Name of the Months

The names of the months in English came from Latin words.

January Januarius – this month was dedicated to janus. The roman god of doors. Janus had two faces, one looking back at the old year and the other looking to the new year.	July Julius – after Julius Caesar. This month was named in caeser’s honour by markantony in 44 BC. Previously this month was called Quintilis from the word quintus, five, as it was the fifth month in the roman calendar.
February Februarius - Februa was the roman purification festival, which took place at this time of year.	August Augustus – named in 8 BC in honour of Emperor Augustus.
March Martius - from mars, The roman god of war	September Septem – means seven, as it was the seventh month in the roman calendar.
April Aprilis – from aperire, latin for open, because plants begin to open during this month.	October Octo – eight (as in octopus, which has eight legs) the eighth month of the roman calendar.
May Malius – probably comes from mala, the roman goddess of growth and increase.	November Novem – nine,the ninth month of the roman calendar.
June Junius – either from a roman family name junius, or perhaps after the goddess juno.	December Decem – ten, the tenth month of the roman calendar

Number 13

 The belief that no. 13 is unlucky comes from time immemorial. The Romans believed that no 13 was a symbol of death and destruction. The Norse people who lived in ancient medieval Scandinavia or modern Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, andDenmark believed that the 13^th guest at a feast is a spirit of evil. The Christian belief that the no 13 brings bad luck comes from the painting the “Last supper”(Leonardo da Vinci), when Christ sat down with his 12 disciples-making 13 people, the day before he was crucified.

It is also believed that the first person to leave a dinner table at which there are 13 dinners will die before the end of the year. The popularities of these believes in Italy can be seen as Paris has no building that bears the no. 13. Also Italy omits the no 13 from its national lottery.

Some instances that suggest that 13 is in fact an unlucky number are as follows-

• The 13^th Apollo space mission was known as Apollo 13. On 13 April 1917 there was a explosion on board and the space craft began to leak oxygen. This happened 2 days after it took off at 13:13 Hr. the spacecraft only just made it to back to earth.
• On Friday 13 September 1928, a hurricane killed 2000 people in Puerto Rico, Florida and the Virgin Islands and caused approximately $25 million worth of damage.
• The 13 of the month costs the usa about $ 1 billion a year through cancellations on trains and plane, absenteeism from work and reduced business activities.

Planets visited by Aircrafts

No human has yet set foot on any space body other than earth and the moon. But unmanned spacecrafts have taken photographs, made scientific readings, and gathered data either by flying past or landing. Pluto is scheduled for its first visit in 2015.

Astronomers have never seen this side of Mercury until now. The image was taken from a Nasa spacecraft 125 miles away

Where does the history of IT begin?

Well, the answer of this question, "one must first understand the basic concept of information technology as a whole".In its most basic form, information technology's aims is to help communication between computers and users. This form of technology can be completed via input, processing, output, and various other communication types. Essentially, the history of IT can be split into four periods:

(1)premechanical

(2) mechanical

(3)electromechanical

(4)electronic

Before we delve into each category, remember that the key word here is "communication."

Prior to any form of mechanics, the very first humans sought to communicate through very simplistic sketches that we now call "petroglyths." For the most part, these drawings were in the form of pictures, and often they depicted daily life. Around the year 3100 B.C. the Sumerians came up with the cuneiform language, and this became the very first type of written language. After the Sumerians, along came the Egyptians with their papyrus plants, and they took communication to a whole new level when they began to use a form of the modern pen with papyrus as a type of paper.

Now, let's skip ahead to the Mechanical Age (1450-1840). Johann Gutenberg invented the first sort of movable metal-type in 1450. After this machine was invented, books began to pop up and the concept of a computer was born. Once this was conceived, there was no stopping civilization and around the end of the 18th century, telecommunication really began to grow stronger. Beginning with the Voltaic Battery and ending with the telephone and the radio, communication was really on a role. Once the computer was invented (many years later), the history of IT took an entirely different sort of path.

The flow of information has changed the way of our living in today world. Into thye other words we can say that "Information is the backbone of every system".
Every morning when we read a newspaper having out so much information we came to know the latest happening in the world , yeah you are right even the internet edition also. This is just a very basic example of IT in our daily life.
All our Railways, Air and even sea travelling networks are connected with the help of IT. The information about these thing we can get into very short time. Even if we have do not have information for one minute it may result into a big disaster.We can take the example of banking. It is very to transact any amount of money from part of the world to other with help of e-commerce. We can purchase anything
online with help of debit and credit cards. This has made our lives more and more simple.Now days if we want to buy to something and are not getting it nearby store then we can simply search for that thing on internet and then order it on the internet. We will get it delivered at our doorstep with just few clicks of mouse.IT is very good friend of human at present time.
Similarly if we want to travel around the world we can book airline tickets online and even book rooms into five star hotels.
People are working on the internet without really having to go outside to their workplace.IT has changed the whole scenario. IT Companies can share there technologies onlineEven the doctors can guide the other doctors while operating on a patient with the help of Information Technology.
A whole new world is coming in front of us by the IT.
Today, almost everyone has some sort of involvement with a computer, though those people who work in this field they can often work many different jobs. Humans have always found a way to effectively communicate (as we have seen), which makes this type of technology one of the oldest trades on the face of the earth.

Take a Look at the World's Largest Solar Thermal Farm

When completed in late 2013, the $2.2 billion Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System will power 140,000 California homes.

The Mojave Desert is blooming. Construction crews are erecting mirrors —each measuring 70 square feet—at a rate of 500 per day across some 3,500 acres. When completed in late 2013, the $2.2 billion Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System—the largest of its type in the world—will power 140,000 California homes.

Unlike photovoltaic technology, which converts solar radiation directly into electricity, the Ivanpah facility generates heat. More than 170,000 mirrors will gather tremendous amounts of sunlight and focus it on three towers filled with water, raising temperatures to more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit and producing steam that spins turbines that generate electricity. The Oakland-based company BrightSource Energy, which is overseeing construction by the Bechtel corporation, says that using sunlight instead of fossil fuels to power the turbines will reduce carbon emissions by more than 400,000 tons annually. The desert region—thanks to its elevation and clear, dry air—receives reliable sunlight 330 to 350 days per year.

Not everyone thinks the solar plant represents a brighter future. Environmentalists warn that the construction threatens the desert ecosystem, while the heated plumes of air from the towers could singe migrating birds.

But more than 75 percent of Californians say they support using desert lands for renewable energy production. And come next year, when Ivanpah flips the on switch, it will nearly double the amount of solar thermal energy produced in the United States.

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Playing Angry Birds using with the Tobii X120 Eye Tracker

  

Demo of Hand Free 3D Angry Birds game prototype: This game uses the Tobii X120 Eye Tracker to control the bird and blink detection to launch the bird from the slingshot.

Sony continues by stating that the gesture sensor may be a standard or 3-D video camera. It will be appreciated that multiple cameras and/or depth may be used to determine the user's gestures. Sony states that "In one particular embodiment, the gesture sensor is the Kinect device or a similar Kinect-like device," which is why Sony listed the Tobii products that we linked to above. In February we noted in one of our reports that Microsoft was in talks with Sony to license Kinect.

Turning Your Hand Into a Remote Control

Digits takes motion control to a new level. Photo courtesy of Microsoft Research

Yes, Microsoft rolled out Windows 8 yesterday and yes, it’s the company’s biggest high-stakes launch in a long time and yes, it’s its first real plunge into the world of tablets and smart phones. Plenty of others are already covering that ground. I’d rather talk about a little device Microsoft unveiled earlier this month, something far lower on the hoopla scale.

It’s called Digits and it’s one special bracelet. But this is not some flashy bangle that dangles; this is a wrist sensor capable of turning your hand into a control unit.

Created by a team of Microsoft researchers in Great Britain, Digits uses sensors and an infrared camera to put a little Kinect device on your wrist. But the key is that it’s not tethered to a game system, plus it’s focused entirely on your hand and anything you do with it.

Motion slickness

Digits is the latest thing in motion control, tech that creates a 3D model of your hand in real time, allowing you to point to items or content on a screen rather than moving a cursor around with a mouse. Or it could, as some think, evolve into the device that ultimately replaces the TV remote.

As David Kim, one of its inventors, explains: “People can interact while moving from room to room or running down the street. This finally takes 3D interaction outside the living room.”

Now you may ask, “What are you going to do with a wrist-mounted sensor when you’re running down the street?” This is a good question. Not sure if even anyone at Microsoft could give you a good answer. The point is that this is a device that goes with you, a virtual controller that one day could allow you to interact with any number of screens–whether it’s to control a TV or dial phone numbers or play video games.

For now, it’s a clunky thing--Steve Jobs would never have permitted the public even a glimpse of something so devoid of sleekness. But Digits is much more about function than form. It’s still a prototype, one whose focus is more about working well than looking good. Eventually, though, Microsoft hopes to be able to scale it down to something that looks and feels more like a watch.

And maybe then we’ll be able to take the bold step of losing the TV remote with forethought, and perhaps a little malice.