Butterfly Effect

This theory says that a butterfly flaps in one part of the world can lead to some great weather changes somewhere on the other side of the earth.

For reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect

Interesting... What about this...
A star away hundreds of light years changing the way man behaves. hmmm...

The theory of Sneeze and Dolphin (Don't google, I coined it ;)). If I have some valid data that says, whenever I sneeze, there is a dolphin in Indian ocean makes that big leap out of the water. Though they are not related, it happens 90% of the times. So, do you agree that Dolphin or the sneeze has control over one another.

I dont think so. You can relate data randomly and make it look as if it makes sense. But it does not. Think of the traditions we follow. Somebody has done something and he gained millions of dollars, and all the mankind start doing it. It wont work. Point is all the traditions which has only stories associated are no good to be followed. Think before you say "I do it because its a tradition".

Method to Represent a Graph in a Color Coded Strip

This article describes the idea of having a strip of color codes to represent a line graph.

Problem Statement:

In a web page, the space is always a constraint. To have a graph in the web page would require some amount of space to make the graph look meaningful. If the size if reduced, then the graph will not make any sense. In the figure below, the space taken by the graph is much larger than any of the areas.

Solution:

The solution addresses the problem by having a simple color coded strip which will give all the information in the graph. The figure below shows a sample strip as to how it looks. 

This strip will give a picture of the graph as to what is the highest point and the least point and the box at the end will also provide you the average or the SLA line in the graph. Its takes much lesser space and is easy to understand. Along with the strip, there is a scale which will be shown to determine the value in the strip above. From the strip below, once can easily understand as to what are the high/low and medium trends in the graph.

Now that we have the way to represent data, how is that we can transform the existing lie graph to the strip?

Consider a typical line graph, this will be something like shown below

To convert the above graph and create a new graph, a coloring scheme should be applied, for this example, we are using 2 colors and the scale will look like as shown below.

After applying the color scheme scale to the graph, the graph would look like this

The above graph can be converted into a color strip by picking each box of the data point. The outcome of the the above graph as a color strip is shown below

Cricket - A Life Game

1.     For cricket. There will be a timeline and a man should go to maximum length, during the process he should avoid the bullets being fired. Each bullet that hits will make him weaker and if he is hit 10 times before the time given elapses then the target set will be the point to reach for the second person to reach within the same timeline.

a.     Each time a bullet hits, the person should make a strategy to use his resources.

b.     The resources will be adrenalin, patience, perseverance

c.      Using the resource at the right time will give the player the advantage.

2.     A nail-biting cricket match finish can be recreated with this by replacing the strategy of cricket with the resources of the player.

3.     A game played can also be reconstructed as a cricket match.

An Air Powered Moped - Actually Works

Sometime back I was watching this on National Geographic, this is the kind of stuff I enjoy most on TV. The programme was about coming out with a moped which does not pollute the air and should be good enough to carry a person a few KMs within the city's traffic and most importantly should not use any fossil fuels.

Two guys Dick and Jem who designed, built and anchored the show. The frame of the moped which they picked I think was from a nearby junkyard, it only had the frame and wheels, no engine or chains. These guys mounted two cylinders on either side of the bike. The air is pumped into these cylinders, the pressure in each cylinder can hold is air pressure greater than 300 times of atmospheric pressure (thats what I remember).

These guys designed the sprockets and mounted chains on them and on the day before the D-Day they wanted to test this and Dick was all set to take off, the bike was making all sorts of sound but would not budge. Both men looked very disappointed (I dont know whether they really were or just doing Steve Irwin) and redesigned/aligned the sprockets and then it happened, the bike started moving, Dick rode it first being a skinny among the two and then it was Jem's turn, it could move and can carry a person more than 100 Kilos.

And then they went to the experts and did all sorts of tests to prove that it works.

The best part I liked about the program is that they did something which people only can think of. Its so satisfying after the hard day's work and it comes out as planned. I also loved Junkyard wars on Discovery, I would love to be a part of it someday.

Energy From Doors

This can be achieved in large work places like IT parks where there are large number of doors. Each door is open and shut tens(hundreds in some cases) of times. Manual force is applied to open the door, this energy can be tapped using a string attached to a power generator. If implemented efficiently, this can generate some good amount of power.

Simple Water Harvesting Technique

Things you need.
1. A large plastic sheet.
2. Few plastic bottles
4. Some sand
5. A PVC pipe (half a meter)
6. A pipe connector.
And of course some rains soon.



1. Take a large piece of platic sheet
2. Across the edges, sew or attach half inch loops.
3. Cut a hole about 1 feet inside the edge of the sheet.
4. Place the PVC pipe inside the hole, so that one end is on one side of the sheet and the other is on the other side
5. Tape the pipe to the sheet
6. Attach the connector to the pipe.
7. Take about 8 (Many the better) 2 Litre Coke plastic bottles
8. Fill half of  each with sand. You can fill it water as well.
9. Go on top of your building, and spread the plastic sheet.
10. Place each of the bottles across the edges and put the loops around the bottle neck.
11. Make sure the connector end of the pipe is outside the tank,
12. Connect the other end of the pipe to the other pipe which ends in the water tank.
13. Wait for the rains.

Easy to make,
Easy to dis-assemble.
Easy to deploy.
Easy to maintain.
Easy to fix.

Depends on rain :).

Dual side screen for smart phones

1. Each side can be for different sim cards
2. Can record 360 degrees videos
3. One side will be a touch screen, other with the keypad
4. No need for a second camera.

DOMO Box

Boxed Innovation.
A Linux Box with a sturdy chassis.

Another big innovation from DOMO.

A Y game

This is a game where Ys are spread over the screen. The player should unlock the biggest Y to move to next level. The biggest Y is associated with a question. There are many other smaller Ys, even if the player could not answer the big Y, the player can start answering the smaller Ys. In the process, the player is likely to find the answer for the bigger Y by answering the smaller Ys.

Its has an inner meaning even in real life, if you have a problem or challenge given, don't get stuck to the bigger problem all of the time, try to find answers to the smaller ones and you will have answers to the bigger one.

The Lock Game

This app will have multiple levels

1. Each level will have one or more patterns and multiple locks to open
2. Each lock has rings (like the ones in combination number locks)
3. Each rotor has a symbol/number or a character (instead of a number in typical combination number locks)
Each rotor, we call it as a Ring

1. In the initial levels, there will be only one pattern and say 3 locks with 4 rings each.  Looking at the pattern, one has to arrange the unlock the locks in the given time frame. If the user unlcoks all the 3 locks in the given time, 3 stars are awarded. Lesser locks opened, lessser locks opened lesser stars. No locks opened, level failed.

As the levels go up, the number of rings in each lock will also increase. and the patterns also get complex.

Here is an example of the game

Pattern to unlock  : Z A Y B

Lock1         Lock2         Lock3
X                   V                 Q
C                   E                   J
W                  U                  P
_                    _                   _

In the example above, we will keep the 3 rings unchanged (For initial levels). The user has to rotate the 4th ring to choose from 4 different characters.

In advanced levels, the user will have more rings to rotate for each lock.

Also, the pattern can also be figures(pictures).


Another pattern to unclock
Byson, Lion, Dog, Cat

Lock1                   Lock2                  LOCK3
Sears                     IPAD MINI         WALMART
Empire State         IPAD                    SEARS
Eifel                      IPHONE              MACY'S
-----                        -------                    ------------

Another pattern to unclock