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'gecko' and 'tile' are here to help you find your lost things.

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Now you can easily find your lost property with a matchbox sized bluetooth device <b>'gecko'</b> developed by bangalore based startup Connovate Technology. Connovate Technology was founded in beginning of this year by four professionals, Bahubali Shete, Kiran Kumar, Rajeev M and S Varadarajan. <b>'gecko'</b>, this small sized device is a low power bluetooth that can be attached to various items such as wallets, bags ,suitcase etc and can be traced when they are missing. Isn’t it interesting?? Say thanks to <b>'gecko'</b>!<br />
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Connovate Technology raised $50000 on a crowd funding plaform Indiegogo to start with production of gecko. They got 3731 pre order all across the world and raised $135485 from this process of pre order. The cost of each gecko is $20 and over 6000 devices have been ordered. They received order from 70 countries around the world. The production of gecko has started in their china plant. They are going to denote $1 or$2 behind every gecko to breast cancer research foundation.<br />
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A similar type of product is developed by ‘tile’ a silicon valley startup but tile has limitation to its  feature compared to gecko. Tile began its company on a self starter crowed funding platform and raise a massive funding of 2.2 million dollars with support from more than 50000 people for their campaign which ran for 34 days. Tile will start shipping their product in winter. The price of each device is $25 and you can order it through their website http://www.thetileapp.com<br />
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Now you can easily find your lost property with a matchbox sized bluetooth device 'gecko' developed by bangalore based startup ...

Scope of 3D Printing in India

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In simple words, 3D printing is a process of converting a digital object into a real solid object. A real object is printed layer by layer from the raw material. A digital file is given as a input to the 3D printer and we get a real object as a output. There is no limitation on the object, it can be anything like your new toy design or a tooth-brush or any part of the machine. In short a 3D printer can print anything!<br />
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Currently, there are some limitations on raw materials. Generally plastics like ABS, PLA, PVA , soft PLA and metals like stainless steel, titanium, silver, steel, gold are used. Other materials like chocolate, bio-ink, skin etc are also widely used depending on the object to be printed.<br />
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3D printing has N number of applications, we can't even imagine how useful it is! Some of the applications of 3D modelling are as follows.</div>
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Currently the short supply of kidneys in organ banks is an increasing obstacle. While research is still in its trial phase in Japan, the possibility of bio-printing or printing of live tissue reducing this gap promises that the technology has good scope in transplantation. <b> </b>-<b>Dr Narinder Mehra, head of the department of Transplant Immunology & Immunogenetics at AIIMS, New Delhi.</b></blockquote>
You can just prove your concept with 3D printing and that too at a very speedy rate. You can build anything that you have dreamed if, you can give shape to your imagination.<br />
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Almost every other modern technology has certain barriers to expand industry , and 3D printing is not an exclusion .As the 3D printing market in India is at a nascent phase and is developing gradually and progressively , there are numerous elements that may obstruct adoption . Considering the market is at a young age and there is certainly lack of sufficient awareness regarding the advantages of the 3d printing , adoption is seen as scarce . Still , estimates prove that the market is set to experience a growth in the next two to three years . An additional element to be looked at is the price of technology . Having 3D printers set up in each and every company set-up may not be financially viable resulting in lower adoption rates . Still companies today have developed reasonably priced ink-jet based desktop computer 3D printers which are being increasingly useful for manufacturing 3D prototypes at a considerably lower cost using 3D printing.<br />
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In future, we will see 3D printers printing objects using two or more different raw materials. This will further increase the usefulness of 3D printing technology. This technology is moving rapidly on a global degree and provides something which some time ago was not possible : On-demand , at any time , at any place , by any one manufacturing . Its time to make a change with this technology. Just remember , if you don't , your levels of competition are going to.</div>
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<large>G</large>oogle had introduced the same feature "Mute this Ad" back in 2012. But later on this feature was removed. Again Google is back with this feature. There is a [X] like icon on the top right corner of Google Adsense ad. When you click on this icon, a new page opens up from where you can go to ad settings.<br />
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Google, Yahoo and Bing Introducing the New Trend of Redesigning Logo and User Interface.

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Seems as if technology giants Google, Yahoo and Bing are making a new trend of changing their logos and user interface. Though Google is the one to make most of the changes in some or the other way in all of its products. But Yahoo and Bing have made significant changes. Lets take a look at them one by one.<br />
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The original logo of Google was designed by Ruth Kedar. It is based on Catull typeface. The last time Google changed its logo was in the year 2010. The old logo looked something like this.<br />
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It was 3 dimensional. But the new logo is 2 dimensional and is somewhat flattened. If you carefully observe Google has also introduced some minor changes in the colour shades in its new logo and they have also removed the shadows. It was released on 19th September 2013. The new Google logo looks like this.</div>
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Now lets talk about the new Google UI (User Interface) that is rolling in each and every Google product.</div>
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Earlier Google homepage had a black navigation bar at the top which had different options like Images, News, Maps, Books, YouTube, More. But now Google has integrated everything into a single card, which I call it as card UI. This card has different options like Gmail, Drive, YouTube, Play, News. Actually there are two different views regarding this UI update, some people didn't liked this UI but the other people like me are the die hard fan of this new interface. That is why I thought of writing a full post on this!</div>
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I think gradually Google will redesign everything to Card UI. Let me explain you <b>what is a Card UI.</b></div>
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This new trend of cards actually started with Google Now and now it is used in every other Google product like Maps, Analytics, Google + . It has a typeface of roboto fonts and everything is integrated beautifully into a single card. The card is somewhat light grey in colour and the fonts are dark grey in color (If you want hexadecimal color code, then its #d2d2d2)</div>
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Since, Bing belongs to Microsoft and we all know that Microsoft has Metro UI in all its products. The new Bing logo was introduced with a new metro UI touch so that it matches with the company's branding. The company also changed the colour from blue to somewhat in between Orange and Yellow.</div>
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Yahoo! had the same old logo since 1995, thats about 18 years. They unveiled their new logo in 2013. One of the Yahoo officials says "We hadn’t updated our logo in 18 years.  Our brand, as represented by the logo, has been valued at as much as ~$10 billion dollars.  So, while it was time for a change, it’s not something we could do lightly." The figure below explains how the new Yahoo logo was designed, it looks simple but in reality there is too much science and mathematics involved in the logos of big giants like Apple, Google and even Facebook.</div>
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Its worth knowing how this awesome logo was designed. If you want to know more about Yahoo's new logo you can visit this <a href="http://marissamayr.tumblr.com/post/60336044815/geeking-out-on-the-logo" target="_blank">link</a>.<br />
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Google, Yahoo and Bing Introducing the New Trend of Redesigning Logo and User Interface.

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Some Facts About WhatsApp and How it Makes Money?

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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS2S4nACl5bW8RzGqF_htptLDbYdeJTQtlVe67mi3_YRpP_15_m9OPbyMOxBN2bqBbj4w0fH2-w4bNADZC1b45nwavqXvq2z_g6fqrdhEYC-0HUkkcevgR_1W9vMmKVsXpe-KRYabIZGWv/s1600/WhatsApp+money+making+secret.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS2S4nACl5bW8RzGqF_htptLDbYdeJTQtlVe67mi3_YRpP_15_m9OPbyMOxBN2bqBbj4w0fH2-w4bNADZC1b45nwavqXvq2z_g6fqrdhEYC-0HUkkcevgR_1W9vMmKVsXpe-KRYabIZGWv/s320/WhatsApp+money+making+secret.jpg" width="320" /></a>Since, WhatsApp is available for Android, iPhone, Windows, BlackBerry, Symbian most of us are active users of WhatsApp. Some of them claim that they can't live without WhatsApp a single day. You might be interested in knowing how this company started and how it reached this stage.<br />
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According to WhatsApp's official site, WhatsApp is an early stage startup which is technology oriented and the name WhatsApp is derived from the phrase "Whats Up??". WhatsApp believes a day will come when everyone will have a smartphone so they wanted to build a better SMS alternative. </div>
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WhatsApp was founded by Brian Acton and Jan Koum (He is the <b>current CEO of WhatsApp</b>). Both have spent a time span of 20 years together at Yahoo!. When they entered the market they were surrounded by competitions like WeChat, LINE. But gradually they started capturing the market. WhatsApp processes 27 billion messages daily which they announced officially on Twitter, this shows their deep penetration in the market. They have about 200 million active users.</div>
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You might be wondering <b>how WhatsApp makes money? What is their business model?</b></div>
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<b></b>Well here's the answer. There are <b>2 ways by which WhatsApp is making money</b>. The first one is known to most of us i.e the subscription fee of <b>$0.99</b> that WhatsApp charges for 1 year. For now not a single person has paid the subscription fee, everyone is using it free of cost. Now you might be thinking then how WhatsApp makes money. Its the second way which is known to very less number of people.</div>
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We use WhatsApp to send messages, pictures, videos to our friends and family. All this data gets stored in the WhatsApp servers. This data is extracted by the marketers and experts to know the likes, dislikes, preferences, opinions of the end users. This data is of great importance to big companies so that they serve their customers in a better way.</div>
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Another thing worth noting behind WhatsApp's success is the rumours about facebook and google trying to acquire WhatsApp.</div>
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Some Facts About WhatsApp and How it Makes Money?

Since, WhatsApp is available for Android, iPhone, Windows, BlackBerry, Symbian most of us are active users of WhatsApp. Some of them claim ...