We build ordinary windmills to extract useful power from wind energy. We put turbines in rivers (usually accompanied by dams) to extract useful power from downhill water flow.
Cement is a binder, a substance that sets and hardens as the cement dries and also reacts with carbon dioxide in the air dependently, and can bind other materials together.
Tensegrity structures are 3-D trusses where members are assigned specific functions. Some members remain in tension while others are always in compression.
Lathe is one of the most versatile and widely used machine tools all over the world. It is commonly known as the mother of all other machine tool.
There is an important need for clean, pure drinking water in many developing countries. Often water sources are brackish (i.e. contain dissolved salts) and/or contain harmful bacteria and therefore cannot be used for drinking.
Bench-marking is simply the comparison of one organisation's practices and performance against those of others. It seeks to identify standards or 'best practices' to apply in measuring and improving performance.
The Freenet network provides an effective means of anonymous information storage and retrieval. By using cooperating nodes spread over many computers in conjunction with an efficient adaptive routing algorithm, it keeps information anonymous and available while remaining highly scalable.
Cloud Computing has great potential of providing robust computational power to the society at reduced cost. It enables customers with limited computational resources to outsource their large comput...
Blackberry handhelds are integrated into an organization's e-mail system through a software package called “Blackberry Enterprise Server “(BES). Versions of BES are available for Microsoft E...
Biometrics , which is formed from the two ancient Greek words bios and metron which mean life and measure respectively, refers to two very different fields of...
Worldwide there are at least three million people living with artificial implants. In particular, research on the cochlear implant and retinal vision have furthered the development of interfaces be...
Electrodynamic (ED) tether is a long conducting wire extended from spacecraft. It has a strong potential for providing propellant less propulsion to spacecra...
The ticket machines would end the use of the hefty 1.5-kg ticket racks carried by conductors. It would also end the practice of tearing out tickets and marking fare stages. The Conductor would j...
A smart camera performs real-time analysis to recognize scenic elements. Smart cameras are useful in a variety of scenarios: surveillance, medicine, etc.We have built a real-time system for recogni...
With mobile phones becoming a basic part of life, the recharging of mobile phone batteries has always been a problem. The mobile phones vary in their talk time and battery stand by according to the...
Just like the Resistor, the Capacitor, sometimes referred to as a Condenser, is a simple passive device that is used to “store electricity”. The capacitor is a component which has the ability or “c...
‘Flying car ’, ‘roadable aircraft’, ‘dual-mode vehicle’ and other terms are used to describe the all-purpose vehicle that can fly like an airplane and drive o...
Shelter is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. The need to own a place for living is also seen in animals and birds. In t...
High Performance Concrete is that concrete which meets special performance and uniformity requirements that cannot always be achieved by conventional material, normal mixing, placing and curing pra...
The geotechnical engineers design foundations and other structures on the soil after investigation of the type of soil, its characteristics and its extent. If the soil is good at shallow depth belo...