~ Fiat 500 Abarth Cabrio | Pure Muscle ~

From the gallery 

From the print advt 

The Richards Group has created a body painted print advt for Fiat 500 Abarth Cabrio to depict the tagline of the car - Made of pure muscle. 

Watch the video to find out how the advt was created.

~ Dadapeer Chatra is history ~

The Public Works Department (PWD) created history by razing Dadapeer Chatra, which is 3 kms from Hampi. The structure is 153 years old, which was built by a local sultan in 1860.

Sadly none of the Indian main stream media, State or National, have reported this in any medium - print  or digital.

Only DailyMail has a report on this. Wonder if Karnataka Govt is serious about conservation.

H/T: Came across this via Amog's post.

~ 200 Calories ~

Wish some of your favorite food might had lower calories ;)

More details here.

Via Guy Kawasaki

~ Decoding nature ~

Graduate student Eirik Ravnan works with a parrotlet that he is training to fly from perch to perch in order to be filmed by a high-speed camera. (Photo: L.A. Cicero)

We might have advanced in many domains, but we still have a lot to explored & learn from the natural world. For me, nature has been the inspiring architect for the design and creation of so many animate objects with varied features & functionalities. The adaptation of each being to their respective environment and the subsequent evolution to the changing factors is just fascinating to observe.

A study undertaken by the Standford Mechanical Engineering is just one such step. Many people across the world have been keenly observing the natural order to innovate in the nano technology & the bi-robotics sphere.

"The best way to prevent a small drone from spying on you in your office is to turn on the air-conditioning," said David Lentink, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford. That little blast of air, he explained, creates enough turbulence to knock a hand-size UAV off balance, and possibly send it crashing to the floor.

A pigeon, on the other hand, can swoop down busy city streets, navigate around pedestrians, sign posts and other birds, keep its path in all sorts of windy conditions, and deftly land on the tiniest of hard-to-reach perches.

"Wouldn't it be remarkable if a robot could do that?" Lentink wondered.

Via Stanford.edu

~ Coolest QR code usage ~

Probably one of the best job advt which tests the skill set and also a good way to promote QR.

~ Supermoon ~

I couldn't capture the moon rise last evening. As I witnessed the hide n seek  between moon & clouds, following are some of the photos taken at 9 pm. 

Hope to catch today's moon rise. Wish Bangalore sky would be clear enough ;)

{Click the photograph to view full screen}

~ Quote Unquote ~

~ The majority is always right until they are proved wrong; while the minority is always wrong until they are proved right ~

~ Your own rules go for a holiday while on a holiday ~

The above thoughts came into existence from the just concluded road trip to Goa ;)