Welcome Aboard! Ibn Sina, the Arabic speaking humanoid robot, recently thrilled other passengers as Emirates Airlines flight EK817 was transporting one of the world's most advanced robots from Dubai, United Arab Emirates to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, Emirates News Agency reported. A first for the airline, Ibn Sina, named after an 11th century philosopher, travelled as a first class passenger on the flight. Able to verbally interact with people, Ibn Sina stunned fellow passengers as he was checked in at Emirates' dedicated first ... Read More

A mobile phone for a giant or a mini laptop! Ipad is not out yet but the comments are pouring from all sides. The device is half an inch thick, with 9.6 inch in display and weighs 1.5 lbs. I would just love to have 10 hours of battery life to  continuously watch on my device. Mr Jobs said:It's so much more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smart phone. But who would want to replace it with ... Read More

Ours is the kind of society where psychological problems are generally not addressed and people live will with them, making their own life and lives of people around them miserable. But if someone comes to know about any mental ailment then our first and last reaction is "denial". We are scared that people will call us "mad" or pagal. If we get professional help for ourselves and our dear ones in depression or any other mental disorder then our ... Read More

Over the decades, many of the appliances it powers have become slimmed-down, compact or flat. But the British three-pin plug has remained exactly the same size – very bulky. Until now, that is, as an enterprising design student has come up with a folding plug that tucks away snugly to a quarter of the size of a standard one. Its three pins can be folded flat and the sides turned-in. It is intended to be used with laptops, mobile phones and digital cameras, where ... Read More

This is a unique structure to be build in Dubai. We wish our homes to stay at one place and this building has moving floors! I would love to witness this building and also to experience the inside feel. I have been to rotating resturaunts, lets see if it is different! David Fisher has designed a wind-powered rotating skyscraper & what's unbelievable is the claim that the tower can power itself besides ten other similar sized buildings. Although the technical details of ... Read More

I am delighted to hear that companies including Nokia, Apple and Sony Ericsson yesterday promised to start offering phones that fit a universal charger next year. The days of scrabbling around to find the correct mobile phone charger are to end after a landmark agreement between the leading manufacturers. The move comes in response to anger from consumers who are landed with chargers with different connections for each phone bought. Most are thrown away, creating unnecessary cost and waste. There are more ... Read More

Remember the days when we had those bulky VCRs and video cassettes which no one uses now. I often think how to dispose them off. Now get ready for the nail size memory cards for the movies and once the Japanes will launch them we will get the cheap chinese versions available all over the place! (Reuters)22 July 2009 Walt Disney Co’s Japan unit said it would sell movies on flash memory cards as small as a fingernail so that people can ... Read More

ISLAMABAD (APP) - A solar eclipse, second in the series of triple eclipses will occur on July 22 and will be visible in Pakistan, India, China, Japanese islands and the South Pacific Ocean, said meteorological calculations. This rare astronomical event of triple eclipses has started from July this year and will occur across the world including Pakistan. According to Pakistan Meteorological Dept's calculations, the solar eclipse will start at 00:53 Universal Time, it will be witnessed at 6:53 am according to ... Read More

A smarter and smaller version of everything is discovered in our times. When we were kids people used to write long letters to each other which became shorter and quicker by changing into emails. Emails shrank into SMSs. In an effort to do lot of things in minimum time we do manage to use our time economically but I am sure none of the jobs is enjoyed. And at the end of the day we have no peaceful moments to ... Read More

Have you accidentally broken your phone by dropping it down the toilet, knocking it off a window ledge or leaving it in the oven? Okay few people will have done the last one, but Land Rover claim it's new S1 phone can survive all three. They have teamed up with Sonim Technologies to launch what has been dubbed the 'world's toughest' mobile. n tests the £299 mobile was found to be impervious to dust, dirt, shocks and drops from 6ft in the ... Read More