Latest Stuff: Globally & Locally

I've been blogging after a long time, was involved in a lot of things from the past few days.

There has been a lot of interesting stuff going around, innovations happening, startups opening (Locally & Globally) which i have'nt written about. Writing some of them together in this post.. :P

1. eBook Reader comes to India

Recently Sony brought its eBook reader in India followed by Amazon Kindle started shipping to India. I think this eBook reader with its latest eInk technology has a long way to go & will be the next big gadget to look out for. It has revolutionized the way people read books & have changed the way of reading which has been the same since books were invented. After seeing all the eBook readers by Sony, Amazon, Samsung the latest entrant is the nook, which is the best out of all.

See this vid of nook & u'll find it why.

2. TED finally comes to India

TED has organized their first event in India in Mysore at Infy campus. For those of you who don't know what TED is, TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design but believe me its far more than that. I was seeing it live at ted.indiatimes.com.

I would recommend you subscribe to their youtube channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

From all the talks the best one was by Pranav Mistry founder of Sixth Sense. He demonstrated his technology live which left the audience shocked & excited.

Sixth Sense uses a camera and gesture recognition technology to turn any surface into a screen and to use your fingures to interact between the real and the virtual world.

3. PhokatCopy

This is a new startup into the Indian advertising space. As the ROI of traditional advertising mediums are decreasing with time, new innovative mediums are catching up like this one. They advertise on the back pages of photostat pages in colleges. I always found this idea being implemented in US, Japan interesting but now its in India giving it an Indian touch. Very well implemented and they have got a few advertisers on board as well like FastTrack, Nirula's etc.

The most amazing part in this company is its its unique name which they have also registered as a Trademark. Good Going !!!