We cannot see many things in this world. Below is an amazing example of a slow-motion photography where a burst of a soap bubble is captured inside the lens.

                         stage 1                                               stage 2

                       stage 3                                                stage 4

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Photographer Richard Heeks has taken this snaps and he used a fast shutter speed of 1/500th of a second and chose a perfect wind-free day so nothing would disturb his shoot.

UK company, Orange has announced the world’s first touch-screen watch phone which will be available from August.

the LG GD910 is 3G and video calling-capable with built-in speaker system with a Bluetooth headset and a full touch-screen interface.

Check out the following video on this new gadget.

Computer Scientists at UC San Diego have programmed the 31 artificial muscles of the animatronic Albert Einstein robot using Machine Learning principles and wired facial expressions into it. This robot has learned how to smile, frown etc.

While teaching, the robot is allowed to make random facial expressions and video camera with facial recognition capability gives it a feedback. When ever the robot makes a real facial expression, it is given a reward signal and thus the robot saves that expression and learns the context. Next time the robot picks an expression, there’s a bias towards putting the motors in the right configuration.

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This is a painting titled “Discussing the divine comedy with dante” by Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi and Zhang An in the year 2006 and it depicts 105 famous political and cultural iconic personalities of the world.

Click the image to see its high resolution version.

Special Attraction: There is even world’s first cloned animal – Dolly. Check the number “105”

Below is the vast list of names of people in the painting (as per the numbers marked against each person)

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Though Sun was subdued by Oracle, the Sun’s pride Java still rules the programming realm of the world. 

Java is the “Programming Language of the Year 2009” according to TIOBE Community index for June 2009. The following is the list of top 10 popular programming languages.

For more information, refer the article, TIOBE Programming Community Index for June 2009

The American food company Heinz has announced the brand new USB-powered gadget called Beanzawave. Its dimensions being 7.4(H) x 6.2(W) x 5.9(D) inches makes it the world’s smallest and portable microwave oven. So, now a USB can fill your appetite.

It is a great help especially to the workers who are too busy to depart their terminal for lunch and students who spend their time mostly at school. Its convenience of being powered with a USB port of a computer or lithium ion batteries makes it a perfect piece to add to the list of items to carry on travel.

Now its just a prototype model with the component costs bearing £100/$160. Just as the laptops and mobile phones have become cheaper, the price might take a rapid fall to a point where it is profitable to both the manufacturer and the customers.

And yet another USB gadget called Dreamcheeky’s USB Fridge allows you to keep your beverages chill.

Transferring your photos from a digital camera or a video camera to your computer or  your favorite online photo-sharing service has ever became so easy with the Eye-Fi’s new Wi-Fi enabled SD card. Its a perfect accessory to your digital camera.

This device allows peer-to-peer connectivity between your camera and a computer without the need for an internet connection. Its selective transfer feature lets you filter in which photos you want to send to your computer or online-sharing service. Using the global wi-fi positioning, the card supports geo-tagging which allows you to merge information like where the photo was taken with the photo properties.

Eye-Fi’s SDHC card’s built in software supports direct photo/video sharing with Flickr, Facebook, Picasa Web Albums, Kodak EasyShare Gallery, SmugMug, Photobucket, Snapfish, Youtube and many more.

The “Epigenetics” is the idea that human genes have memory in them due to which the situations or circumstances faced by your grand parents or distant ancestors may directly affect you even though you did not experience those conditions.

Check the video below for more information.

Atavisms are the genetic traits of distant ancestors that reappear in the modern day. In order for the trait to be an atavism, an organism’s parents can’t have the trait, and neither can the recent ancestors.

In the image below is Jiaxue (from China) who is an example for Atavism. She inherited the genes from chimpanzee. Probably that was the genes which disappeared millions of years ago and which differentiated humans from chimpazee’s and which paved the way for the human evolution.

Jiaxue (4-year-girl) from China