Friday, May 27, 2011

Chicken Feathers now used in making Plastics !!

Nature hasn’t made anything useless even a small little bee can produce honey. Till now the chicken feathers were considered useless and they were only used in making some low quality chicken feeds or mostly thrown away as garbage.

Almost billion tons of chicken feathers are produced each year worldwide, these feathers contains keratin a tough protein that is also present in the cow hoofs and other animals horns. If a thermoplastic film is made from keratin then it becomes too strong and tear resistant. Now by the use of Keratin Dr Yiqi Yang and his colleagues in USA “University of Nebraska Lincoln have found that, they can make tough plastic by the help of chicken feathers.

At the start the plastic made from it lacks in water resistance, but after the further hard work of Yang and his fellows they added another synthetic plastic making chemical to overcame it, they added methyl acrylate. Then the outcome was tremendous and the product was both tough and water resistant. This effort will increase the utilization of chicken feathers in making of different plastic products.

Now there is a lesson, that God had nothing made useless.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Grain Salt Tiny Cameras !!

Cameras are not only used in saving memorable pictures but they are also used to diagnose various hidden diseases. Therefore the scientists of Germany of “Fraunhofer Institute” had developed an extremely tiny video camera that is not bigger than a grain of a salt. This tiny camera will be used to go through into various internal organs. One of the main good news about it is, that it is inexpensive and when it will be used than it may be replaced or thrown away with a new one. Most of the "Endoscopes" uses optic fibers but these cameras use normal electric cables. This new technology will be launched in the market in the next year for the use and cure of mankind. And think for a while, what will be tinier then a grain of a salt?

Cellulose Bacteria now used in Biofuels !!

Now most of the countries are searching for the alternative way of fuel due to the rise in prices and its effect on the economy. Now as the evolution of science and to use the alternative natural resources, scientists are now moving toward certain types of bacteria that contain cellulose, as cellulose is the most common natural compound on our planet. Cotton contains 90%, wood 50% of cellulose and even all plants consists of 33% of cellulose as it is also the main component of the cell wall of the plants. Cellulose consists of hundred and thousands of chains that are linked together in glucose units. Previously lots efforts are done to convert this cellulose into biofuels like ethanol but not succeeded, may be the main reason of it is, the difficulty in breaking of its components in starch than sugar because of the linking of cellulose units with each other. But now the good news is that the scientists at Bio-energy Science Center in US had successfully converted cellulose directly into “Isobutanol” by using genetically sequenced strain of cellulose, it is more advantageous biofuel because it can directly be used in car engines as it also contains the same amount of heat as of petrol. Just wait for the few more successful developments then it will be commercially available for use and you will be using biofuel in your cars in the coming future that will be produced from grass.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Helicopter as Cheap as a Car !!

If you are fed up with the day-to-day traffic jams, and wants to travel to your desire destination by your own helicopter, then you can buy a small personal helicopter for the price of a car.

Its kit costs about 3000 Dollars but you can build it from experts for another 4000 Dollars.

Mosquito XE is an ultra light helicopter, and if a customer wants a full established and equipped version then it may cost 20000 Dollars may be less then 20K$.

One of its best quality, that it can travel about 90 Kilometers with having fuel of only 5 gallons as it capacity says.

So enjoy fast and cheap luxury traveling at the age of even high standard of living.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Rolling Function of Alarm Clock like a Ball !!

Most of the peoples cannot wake up even when the alarm is rung because of the sleep left in eyes and we seems that it’s over. Therefore alarm are used to get up early, as mostly we have no habit of rising early, and if you have no one at home to put a glass of water on your face and you have to relay upon alarms then search for, such a type of alarm that is used to your habit.

Therefore a rolling alarm is invented that hides and changes it’s location when you want to switch it off without opening your eyes, it runs away from your hand hence making you to get up and find where it is ringing, by doing this one may awake in full consciousness and dizziness removes quickly.

These alarm not only contain a fixed type tattering or tic tic sound, but you can also record and select your favorite tone or some kind of words such as, “Hurry, your boss is calling you”.