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Google Glass in an Operation Theatre @ Chennai !!!!
“Can you see me? Can you see what I’m doing here?” the surgeon asks from inside the theatre. For the record, that’s not quite the way conversation goes in an operation theatre. The surgeon’s usually concerned about what he can see.
The Google Glass enters the operation theatre. Photo: Ramya Kannan
As far as medical procedures go, this was quite ordinary. But there was a guest in the theatre on Tuesday, perched pretty on the bridge of the surgeon’s nose. J.S. Rajkumar, surgical gastroenterologist, and chairman, Lifeline Hospitals, had brought in a piece of the future, for the very first time, reportedly, into an Indian operation theatre. He was wearing the Google Glass.
As the surgeon went in through three port holes to correct gastro oesophageal reflux disease, the Google Glass saw exactly what he did and transmitted a video live, onto a remote location.
Literature shows that twice before, the Google Glass has been within operating theatres. The first surgery with the Glass happened in June in Spain, and the second, in August in Ohio. When the Google Glass was switched on inside Lifeline Hospital’s operation theatre, it was a first in the country, and only the third time in the world that it had sat with surgeons.
Google Glass is a wearable mini computer that sits as its moniker indicates, like a pair of spectacles, except there is only one neat quadrangle prism just above your level of vision over the right eye. A touch screen, the processor and battery are compacted, nearly unbelievably, in the right arm of the part of the glass that rests on the ear. So switch on the device by tapping the touch screen, say “OK, Glass” and then tell it what you want to do: Take a photo; take a video; ask for directions; or just search on Google. Entirely hands free, this genie bows to your voice. It is so seamless, it seems nearly like magic.
Built quintessentially as a tool for social media, the Google Glass allows for instant sharing of the photo/ video you’ve just taken. “It runs on an android processor and you can hook it up to any android device- a mobile phone or a tab. The video can be streamed on any chat site that allows multimedia content, say like Google Hangout,” explains Shiva Thirumazhusai, CEO, Nasotech, the U.S.-based start up that is creating customised apps for the Glass.
So, how did Dr. Rajkumar get hold of the limited edition Google Glass, being rationed out by Google at about $1700. Mr. Shiva says he runs a Google Developers Group in the U.S., and had registered for the Glass a year ago. He was among the first to get it in hand, when Google started shipping them out in May. An old friendship with the surgeon, and Dr. Rajkumar’s own interest in using the device in the theatre, led to the debut for Google Glass in Chennai.
“Whichever way you look at it, it is an amazing device for surgeons. If you are there in the theatre and you have a hitch, you could search for a video about the procedure and clarify what’s happening. Specialists across the world can merely wear this light-weight glass and advise a young surgeon in a remote town on how to go on,” Dr. Rajkumar says. It can also enable relatives of the patient sitting across the world to catch up with the surgery live, and as for eager medical students, the implications are huge.
Nasotech has already added some customisations. For instance, while Google Glass will allow you to take only 10-second videos, the one that was used on Tuesday has virtually no limit on video time. Mr. Shiva says they are working on connecting the Glass with hospital information systems, so that at a command, the patient’s history comes up on the visual layer.
Broadband speeds being perfidious in the best of circumstances in this country, the video from a second hernia surgery did not quite reach the viewing room. Dr. Rajkumar says, “That’s the only thing: if cost and connectivity are in favour, the Google Glass can transform health care access in this country. Isn’t it exciting?” You bet!
Keywords: Google Glass, Lifeline Hospitals, J.S. Rajkumar
source::::: Ramya Kannan in The Hindu
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Playing Tennis on the Wings Of a Flying Plane !!!
Dare Devil – Ivan Unger and Gladys Roy playing tennis on the wings of a flying airplane in 1927. — with Martim Alves de Lima, Nuri Lomelin, Khawar Mehmood,Juanjo Moreno Vélez and Bilal Ahmed…
source::::: input from a friend of mine…
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Why Every Indian Should Salute This Indian ?
‘It is very sad that many of us are yet to discover the Northeastern part of India. After having been to every state of India, people often refuse to believe that I am an Indian,’ says Armstrong Pame, the admirable IAS officer from Manipur who built a 100 km long road in a remote part of the hill state without government help.
The ‘People’s Road’, built with people’s help, connects his district to the rest of the state and further to Nagaland and Assam. Pame, 28, raised most of the funds for the project through Facebook and has been given the name ‘Miracle Man’ by the villagers for giving them their first motorable road.
Armstrong Pame shares his thoughts about India in Rediff.com’s continuing special series where various Indians speak about what they love most about our country.
Our freedom-fighters fought the good fight with zeal, enthusiasm and braveness to give to us that freedom which is the utmost need for any societal growth.
It is time to question ourselves: do we still have the same passion and the zeal within us?
If we do have it, it is time to look beyond me, myself, and I! We are here to live life, and not just to survive it, we live to create positive impacts around us each day.
Our nation is progressing well but not as good enough to show the growth story as one that is of equity, progress and benefit to one and all.
This freedom that we celebrate should be a celebration to help spread the message that each one of us is committed to imparting freedom to every citizen to pursue what their dreams and aspirations are.
Let every unborn child – boy or girl – be born in an India which will make the child grow to the fullest potential. Let there be no fear in our hearts, let’s take our country forward.
The greatest thing about India is its diversity and this is its worst too – because we are not able to fully channelise this to something positive, rather this has often been used as a dividing force.
It is also very sad that many of us are yet to discover the Northeastern part of India. After having been to every state of India, people often refuse to believe that I am an Indian.
The interior part of mainland India — be it central, northern or southern — doesn’t know this northeastern part of the country. They are terribly amazed to see that their fellow brethren can look so different!
I believe many places in the Northeast are not in any way less than some of the best tourist destination like Shimla, Mussoorie or elsewhere. Do come and see how good the Northeast is, and how simplistic and lovely your fellow citizens are.
We are eternally emotional wherever we are. The good thing about being emotional is that we are forever supportive of a good cause. The support and help received from every citizen across the globe is once again proof that we all have an undying spirit to support the good cause.
Maybe our country is the only place where one still believes in community, where family values reign over individual gains.
This tradition and culture of ours is truly the envy of others. If we are to strive towards living life to the fullest we are to only strengthen this bond.
Delhi is undoubtedly my favourite place in India. Having spent a good part of my youth there, and the best of my college days there. However, I am saddened every time I see news about Delhi: bad news always comes first.
Meeting old friends there has become very difficult, especially catching up with them late in the evenings has become even worse. The city is no longer safe. Why do we feel insecure in our own home? I wish to see India as a very safe place for everyone.
Let every Indian say — “Make me live life to the fullest, to be all that I can be so that I can help others be all that they can be”.
Armstrong Pame is a 2009 batch Indian Administrative Officer and the first from the Zeme tribe of Nagaland. He is an alumnus of Delhi’s St Stephen’s College.
He was recently invited by Facebook at the headquarters in California to share with them how he used the social media site to raise funds for a noble project like the ‘People’s Road’.
source ::::::Rediff.com
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Optical Illusion Paintings !!!
Ukrainian artist Oleg Shuplyak cleverly arranges objects, figures, and other elements in his paintings so that they suggest the form of a person’s face. He has created dozens of these optical illusion portraits, mainly of historical figures.
source:::: laughing squid
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Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet Yesterday…. Hostel cum Hotel on Ground Today !!!!
Aviation fans are in for a treat as a 450-seater jumbo jet has been converted into a unique hotel – letting guests sleep on a Boeing 747.
The unique Jumbo Stay hostel has a selection of 27 cabins to choose from, with some en-suite and all with Wi-Fi and flatscreen TVs.
For frequent flyers it might not exactly be their cup of tea, in fact far from it, but for aeroplane enthusiasts, it could be the next big buzz.
Jumbo Stay: For those who have never had a Jumbo experience, they can now book a cheap night in a converted jet in Sweden for as little as £42 a night
Guests can even stay in the luxurious cockpit suite, which has panoramic views of the airport in Arlanda, near Stockholm, Sweden
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The plane – which now remains grounded – can also be used for conferences and is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week for guests to come and visit.
The owner and the man behind Jumbo Stay is Swedish business man Oscar Divs, who bought the 1976 Boeing 747-200 and converted it into the hostel.
Open for business: The 1976 Jumbo is now a fixed hostel feature at the Arlanda airport near Stockholm, in Sweden
Oscar said: ‘I was getting ready to expand my hostel business in 2006 when I heard about an old wreck of an aircraft for sale at Arlanda.
‘Since I had for a long time wanted to establish my business at Arlanda I didn’t hesitate for a second when this opportunity struck.’
The airplane, a decommissioned jumbo jet built in 1976, was last operated by Transjet, a Swedish airline that went bankrupt in 2002
Guests have a hefty flight of stairs to climb if they want to stay in the Jumbo, climbing to entrances either at the front or the back of the plane
The prices at the Jumbo hostel range from 50 euros – around £42 – for a shared single sex dorm to almost 200 euros – £170 – a night for the exclusive pilot’s suite.
The airplane, a decommissioned jumbo jet built in 1976, was last operated by Transjet, a Swedish airline that went bankrupt in 2002.
Guests will recognise the jet as one of the most popular planes for holiday travel, and the owner promises guest will have an experience like no other in this novelty hostel.
Transformation: Much work has gone into converting the decommissioned Jumbo from a passenger plane to a comfortable hostel with places to kick back and relax
Some parts of the aeroplane still resemble the traditional Boeing 747 interior
source:::: mailonline.com UK
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Wonder Sketch Drawings With Ink and Pencil !!!
New Jersey-based illustrator Tim Jeffs has spent the past year trying to draw intricately detailed animal portraits with nothing more than pens and ink. Originally completing the spectacular sketchbook drawings as a pastime, Jeffs’ son Harrison decided to share his dad’s meticulous craft on reddit. After receiving a great response, Jeffs decided to set up an Etsy shop and continue to expand his portfolio.
The ever-growing collection already includes an impressive number of animals, from a tiger and elephants to numerous rhinos and an iguana. Each new addition, which takes approximately 12 to16 hours on average, offers a special specimen to the artist’s ink zoo that’s full of character and realistic texture. The artistic renderings capture the essence of each creature as well as their distinct features like the furry hair of a bison. The artist says, “Doing artwork is my passion. I love detail. And the more complex, intricate the subject matter the better.”
source::::: my modern met & reddit
natarajan
While Success Is Produced , Impact is Created !!!
Very Inspiring : Creating has to be our nature…………..
· Why Anand Kumar of the ‘Super 30’ fame from Bihar, who has trained 267 ‘poorest of the poor’ students to enter IIT, refuse to take government or private help?
· Why does Ratan Tata, who has enough money to live a super comfortable life, work even after he has crossed 75 years of age?
· When a Steve Jobs has enough money to retire forever, why does he create an iPod, an iPad, an iPhone?
· Why does a Sister Agnes (Mother Teresa), trudge through the stinking by-lanes of Kolkatta searching for diseased destitutes, even if it means, exposing herself to diseases, harm and ridicule?
· Why do Bill and Melinda Gates visit poverty stricken, disease infested parts of Africa when they can be sunning themselves on the beaches of Hawaii?
· Why does a Rabindranath Tagore, with the risk of being hunted, return Knighthood to the British Empire after the Jallianwalabagh massacre even as the British were ruling his homeland?
· Why does a Sundarlal Bahuguna undertake a 5,000 km trans-Himalaya march to save the forests and the ecology of that part of our country saying, ‘Ecology is the permanent economy’? Why does he politely refuse the Padma Shree by the Govt of India saying that “I do not deserve it till flesh and blood (top soil) of India was flowing down to the sea”?
· Why does a Nandan Nilekanni, with about $ 1.4 Billion as his wealth, become a public servant, and assume charge of an audacious task (‘Aadhaar’ cards) as the chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India ?
We believe, it is so because Life is more than accumulation of things money can buy.
Because, Life is more than collecting rewards and accolades competing with others.
Because, Life is more than gaining attention and admiring glances when you are with people.
Because, Life is more than playing a games of one upmanship.
Because, Life is more than having more than / better / the latest compared to others.
Because, Life is about ‘creating something special’. Every human being has an inherent desire to create.
Give a child a paper and pencil. It will immediately get down to ‘create’.
Give the child a few blocks. It will immediately get down to ‘create’.
Give the child some things that make noise. It will immediately get down to ‘create’.
‘Creating’ is our nature.
There are enough people who believe the ultimate objective of life is to accumulate enough wealth and fame, create a safety nest for their immediate family and live life into obscurity. This is what most people define as success.
The goal of life should never be this ‘success’. It should be SIGNIFICANCE. The more we have created, the more we are significant. Otherwise, we are in a mirage called success.
While success is ‘produced’, impact is ‘created’ !!!
May each one of us live not just to produce success, but live, to create an impact.
source:::::unknown….input from my friend..
natarajan
World”s Biggest School In India !!!…47000 Students…1000 Class Rooms !!!
Starting from humble beginnings in a building with just five pupils, City Montessori school in India is now the world’s largest – with a staggering 47,000 attendees.
It is so large a packed Anfield football stadium could comfortably attend – with room to spare.
The school, known as CMS, employs an army of 3,800 staff, including teachers, support staff, cleaners, rickshaw drivers, and even electricians, carpenters and gardeners.
Record breaking: City Montessori School, in India is the world’s largest with 47,0000 students, but they still have room to congregate outside for morning prayers
It has over 1,000 classrooms, 3,700 computers and goes through thousands of pounds worth of stationary and books each year.
Based in the city of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, CMS was set up by Dr Jagdish Gandhi, 75, and his wife Bharti in 1959 with just five pupils.
Today, it sprawls over 20 campuses across the city – and is still growing despite more than doubling in size during the last 14-years alone.
Dr. Gandhi said: ‘I founded this school with great difficulty back in 1959. I was beating the drum all around the part of Lucknow that I live for 15 days but no one came.
‘It was only when me and my wife persuaded a woman to send the children from her extended family that it all started, and even then it was only five children.
‘We started from very humble beginnings and back then we only had a loan of 300 rupees (£3 at current rates) to fund our school.
‘But from word of mouth it slowly spread and children started coming. Year after year the numbers swelled.
‘I never thought that one day we would have the world’s biggest school. There are over 20 campuses around Lucknow and we are bigger than the population of many towns.’
The school’s rapid growth saw it officially recognised by the 2013 Guinness Book of Records as the world’s largest, taking the crown from Rizal High School in Manila, Philippines, which had just 19,738 pupils.
Dr. Gandhi added: ‘It was a proud moment for us when we were included in the record book.
‘But since then we have kept growing – in the last 14 years the number has more than doubled from 22,000
‘I believe that we should not deny children the right to education.’
Workforce: CMS employs an army of 3,800 staff, including teachers, support staff, cleaners, rickshaw drivers, and even electricians, carpenters and gardeners
CMS’s sheer size means it has never convened for an assembly – because there is no venue large enough to house them all.
Geeta Kingdon, the current head teacher and daughter of founder Dr. Gandhi, said: ‘The whole of Lucknow would be jammed if we tried because one bus holds 50 children, so we’d need 1,000 buses to bring them together.’
The school receives no government funding, instead charging a relatively modest 1,000 rupees (£12) a month in fees for younger pupils, rising to £2,500 (£30) a month for seniors.
Some of its past alumni have gone on to work for the United Nations, studied at Harvard and worked for Goldman Sachs.
Current pupil Kanika Gupta, 14, of Class 9J, said: ‘I could not imagine going to a smaller school.
‘Being at the world’s largest school means you get to make lots of friends and meet many different people, with different interests and tastes.
‘But there are challenges too – standing out ahead of your peers is difficult. You have to work twice as hard to make sure you get noticed, otherwise you are just another student among thousands of others.’
Fellow pupil Harsh Rai, also 14, added: ‘It is definitely competitive, particularly to get into the school teams.
‘But if you make one then you can certainly feel proud of that because you are the creme of the crop.’
He added: ‘We are taught not only traditional subjects but good values. Dr. Gandhi is an inspiration for us all to be good citizens.’
Class sizes range from 25 pupils all the way up to 50 in a single room. Each pupil is also assigned a teacher who is responsible for his or her pastoral care, something staff believe means no one gets neglected or forgotten.
Miss Archana Mishra, who has taught English at CMS for the past six years, said: ‘There is a good rapport between the students and the teachers. It is very easy to teach them and there are not many problems with them.
‘We try and keep classes below 50 pupils, and generally they are usually around 40 to 45 pupils on average. We find this is a manageable number and everyone gets enough attention.’
And with so many pupils, she admits it can be difficult avoiding students outside of school hours.
Miss Mishra added: ‘There are so many of them, particularly who live around my area, it can be difficult not to bump into them at the mall or in the street.
‘Usually if we see each other, we both tend to ignore one another. We see enough of each other at school.’
Alongside traditional subjects such as Geography, Maths and English, students also learn about world peace. CMS is also the only school in the world to be awarded a UNESCO prize for its efforts in this field.
Dr. Gandhi said: ‘The education that we provide here at CMS is totally different from that of any other school in the world.
‘We are not just teaching subjects but also the love of the world. The people of Lucknow have shown that they like our philosophy – that’s why there is no space left and admissions are so sought after.
source:::::mailonline.com UK
natarajan
Making a Mountain out of A Molehill !!!
An artist is making a big impression with his tiny pieces of art.
- Roy Tyson creates images and installations using miniature figures
- The 26-year-old from Essex paints the figures before taking their photos
- The tiny figures have affectionately became known as Roy’s People
Roy Tyson specialises in creating unique images and installations using miniature figures.
Often he uses everyday props and taxidermy to create a humourous scene designed to be fun and
intriguing.
Big ideas: Miniature forensic officers closely examine cigarette butts in this piece by Roy Tyson
Roy made this tiny figurine push a cart of peas along a road in this piece called Harvest
Big ambition: Two golfers have a go at hitting this ball in Anything’s Possible by Roy Tyson
In one piece, tiny forensic officers examine cigarette butts while in another fishermen cast their lines into a drain.
All of the miniature figures, affectionately known as Roy’s People, are hand painted to give them personality and charm.
The 26-year-old, from Stanford-le-Hope, in Essex, buys the figures and paints them before taking their pictures.
Under attack: Shooters take aim at this helpless snail in this piece by Roy Tyson
A tiny figurine looks through binoculars at wildlife including a bee in a flower bush
Passengers wait at a miniature bus stop before climbing on to a Scorpion as their mode of transport
Roy Tyson buys the figures and paints them before taking pictures of them in an unusual setting
Talented: What started as a playful hobby for Roy Tyson is now a full time role and he sells some pieces for more than £100
Roy Tyson is an artist making a big impression with his painted figurines
He recently told the Essex Echo that street art is his biggest influence. He said: ‘I like Banksy and the way he uses street art.
‘For me, the street art I do is just looking at things that are every day and seeing how little people can be used to make these things look funny.
‘It makes objects look different, it’s a mixture between things that are going on in the world and things that just pop into my head.’
To find out more visit Roy’s Facebook page.
source:::::Tara Brady in mailonline.comUK
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