Andrea Colaco

Founders and creators of 3dim, a company launched by P.h.D students at MIT, are trying to change the way people interact with devices by introducing “the next wave of smart input” through gesture control technology. 

As Andrea Colaco, one of the company’s co-founders, explains it, 3dim will “dissolve” the boundaries and constraints between the digital and physical world. Using 3dim’s breakthrough technology, Colaco says users will be able to type on their smartphones using keyboards that are digitally displayed on hard surfaces, rather than clicking at letters on tiny screens.

Boston Mag: Thanks to MIT Students, You May Never Have to Touch Your Smartphone Screen Again

ToI: Goa girl develops touch-free phone technology

Esha Khare

Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student's invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds. The fast-charging device is a so-called supercapacitor, a gizmo that can pack a lot of energy into a tiny space, charges quickly and holds its charge for a long time.

What's more, it can last for 10,000 charge-recharge cycles, compared with 1,000 cycles for conventional rechargeable batteries, according to Eesha Khare of Saratoga, Calif. "My cellphone battery always dies," she told NBC News when asked what inspired her to work on the energy-storage technology. Supercapacitors also allowed her to focus on her interest in nanochemistry — "really working at the nanoscale to make significant advances in many different fields."

NBCNews: Teen's invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds

IQ? Highest Possible.

Neha Ramu achieved a score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test – the highest score possible.

The score puts her in the top one per cent of brightest people in the country and means she is more intelligent than Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and even Albert Einstein, who are all thought to have an IQ of 160. 

The Telegraph: Schoolgirl, 12, has higher IQ than Einstein

Sleep Well, Score Well

The Stanford researcher Cheri D. Mah found that when she got male basketball players to sleep 10 hours a night, their performances in practice dramatically improved: free-throw and three-point shooting each increased by an average of 9 percent. 

As athletes understand especially well, the greater the performance demand, the greater the need for renewal. The importance of restoration is rooted in our physiology. Human beings aren’t designed to expend energy continuously. Rather, we’re meant to pulse between spending and recovering energy. 

NYT: Relax! You’ll Be More Productive

Bharatanatyam in Beijing

The Hindu: Bharatanatyam in Beijing

So Unlike Rahul Baba

Prema Jayakumar, daughter of an autorickshaw driver from Tamil Nadu living in a chawl in Malad, Mumbai, has topped the nationwide Chartered Accountancy examination in her first attempt.

The Hindu: Against all odds, autorickshaw driver’s daughter tops CA exams

Preparing for a test

Researchers say they've pinpointed the two best ways to prepare for a test: spreading out the studying over time and self-quizzing before the big day. Surprisingly, other common methods, such as rereading and highlighting, get low marks when it comes to effectiveness, researchers say. 
These recommendations might benefit only motivated students who are capable of using these strategies.

Live Science: Best Ways to Study for a Test Found 

  
  

Taking a test works better than a number of other studying techniques in helping us to learn. By remembering information we are organizing it and creating cues and connections that our brains later recognize. “I think that learning is all about retrieving, all about reconstructing our knowledge”.

NYT: To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test

On The Comeback Trail

Once upon a time, it was the everyday garb of the traditional teenage girl. A tamed sartorial beauty of south India, the half-sari, popularly called langa-davani in Kannada and pavadai-thavani in Tamil has metamorphosed and made a comeback as a glamorous must-have in wardrobes of young girls and Bollywood actresses.

 The Hindu: The three-piece wonder

Lumbini park bomber identified

No prizes for guessing his Bangladeshi origins. This is bound to happen when Shikhandi MMS endeavours to make "borders irrelevant" and promotes "people to people contact". When Shikhandi promotes such copious contact, we end up with Bangladeshi bombers contacting the Indian people in their marketplaces.

Police scans foreign students for links with Al Qaeda

http://deccan.com/home/homedetails.asp#Police%20scans%20foreign%20students%20for%20links%20with%20Al%20Qaeda

I was aware of the presence of Mohammedan students in Hyderabad, hailing from assorted hellholes like Sudan, Ethiopia, "Palestine", Iran etc.
Indeed, if I'm not mistaken, Sheikh Yasin of the Hizbollah attended a SIMI convention in Hyd a few years back.
But, it is news to me that GOI issues student visas to Bangladeshis & Pakistanis for "studies" in India.

No doubt, another product of the "Peace mountain" enterprise brought to you courtesy MMS, Or is this merely an extension of the "Gujral doctrine"?