Ideas worth spreading

Recently I saw a video in TED. You might be very familiar with TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) a U.S. private non-profit foundation that is best known for its conferences. Building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. This video titled “Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks” reminded me of my visit to Bits Pilani.

As I had mentioned earlier in my posts regarding a project presentation there, it provided a wonderful opportunity to meet some of the architects of the future, techies. One person I met was Amit. He was a pre-final year guy who bagged the first prize for the project presentation. His project was titled “Touch the future of user interface” Well am just posting the two videos. Take a look at both of them. It looks similar, except a difference that Mr Johnny Lee is researcher but Mr Amit is a student from BITS.

Excuse moi!!!!!!!!

Not Reality, but the Response to Reality makes the difference.

Yeah, I think this sentence would be the apt one to seek an excuse for not posting anything for quite a few months. I was making myself busy. I wasn't busy but I was making myself seem busy. Well, I think its time to take off this mask and change my response to the reality here. The reality that I do have ample time.

So I hope I would be back blogging.

See you all in ma next post.

'Atithi Devo Bhavah'

‘Rang De Basanti’ was a widely accepted movie. I wonder if it’s coz of Aamir Khan or Rakeysh Mehra, the director. Whatever be it, the tourism ministry of India has taken advantage of this and launched an ad which turned out to be fruitful. Starring Aamir Khan, directed by Rakeysh Mehra, this ad has been a great success I guess. Aamir Khan is now seen asking our countrymen not to misbehave with foreign tourists and deface monuments as a part of social awareness campaign. I deem it successful coz I have experienced the impact myself.

It struck twelve in the clock while I was checking my mails one day. I was about to log out when I noticed a new mail in my inbox. It was from BITS-Pilani. It said our project has been selected for display there. I was so excited. I tried to contact my batchmates but none of them were awake. I couldn't convey it to anyone but then said it to myself again and again. It was long before I slept off.

So as we all know, time and tide waits for none, the most awaited day came. We were all prepared for the journey. We decided to go to goa via Manglore. We reached Manglore by midnight. We got into the train. We went towards our respective berths but one of my firend was surprised to find it occupied. We tried to convince the lady who was a foreigner but she refused to budge. He called for the TTR and informed it. The TTR approached the lady in the most polite way. She didn’t have the ticket but still she wouldn’t move. The TTR didn’t scream, didn’t fine. He commanded my friend to sacrifice his sleep sitting in a corner. 'Atithi Devo Bhavah'