Bagalight Table Lamp

This is one of those gadgets that I kind of wish they were kidding, sadly, they aren’t. If anyone were to see this on your table, they’d likely think you had a small child that made an attempt at some arts and crafts one afternoon. Although despite the fact that it does look a bit ugly, it is said to be an eco-friendly table light. Actually the people at Liquidesign wanted to come up with an eco-friendly light and that’s how they came up with the idea for this lamp.


The bag is part of an entire series of lighting. Within that series is a pendant light as well, that is made from card and paper, as is the lamp shown here. You can also pick up their desk lamp version of the light. Hopefully the desk lamp version does actually point light directly at your desk. It’s always nice to have eco-friendly lighting. However, it being eco-friendly doesn’t exactly give the designers a free pass to stop caring about the look of the overall design. You can purchase this Bagalight for £29.99 or about $43

BLOGGER PLANT-"midori-san" the first green blogger

A potted plant named "midori-san" is proved to b the first green blogger.This succulent "sweet heart plant" contains bio-electrical sensors that translates the signal given by the plant into japanese language script using an efficient computer algorithm.

So far, the plant’s highly structured posts summarize the day’s weather, temperature and lighting conditions, describe its overall physical condition, tell how much light it received via the user-activated lamp (see below), and explain how much fun the day was.

The recent post by this green blogger is as follows:

"Today was a sunny day and I was able to sunbathe a lot. I had quite a bit of fun today."

"It was cloudy today. It was a cold day."

CAMERA PILLS*****SAY GUDBYE TO SURGERY*****

A swallowable camera, little bigger than a normal pill, can snap pictures as it floats through the stomach and intestine, offering a less invasive way to perform diagnosis than an endoscope or surgery.The pills are used on patients who typically have internal bleeding or abdominal pain that is hard to diagnose. Up until now doctors have used an endoscope – a camera on a flexible tube – to examine such problems. However much of the small intestine, which is tightly coiled and stretches for up to 6 meters, could not be reached using this method and the only alternative was for patients to swallow barium and have an X-ray which produced poor quality images.Now the camera pill allows the doctors a near perfect view of the inside of this organ as it makes its way through a patient's body.

WORKING:
The pill is similar to a digital camera and sends 50,000 still images from along its journey to a small recorder device worn on the patient's belt. After eight hours the doctors take the recorder and download it onto a computer before watching the footage to see if there are any signs of bleeding, disease or swelling. If a concerning area is found then dedicated treatment can be taken to combat the problem.
Patients having the pill, which cost less than £400 each, must fast the day before but can leave the hospital and go to work as normal while the pill is in their body. The whole process takes just a day and patients will generally be given the results within a few days.

PATIENTS EXPERIENCE:
One patient to benefit was BRITNEY , 28, of Texas, who has suffered from severe abdominal pain for three years. For most of that time doctors were unable to diagnose what was the cause was, and it was only through the use of the camera pill that a firm diagnosis was possible. When the pain first started it would last a couple of days and was bearable but by the end it was really bad and I was doubled over in agony unable to do anything. It was very frustrating that no one was able to diagnose what the problem was.

I was referred to Dr John last year and when he suggested the camera pill I thought it sounded strange but just said 'let's do it'. It is quite a big pill but ok to swallow and I didn't feel anything as it passed through me. One of the nurses allowed me to watch the live images which was quite amusing.A few days later Dr John said the footage proved without doubt that I had Crohn's Disease which is like an inflamed gut. It was such a relief to finally have a diagnosis. It is a very cool piece of equipment. I've had nearly every test available but this was the best and also the least invasive. Also because it showed exactly where it was in my intestine they were able to decide which medication was most suitable. I still have a lot of pain but at least we know what we are dealing with now and the steps to control it.
PATIENTS REAL EXPERIENCE WITH CAM PILLS

ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION-INDIAN DOCTORS ROCKZZ

The medical science has made great advancements at organ transplantation technique. An organ transplant can move an entire or partial organ from one body to another for replacing the damaged or failing organ with a healthy one.


LIVER TRANSPLANT:
The liver transplants are done in an orthotopic fashion in which the liver is removed and the new liver is placed. The surgery is performed through a large incision in the upper abdomen. Many liver transplants implant the entire liver from a deceased donor to the recipient,this surgery is performed mainly on the adult patients.


PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION:
The new pancreas is attached to the blood vessels and to the bladder, intestine to drain digestive juice. New surgical methods are developed for pancreas transplant. Laparoscopic surgery is less painful as little incision is done in this surgery. After surgery, constant monitoring is done to study the function of the new pancreas as well the other side effects. A healthy lifestyle is urgently required for the patient after surgery for proper rehabilitation.
Surgery of pancreas transplantation takes 12 to 15 hours.


KIDNEY TRANPLANTATION:
Kidney Transplant is also known as Renal Transplantation. Kidney transplant surgery is a procedure of curing the patient with end- stage of renal disease. Kidney transplant can be performed replacing the diseased kidney donated from the deceased donor as well as living donor depending on the source of the recipient organ.
SIDE EFFECTS:
malignant hypertension, infections, diabetes mellitus and glomerulonephritis.

INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION:

An intestinal transplant is done to children or adults who suffer from intestinal failure from total parenteral nutrition (TPN), an intravenous nutrition supply system through a catheter or needle inserted into a vein in the arm, groin, neck or chest. Long-term TPN can also result in complications like bone disorders, catheter-related infections and liver failure.


WELLKNOWN HOSPITALS FOR ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION:

Apollo Hospital (Jubilee Hills)
Care Hospital (Musheerabad)
Hyderabad Fertility Research Centre (Narayanaguda)
Osmania General Hospital (Afzalgunz)
Seetharam Maternity Nursing Home (Narayanaguda)
Unity Centre for Orthopaedics and Trauma (Narayanaguda)
Wockhardt Hospital(King Koti)
Sai Orthopaedic Centre (Chikkad)
Trichur heart hospital(Trichur)
Breach candy hospital(Mumbai)
Jaipur Golden Institute(Mangol Puri)
Laparoscopy Hospital(Tilak Nagar)
Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital(Delhi Gate)
G.R.M.I & Rajasthan Hospitals(Shahibaug)
Samved Hospital(Navrangpura)
Krishna Heart Foundation(ahmedabad)
Vanivilas Women and childrens hospital(Bangalore Medical College)
Victoria Hospital (Bangalore Medical College)
Wockhardt Hospital(Cunningham Rd. )
Wockhardt Hospital(Bannerghatta Main Road)

Eco Gadget for Earth Day

With Earth Day approaching, many green travelers are thinking more about responsible, sustainable consumption.

For sustainable travel products, Etón Corporation offers independent, self-powered radios with solar powered design and hand-crank technologies, requiring no plugs or batteries.


Etón Corporation’s sustainable products offer AM/FM radio reception, rechargeable Ni-MH battery pack, flashlight, siren, LED safety lights and a cell phone charger.

The company’s all-band radio, the Solarlink FR600, can be powered via solar power and includes the Specific Area Message Encoding (S.A.M.E.) feature.

S.A.M.E. , a system of six digit codes that are programmed into the radio, bring only the emergency data for your specific area, such as your county, during an alert broadcast.

The Solarlink FR500 and Solarlink FR360 can be powered by the sun and also charge MP3 players. While the smallest in the Etón lineup is the FR160 Microlink (above) which allows the user to tune into NOAA, FCC and EAS public alert systems.

RAINFALL PATTERN HAS CHANGED-SAYS ENVIRONMENTALISTS

After the recent downpour of rainfall in tamilnadu and its cities,Scientist and environmentalist insist that rains have become erratic and scarce in chennai.They say the rainfall that we get is a pale shadow of rains we were getting some 3 decades back.A study carried out in the city under the guidance of weather scientists had come to the conclusion that the entire water scarcity in the city could be addressed by rain water harvesting.Dr G.V Rama,atmospheric scientist(ISRO), said that the rain pattern has undergone drastic changes in the last two decades."previously it used to rain for 45 days during the october-december period.But now it hardly rains for 25 days.

CHANDRAYAAN'S PAYLOADS BEAMING DATA TO EARTH-"MISSION TO MOON"

Nine payloads aboard chandrayaan-1 have been switched onand the ISRO scientists are holding back the two remaining payloads because is is summer on moon and the lunar temperature is high.All these payloads have started beaming signals back to earth and were functioning normally,only two more equipments remain.We hope to switch them on by the second week of december said Dr M Annadurai,project director of chandraayan-1.The two payloads are High Energy X-Ray Spectrometer(HEX) and Sub KeV Atom Reflecting Analyser(SARA). Both these payloads are high voltage instuements.All the payloads were being switched on as per the schedule prepared by ISRO,they switched on Moon Minerology Monitor(MMM),Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar and Near InfraRed Spectrometer(SIR-2).Based on MMM's data special team formed is going to prepare a detailed global assessment of the moon's geology,said Dr.Annadurai.


Scientific Payloads

Chandrayaan-1 is an Indian Mission to the Moon. The indigenously developed payload experiments are:

TMC
Terrain Mapping stereo Camera (TMC) in the panchromatic band, having 5 m spatial resolution and 20 km swath.


HySI
Hyper Spectral Imaging camera (HySI) operating in 400-950 nm bands with a spectral resolution better than 15 nm and spatial resolution of 80 m with a swath of 20 km.


LLRI
Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument (LLRI) with height resolution of less than 5 m.


HEX
High Energy X-ray spectrometer (HEX) using Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride (CdZnTe) detector in the 30-270 keV energy region with spatial resolution of 33 km.


MIP
Moon Impact Probe (MIP) as piggyback on the main orbiter of the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, which will impact on the surface of the moon.


C1XS
Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) through ESA - a collaboration between Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,UK and ISRO Satellite Centre, ISRO. Part of this payload is redesigned by ISRO to suit Chandrayaan-1 scientific objectives.


SIR-2
Near Infra Red spectrometer (SIR-2) from Max Plank Institute for Solar System Science, through Max-Planck Society, Germany and ESA.


SARA
Sub keV Atom Reflecting Analyser (SARA) through ESA, from Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Sweden and Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, ISRO. The digital processing unit of this payload/ experiment is designed and developed by ISRO, while Swedish Institute of Space Physics develops the payload.


RADOM
Radiation Dose Monitor Experiment (RADOM) from Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.



Mini-SAR
Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar (Mini-SAR) from Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University and Naval Air Warfare Centre, USA through NASA.

M3
Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) from Brown University and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA through NASA.