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It’s high time we utilized processor heat loss to heat coffee

Shubhodeep Das — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:47:22 +0000

Imagine this.

You have a server room in your multi-million dollar corporation that is generating so much heat that you have to use 5 tonnes of air-conditioning to just keep it stable, and probably another 1 tonne more to make it perform well. You do have the other option to put it up in Alaska but that might not be such a great idea for the admin guy.

And then you have a few hundred employees drinking coffee, tea and other hot beverages in another room and heating that up using microwave, heating coil, cooking gas and various other things.

It’s probably time that the heat from these machines can be tapped and sent to heat up the food that’s being eaten by people who drive these machines.

The Server Equation

Just a thought.

An Eco friendly Washing Machine

Shubhodeep Das — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:37:04 +0000

For a long time I have had this thought in mind. Why can’t washing machines have 2 water inlets, separate for Hot and Cold since so many users now have Solar Heaters at home.

How it would help:

Reduction in energy costs when heated wash is used.
Most washing soaps are designed to work in room temperature, and this would allow the machine to manipulate and chose a water temperature.
Definitely green.

For the sake of redundancy, the heater part should remain. After all, we do not really get the sun shining all the time.

Dual input for a washing machine to save energy.

I would have loved if my Mobile and TV did this

Shubhodeep Das — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:09:05 +0000

I have an internet enabled phone, which I use primarily to talk (90%), text (8%), click images of vague animals and impromptu kid actions (2%). I did try using it to receive my emails, at least read through them or reply back but the lack of screen space is just a killer.

That’s how this thought came up.

What if the Mobile and the TV could talk. Which means I use the mobile to type and navigate while the TV did the display part. I would not mind a 640×480 display on the HD screen, but it would be larger, take less time, and much more user friendly just by the sheer size of it.

Mobile 2 TV display transfer

Unification of the Gadgetification of Life

Shubhodeep Das — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:04:30 +0000

Interconnectivity

This is needed in the very near future. Devices would be categorized as Handheld, Storage, Display, Input, Output, Network apart from all others that may be there in the Kitchen. Let’s just leave them for now for the sake of ease (that’s my ease). Diagram displays the possible interconnectivity and overlap.

Overlaps

The problem comes when there are innumerable redundancies. For instance: a cell phone can be used to control a television, home theater and others thus reducing a remote. Music can be streamed to portable devices for the larger part, thus reducing the need for large data drives on them. Movies can be viewed directly on the TV screen on demand, instead of crouching in front of a Laptop to get the latest from Youtube, and all this has to get simple.

Not right now, but very soon.

concept Grid with Tablets

Shubhodeep Das — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:37:05 +0000

Carrying forward from my earlier post here, we can create Tablets that not only help in personal computing and handheld computing, but also extend visually and physically. Something thats a physical Grid as well as a computing Grid.

Tablets in Grid mode. One gets 10 screen space (assuming that the screen borders are minimal) and 5 processors.

The idea maybe a little over the top, but things should aim at heading this way.