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Artist creates indoor clouds [Pictures]

asadali — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:30:08 +0000

Artistic work is always eye-catching and depicts nature, socialites, cultures, environment and much more through a colorful scenery. Berndnaut Smilde is also an artist. He created indoor clouds. He assisted his work with smoke machines. The artist created his own “outdoors”.

The artistic indoor clouds are stunning and arousing. The use of smoking machines created a stunning indoor cloudy environment. The work is appreciable. You can get more stuff here by the artist Berndnaut Smilde.

Heart-Warming Animal Friendships Captured on YouTube

asadali — Tue, 15 May 2012 08:00:58 +0000

When animals share their love with others, it creates a heart-warming scene. Although, many animals are not known for their friendships specially lions but when they show they throw every difference behind. Here are some heart-touching videos about the animal friendships. Watch them out.

1. A Tiger and an Alsatian

2. Bella & Tara

3. Guddi & the Little Monkey

4. Cassie & the Crow

5. Isabella & Three Tiger Cubs

The Best Instagram Photos Ever [PICS]

asadali — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:35:23 +0000

iPhone users share their daily activities and details via photos using the most popular iPhone app called Instagram. It has Millions of users and increasing rapidly. Today, I came across a list of top Instagram photos taken ever. I would like to share the pictures with you. Let us know how you find the best photo list via comments.

A member of Instagram’s community team Josh Riedel said, “Since we launched in October 2010, it’s been both rewarding and humbling to see people around the world embrace Instagram as a way of sharing small moments of life through gorgeous mobile photos. Every day, we get the chance to discover what’s happening around the world and in our friends’ lives by scrolling through our Instagram feeds, and we’re excited for the many beautiful photos we’re bound to see as the community continues to grow.”

Amazing 3D Video About The Origins of the Universe

asadali — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:09:38 +0000

Space science is working hard to solve the mysteries about the origins of the universe. The efforts consequently introduced an overwhelming and a dazzling 3D video revealing the mystery about the origin of the universe. The full-color, high-definition 3D animation reveals numerous innovations about the start of the universe including swirling veils of gas, dust from exploding stars, colorful galaxy clusters, dynamic star formation and enigmatic dark matter.

The Videos cover a wide range of early and later happenings including supernova explosion and 14 billion years of cosmic evolution etc. Before making such videos, researchers worked out about the composition, distribution, temperature and other important properties of matter. Then Ralf Kaehler converted the whole data into a series of 3D videos.

An associate professor of physics at Stanford University Tom Abel said, “I’m trying to predict the past — how the universe came to be the way that it is today.” Further he explained, “They died quickly and seeded the cosmos with the chemical elements necessary for life. Just 100 million years after the Big Bang, galaxies started to assemble, one star at a time, and they are still growing today.”

Beautiful Spring Wallpapers [Pictures]

asadali — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:34:04 +0000

Every season is a great blessing but spring has it own charm and attraction. It gives new life to dried out trees which gives a fresh and healthy look to the environment. Flowers participate in the beauty of sights with their attractive fragrance and blooming freshness. Now as winter is turning into spring lets have a look into best spring wallpapers that will give a fresh look.

Devastating Midwest Tornado [Pictures]

asadali — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:31:42 +0000

Natural disasters are always horribly terrifying either its flood, storms, earthquakes or tornadoes and being one of the victims is the reality no one wants to face. Even human cannot see others as victims. However, such hard-times are reality and Midwest is currently facing in the form of tornadoes. The terrifying tornado hit the Midwest and caused many loses not only economically but deaths too.

I found some very terrifying pictures depicting the harshness of the tornadoes in Midwest. Going through the picture gallery you will be able to realize the strength of the tornado.

From above pictures you can visualize the actual tornado. Here are some other pictures showing the afterwards.

How Earth-Friendly Is Your Smartphone? [VIDEO]

asadali — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:21:56 +0000

Human made machinery has effected our climate very badly. Our Earth is getting much warmer and cooler at different sections. Every new device has some impact on the environment. Smartphones are very common and there are hardly phone-less people. As they are of a pocket size with simple electronic equipment so people feel smartphones are non-perilous for nature. However, smartphones are not that fine in reality. AT&T is going to launch a new program for analyzing the impact of smartphones on environment, its called “How green is your smartphone?”.

The AT&T’s Eco-Rating program will be launched this year. Its a joint production of Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) and AT&T. The rating of the smartphones will let us know about the impact on nature by our smartphones. The rating will be noted on AT&T device packaging.

Senior vice president, devices, of AT&T Mobility Jeff Bradley said, “The labeling system will be pretty straightforward.”

The Eco-Rating program will judge smartphones using four different rating categories:

Energy Efficiency
Environmentally Preferred Materials
Responsible end-of-life Treatment
Environmentally Responsible manufacturing

Solve For X – A Google’s Project to Solve Global Problems [Video]

asadali — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:40:02 +0000

We are living in the World of problems. Some might be natural but problems created by human are alarmingly frightening. Civilizations around the globe are facing disastrous problems like global warming, security etc. Such problem need a great devotion to be solved. Google is taking the initiative to save civilizations. Google’s Solve For X is an effort to wipe out global problems. Solve For X is the combination of 3 elementary steps including defining problem and suggesting a very basic technical solution for it. Thats all! But its not that simple.

Solve For X is a website forum for tackling global problems. The website focuses only on global problems not on individual problems and encourages people to come with brilliant and out-of-box solutions. Solve For X appears like Technology Entertainment and Design however, it deals with global problems.

Solve For X arises one thought “A forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshot thinking and teamwork”.

Solve For X project emphasizes more on critical thinking than ordinary solutions – science fictitious solutions. Solutions must not only be the castles in the air however, bit more realistic and technically attainable. According to the website “This combination of things — a huge problem to solve, a radical solution for solving it and the breakthrough technology to make it happen — is the essence of a moonshot”.

Best High Resolution Earth Image

asadali — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:00:59 +0000

Suomi NPP - NASA’s Earth watching satellite has captured a 8000×8000 pixel resolution image of the Earth – The Blue Marble 2012. Its one of the best, excellent and most beautiful Earth image ever. You always find many eye-catching and awsome Earth pictures but Suomi NPP’s Earth image is better than all. We may say that Suomi NPP has achieved one of its missions as it was sent to capture beautiful Earth images, natural disaster monitoring and weather forecasts predictions.

Numerous swaths of Earth surface were taken first then this composite high resolution images was made. The Blue Marble 2012 is named after legendary “Blue Marble” – a photograph taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft on Dec, 7, 1972. It took a long period to beat Blue Marble 1972.

You can download The Blue Marble 2012 here. Its worth downloading. Let us know how you find and rate this image by your comments.

Visit 11 Countries In 1 Minute [Video]

asadali — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:28:01 +0000

Director Rick Meriki made an invigorating 1 minte film (Move) that takes you in 11 countries in 1 minute. Amazing! Rick Meriki traveled 11 countries in 44 days along with his 2 friends Tim and Andrew. The film takes you through a dazzling variety of cultures, locations and images.

The mind-boggling 1 minute film is based on the concepts of movement and it is funded by STA Travel Australia. The background music is given by Kelsey James’s haunting. Move is a captivating film with no interpersonal interactions. Enjoy it!