The Fukushima Nuclear plant in Japan has been somewhat of a disaster ever since the earthquakes hit the country. The entire facility is highly radioactive, and human intervention could be dangerous in some places. Toshiba has developed a special four-legged robot to do the job.
Albert Einstein predicted – the existence of gravitational waves that ripple outward from moving celestial objects such as stars or black holes become so weak by the time they reach Earth that the planet quivers by less than an atom’s width in response. And now NASA wants to harness that spooky quantum behavior of atoms to help detect the gravitational waves. Get the amazing details inside.
Earthquake Buddy is a brand new application developed by The App Collective to alert friends and family of your location when an earthquake strikes. The application is $3.99 on the iOS app-store and works to resolve the issue of finding loved ones in the midst of a disaster. Last year when a major earthquake struck Japan, communication was a huge issue because phone lines went down rather quickly.
Normally, the US Geological Survey (USGS)’s system gets earthquake news around the globe first. Last year, USGS launched a new prototype system called Twitter Earthquake Dispatch (TED) that was designed to pick earthquake information the microblogging service – Twitter. The system is already doing wonders. TED dispatched the Philippines earthquake alert, that took place last week, just a minute after the incident took place.
Climate, all across the world, is changing rather drastically. From floods to earthquakes and droughts, the world is witnessing one catastrophe after another. And many analysts ardently believe that this is the direct outcome of global warming which, in turn, is happening due to increased carbon emissions.
After tracking space shuttle Discovery, a team of NASA is preparing for a new challenge. The team wants to have earthquake prediction. They are going to use the Global Positioning System (GPS) for this purpose.
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Japan is not only a country of Earthquakes but also it is country of developing different technologies. A research group at The University of Electro-Communications is developing an interface to detect tongue movement using the Kinect. This interface is intended mainly for training the oral muscles including the tongue only. It is especially made for those people who have oral motor function disorders affecting their ability to speak or swallow.
The whole idea of having to show what you “Like” something online is very exciting. This is why Facebook’s “Like” button has been so popular with the users. The very freedom of having to express through comments, “Like” and posting links, videos and photos is immense. Facebook has always been busy in introducing new features every now and then to satisfy users’ online experience. To maximize their activities and sharing, they have allowed users to share their activities with friends on the social network.