area. And it is mostly the children who succumb to water-related deaths due to diarrhoea.
Can nanotechnologies really help solve water problems in developing countries? There are two positive signs that they will, according to David J. Grimshaw, head of Practical Action’s international programme in new technologies and new technologies consultant for SciDev.Net.
First, water professionals and scientists are increasingly including local communities in dialogues to understand the problems with, and opportunities for, applying nanotechnology to water improvements.
Second, since the commercialization of nanotechnology is at an early stage, we can hope that such discussions — between researchers, communities and industry — will encourage scientists and businesses to develop appropriate business models to exploit their inventions.
Redefining the digital dilemma of securing data: No locks, no break-ins
Jyothi Kiran, Monday, September 7, 2009 | Category: Products Comments (8)
Move over digital cut-and-paste-guys and data hackers. You will soon be out of job, because the traditional way of data IP protection is moving over to a new patented mechanism enabled by Trinity Future-In. Which means, the creative content you created, the logo of your company, the unique idea you documented, or the music you composed cannot be used by anyone without authorization.
It is estimated that the total magnitude of counterfeiting and piracy worldwide could well be several hundred billion dollars more.
The innovative mechanism of Trinity for protecting digital files is not based on the traditional use of a lock and key system. In this solution files become invisible or inactive and block unauthorized duplication.
Jyothi Kiran, Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | Category: Products Comments (1)
Dan Zen’s latest group game The Nano Race is about “Six groups have the technology to enter the Nano World! Our mind and bodies are micro compressed to possess power and speed beyond imagination.
You can join one of the groups and one group only - or risk being caught as a spy! The group with the most explorers is leading the NANO RACE.. You can decide which part of the microcosm you you want to be in. There are about six categories to join in starting from being Lab Mice, rocket scientists, mediating monkeys, matrix hackers, lost luckies and evil diddlers.
Dan Zen who created it says ”… the race was to see if we could get a community type game going through the facebook groups along the roleplaying lines of the Blimp races we did back in the 90’s. From the uptake… it did not quite catch on. Maybe some more pushing would help - I liked the setting of nanotech ;-)”
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16672952605&ref=search&sid=1243987230.1982345021..1
Nanogita: Wear it in good faith
Jyothi Kiran, Friday, June 19, 2009 | Category: Products Comments (0)
Through out human history, man has found a way to affirm his faith with religious inscriptions; right from cave paintings, temple carvings, calligraphy and now nanotechnology inspired inscriptions on a gold pendant.
Designed by MIT professor of computational vision Dr. Pawan Sinha, and launched by Tanishq retail jewellry chain, the pendant is the world’s smallest Bhagawad Gita etched in 24 carat gold.
When I checked with the Jayanagar showroom manager in Bangalore, the pendants were ’selling like hot cakes’. The fact that you can read only under a 200X microscope did not deter customers wanting to possess one.
“It is a collectible item”, said the sales girl, and “not for gold investment”! The gold pendant is presently awailable in Hindi inscription and is in the range of Rs.15,000 and Rs.25,000.
‘It makes a great gift’ said one lady buying it for her dad on Fathers day. Now, that is one great example of science meeting religion meeting consumer, all in one stroke!
Eat spoons for nutrition, save planet!
Jyothi Kiran, Monday, May 18, 2009 | Category: Interview, Nano moments Comments (6)
Flight travel can be a cosmic yawn of boredom or an opportunity to think creatively. For Narayana Peesapaty, Research scientist at the International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), the in-flight time served plenty of food for thought. By the time the plane landed, Narayana Peesapaty had decided to make his in-flight idea of ‘edible cutlery’ a reality.
Narayana Peesapaty of BK Environmental Innovations Private Limited, a Hyderabad start-up company makes Edible Cutlery, using a mixture of sorghum jowar (corn), rice and wheat flour as an alternative to the environmentally-detrimental plastic and wood cutlery. According to Peesapaty, the sale of plastic cutlery growing at a rate of 30 per cent is generating significant non-biodegradable waste and contributing to overflowing landfills.
“Edible Cutlery is the only solution that provides the same convenience of disposable forks, spoons and chopsticks,” says Narayana Peesapaty.He shares his experience with www.nanomaya.com about his innovative product.
Nm: Why did you think of Edible Cutlery? Can you describe the Eureka moment?
NP: The concept of Edible Cutlery was born about 5 years ago, while returning from Ahmedabad to Hyderabad. Post Kandahar, in-flight catering most often carried plastic cutlery. Plastic cutlery being not quite convenient and thinking about the huge garbage each plane load brings in, I was wondering could not be there any alternative? It was a two hour long journey from Ahmedabad to Hyderabad and with nothing else to think about, I set myself thinking about and by the time I landed, the EUREKA moment happened.
Chew your spoon along with the meal
Sutapa, Thursday, May 14, 2009 | Category: Products Comments (1)
Why wash the cutlery after use if you can eat them? We use lots of water to clean our cups, dishes and spoons regularly, and many people (including me) hate washing them. Now you can use Eco-friendly edible cutlery, made of sorghum and can easily chew them up along with the food. (DNA news)
Stain or sweat, apply nanotech
Jyothi Kiran, Monday, April 20, 2009 | Category: Industry Comments (2)
Cleaning stained upholstery is not only cumbersome but expensive as well since it is a recurring process. Imagine large seating areas such as football stadia, hospitals, conference halls, airports, casinos, theatres…Now imagine stains on it: coffee, juice, soda, beer and wine, add food stains like tomato sauce, mustard, chocolate, cheese,chilly and samosa, and other stains such as sweat, paint, pee, and blood, and we have a mega cleaning challenge. But thanks to nanotechnology in the making of extreme performance upholstery, now the toughest stains are simply washed off with water.
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