2 minutes life hacks that useful....

A small compilation of simple tricks that can be useful in daily life.

• Shirt buttons popping off too often? Put a light coating of transparent nail polish over the stitching. This will prevent frequent breakage.

• Smelly jeans and no time for washing?Fold your denims, put them in a Ziploc bag and put it in the freezer overnight The bad odour will vanish.

• Smelly shoes? Put a couple of tea bags in the shoes and leave them overnight. They'll be odour free.

• Broken glass and difficulty cleaning the little pieces? Take a piece of bread and press it down on the small shards. They'll stick to the bread and you'll be able to clean without getting cut. The bread slice can then be wrapped carefully and disposed off so as to ensure that no one consumes it.

• Icecream turning icy and too hard in the freezer? Put the icecream tub in a zip lock bag before storing it in the freezer. This will keep it soft (not runny).

• Butter from the fridge too hard to apply on bread? Just grate in over the slice of bread, then spread it after a minute.

• Tired of bananas getting over ripe too soon? Simply cover the stems with cling wrap. This will prevent ethylene gas, which is produced as a part of ripening, from spreading to the fruit and keep the fruit fresh for long.

Great Innovative idea for rural areas

This product is known as the Eco-Cooler!

It has the ability to reduce indoor temperatures as much as 5 degrees Celsius, which is on par with what an electric centrally installed air conditioning system can do. In some instances the Eco Cooler can reduce indoor temperatures from a sweltering 86F (30C) to a comfortable 77F (25C).

All this without any electricity!

I think it can be widely used in rural India!

It is reportedly the world’s first-ever zero electricity air conditioner, and its inventor wanted to get the concept out there to help as many people as possible.

The Eco Cooler method is fairly simple, from a construction standpoint.

A board is cut to fit the desired window, and bottleneck-sized holes are cut out in a grid pattern. The bottoms of empty plastic bottles are cut off and discarded, leaving funnel-shaped bottlenecks that are placed on the grid.

That’s all there is to the Eco Cooler, except for the task of installing it in place of the regular window. When mounted, the wider part of the bottles faces outward and catches the passing wind, literally funneling cool air into the building’s interior.

What are some small things to make home a better place?

• Wind chime

• Over the door decor

• Wall stickers

• Hanging plants

• Curtains

• Wall of memories

• Aquarium

• Love birds as pets

• Led lights decoration

• Cushions

great civil engineering marvels.

Great engineering marvels Currently is Chenab Bridge.

Chenab Bridge is an under-construction rail bridge, located between Bakkal and Kauri in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), India. The 1,315m-long bridge is being built at a height of 359m. Once completed, it will be the tallest rail bridge in the world.

Konkan Railways has undertaken the mega-project of constructing a new railway line across the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir between the towns of Udhampur near Jammu and Baramulla on the northwestern edge of the Kashmir Valley.

Chenab Bridge forms a massive steel arch, the first of its kind in India. The country has no codes or design guidance for such massive structures. Based on experiences drawn from similar projects worldwide, the design practices for the bridge are being followed.

The bridge is being constructed in one of the most complicated and isolated terrains. One of the biggest challenges involved was construction of the bridge without obstructing the flow of the river. Approach roads, five kilometres in length, were constructed to reach the foundations of the bridge.

The deck of the bridge is partly in straight horizon and partly in curves. It is located on a transition curve with changing radius. Construction is therefore being carried out in stages following the gradual change in the alignment. This is the first time a bridge is being constructed incrementally on a transition curve.

Cable cranes and derrick will be used to construct the bridge. The cable cranes used for the project will be the largest in the world.

Construction of the bridge is expected to require 25,000mt of steel, 4,000mt of reinforced steel, 46,000m³ of concrete and eight million m³ of excavation

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simplest yet amazing innovations...

• EMERGENCY LIGHT FOR TWO WHEELERS

Pranav and Gayatri have come up with the idea of installing a system with an emergency light or siren on the two-wheeler. It would get activated upon accident and alert approaching vehicles about the same. The system can be connected to impact sensors which will activate the hazard lights even if the engine shuts down, thus preventing the accident.

• TIFFIN BOX THAT REMINDS ONE TO ME WASH HANDS

Many times children forget to wash their hands before and after eating food. It obviously affects the personal hygiene and causes possible health hazard. Sheereen developed her idea during a Children Creativity Workshop organised by SRISTI at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, during the Festival of Innovation 2016. Her idea is to get it written on the cover of tiffin box, “wash your hands before you eat food” and on the inside cover, “wash your hands after eating your food”. May be, this is made mandatory to print this line by lunch box manufacturers.

• REAL TIME DATA TRANSMISSION FOR VOTING MACHINES

Roshan overheard his teachers discussing how voting numbers in many areas are rigged. He thought of a button in the EVMs which can transmit the total number of votes directly to the cloud server as the voting proceeds and also to district Election Commission office if required at regular interval. A software can be developed for this which will prevent any untoward happening during/after voting. The rate of voting will be recorded per minute any undue activity will alert the monitoring agencies.

• OMNI DIRECTIONAL AIR COOLER

“One hot summer day, all members of my family were sitting in the room but not everyone was able to get cool air of the cooler. This made me think of an alternative,” shares Muskan. Her idea is to make an alternative cooler with throws cool air in all directions horizontally

• SEPTIC TANK LEVEL AND PRESSURE INDICATOR

“Nowadays, people in rural areas are getting aware about cleanliness. They are constructing lavatories but overflowing of the septic tank often results in the pollution of nearby areas,” says Indu. Her idea of a septic tank pressure record aims to warn of the impending problem well in time so that the tank can be drained before it is too late.

• CYCLE OPERATED WATER PUMP

Since childhood, Vikram Rathore has been repairing punctures and dreaming about different products and he put this technical bent of mind to good use to overcome this obstacle. He observed the mechanism of lifting water using an electrical motor in which one engine rotates the fan which enables lifting of water. This gave him the idea of rotating the fan manually to see whether water would come up or not. He tried it and saw that some water was coming up. Then he rotated the fan fast and observed that water was coming up with greater pressure. Then he thought of using a cycle to pump the water, but he had no cycle. At that time, his financial condition was so strained that he had to sell the jowar in his house which had been stored for food and buy an old cycle. He had seen some old gears lying in the compound of an oil mill and he requested the owner to give him these gears and bought some other parts from a waste shop. He also bought a one HP motor and then started working on his pump. He attached his bicycle’s rear rim to the fan with a rope and rotated the bicycles rings fast and was able to pump a good amount of water from a stream to irrigate the paddy.

• MULTI TREE CLIMBER

The tree climber has a seating provision and has two frames. The upper frame is operated by hand while the lower one is operated by leg. The user sits comfortably on the seat and by the up and down movement of upper and lower frame, can climb the tree. A locking system has been provided, which enables the climber to work without fear at any height. To avoid the possibility of a fall, a four lock pin can be fixed at any height. One can climb up to 40 ft in 5 minutes (this includes time needed in fixing, climbing up- down and removal of device from tree). One of the major advantages of this machine is that it is useful for trees with different girth. University of Agricultural Sciences, GVK, Bangalore has tested the device as part of an all India coordinated research project on Post Harvest Technology and found it useful for climbing coconut palms. The team also gave a special mention of its in-built safety feature.

• CLAY COOKER

In the earlier ages people used and preferred clay utensils which retain natural taste. Nowadays such utensils are not available in commercial market on a large scale. They are only available in rural areas manufactured on a small scale by local potters for preserving curd etc, and not for cooking. Innovator solved this problem by developing an innovative clay cooker.

• It is a cooker made from special clay with a capacity of 3 litre. The cooker has been made using die and press machine followed by baking in furnaces at high temperature which makes it sturdy and durable.

• SURAKSHA TONG

Arvindbhai developed the "Suraksha tong"- the term Suraksha being used to denote safety. The innovative tongs developed by Arvindbhai handle various vessel types and diameters; have guide ways for proper alignment and knurled jaws for proper gripping. Therefore, it eliminates the possibility of instability, tilting or flipping of the vessel. It prevents accidents and increases user safety by allowing both hands to be engaged in lifting the vessel. The product comprises of two stainless steel handles with plastic sleeve attached to a spring-loaded pair of solid and hollow stainless steel shaft combination.

At each end, a semicircular steel plate is welded and this helps in clamping and holding the rim of the utensils. The solid shaft slides inside the hollow shaft and the motion of the solid shaft is restricted by the spring connected on both the shaft.Due to spring loaded action of clamping the vessel, when utensil is lifted using both hands gripping the handle, there is very less chance of loosing of grip on the vessel The innovation lies in the construction of the sliding mechanism, using solid shaft and hollow shaft and the secure spring loaded clamping of the vessel. In all his endeavours, Arvindbhai has been constantly motivated by his family and for technical support by organizations like GIAN, SRISTI and NIF.

• TRAVEL BAGS WITH FOLDING SEATS

Interestingly, this idea was inspired by super star Shah Rukh Khan. On the way to her grandmother’s home, Nisha saw a huge roadside advertisement for travelling bags that showed Shah Rukh Khan sitting on the floor beside them. She is a die-hard fan of Shah Rukh’s and thought that he should at least have had a chair to sit on.

“Of course, I knew that he chose to sit on the floor. But I also realized that standing while at a bus stop or railway station was a common problem. A pull-out seat attached to a strolley would be very handy while people were waiting,” Nisha shares. With help of her parents, Nisha created a basic prototype of her idea.

• WALNUT CRACKER

Cracking walnuts manually is a plodding and tedious job with low output (maximum 10 kg/h). Innovator thought of developing a machine that could mechanize this process relieving in drudgery involved of doing it manually for hours.

The machine was originally designed to crack walnuts but Mushtaq found it suitable for peeling green walnuts as well. Green walnuts are difficult to peel manually and in the process the skin also gets irritated and sometimes it even flakes off. An improved model of the machine has been developed recently using food grade aluminum rollers for smoother impacting action. The motor RPM has been reduced to increase the efficiency and reduce damage to walnuts of different sizes. The novelty lies in a motorized machine that will crack the walnuts automatically in such a way that it’s useful fruit could be separated easily which is otherwise done manually.

can’t afford the costly urinals then try this one

Turning water cans into urinals

In India where the count of mobiles are higher than the toilets, I found this as an amazing thing which was made by a school students of grade 2 which even made me proud to share this.

We all know that in our country in remote schools, we don’t find any toilets and students are encouraged to go out.

They made this with a total cost maximum of 600. The schools which can’t afford the costly urinals can make use of it.

Here are the pride owners of this invention

Source:Turning water cans into urinals, these ingenious TN boys solved their school's biggest problem.

What are the coolest inventions that exist today?

The Hover Camera

Flip it open, power it on and allow it to hover round you capturing high quality photographs and videos.

It is the first autonomous hovering camera. It follows you not using GPS navigation but by real time face and body recognition technology. Apart from being elegant and compact it also is user friendly. Anyone can use it straight out of the box.

More about Hover Camera

2. The Cicret Bracelet

Yet another smart watch like gadget? Or may be not.

It is a future technology. Loaded with high end sensors, it has the potential to be the next big thing in the gadget world. If it hits the market, and is water proofed, I definitely want one.

3. reMarkable

At first glance what seems to be an e-book reader is a revolutionary step in the tablet world.

Meet reMarkable

Apart from being an ultimate reading device, rM allows you to write, scribble or sketch free hand using the stylus, which they claim, give us the feeling of writing with a pen on a paper.

4. Rocket Skates

No, not just skates. These are Rocket skates. As you might have guess, these work on electric power stored inside a highly efficient battery. You just have to stand on them and they’ll take you on a smooth ride. Provided you’re not in India, roads here might not allow you to ride smoothly, if at all they allow you to ride.

They might appear as they’re difficult to ride, but check the video here which shows how easy it is to use them.

5. ASIMO!

Well, it’s not a gadget that you’ll find on amazon and can buy it easily, at least not today. Nevertheless, it’s one of the technological marvels made by Honda.

Was hoping to find an image with some other fingers raised.

ASIMO is designed to interact with and behave like humans. So, if you greet good morning, ASIMO will greet you back. If you’ll reach out your hand, it will shake it. If you’ll pull or push it, it can maintain it’s balance.

It has 57 degrees of freedom which allows Asimo to walk forward and backward, hump, play football and climb stairs.

The best part, it can easily pour you a drink!

ASIMO is a result of persistent and rigorous development throughout decades. Here’s ASIMO’s evolution in a nutshell:

More about ASIMO here.