Amazon Inside

Some of the secrets behind Amazon’s phenomenal success as an online retailer can be discovered inside a million-square-foot warehouse that sits amid bucolic scenery in the town of Robbinsville, New Jersey. The building is one of Amazon’s most advanced fulfillment centers, and it houses technologies that allow the company to deliver products to customers at amazing speed. Goods are identified, sorted, and packaged with computer-assisted precision, while employees work in tight collaboration with the plant’s automated systems in shifts that run around the clock.

Upon arrival, each new product is identified using a computer vision system that catalogues it rapidly, feeding its weight and dimensions into a central tracking system. At the heart of the building, items stored on tall, square shelves are kept stocked by humans working with a team of 2,000 squat orange robots. The robots zip around the storage area, picking up shelves and either arranging them in neat rows for storage or bringing them over to the human workers, who stack or pick from them. Further along the fulfillment line, workers charged with packing up orders for shipping are automatically given the optimal size of shipping box and even the correct amount of packing tape. Before those boxes are sent to trucks, a system weighs them to make sure the correct products are inside. Thank you MIT Technolgy for sharing such a wonderful information. Credit goes to them. 

Products are packed together in shipping boxes at the workstations shown here.

A worker checks shipping boxes headed toward a bank of waiting trucks. 

The boxes are automatically sorted according to their destination.

The crates carrying products destined for Amazon’s customers travel more than eight miles on conveyors that stretch throughout the building.

A worker sorts crates.

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Echo: SmartPen

Echo Smart Pen

Record and Play Back

Record everything you write, hear or say. Replay your meetings or lectures simply by tapping on your notes.

Save, Search and Organize

Transfer your notes and audio to your computer via USB cable and Livescribe Desktop will save everything for fast, easy access to what’s important.

Send and Share

Easily share your notes and audio recordings as a
Pencast PDF or audio file.

Feature

Micro USB Controller : Transfers notes and audio to your computer and

recharges your smartpen using a USB connection.

Microphone :Capture your meetings or lectures with crisp clear sound.

Built-in-speaker: Built–in speaker produces rich, full sound to play back your 

recorded audio.

Economic Grip:The ergnomic grip design provides comfort during long 

meetings and lectures.

Audio Jack: Standard 3.5mm jack fits your own earphones or the Livescribe 3–

D Premium Recording Headset to enable binaural recording.

Display: High–contrast OLED display makes it easy to navigate smartpen apps.

Memory: 2GB model holds 200 hours of audio.

Replaceable Ink Tip: Simply remove the ink cartridge by pulling it out with 

your fingertips. Insert a new cartridge until it clicks into place.

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5 Coolest Thing about iOS 8

It's going to be difficult to get an iPhone 6 or 6 Plus immediately, but you can get some of the new phones' cool features right now. On Wednesday, Apple's new operating system, iOS 8, is released to the public.

iOS 8 is chock full of new features and it's available for the iPhone 4S and up for the sweet price of $0. Here's a small taste of what you'll get when you upgrade to iOS 8:

1. Easier Emailing

Email is a lot simpler with iOS 8. Before, if you swiped left on an email your only options were "More" and "Archive." Now, when you swipe left you'll be able to hit "More," "Flag" or "Trash." If you swipe right, you can "Mark as Unread."

2. Autocorrect Revolution

Say goodbye to bad autocorrects with the new QuickType feature. iOS 8 will recommend words as you type in iMessage or email. It will learn the kinds of things you usually type and try to imitate your style.

3. Voice Texts!

Once you've got your precious iOS 8, there are some fun features to check out.

First, look at your iMessage. With iOS 8, you'll be able to send voice messages through iMessage. You just press and hold the little record button in the bottom right of your iMessages to record a message and send it to a friend. To listen to a voice message through iMessage, just press the play button or hold the iPhone up to your ear.

4. Better Group Messaging

You can name your group iMessages now and remove yourself (and others) from group messages. Hallelujah!

5. Fitness Tracker Magic

If you've got a fitness tracker like a FitBit, you'll also be excited to try out HealthKit. HealthKit puts all of the data from your fitness tracker(s) right onto your iPhone and can easily share them with someone like a doctor.

Are you dying to get these sick tools? Here's how to get a whole new phone for free:

How to Get iOS 8

Make sure all of your photos, music and whatever else you care about exists somewhere besides your iPhone, just in case something goes awry in the download process. You can back your iPhone up to the iCloud if you dare, or you can connect your iPhone to your computer.

Once iTunes recognizes your iPhone, press the "iPhone" button in the top right corner of your iTunes library.

Then press "Sync" on the bottom right of the screen. Keep your iPhone plugged in during the entire process; it might take a few minutes.

Make sure you have enough storage

iOS updates take up a bit of room on your phone, so make sure you clear out whatever you can before you download anything. There's an easy way to see how much storage you have left and determine what apps are taking up the most space. Here's how:

First, go to Settings. Then hit General.

From there, hit Usage.

Give it a moment to load, and then you'll see exactly how you're using your phone's storage.

Now you can go in and delete old messages, photos, songs, podcasts and books so you won't have to worry about it later.

Download iOS 8

Go to Settings, then General again. From there, hit Software Update.

If iOS 8 is available, you'll get an option to download it. Do that when you have the time to be without your phone for a while. It will take some time to update, so just plug it in and leave it be for a while.

CORRECTION: A previous version of this story said that iOS 8 is available for iPhone 4 and up. It is available for iPhone 4S and up.

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Water Powered Calculator

Water Powered Calculator : Filled water to Run Calculator

Water has many uses in our everyday lives. It is a thirst-quenching drink, it can help clean a wide range of things and is a universal solvent. Recently though, many of you may have heard of water being used as a source of energy. The Water Powered Calculator is a successful attempt to use water as a source of energy.

The calculator has three water batteries which look like the image shown below.

The batteries consist two electrodes made of a special alloy which facilitates a chemical reaction in the presence of water, producing electricity to run the calculator. The battery timing is very impressive considering the fuel is water. The batteries last 2-3 months, during which time the water evaporates and can simply be replaced by simple, everyday tap-water.

The concept of free energy is beautifully exemplified by the Water Powered Calculator. The transparent body allows you to see what goes on inside the device giving you a first-hand glimpse of the process as it is happening. It is a must-have for every mathematician, scientist and engineer.

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AdTrap : The internet is yours again

AdTrap: The internet is your again (Gadget)

What is AdTrap?

Simply put, AdTrap is a small, zero configuration device that removes ads from your Internet connection before they reach any of your home devices. Video, music streams and mobile apps and websites, all ad free. AdTrap works with any browser and any device. AdTrap protects your privacy by preventing  websites from tracking and gathering your personal information as you browse.

Features

• Automatically updates as advertisers change schemes

• AdTrap also works with all-in-one modem/routers provided by your Internet provider

• Blocks advertisements from music and video streams, mobile apps and web pages

• Works with all browsers

• Works with any Internet enabled device

• Cleaner and faster loading websites

• AdTrap Anywhere removes ads anywhere you go, over cellular networks

• Protects your privacy, prevents tracking and profiling techniques used by advertisers

• Zero software to install, zero configuration

Setup
Zero Configuration and no software to install. You plug AdTrap in between your router and modem, acting as a hardware based ad filter. That's it, it just works.

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Little Printer: A Customization Newspaper for Digital Age

Little Printer: Will print out customization news as well as your requirement. 

Now, a days people don't have enough time to read out the whole bunch of 20 to 30 pages news paper. So, as we gravitate towards digital sources for all of our information needs and wants, the humble newspaper has become something of a dinosaur. A company called BREG want to bring back the newspaper, but in a novel new way.

Rather than a mass produced product, BERG's newspapers are small, highly personalized, and printed in the home of each user. Using a cute wireless device called Little Printer, newspapers the size of retail receipts are printed at the intervals set by the user.

Although you can print your personalized paper as often as you like, BREG recommends once or twice per day.

The Little printer is not just another digital-made-physical device that spits out your Twitter feed in paper from. It is much more personal and much more customization. BREG's mobile app allows users to select publication that internet from a growing list.

There is also a pleasing from actor to the Little Printer. It is tiny- about the size of your palm- and has two sweet little feet. It also sorts a head-shaped opening through which the thermal printed paper passes.[source]

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Funny Things About Facebook

Read this.. Really amazing as well as funny things about the facebook.

• 1 in every 13 people in Earth is on Facebook

• In 20 minutes, 1,000,000 links are shared, 1,484,000 event invites are posted, 1,323,000 photos are tagged, 1,850,000 status updates are entered, 2,000,000 messages are sent, 2,000,000 photos are uploaded.

• 50% of active users long on to Facebook in any given day.

• More than 70 translations available on site

• There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products.

• The meaning of Poke has been never defined

• Australian's spend more time per month on Facebook than any other country at over 7 hours on average.

• It is the second biggest website by traffic behing Google

• There is over 16,000,000 Facebook fan pages.

• Users on Facebook more than 800 billion. 3rd largest country in terms of people who are accessing facebook. US with the most number of users 30% and rest of the world with 70%.

• Burger Kings gave away free burgers to users who unfriend people on facebook :D

• According to The New Yorker, Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind, which means the color he can see the best is blue. That also happens to be the color that dominates the Facebook website and mobile app. "Blue is the richest color for me", Mark Zuckerberg told the magazine. "I can see all of blue" he add in the interview.

• In 2006, a guy names Chris Putnam hacked into facebook and made thousands of profiles look like MySpace profile. So, facebook hired him.

• In 2011, Iceland took the help of facebook in rewriting its constitutions. Two thirds of Iceland's population is on Facebook, so the constitutional council used Facebook to rewrite its constitution where citizens could use the social network to make their own suggestions, engage in online debates, or follow the proceedings in real time.

• Steve Chen worked at Facebook for a few weeks before quitting to do his own start-up. It was called "YouTube"

• Mark Zuckerberg didn't want to add photo sharing to Facebook, but Sean Parker him to. Facebook is now the most popular photo-sharing site.

• Major reasons for divorce: New research suggests that Facebook could be detrimental to your relationship status. A study conducted by the Journal of Cybersychology, Behavior and Social Networking, found that people who use Facebook excessively are more likely to "experience Facebook related conflict with their romantic partners".

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