Genetic Data Storage

The huge databases required large physical storage and traditionally platter-based hard drives and solid state flash drives dominate the industry to store data. Recently two scientists George Church and Sri Kosuri of Haevard Wyss have demonstrated how to store 700TB of data in one gram of DNA.

The binary data will be translated into the sequence of DNA base pairs and after this the data turned into the DNA itself. The standard laboratory techniques are taken several days for this and also trying to do virtually unlimited size of stashing information in DNA at room temperature. It might take several days to convert only 675 KB text, picture or any sort of data into 55,000 DNA strands through standard laboratory techniques.

Genetic data storage may easily become practical within a few decades as speed increases and costs decreases according to the Moore’s Law and things are already going like that. For example, in 2001 the cost $10,000 for a custom sequence of a million base pairs of DNA. Now, it costs about $0.10. However due to obvious size it might allow you to store virtually unlimited amount of data and it’s also stable in room temperature therefore the longevity of data will also improve.

Church told Harvard's R. Alan Leo that "You can drop it wherever you want, in the desert or your backyard, and it will be there 400,000 years later," that’s mean you can also collect your secret videos and these can be accessible after hundreds of thousands of years after you’re dead.  

While briefing Church says that reading and writing data in DNA is "slower than in other media, however, which makes it better suited for archival storage of massive amounts of data, rather than for quick retrieval or data processing."

This shows that scientists are now taking science world by storm. Hope so they will soon successful in storing a bulk of information into DNA by some faster techniques.

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Answer Calls with Bluetooth Handset Gloves

In winter no one would like to pullout his/her hands from pockets. Everyone wants to keep his/her figures cozy this season. The Bluetooth handset gloves have been made to answer phone calls by putting figures in the glove and making “call me” gesture. This also could be a fun to use like when you’re shoveling snow or scraping ice off your windshield.

There is a microphone in the pinky of the left glove and also a tiny speaker in the thumb which are used while communication by making “call me” gesture. The manufacturer’s also made some buttons on the gloves which performs some basic functions.

These Bluetooth gloves work for Android, Blackberry, iOS and Windows phones and are available on ThinkGeek where these are on sale for $52.49.

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Ecologic Aircrafts Requires Less Energy to Travel - A New Concept

Recently small new aircrafts have been developed based on SATS (Small Aircraft Transportation System) concept. However, these aircrafts still have the environmental and economic problems. Aircraft noise especially at take-off and landing phase, emissions, long runway length, operational cost, and so on. To realize the future commuter aircraft, such environmental and economic aspects should be considered more carefully. On the other hand, many countries with small islands or small land resources for runway require new small aircrafts for the commuter air transportation. The requirements for these aircrafts is to be as follows:

1) High safety

2) Short take-off and landing capability

3) Small fuel consumption

4) Quiet operation

5) Low manufacturing cost

6) Low maintenance cost

Flight performance such as STOL, small fuel consumption and noise reduction should be achieved by the improvement of the aircraft itself, therefore some new technologies should be developed to meet these requirements. Low manufacturing cost will be achieved by the mass production like the automobile factories. Safety and low maintenance cost will be achieved through the simple system and structure, health monitoring system and reliable components with high quality management system.

In the present study, a new concept of small aircraft to meet those requirements is proposed and a conceptual design of new aircraft has been conducted. The proposed aircraft could provide a new efficient and ecological mid-range air transportation system, especially between the cities isolated by the mountains or sea. Such an aircraft is expected to take place of automobile and railway trains, if the commuter aircraft has advantage in transportation cost and convenience. 

This situation is not limited in business society but also in our personal society. Also low cost air taxi system with the newly proposed aircraft could change our social life drastically because our geographical world will become smaller and economic activities will be more active and our life will be more convenient.

Moreover recently an Ecologic Aircraft Design concept is given by “Daphnis Fournier” that needs less energy to travel. Photo-voltaic cells on its roof ensure sun’s energy production. An aircraft consumes maximum energy while taking off but this innovative transportation is air inflated i.e. it does not use up any energy of fuel.

The research on Ecological Aircraft’s is at its peak now a days to develop some cool stuff that will be environment friendly and energy efficient.

CoolStack always keen to provide you cool stuffs therefore don’t forget to share this and stay tuned with us. 

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Top 10 Most Expensive Domain Names Sold

Domain names are used as identification labels to indicate control of a resource. If you own a website you must need a domain to host your site on a server. Now a days different companies are selling domain names at different cost. Some domain are very cheap which some are very expensive.

Moreover the business of reseals domains also known as “Domain aftermarket” is also at its peak now a days. Various factors influence the market value of a domain name. Most of the million dollar domain deals are carried out privately and go unreported.

1. VacationRentals.com

                                        Sold for   $35 Million

2. PrivateJet.com

                                        Sold for   $30.18 Million

3. InSure.com

                                           Sold for   $16 Million

4. Sex.com

     Sold for   $13 Million

5. Hotels.com

                                            Sold for   $11 Million

6. Fund.com

                                        Sold for   $9.99 Million

7. Porn.com

      Sold for   $9.5 Million

8. Fb.com

                                       Sold for   $8.5 Million

9. Business.com

                                     Sold for   $7.5 Million

10. Diamonds.com

                                       Sold for   $7.5 Million

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Top 10 Best Question and Answer Websites

Do you have any question……? Or do you want to ask a question…? Or sometimes you can’t find a valid answer to your question. You do not need to worry because these are a lot of websites and form on which you just post your question and the experts or any other user will suggest you the answer. Now what you have to do is just to pick the answer which fulfills your requirements. I am going to list top 10 question and answer websites which are not only famous but also considered as patent regarding their contents. Do visit these websites if you have any problem.

1. Yahoo!Ansawers

Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven question-and-answer site or a knowledge market launched by Yahoo! on June 28, 2005 that allows users to both submit questions to be answered and answer questions asked by other users. The site gives members the chance to earn points as a way to encourage participation. Yahoo! Answers is available in 12 languages, but several Asian sites operate a different platform which allows for non-Latin characters. The platform is known as Yahoo! Chiebukuro in Japan and as Yahoo! Knowledge in Korea, Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong.

2. Answers.com

Answers.com is an Internet-based knowledge exchange, which includes WikiAnswers, ReferenceAnswers, VideoAnswers, and five international language Q&A communities. The website is the primary product of the Answers Corporation. The site supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Tagalog. 

3. Wiki Answers

WikiAnswers is an ad-supported wiki-based website where users can submit and answer questions. This site allows users to post and edit questions and answers. WikiAnswers.com uses wiki technology and allowing editing of content. All the questions that have an answer can be edited and improved over time. WikiAnswers.com uses an Alternates System – where every answer can have dozens of different questions that "trigger" it. When a question is similar to an existing one, they are joined as alternatives. This helps prevent duplicate entries in an effort to promote more cohesive answers.

4. Askville by Amazon

Askville is designed to run much like a computer game. Users gain or lose "experience points" in particular topics as they answer questions in those topics, depending on how good their answer is. Users also receive "quest gold" by asking and answering questions, and by voting on the worth of other people's answers. In the past, these coins could be redeemed for items in an Askville store. There are a variety of topics for questions, many user created. Besides answering factual and opinion questions, members can help others identify a book remembered from childhood or find a special recipe.

5. AOL Answers

AOL Answers is a proactive social search service which groups questions and answers to any topic and allows users to cooperate on them. Any question is allowed on AOL Answers, except ones that violate the AOL Answers terms of use.

6. Answerbag

Answerbag is a collaborative online database of frequently asked questions, where questions are asked and answered by users. Multiple answers to a given question are presented in descending order of user ratings. In a comparison with Yahoo! Answers and MSN Live Q&A, Cnet declared that Answerbag was neck and neck with Yahoo! Answers.

7. Fluther.com

Fluther is a free question-and-answer (Q&A) website with some of the features of a social networking website. Users submit questions to the user-base and answer questions posed by others. It is intended to be a resource for those looking to either solve a problem or generate a discussion. Once submitted, questions are routed toward users that may be able to answer them. In turn, users are encouraged to answer questions relevant to their own fields of expertise.

  

8. Stack Overflow

It features questions and answers on a wide range of topics in computer programming. The website serves as a platform for users to ask and answer questions, and, through membership and active participation, to vote questions and answers up or down and edit questions and answers in a fashion similar to a wiki. Users of Stack Overflow can earn reputation points, badges and can receive badges for their valued contributions, which represents a kind of gamification of the traditional Q&A site or forum.

9. Qoura

Quora is a question-and-answer website created, edited and organized by its community of users. The company was founded in June 2009, and the website was made available to the public on June 21, 2010. It aggregates questions and answers to topics. Users can collaborate by editing questions and suggesting edits to other users' answers.

10. WebmasterQuery

WebmasterQuery is also free question-and-answer (Q&A) website. You can ask any question about any field. Moreover in order to motivate users it also gives points which added in their accounts.

You can gain a bunch of knowledge from the above given websites and find perfect answers as well. The reason is that most of the time you will see answers given by highly qualified professional of the respective fields therefore don't worry about their answers. An answer to you question might not satisfies you but it may be useful for the others. I have also gained help from Stack Overflow regarding programming and used other sites as well. I hope these sites will enhance your knowledge and abilities. Do share if you like and give us feedback. CoolStack always strives to provide you some cool information.

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Whole body Prosthetic - A Concept by Natasha Vita-More

As to my previous post of "Prosthetic Hand with Real-Time Sensory Feedback" in which Silvestro Micera of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland has recently revealed the medical innovation for the amputees. Today I am going to share with you a concept to make whole body prosthetic given by a female philosopher "Natasha Vita-More".

Natasha Vita-More has been at the fore-front for several decades and her projects such as Primo Post Human have lead the NY Times to call her “the first female philosopher of trans-humanism.”

DR. Natasha Vita-More, is also the founder and creative director of esDESIGN, the producer and host of H+TV online. Her research concerns the design aesthetics of human enhancement and radical life extension, with a focus on emerging and speculative sciences and technologies. Her conceptual future human design “Primo Post human” has been featured in Wired, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Net Business, Teleopolis, and Village Voice.

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Nikola Danylov had taken her interview and i think that except writing her interview i have a video and its link to share with you. A 36 min interview will found to be very informative.

If this video dosen't work then you can view this video in Nikola Danylov's YouTube channel whose link is given below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LucitzhNQ8

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