According a new policy of the British government, a controversial breakthrough in this regards has been the green light given by the authorities, after which it would be possible to conceive and have babies with three biological parents. Apart from being a complex procedure, it is also the subject many heated debates not just in the United Kingdom but the rest of the world. The new policy, which was announced not too long ago, itself sparked a minor controversy in the UK.

As per this controversial procedure, doctors will be able to removed faulty mitochondrial DNA (which can only be genetically transferred from the mother to the newborn child) and replacing it with healthy mitochondrial DNA acquired from donor mother. In the simpler words, the procedure involves the removal faulty genes from mother’s eggs and replacing it with healthier alternative from donor before carrying out the artificial fertilisation in the lab under controlled environment.

Now while many parents have been excited about this new development in the country, there are many who are not as pleased with both the procedure and the change in government’s policy. Despite the controversy, it won’t be wrong to say this latest development indeed has given hope to families which have struggled with genetic disease like cancer and diabetes etc.

According to the Payments Council of the United Kingdom, the futuristic application could be made available to the customers by the end of this year. The app will enable the users to send and receive cash via mobile texting. How this mode of payment is said to function is by integrating the mobile and account numbers of the users and storing all of this information on a central database system which will be the kernel of the entire function.

Like many of the other applications meant for the smartphones, this application too would need internet connectivity (3G or Wi-Fi) and would be available for our mobile networks. This service will be a major step towards the start of mobile payments if and when it becomes fully functional. Once the Payments Council gives a go ahead to this application, it will truly provide a base to the banks which they can use to offer competitive value added services to their customers.  While many are already looking forward to this convenient mode of payment, it is evident as to what kind of security issues the new application might be accompanied with. Having said that, there is no doubt that mobile payment is the future of banking.

Although this kind of machine makes you marvel at the kind of technology and artificial intelligence it takes on part of the machine but how the machine works is actually pretty simple. It checks your handset with an installed camera and matches it against some four thousand plus handsets it has in its database. Once it has done that, it asks you to plug your phone into a couple of electric sockets just to make sure that your phone is in working condition. All of it is done at quite an impressive pace since all of it is electronic. Once the machine makes sure your phone is in working condition, it gives you a quote for you phone and that’s the tricky part.

How the machine gets its quote is pretty interesting actually. The quote given by the machine is actually what the network of a hundred or so dealers and recyclers could offer you against your handset. If the sum is acceptable to you, you take the deal and machine takes away your phone and spits out cash. This machine has currently been installed in only a few places in the US but is expect to cover the entire country soon.

The British scientist recently surprised the whole world by discovering the deepest underwater volcanoes. According to the reports of National Oceanography Centre (NOC) the scientists found these volcanoes 3.1 miles deep on the ocean floor. This means that the volcanoes are almost 5000 meters below the surface of the Caribbean Sea. The vents are located in the Cayman Trough in the western Caribbean, which reaches a maximum depth of 7,500 meters. These volcanoes are given a name “Black Smoker”. The name is given after watching the videos and the photographs of the volcanoes as they were making black smoke while coming out of the surface of the deep sea.

RRS James Cook, a research vessel which holds 28 scientists and engineers from seven nations set to discover these vents on 21^st March. After discovering these deep underwater vents the scientists further explained that each vent is roughly of the size of a football stadium. You can just imaging how much huge they are. The NOC geochemist Dough Connelly, Principal Scientist of the expedition, says: “we hope our discovery will yield new insights into biogeochemical important elements in one of the most extreme naturally occurring environments on our planet”.

A few weeks ago NASA scientists found a shrimp-like creature 600 feet below the Arctic Ice. It was really interesting to find a living creature deep in such frozen conditions. This led the NASA scientists to further research life in other outer space frozen moons. Inspired from the NASA scientists the British scientists who discovered the vents are looking forward to do some more research about the affects of these deep underwater vents on marine life. They believe that they can make some more discoveries and bring forward useful research for the knowledge of the world.

This young 24 years old soldier is the first person to become a part of this extra ordinarily surprising technology. The device is called “Brain-Port device”. It is named because the scientists say that it is the brain, which interprets the image and not the eyes. Eyes are only a mean of capturing a visual message and send it to the brain that further interprets it.

The device has a small camera attached to the pair of sunglasses linked to a plastic lollipop, which the user places on his tongue. According the soldier, the plastic lollipop tastes like a battery. The plastic lollipop in the mouth of the user read the impulses and sends the message to the brain and a two dimensional image is formed.

The image is created by presenting white pixels from the camera as strong stimulations, grey pixels as medium levels of stimulation and black pixels as no stimulation, although interpreting the images takes intensive training. It makes possible for the user of this device to determine the shape of the things coming in from of the camera.

The use of this device is complicated and the blind soldier had to take training for its use but he reports that the device is really a worthy one and now he can pick things straight away. The image which this device makes for the user is not colourful but we should keep our hopes united as technology is very speedily taking us ahead. It really looks like as with the advancement of technology every blind person will be able to see colourful images around the world. The device has not yet arrived in the market however, manufacturers are busy in doing that and it is expected to come soon within a price range of $10,000 – $15,000.

Car-to-car communication is a very sophisticated technology with earlier warnings. For instance, the new technology is able to warn the driver instantly when a vehicle several cars ahead breaks suddenly. The technology is also known as vehicle-to-infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle communications. According to the developers, this technology will address up to 80 percent of the serious crashes and road accidents. This will be the major advancement in car safety, which will overcome the inventions of seat belts, air bags, and electronic stability control. This technology will be soon to be tested on various cars in various situations. In the test, each car will be equipped with a radio that will transmit signals to other cars about its speed and direction according to GPS.

University of Michigan’s transportation research institute will collaborate with eight famous automakers. All will work in collaboration to build a uniform platform and compatibility of all cars. The total of 64 cars will be put in the test. Apart from these cars, many other cars will also be included, which will make the total count of 3000. Combined all these cars will put into the trial to test the working of system for the period of several years. If the new system is approved, starts wholesale production and goes mainstream then it could easily pave the way of autonomous driving.

Why technology boosts up the creativity? A simple answer to it is that technology is a part of creativity. It helps to give physical shape to the creative ideas. The latest technological tools allow the individuals to think out of the box. Creativity of man has brought in the technology and now it is the technology, which is now leading the creativity with the help of man.

Technology has really played a vital role in our life and that it has a great importance in augmenting creativity in us. However, where it has brought so much positive changes in our life, side by side it also has made the individuals lethargic. People now need the support of technology everywhere. They use computers to do any task, they need transport even to go to a shop near by, they keep on sitting idle in front of their TV screens and they have stopped thinking creatively.

Some say it is the technology, which has limited the mind frame of people to bring innovative ideas and creativity. One way or another, they are correct in their view as being idle makes man incapable of thinking. That is why latest technologies are not a complete innovation but they are derived innovations from already existing ones. There exists a large set of people who are led by the technology while others lead the technology. And I guess being the later one is a better option.

One must use technology as a tool and does not forgo hard work and creativity because having tools it means to have a proper equipment to perform a specific task while creativity and hard work is something else and needs to stay forever. Every now and then, this topic has stirred large debates among many groups but the only logical end to these kinds of discussions is that although technology has made man’s life a lot easier but man should not indulge himself in these luxuries all the time. Physical health is very important for humans to remain active and creative.

A few years back it was found that when mentos candy is mixed with diet coke, the coke shoots in the air. In some cases it went up to 20 feet. This experiment was based on that finding. The rocket car is a modified bike with a utility trailer at the rear. The car requires 108 bottles of coke zero and about 650 mentos tables to travel 221 feet. The rocket car uses a piston mechanism in it. Each 2 litre of coke zero is attached to a six foot long tube. When the mentos is added in coke zero pressure builds in the bottle. This pressure presses the road to come out of the tube and as 108 bottles create a push at the same time significant amount of power is being generated. This power further pushes against the wall braced with 3,600 pounds of cement block and makes the rocket car to move.

According to inventors, it is not a green project but it is an alternative method to run the vehicles. Well the research was quite interesting and a bit funny but do you now what can happen if you eat mentos and then drink cola? Your stomach can burst because it expands. So drink and eat carefully.

The idea of air cooled heat exchangers is not a new one but it is in practice for about more than 30 years but never applied in computers. In computers that we use today; disks absorb heat from computer’s processor and then transfer it to a row of attached metal fins. The fan swirls up the air around the heat sink, but only 5 percent of energy generated provides cooling effect. The rest of energy is wasted as a layer of stagnant air hangs to the fins and insulates them as a blanket. Replacing fan with a heavy motor to speed up the spinning can be used but it makes the computer intolerably noisy.

There is no rocket science involved in the spinning heat sink idea. In it the fan itself is the heat sink and bands of metal blades spin directly above the heat source. Centrifugal forces mix the air to make heat transfer. The forces also compress the layer of stagnant air against metal blades, which reduces the insulating effect. The outside cool air pushes the dust particles away as it flows through the spiral’s center and ultimately provides cool air to the processor and keeps computer cool. The designer of this cooler is currently offering his services to producers and manufacturers to produce these quiet heat sink fans cost effectively in mass. According to their estimates if this model became widely adopted then a total of 7 percent electricity consumption of US will be decreased.

While facilitating with the new emerging technologies, we don’t think that we are getting away from the natural life. Every new technology besides providing us ease and convenience is also making us lazy and sluggish. It is making our life more complex with every passing day. What are the major downsides of latest technologies? Let’s discuss the major ones:

1. Unemployment is the major downside of new emerging technologies. The use of machines and has replaced the need of human power from the big industries and the enterprises. This has resulted in high unemployment level which is a great threat to economic development of any country.
2. Pollution is another major threat of technology. Vehicles and machines release smoke and pollutants in the air and water which is harmful to human health. This pollution depletes ozone layer and causes serious effects to our natural environment.
3. Increase in transportation technology has resulted in increased traffic and the roads are often blocked.  It results in wastage of time and psychological issues.
4. Nuclear technologies have wiped out the peace of the world. Every country is in struggle to use dangerous weapons against her enemies and the loss of human life has increased to a great extent.
5. Advancement in television, mobile phones and notebooks has made the people lazy and sluggish. The use of them has affected on the academic performances of children too.
6. The use of technologies has affected the social circle of people. They are so much addicted to mobile phones, computers and televisions that they have no time for others.

With so many advantages of technologies, the above mentioned downside also cannot be neglected.