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Can science help us live forever?

one part machine and add some nanoshells, who knows how long could you live? Some experts say forever.

Medicines designed to work against those genetic diseases, resembling your unique genetic traits, targeting perfectly and precisely what ails you. Tumor and cancer cell busters when they are not even big enough to detect and intelligent chips in your brain that replace neurons ravaged by Alzheimer’s.

With the current rate of advancement in science and technology, these kind of therapeutic measures doesn’t seem a distant dream. This does means better health and subsequently, longer lives. But how long? Some longevity expert set the goal at 90 while some other at 120 to an expected 150 in some cases.

Longest living woman verified, Jeanne Calment, who passed away in 1997, lived upto the age of 122. Calment is believed to have possessed rare genetic traits which has triggered scientists to race towards the genetic fountain of youth. As they toil in their labs at their computers, each of them must grapple with yet another tricky question: Should we regard aging-which is really gradual damage to all the body’s cells- as a disease or a neutral part of life cycle?

Here is a look at the breakthroughs coming our way, and the dilemmas they may present.

Rewiring Brains:

What good is a long life if you can’t remember where, or even who are you? Scientists are working on chips that could act just as a hard-drive on your computer. By 2020, brain rewiring could beat Alzheimer’s disease and other diseases. Craig Venter, a neuro-scientist believes we will soon be our own gene managers.

Brain chips aren’t as fantastical as you might think. Activa, a gadget that stimulates sections of brain to suppress the symptoms of Parkinton’s disease and other motor disorders has already been implanted in about 30,000 brains.

Nanoshells:

Jennifer West, researches on cancer cures that employ nanoshells that are one-thousand of the size of human blood cells. In future, someday a doctor could inject the nanoshells into a patient’s bloodstream which while destroying cancer and tumor cells, does not penetrate healthy tissue. Better understanding of human genome could also lead to other cures.

So what will you die off?

So if medical breakthroughs eliminate heart disease, strokes and cancer, what will people die off?

It will be the beginning on the rare trend- Die on the spot.

New Facebook Layout explained

a yet another innovative new layout. While many aren’t pleased with the new user interface, some others feel that its going to help them build up their business as this interface would help their content reach out to the maximum.

The new timeline inspired layout may not seem much aspiring, but this post may change the way you look at it.

According to Facebook, the redesign of the Facebook Page Timeline layout is intended to help admins“find the tools they use most”,which can be seen as great step from the social networking giant. Though I would have liked them to redesign it to the interest of the readers.

The facebook layout in 2008

 

By now, you would have got an idea that the new Facebook layout has been optimized for the benefit of facebook pages, page owners and even visitors while ignoring the interest of random users. It’s not exactly so as the timeline view of help a reader navigate easily instead of jumping over to left and right like before. 

The news feed, where a user spends most of his time, is also getting a face-lift. The main feed stream is still located in the middle, but has been narrowed a bit in-order to provide more space to the left and right columns that provide the users a faster and accurate update to their activities. Thus Facebook has taken over a new four column layout. Believe it or not, this helps the users easily navigate through while keeping an eye on the related information as well.

The new facebook layout

The new layout isn’t much attractive or interactive but it does serve random users in a better manner than before. It’s a path toward being simpler, uniform, and similar no matter what device or location you are on.The facebook home page however remains untouched. Here are the major changes brought about by Facebook- 

1) The left column hasn’t undergone much of a change. It displays all the information that relates to the user- facebook apps, pages, groups etc. The main middle column shows the news feed. Next to it, lies a column divided into two. The top half of it shows the “trending now”, a kind of international news while the bottom half is dedicated to advertisements. The last column is the chat box displaying friends who are online and the activities of your friends and the people you follow.

2)  The news feed has been re-innovated. Each “news” is displayed as a separate block and thus each news can be differentiated individually by the user. The beloved “like” button has also undergone a transformation.

The new like button

3) Another addition is the new “smart URL” feature along with “smart tag”. The smart tag feature allows you to tag pages in your posts without adding the “@” or “#”. You got to try it out. The smart URL feature displays short information regarding the webpage and keeps away spam.

Verdict:  ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’ seems to be the perfect fit here. And this is just my opinion about the new Facebook interface, what do you guys think? 

If you have any doubt regarding the new page layout go here

Inexpensive knock-offs of high end smartphones.

Afford a GALAXY S4, HTC ONE and an iPHONE 5.

The Smartphone market leaders, be it HTC, Samsung or Apple are renowned for their beaming performance, sturdy build and speedy mechanism. But this doesn’t stop them from flaunting their design and looks. While the fortunate ones have it in their pockets, others just dream of it. What if I tell you that you can afford the beauty and the looks of these otherwise expensive gadgets?

There may be a lot many reasons why you should take a peep into the next big things mentioned below. One, you can fool your friends into believing that you indeed own one of these. Two- you are attracted by the looks and interface of these phones and got to do nothing with their performance.

Chinese knock-offs of super-successful gadgets are nothing new. These often look similar and sometimes, operate too enough to fool an unsuspecting buyer into buying a replica instead of the genuine one. Here is a list of some of the interesting but hilarious knock-offs.

HDC GALAXY S4

You read it right. While the Samsung S4 might burn a hole in your pocket, this one would easily fool your friends. This handset looks more or less identical to Samsung Galaxy S4, even the interface hasn’t been spared. The touchwiz UI has been painstakingly recreated but lacks many features.

The HDC is powered by a Mediatek MTK MT6589 quad-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz and runs on Android 4.2 JB. The display has a resolution of 1280 X 720 pixels with 293ppi density. It is available online priced at $199 if you wish to get your hands on it.

GOOPHONE i5

The iPHONE 5 has become quite a status symbol but unfortunately, is a bit out of reach of most people. Fret not, Goophone is here to save your day.

Don’t get fussed by its name, the Goophone looks exactly as the iPHONE 5, even down to its button placement and 4 inch display. A geeky friend might just catch you, thanks to the key differences between the Goophone and Apple’s current flagship.

Surprising absolutely none, the Goophone runs on Android 4.0 ICS. The resolution is only 960 X 540 pixels, nowhere near the iPHONE 5’s retina display with 275ppi pixel density. A lot of time, however has been spent on modifying the software to make it look as much as the iOS. All the stock apps, including the photo gallery and camera app has been themed to look like iOS. Its not just that, even the essential back button of Android has been hidden behind a long press on the home button.

Place the two side by side, and I am sure it will be hard to tell them apart unless you know what to look for. The Goophone has been priced at $199.

HDC ONE

The aluminium based unibody design of the HTC one might just be out of your reach due to its price. However, we have got you a cover- the HDC ONE. The user interface looks exactly like the Google play edition of HTC ONE.

The hardware however, is a far cry from that of the actual one. The HDC seems to be woefully underpowered starting from its display resolution of 1280 X 800 pixels as opposed to the original’s full HD display of 1080p and is powered by a Mediatek MTK MT6589 quad-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz. It runs however on Android 4.2 JB.

At $219, this might be steal when you consider the fact that it has an aluminium body.