Yoshiro Nakamatsu aka Dr. NakaMats - Japanese inventor claiming to hold the world record for number of inventions

Yoshiro Nakamatsu (中松 義郎, Nakamatsu Yoshirō), born June 26, 1928, also known as Dr. NakaMats, is a Japanese inventor claiming to hold the world record for number of inventions 3,000+.

Yoshiro's house

He is known as the "Edison of Japan" is the only person who has licensed 16 patents to IBM, including the floppy disk.

he quotes about himself, his country & his parents: “In my country, the drive to succeed-and the competition-is unbelievably intense. From early on, Japanese children are under enormous pressure to learn. I was fortunate that my parents encouraged my natural curiosity along with my academic learning from the very beginning. They gave me the freedom to create and invent-which I’ve been doing for as long as I can remember.”

in his library-cum-old inventions' collection. here in background we see his recording device

His inventions, include:
"PyonPyon" spring shoes
the basic technology for the floppy disk, the CD, the DVD,
the karaoke machine,
the digital watch,
CinemaScope,
armchair "Cerebrex",
sauce pump,
the taxicab meter
fax machine,
magnetic paper train tickets,
the synthesizer
Enerex, car engine that runs on tap water

He created his first invention "an automatic gravity adjustment equipment, basically inventing how all airplanes fly now" at the age of 5

Nakamatsu is a graduate of the University of Tokyo. He has so far completed four doctor thesis and claims that he will never stop studying.

frame showing Dr.NakaMats being selected by US Science Academic Society as one of five world No.1 great scientists in history: Archimedes, Michael Faraday, Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla and Yoshiro NakaMats.

Archimedes, Michael Faraday, Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla and Yoshiro Nakamatsu were chosen by U.S. Science Academic Society as the five greatest scientists in history.

He invented the Enerex, a pollution free car engine that runs on tap water and can generate three times as much power as a standard gasoline engine. It splits water, producing hydrogen as the fuel.

love jet - his answer to viagra

“Love Jet is a spray-type health enhancer spattered directly across the private parts and works to combat male impotency,” Nakamatsu tells Spa! during an interview for its feature on Japan’s boki business - the booming trade to keep men erect. ”Viagra is a chemically based pharmaceutical aimed to help people with an illness, but Love Jet was created through my ideas about sex and uses all natural materials with no side-effects. And, unlike most other anti-impotency treatments, it’s not a pill, but a spray, allowing it to work immediately. It improves sexual response by three times among men and women.” Doctor Nakamatsu explains that understanding the difference between Love Jet and other treatments isn’t all that hard. “There’s a hormone, often used in the United States, called DHEA, which is frequently prescribed as an impotency treatment alternative to Viagra,” he says. “DHEA levels markedly drop at around 25 years old, but a spray of Love Jet increases levels by three times. It doesn’t just work on erections, but also slows down the aging process.” This is more than a cheap attempt to “sex up” Brainsturbator—I mention the Love Jet because it’s such a beautiful window into weirdness of Dr. NakaMats. You see, a single bottle of Love Jet costs 30,000 Yen, which translates to a little under $250. However, manufacturing a single bottle of Love Jet costs over 80,000 Yen, which translates to a loss of over $400 per bottle. To any CEO on Earth, then, Love Jet is an insane waste of time. To our man Yoshiro, however, this $400 hemmorage is a perfecly sane investment. As we already know, Nakamatsu operates from a different perspective. he further quotes “Love Jet is not about money. Japan’s biggest problem is not this economic slump we’re in now, but the low birthrate. GDP growth relates closely to population. In 50 years time, we’ll be looking at a country half as strong as it is now. I want to save Japan from a crisis, so Love Jet is a labor of love.”

He sleeps 4 hours a night. He maintains this demanding schedule courtesy of special food that he naturally invented himself. he says: “...these are snacks I’ve invented, which I eat during the day. I’ve marketed them as Yummy Nutri Brain Food. They are very helpful to the brain’s thinking process. They are a special mixture of dried shrimp, seaweed, cheese, yogurt, eel, eggs, beef, and chicken livers—all fortified with vitamins.”

Nakamatsu also takes regular power naps, and he’s invented a device to enhance that, too. It’s called the Cereberex chair, and according to Dr. NakaMats “it improves memory, math skills, and creativity, and it can lower blood pressure, improve eyesight, and cure other ailments.

Special sound frequencies pulse from footrest to headrest, stimulating blood circulation and increasing synaptic activity in the brain. An hour in my chair refreshes the brain as much as eight hours of sleep.” The Cereberex works by cooling the head and heating the feet, which does indeed increase the blood circulation to the brain.

According to Dr. NakaMats’ research, the unhealthy body has a poor blood circulation to extremities resulting cold feet. This is the same state with the stressed body in which your sympathetic nervous system took over parasympathetic nervous system. Sympathetic nervous system anticipates your body for “fight-or-flight” situation.

He says that for “triggering” an invention a lack of oxygen is very important. "It’s very dangerous. I get that Flash just 0.5 sec before death. I remain under the surface until this trigger comes up and I write it down with a special waterproof plexiglas writing pad I invented."

He is working towards another 3000 inventions to make the record of 6,000 inventions before death.

Nakamatsu claims that he licensed about a dozen of his patents related to the floppy disk technology to IBM Corporation in 1979, but the details of the arrangement are confidential. A spokesman for IBM said that the company has an "ongoing relationship" with Nakamatsu, and, in another media report, said that the company owns the legal patent to the floppy disk and that it reached several nonexclusive patent agreements with Nakamatsu in the late 1970s to avoid conflicts. Nakamatsu has appeared on several American TV shows, including Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and Late Night with David Letterman. He also appeared on the BBC show Adam and Joe Go Tokyo. In 2007, Nakamatsu became a candidate in the 2007 gubernatorial election in Tokyo, and also ran for the Upper House election, but failed to get a seat. He is known for frequently entering and losing elections in Tokyo.

thats how a ig nobel prize looks like


thats how a ig nobel prize looks like

He was awarded the 2005 Ig Nobel prize for Nutrition, for photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he has consumed during a period of 34 years (and counting).

manga about Dr.NakaMats for Shonen Jump, about 10 years ago

The goal of Nakamatsu is to live at least 144 (12x12, Japanese century) years.

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An Interview with Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu
Interviewed by Chic Thompson
recorded April 29, 1990, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Nakamatsu:
In my country, the drive to succeed-and the competition-is unbelievably intense. From early on, Japanese children are under enormous pressure to learn. I was fortunate that my parents encouraged my natural curiosity along with my academic learning from the very beginning. They gave me the freedom to create and invent-which I've been doing for as long as I can remember.

Chic:
What are the teaching methods used to prepare Japanese children for the strong competition they face? And how does this affect creativity?

Nakamatsu:
One method is memorization. We teach our kids to memorize until the age of twenty, for we have discovered that the human brain needs memorization up to that point. Then young people can begin free-associating, putting everything together. That's how geniuses are formed. If a child doesn't learn how to memorize effectively, he doesn't reach his full potential.

Chic:
So you feel that creativity comes from a balance of regimentation and freedom?

Nakamatsu:
Yes, but freedom is most important of all. Genius lies in developing complete and perfect freedom within a human being. Only then can a person come up with the best ideas.

Chic:
We have a difficult time in this country because we don't allow ourselves that kind of freedom. We have what we call the Protestant work ethic that says, "If at first you don't succeed, try and try again." To me, trying too hard stifles creativity.

Nakamatsu:
That's unfortunate. It's crucial to be able to find the time and the freedom to develop your best ideas.

Chic:
Then tell me about your routine to spark creativity. I've heard that you come up with ideas underwater!

Nakamatsu:
Yes, that's part of a three-step process. When developing ideas, the first rule is You have to be calm. So I've created what I call my "static" room. It's a place of peace and quiet. In this room, I only have natural things: a rock garden, natural running water, plants, a five-ton boulder from Kyoto. The walls are white. I can look out on the Tokyo skyline, but in the room there is no metal or concrete-only natural things like water and rock and wood.

Chic:
So you go into your "static" room to meditate?

Nakamatsu:
No, just the opposite! I go into the room to free-associate. It's what you must do before meditating, before focusing on one thing. I just throw out ideas-I let my mind wander where it will.

Chic:
I call that "naive incubation."

Nakamatsu:
Yes, it's my time to let my mind be free. Then I go into my "dynamic" room, which is just the opposite of my "static" room. The "dynamic" room is dark, with black-and-white-striped walls, leather furniture, and special audio and video equipment. I've created speakers with frequencies between 12 and 40,000 hertz-which, you can imagine, are quite powerful. I start out listening to jazz, then change to what you call "easy listening," and always end with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. For me, Beethoven's Fifth is good music for conclusions.

Chic:
And finally you go to your swimming pool...

Nakamatsu:
Exactly-the final stage. I have a special way of holding my breath and swimming underwater-that's when I come up with my best ideas. I've created a Plexiglas writing pad so that I can stay underwater and record these ideas. I call it "creative swimming."

Chic:
That seems to fit very well with the strategy I teach in my creativity workshops: discover and use your "idea-friendly times."

Nakamatsu:
Yes, but in doing this, you must prepare your body. You can only eat the best foods. You cannot drink alcohol.

Chic:
I've heard that you've come up with your own "brain food."

Nakamatsu:
Yes, these are snacks I've invented, which I eat during the day. I've marketed them as Yummy Nutri Brain Food. They are very helpful to the brain's thinking process. They are a special mixture of dried shrimp, seaweed, cheese, yogurt, eel, eggs, beef, and chicken livers-all fortified with vitamins.

Chic:
How many people-technicians, researchers, and assistants-do you employ to help with your inventions?

Nakamatsu:
In all, I have 110 employees.

Chic:
And what exactly do they do?

Nakamatsu:
They work with my ideas, make prototypes, and give other assistance with details.

Chic:
Do you come up with ideas at night?

Nakamatsu:
I come up with ideas anytime! I only sleep four hours a night.

Chic:
That's interesting-that's very similar to Thomas Edison. Do you take naps like he did?

Nakamatsu:
Yes. Twice a day I take thirty-minute naps in a special chair I've designed-the Cerebrex chair. It improves memory, math skills, and creativity, and it can lower blood pressure, improve eyesight, and cure other ailments.

Chic:
How does the Cerebrex work?


Nakamatsu:
Special sound frequencies pulse from footrest to headrest, stimulating blood circulation and increasing synaptic activity in the brain. An hour in my chair refreshes the brain as much as eight hours of sleep.

Chic:
So, like Edison, you're awake most of the time. Do you agree with Edison's claim that ideas are 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration?

Nakamatsu:
No, now it's just the opposite! Now it's 1 percent perspiration and 99 percent "ikispiration." Now, more than ever, we have to have ikispiration. This means I encourage myself to go through my three elements of creation: suji, the theory of knowledge; pika, inspiration; and iki, practicality, feasibility, and marketability. In order to be successful, you must go through all three stages and make sure that your ideas stand up to all of them, which is ikispiration. Also, these days, the computer saves time and cuts out the 99 percent perspiration.

Chic:
Do you find that most American research-and-development firms take themselves through your three stages?

Nakamatsu:
Most are very thorough with suji, or theory, but don't concentrate on the iki, marketability. Hardest of all, of course, is pika, the creative inspiration. Researchers often have trouble with pika because they're too focused on one particular element. A genius must be a well-rounded person, familiar with many things: art, music, science, sports. He or she can't be restricted to only one field of expertise.

Chic:
Well, you certainly appear to practice what you preach. You know so much about music, about art, about sports.

Nakamatsu:
That's what genius is, when you're able to discuss, and to be good at, many things. As much as I enjoy hearing about the things you [Chic] have invented during your chemistry career, about your teaching, about your video programs, I'm most fascinated by the fact that a person who can be a chemist and a teacher and a speaker can also be a cartoonist. And at such a young age!

Chic:
Well, people do kid me about looking young, but I could say the same thing about you.

Nakamatsu:
That comes from eating the right foods and participating in the right athletics. Certain activities I believe aren't good for creativity. To be creative, you must have perfect freedom. Sports like jogging, tennis, and golf, I don't believe, are conducive to the brain waves for creativity.

Chic:
Hmmmm. I'd really like to see your research on that, because I know a lot of people who feel they come up with their ideas when they go out jogging. Maybe, for Americans, because we don't allow ourselves to have perfect freedom at work, we can get part of the way there by jogging or golfing-that's the only time we give ourselves permission to be free enough to come up with new ideas.

Nakamatsu:
Maybe so, but they won't be your best ideas-you're not at your peak creative performance if you have to use athletics or techniques to get your ideas. It's only when you have perfect freedom that your best ideas come out.

Chic:
What are some of your suggestions to American executives on ways to become more creative?

Nakamatsu:
I'd like to see the work ethic in the United States more geared to creativity. We need more creative people and more creative leaders. Governments as a whole must learn to be more creative. I've just written a book called The Invention of Government.

I'm trying to show that through the creative process, governments-not just individuals-can be more innovative. Among my goals right now are working in political reform in Japan and improving our relationship with the United States.

I want Americans and others to understand that many of the perceived barriers between nations-trade barriers, cultural barriers-aren't as strong as people think they are. It's just that we don't understand each other as well as we should, and that means we must become more open with each other.

Chic:
In that regard, I'm very impressed by your openness to discuss and to spend so many hours with me. So many people in the United States who have one or two good ideas don't share them with anyone. They're afraid that people are going to steal them. And here you've opened up an International Genius Convention-for everyone to display their ideas.

Nakamatsu:
No, so let's invent a product together. What would you buy today if it were available?

Chic:
I'd buy a recording device, about the size of a credit card, that could fit in my shirt pocket. Every time I had a flash of an idea, I could just record it. It would be voice-activated, with a very large memory, and have a voice-activated filing system for idea management.

Nakamatsu:
What would you call it?

Chic:
I'd call it "Flash"- because it would just be flashes of ideas, which you could then download onto a computer system.

Nakamatsu:
Very good.

Chic:
[He then gave me a ten-minute education on micro technology and a grilling on what I thought of the idea's market potential.]

Nakamatsu:
This will be our first product together, so when I get home, I'll turn it over to my research department.Let me thank you. You seem to have the ability to network and to learn from others all the time.That's what it takes to succeed. And, for every meeting, I like to keep a visual record. That's why my wife has been taking pictures and recording our conversation on the camcorder. When something is on video, I can go back and reference the face and the voice, not just written notes. Now, would you please type in your name?

Chic:
Excuse me?

Nakamatsu:
Type in your name on this infrared recorder, and it will appear directly on the photographs that we took, along with today's date.

Chic:
I've never seen anything like this!

Nakamatsu:
I know. One of my recent inventions.

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An Interview with Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu
Written by Uleshka
Photos by Maris Mezulis

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Dr. NakaMats explains his various inventions by flipping through his book ‘The Legend Of Dr. NakaMats’ Inventions’.

It all started with the tea we were served…

Dr. Nakamats: This is made out of 13 different herbs, has a very nice taste and it makes you smarter. It is my invention called “Brain Drink”!

Thanks a lot! Tastes like… tea!?

nakamats's Brain Drink’s funky packaging

You earned the IG Nobel prize last year. May I ask what they gave you the prize for?

For nutrition, meaning my research in finding the best possible food to eat to keep you healthy and your brain fit. I did that by taking photos of every single meal I ate for the last 35 years and analyzing what is good for health and what isn’t.

World’s first floppy discs originally created by no other than Dr. NakaMats

Interesting! It says, that you have licensed 16 patents to IBM for the creation of the floppy disk, the hard disc, tape transport, etc. and in your book it says that you already invented the floppy disk while you were still at college…

Yes, it took 35 years for it to eventually get produced, but I already invented it much earlier.

I see! So how did you become an inventor in the first place?

My mother taught me physics, chemistry, English, Japanese, history and humor… these basic elements from the age of 3.

some very early sketches from the ‘NakaMatsu Research Institute of Invention Volume 2′, started in middle school (lisiting inventions No.233-400)

At the age of 14 I invented the pump. I saw that my mother was having a hard time refilling soy sauce from a big bottle to a smaller one, and wanted to create something that made life easier for her. After the war and even now people use it to refill Kerosene a lot.

That is the core of my inventions: not money, but the spirit of my inventions is LOVE!

Original pump to refill soy sauce created at age 14. Now you can buy this pump in every shop around the corner.

There is an incredible variety of products in your “The Legend of Dr. Nakamats’ Inventions” book and many items can be purchased from your website. So you are not just an inventor, you are a producer as well?

Usually, inventors only “think”. I don’t consider that to be perfect. Inventors should have the capability to produce and distribute their products so that users can benefit from their thought process. My principles are theory, flash (trigger) and production. The “idea” alone does not count as an “invention”.

Is there a secret to becoming an inventor? How do you come up with new ideas?

"The spirit of invention is LOVE. Genius lies in developing complete and perfect freedom within a human being. Only then can a person come up with the best ideas." he says

I am teaching philosophy at the University of Tokyo and this image (above right) shows my theory: the “Pagoda of Creativity”. The base for everything is a strong spirit, followed by a strong body, hard studies, experience and finally leads to a “trigger” experience. You “trigger” a bullet which contains spirit, body, study and experience - and finally that releases the actual invention.

How do you ‘trigger’ an invention?

A lack of oxygen is very important.

A lack? Isn’t that dangerous??

It’s very dangerous. I get that Flash just 0.5 sec before death. I remain under the surface until this trigger comes up and I write it down with a special waterproof plexiglas writing pad I invented.

Do you do that a lot? Putting yourself in that kind of situation to come up with a new invention?

Of course.

This is the Dr. Nakamatsu method. Another possible method is to use a completely calm room - that could even be my toilet which shuts out every noise and every magnetic and electronic field. Such a calm room erases all noise from your brain, you can concentrate and think.

Dr.NakaMats’ golden toilet is one of many calm rooms he has around the house, which completely shut out all disturbing noises and electronic fields to empty your mind allow you to concentrate.

After that you can go to a dynamic room, listen to music and mix thoughts inside your brain. The environment is very important for inventing.

This is the dynamic room in Dr.NakaMatsu’s old house - music, patterns and textures stimulate the brain, allow you to mix ideas in your head and create new inventions.

True! You seem to be quite interested in passing on your knowledge about how to become a genius. You even have a so called “Genius Academy” in your house. Could you quickly explain what that is?

Well, I’m doing many things here… I have 29 guest houses called “Dr. Nakamats Green Terrace” and there are 29 geniuses living here: computer geniuses, artistic geniuses… There is a waiting list of about 100 people who simply want to live here to get inspired by me and my inventions. Every month I give a lecture where I teach spirit, creativity and many other things. We also sing a song about the spirit of invention being LOVE.

Oh! I’ve heard the Dr.NakaMats song!
Drinks for thought, “Yummy Nutri Brain Foods”, exercise, singing songs or using your Cerebrex chair (which is supposed to improve the brain capability by increasing your blood circulation through electricity)… All these inventions should help you to get smarter. Special sound frequencies pulse from footrest to headrest, stimulating your blood circulation and increasing the synaptic activity in the brain. Apparently one hour in the Cerebrex chair refreshes the brain equally to eight hours of sleep. Dr. Nakamats takes a nap in it every day.

But is there anyone you consider close to becoming the next Dr. Nakamats? The next genius? Your sons maybe?

No. Invention is very difficult.

A friend of mine has seen some students wearing your flying shoes on a campus in the US and you wore them on stage yourself when House of Pain played “jump around” in Japan. What would you call your most successful invention? What product is used most by people?

All my inventions are a 100% success, because they are based on the philosophy of creativity and inventiveness.

Yoshiro 's flying shoes - PyonPyon flying shoes allow the wearer to leap into the air with minimal effort.

I made many things… sampling, too! Sampling is the basis of a synthesizer, so every musician is using my invention. Who is that blind musician again….

Stevie Wonder?

Yes, he came up to me and said “thank you for inventing this”.

Dr.NakaMatsu in the old days with his synthesizer

On our way to the Dr. Nakamats Lab, we noticed many little strange things around the house. One being the funny angle on the left side of the stairs. Encouraged by Dr. Nakamats I used them accordingly (half stepping on them while going up) and realized that this little trick really made my way up easier!

slight angle on the left side of the stairs makes walking up easier

This ‘first floppy disk reader ever made’ was built by Dr.NakaMatsu himself out of wood. He received a Japanese patent in 1952 for inventing magnetic and light sensors, the core of the floppy disk technology - 20 years before IBM.

one of the first floppy discs framed along with various awards in the Dr.NakaMats lab

Arriving in the lab, we felt like entering a museum of its own kind. All inventions could be seen as prototypes or final products: Cerebrex chairs, the first floppy disk reader ever made and Dr. Nakamats’ revolutionary golf putter.

Realizing this revolutionary golf putter took him 15 years. Dr.NakaMats invented it, because he was bad at golf. ‘Many leaders including George Bush, Maggie Thatcher and the Japanese prime minister are using this, too.’

a 5 times better score is promised with this putter, the unusual grip and different head are said to control direction and speed much better

What is this? Looks like a motor…

Yes, this is also an important invention. In the future all the cars will be running with this, called the Dr.Nakamats Nostradam vs Engine II. It can run with just water, so there is no pollution at all.

Dr.Nakamats Nostradam vs Engine II, which is fueled with water

Suddenly I look up and notice… What is this table doing there on the ceiling???

Oh, this is the table I used with my mother and father. I invented some things sitting at that table, which is why I put it in this room.

On the ceiling…

Yes.

I see! What are you actually currently working on?

Many things, but the latest invention is probably the Love Jet 200, the strongest of this series so far. If you spray this onto yourself, you can attract people and your skin will get better, too.

(All laugh)

Love Jet, a sex-aid spray which simply beats Viagra! By increasing the secretion of the androgen dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) it safely boosts your libido, improves your memory and minimizes aging of the skin. Love Jet brought in over $5 million in Japan sales in 1999, the year it was unveiled in the US. Dr.NakaMats hopes that this formula promotes more fertility among Japanese and increases the country’s birth-rate.

What is this wig with wheels doing on that table?

This is for a film called Dura deka (Police detective with a wig), which is currently screened at Cine Quint in Shibuya. I’m in the film, too and I invented this wig for it.

Well, it’s been a very inspiring tour! Is there anything else, any message from you to our readers?

My message is… the spirit of invention is LOVE.

Dr.NakaMats in his library surrounded by a cerebrex chair, flying shoes, honorary awards, revolutionary recording devices, a framed letter from former US president George Bush, Sr. and wigs on wheels…

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Dr. NakaMats Innovation Institute
Landic Akasaka No.2 Bldg. 10-9 2 chome
Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052, Japan
Phone:(03) 3585-8585 Fax:(03) 3589-5858
Email: info@Dr.NakaMats.com
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how was the Google Chrome logo built ??

Courtesy: http://ow.ly/gtqg

India invents a $30 Laptop

Indian government's Union Minister for human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal unveiled a low cost computing-cum-access device which will be priced at $35, and expects the price to gradually drop to $20 (and ultimately to $10!).

The device, scheduled to be available by 2011 is a single unit system with a touch screen and a built in key board along with a 2 GB RAM memory, wi-fi connectivity, USB port and powered by a 2-watt system to suit poor power supply areas. It is a 5/7/9 inch touchscreen gadget packed with internet browsers, PDF reader, video conferencing facilities, open office, sci-lab, media player, remote device management capability, multimedia input-output interface option, and multiple content viewer.

milestone for Facebook - half a billion users

A few of the big numbers www.Facebook.com deals with as of today:
* 500 million active users - which is about one person for every fourteen in the world.
* 100 billion hits per day
* 50 billion photos
* 2 trillion objects cached, with hundreds of millions of requests per second
* 130TB of logs every day

Google stops it's mega project "Wave"

Update on Google Wave

8/04/2010 02:00:00 PM

We have always pursued innovative projects because we want to drive breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users’ lives. Last year at Google I/O, when we launched our developer preview of Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser. We showed character-by-character live typing, and the ability to drag-and-drop files from the desktop, even “playback” the history of changes—all within a browser. Developers in the audience stood and cheered. Some even waved their laptops.

We were equally jazzed about Google Wave internally, even though we weren’t quite sure how users would respond to this radically different kind of communication. The use cases we’ve seen show the power of this technology: sharing images and other media in real time; improving spell-checking by understanding not just an individual word, but also the context of each word; and enabling third-party developers to build new tools like consumer gadgets for travel, or robots to check code.

But despite these wins, and numerous loyal fans, Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users can easily “liberate” their content from Wave.

Google Wave

Wave has taught us a lot, and we are proud of the team for the ways in which they have pushed the boundaries of computer science. We are excited about what they will develop next as we continue to create innovations with the potential to advance technology and the wider web.

3 Technicals Magics (read Blunders) of Microsoft products

MAGIC #1
An Indian found that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the Computer
which can be named as "CON". This is something funny and inexplicable. At
Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer why this happened!
TRY IT NOW, IT WILL NOT CREATE A "CON" FOLDER

MAGIC #2
For those of you using Windows, do the following:
1...) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.
Noticed the weird bug? No one can explain!

MAGIC #3
Again this is something funny and can't be explained. At Microsoft the
whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened!
It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out yourself.
Open Microsoft Word and type
=rand (200, 99)
And then press ENTER
And see the magic.

faadu interview Logical Aptitude puzzle questions here..... anyone there !!

Part 1:

1. You have to get from point A to point B. You don’t know if you can get there. What would you do?
2. Imagine you have a closet full of shirts. It’s very hard to find a shirt. So what can you do to organize your shirts for easy retrieval?
3. What method would you use to look up a word in a dictionary?
4. Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her own husband has. The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey this law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announce that at least one husband has been unfaithful. How many husbands get killed; if any; & in how many days ??
5. Mike has $20 more than Todd. How much does each have given that combined they have $21 between them. You can’t use fractions in the answer.
6. How do you cut a rectangular cake into two equal pieces when someone has already taken a rectangular piece from it? The removed piece an be any size or at any place in the cake. You are only allowed one straight cut.
7. How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
8. Two MIT math graduates bump into each other. They hadn’t seen each other in over 20 years.The first grad says to the second: “how have you been?” Second: “Great! I got married and I have three daughters now” First: “Really? how old are they?” Second: “Well, the product of their ages is 72, and the sum of their ages is the same as the number on that building over there..” First: “Right, ok.. oh wait.. I still don’t know” second: “Oh sorry, the oldest one just started to play the piano”First: “Wonderful! my oldest is the same age!” So, how old are the daughters?
9. What gives you joy?
10. Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night. Unfortunately, they only have one flashlight and it only has enough light left for seventeen minutes. The bridge is too dangerous to cross without a flashlight, and it’s only strong enough to support two people at any given time. Each of the campers walks at a different speed. One can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another in 2 minutes, the third in 5 minutes, and the slow poke takes 10 minutes to cross. How do the campers make it across in 17 minutes?
11. If the probability of observing a car in 30 minutes on a highway is 0.95, what is the probability of observing a car in 10 minutes (assuming constant default probability)?
12. In a country in which people only want boys, every family continues to have children until they have a boy. if they have a girl, they have another child. if they have a boy, they stop. what is the proportion of boys to girls in the country?
13. You have an empty room, and a group of people waiting outside the room. At each step, you may either get one person into the room, or get one out. Can you make subsequent steps, so that every possible combination of people is achieved exactly once?
14. You are at a party with a friend and 10 people are present including you and the friend. your friend makes you a wager that for every person you find that has the same birthday as you, you get $1; for every person he finds that does not have the same birthday as you, he gets $2. would you accept the wager?
15. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?
16. You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?
17. How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
18. How would you find out if a machine’s stack grows up or down in memory?
19. Explain a database in three words to your eight-year-old nephew.
20. You have five pirates, ranked from 5 to 1 in descending order. The top pirate has the right to propose how 100 gold coins should be divided among them. But the others get to vote on his plan, and if fewer than half agree with him, he gets killed. How should he allocate the gold in order to maximize his share but live to enjoy it?
21. In a country in which people only want boys, every family continues to have children until they have a boy. if they have a girl, they have another child. if they have a boy, they stop. what is the proportion of boys to girls in the country?

Part 2:
1)A king knows he's going to die and decides to leave all his wealth to the most intelligent of his three sons. So he tells them that he's going to put them through a test, and the first person to give the correct answer would get it all.

He tells his sons:

1. I'll seat the three of you in a room such that each person can see the other.

2. On each of your heads, I'll put a cap, the colour of which will be either blue or black...each person will be able to see the colour of the cap on the other two people, but will obviously not be able see the colour of the cap on his own head.

3. The moment someone sees 2 black caps and 2 black caps only, he raises his hand to give a signal.

4. You have to correctly work out the colour of the cap on your own head.

So saying, he seats them in the room and puts a blue cap on each one's head. Naturally, no one gives a signal because no one can see two black caps (each can see two blue caps on the others' heads obviously). However, after a couple of minutes, the most intelligent son correctly says that a blue cap is on his head and thus gets all the wealth.

Question: How does he work it out??

2)
A king is about to have a celebration tommorrow. The celebration is the most important party he has ever hosted. He has got 1000 bottles of wine for the celebration, but he has just got to know that one of them is poisoned.

The poison exhibits no symptoms until death. Death occurs within ten to twenty hours after consuming even the minutest amount of poison. The king has just 10 prisoners at his disposal (to sacrifice if need be) and just under 24 hours to determine which single bottle is poisoned. How does the king find the poisoned bottle by using just these 10 prisoners?

3)
A mad king tells his 100 wisest men he is about to line them up and place either a red or blue hat on each head. Once lined up, they must not communicate amongst themselves nor attempt to look behind them nor remove their own hat.

The king tells the wise men that they will be able to see all the hats in front of them. They will not be able to see the color of their own hat or the hats behind them, although they will be able to hear the answers from all those behind them.

The king will then start with the wise man in the back and ask "what color is your hat?" The wise man will only be allowed to answer "red" or "blue," nothing more. If the answer is incorrect then the wise man will be silently killed. If the answer is correct then the wise man may live but must remain absolutely silent.

The king will then move on to the next wise man and repeat the question.

Before they are lined up, the king makes it clear that if anyone breaks the rules then all the wise men will die. The king listens in while the wise men consult each other to make sure they don't devise a plan to communicate anything more than their guess of red or blue.

The wise men devise a method in which a maximum on only 1 wise man need be killed. What method do they use?

4)
1000 people are standing in a circle...the first person has a gun.he kills the person next to him and passes the gun to the third person. The third person kills the person next to him and hands over the gun to the fifth person. This continues until there is just one person left alive
who will be the last person left alive..??

5)A jail warden meets with 23 new prisoners when they arrive and tells them, "You may meet today and plan a strategy. But after today, you will be in isolated cells and will have no communication with one another."

"In the prison is a switch room, which contains two light switches labeled 1 and 2, each of which can be in either up or the down position. I am not telling you their present positions. The switches are currently not connected to anything."

"After today, from time to time, I will select one prisoner at random and escort him to the switch room. This prisoner will select one of the two switches and reverse its position. He must flip one switch when he visits the switch room, and may only flip one of the switches. Then he'll be led back to his cell."

"No one else will be allowed to alter the switches until I lead the next prisoner into the switch room. I'm going to choose prisoners at random. I may choose the same guy three times in a row, or I may jump around and come back. I will not touch the switches myself."

"Given enough time, everyone will eventually visit the switch room the same number of times as everyone else. At any time, anyone may declare to me, 'We have all visited the switch room.'"

"If it is true, then you will all be set free. If it is false, and somebody has not yet visited the switch room, you will all die horribly. You will be carefully monitored, and any attempt to break any of these rules will result in instant death to all of you"

What is the strategy they come up with so that they can be free?

***** mail me at CrazyEmperor.com@gmail.com for the answers *****

IF A THIEF FORCES YOU TO TAKE MONEY FROM THE ATM

IF A THIEF FORCES YOU TO TAKE MONEY FROM THE ATM, DO NOT ARGUE OR RESIST, YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW WHAT HE OR SHE MIGHT DOTO YOU.

WHAT YOU SHOULD DO IS TO PUNCH YOUR PIN IN THE REVERSE, I.E IF YOUR PIN IS 1254, YOU PUNCH 4521.

THE MOMENT YOU PUNCH IN THE REVERSE, THE MONEY WILL COME OUT BUT WILL BE STUCK INTO THE MACHINE HALF WAY OUT AND IT WILL ALERT THE POLICE WITHOUT THE NOTICE OF THE THIEF.

EVERY ATM HAS IT; IT IS SPECIALLY MADE TO SIGNIFY DANGER AND HELP.

airtel goes to Vodafone ??

type airtel.com in the internet explorer/ firefox

or

click here : airtel.com

or

type airtel in the internet explorer/ firefox
press ctrl+enter

Result : Vodafone site will be opened

LAMP / WAMP interview questions. Have Guts ?? Answer them !

1) what are practical uses of References in PHP ??

2) What is the best technique or tool that can migrate data residing in a MS SQL Server database or Oracle database to a MySQL databaase ??

3) how to count number of simultaneous users on a web page and how to restrict more than a particular number of users ??

4) "Safe Mode" been disabled in PHP 6. What disadvantages did it pose that Zend had to take such a step ??

5) What is difference between Server-side-Ajax-frameworks (like Sajax, Xajax) and Browser-side-Ajax-frameworks (like AjaxLib, SACK) ??

6) What is the advantage of compiling PHP with the optin "--disable-all" ??

7) Why are following PHP extensions called "Self Contained" : MySQL, LDAP, DBA, PCRE, GD, CURL ??

8) What is meant by saying : "Base PHP package depends only on XML parser" ??

9) Is XML compulsory in Ajax implementation ??

10) List all advantages that CURL has over fopen ??

11) which one is safer (or can be made safe) : GET or POST ??

12) What is the importance of Headers ??

step by step Guide to buy a Digital Camera

There are a few questions and factors to keep in mind when making the decision of which camera is best for you. I did this market-storming before I zeroed down to the camera I bought.

FOLLOW these steps strictly.
Move to next step only when you are done with the previous one:

Answer these:

1) What experience level do you have with cameras? - if you are new better go for a camera having least but best options.

2) Budget ?

3) Are you a professional photographer. If yes - you need a SLR. Else any point & shoot will do.

SLR Camera

After finalizing above look for the features that you would like to enjoy:

0) What conditions will you be largely photographing in? (indoors, outdoors, low light, bright light) - See for the ISO value of camera which should be between 16000 to 32000 for low lights photography

1) Optical zoom - 2x to 10x - (Digital Zoom usually is good) - Try to get a Automatic Zooming instead of Mechanical Zooming; provided in Flaunt-&pocket ones; if you are not a professional photographer. What type of photography will you be doing? (portraits, landscapes, macro, sports, marriages) - choose a better zoom accordingly.

2) image stabilization

3) LCD display size - 2.5 inches normally will do

4) size of camera you can bear - i.e. portability option ?

5) megapixel ? - the upper end of the range it can actually be a disadvantage to have images that are so large that they take up enormous amounts of space on memory cards and computers. One of the main questions to ask when it comes to megapixels is ‘Will you be printing shots’? If so - how large will you be going with them? If you’re only printing images at a normal size then anything over 4 or so megapixels will be fine. If you’re going to start blowing your images up you might want to pay the extra money for something at the upper end of what’s on offer today.

Some retailers will bundle such extras with cameras or will at least give a discount when buying more than one item at once - Make a list what you need:

6) Camera Case

7) Memory Cards - 2GB - more needed if more-megapixel photos you trying to store as more more-megapixel photo take more space.

8) Spare Batteries - **Battery Tips: Camera's battery will drain faster with more features you have and with more in-camera-editing-capabilities you have built in the camera. Larger LCD size drains more battery.

9) Recharger

10) Lenses (if you are getting a DSLR)

11) Filters (and other lens attachments)

12) Tripods/Monopods

13) External Flashes

14) Reflectors

15) Extra Flash / Auxiliary Lights

16) Wi-Fi support

17) Red Eye correction - automatic

18) Bluetooth support

19) in-camera-editing-capabilities

20) Do you already own any potentially compatible gear? - Talking of extra gear - one way to save yourself some cash is if you have accessories from previous digital cameras that are compatible with your new one. For example memory cards, batteries, lenses (remember that many film camera lenses are actually compatible with digital SLRs from the same manufacturers), flashes, filters etc.

Point and Shoot Camera

ADDITIONAL Tips -
Keep these in mind and move to next step then ->

**Give extra consideration to a camera with a good selection of software: Look for useful packages such as Adobe Photoshop Elements, Ulead PhotoImpact, and Corel Snapfire for editing images, as well as applications for organizing and sharing them.

**Don't base your decision on video capability: Though any still camera's ability to take moving pictures is limited, some are getting better at it. Nevertheless, if you want to shoot video, we recommend that you invest in a camcorder dedicated to the job.

**Consider investing in a memory card reader or a camera dock: A memory card reader acts like an external hard drive attached to your PC or laptop, allowing you to download pictures directly from your camera's storage media. Many newer laptops have one or more memory card slots built in, as do some inkjet printers. If you have a second memory card, you can keep shooting while the images download, rather than having to keep the camera hooked up to your PC. Alternatively, some cameras come with a dock or offer one as an option, and some of these docks offer a dedicated button for uploading all of your new photos on a memory card. A dock also charges the camera's battery.

Next step:

1) Do a little research - ask friends/relatives.

2) Don’t JUST rely upon the advice of the helpful sales person (who may or may not know anything about cameras and who may or may not have sales incentives for the camera they are recommending).

3) Read some reviews in digital camera magazines

4) Search Internet for online reviews to help you narrow down the field.

5) always check for reviews at more than 1 shop

NOW:

Once you’ve narrowed down your search to a handful of cameras head into your local digital camera shop and ask to see and play with them. There’s nothing like having the camera in your hands to work out whether it suits your needs. Here you check these trivial points with most importance:

1) How handy is the camera - Does it fits your hand properly without slipping ?

2) Responsiveness of camera - After pressing button how much time will it take to produce the image?

3) How much time do you need to wait before taking next image ?

4) How easy are the commands, menus to understand ?

5) How handy are the buttons of camera ?

Finally - After you’ve selected the right digital camera for you it’s time to find the best price:

1) start online and do some searches to find the most competitive prices on the models you are interested in.

2) With these in hand you are in a good position to be able to negotiate in person with local stores and/or with online stores.

3) Generally find that retail stores will negotiate on price and will often throw in freebies. Online stores are more difficult - most bigger ones don’t give you the ability to negotiate but smaller ones often will if you email them.

4) Don’t forget to ask for free or discounted bonuses including camera cases, memory cards, extra batteries, filters, free prints, cases etc. I even know of a couple of stores that offer camera lessons that you can ask to be included. Some stores will also consider giving you a trade in on older gear.

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Biggest Scientific experiment ever conducted on earth

Mark your calendars:
at 1:30 a.m. CDT; Wednesday, Sept. 10,
when the world's largest scientific instrument
is scheduled to begin operation.

That's when scientists will flip the switch on the world's most powerful particle accelerator in an attempt to begin answering some of the oldest scientific quandaries. Large Hadron Collider, and its purpose is simple but ambitious: to crack the code of the physical world; to figure out what the universe is made of; in other words, to get to the very bottom of things.

If the experiment is successful, the Large Hadron Collider can provide insights into fundamental questions, such as whether the universe has more than three dimensions, what it was originally made of and why most of its mass is hidden. It will uncover the most mysterious particle in Universe "The Higgs-Boson" or popularly known as "The God Particle".

James Pilcher is among six University of Chicago faculty members and more than a dozen research scientists and students, both graduate and undergraduate, who have contributed to the design and construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. "This year, more than 11 of us will be in residence full-time at CERN, and the rest will be in Chicago," said Pilcher, Professor in Physics.

Along with Indiana University, the University of Chicago also houses a computing center that will support LHC data analysis for various Midwestern institutions.

Pilcher

Physicists at Chicago and elsewhere built the particle detector for the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) experiment at LHC, with the search for the Higgs boson and supersymmetry in mind.

Theoretically speaking, the long-sought Higgs boson is the particle that endows all objects in the universe with mass. Evidence of supersymmetric particles, meanwhile, could provide an understanding of the dark matter, which makes up about a quarter of the mass of the universe. GENEVA has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe — or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday.

Whatever the case, the most powerful atom smasher ever built is set to be started up for testing Wednesday in Switzerland, an event eagerly anticipated by scientists worldwide. The multibillion-dollar Large Hadron Collider will come ever closer to re-enacting the big bang, the theory that a colossal explosion produced the universe.

The machine at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, promises scientists a closer look at the makeup of matter, filling in gaps in knowledge or possibly reshaping theories. The first beams of protons will be fired around the 17-mile tunnel to test the controlling strength of the world's largest superconducting magnets. It will still be about a month before beams traveling in opposite directions are brought together in collisions that some skeptics fear could create micro "black holes" and endanger the planet.

The project has attracted researchers of 80 nationalities, some 1,200 of them from the United States, which contributed $531 million of the project's price tag of nearly $4 billion. The CERN collider is designed to push a proton beam close to the speed of light, whizzing 11,000 times a second around the tunnel 150 to 500 feet under the bucolic countryside on the French-Swiss border.

Once the beam is successfully fired counterclockwise, a clockwise test will follow. Then the scientists will aim the beams at each other so that protons collide, shattering into fragments and releasing energy under the gaze of detectors filling cathedral-sized caverns at points along the tunnel.

CERN dismisses the risk of micro black holes, subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars. But the skeptics have filed suit in U.S. District Court in Hawaii and in the European Court of Human Rights to stop the project. They unsuccessfully mounted a similar action in 1999 to block the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York state.

Meanwhile, scientists have found innovative ways to explain the concept in layman's terms. The team working on one of the four major installations in the tunnel — the ALICE, or "A Large Ion Collider Experiment" — produced a comic book featuring Carlo the physicist and a girl called Alice to explain the machine's investigation of matter a split second after the big bang.

Shown above in the picture is a view of the LHC (large hadron collider) in its tunnel at CERN (European particle physics laboratory) near Geneva, Switzerland. One huge scientific experiment being launched Wednesday is described as an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe, or dangerous tampering with Nature that could spell Doomsday for the Earth.