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Arduino

Science | 20 May, 2012 | No Comments | 28 mins

This documentary interviews the innovating and ground-breaking beginning of the designers behind the movement of Arduino, a small, open-source hardware microcontroller platform, and touches upon how it will influence students, engineers, and garage tinkerers alike.

William Gurstelle explains that The Arduino, a type of open source hardware, is easily understandable and fairly straightforward to use: a[...]

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Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary

Science | 11 May, 2012 | 32 Comments | 121 mins

The early years of microcomputers were characterized by restricted sound, uncomplicated graphics and tiny amounts of computing power; quite unlike the loud, fast, life-like action that are the trademarks of the modern games on our computers. We have really come of age with Quake, Half-life and Halo!

An entire industry grew manifolds over telling fantastic stories,[...]

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Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet

Science | 06 May, 2012 | No Comments | 58 mins

Mark Stephens under the pseudonym Robert X. Cringely, wrote and hosted Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (1998), a three-hour documentary film, as a sequel to Triumph of The Nerds, Nerds 2.0.1.

This film produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting for PBS chronicles the development of ARPANET, the Internet, the World Wide Web and the[...]

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The Virtual Revolution

Science | 06 May, 2012 | No Comments | 240 mins

In this documentary Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at how 20 years after the invention of the World Wide Web, every aspect of our lives is being influenced.

The web’s biggest names – including the founders of Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, and the web’s inventor have joined her to explore how far the web has[...]

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Are We Still Evolving?

Science | 03 May, 2012 | No Comments | 5 mins

Dr Alice Roberts asks one of the great questions of our species: Are we still evolving? There is no doubt that we are a product of millions of years of evolution. But thanks to modern technology and medicine, we miss Darwin's law of survival of the fittest? Alice follows a trail of clues to ancient human bones,[...]

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Earth Story

Science | 30 Apr, 2012 | 8 Comments | 10 mins

Earth story unties the secrets of our planet and brings a real like experience. Technology overcame the limitation of camera, the latest animation techniques were used which brought a life like experience of the scientific discovery and a comprehensive history of life and of the planet. This documentary series was made in a span of 3[...]

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Gearing Up

Science | 23 Apr, 2012 | No Comments | 60 mins

Gearing Up is a story about 4 teams of high school students who participated in a Robotics competition. The drama and the nervous excitement that builds up as the Robotics national Competition nears is captured in this documentary.

Identical robot kits are provided to each team sans any instruction and are given six weeks to build[...]

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Modern Marvels: Surveillance Technology

Science | 21 Apr, 2012 | No Comments | 44 mins

This documentary takes us through the mind blowing history and future of Surveillance Technology and explores how it can be the most significant and terrifying equipment of all times, compromising every individual’s privacy without they ever being aware of it!

Parabolic microphones, advanced cameras, Radar-Vision and Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have made their way into the[...]

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Tunneling under the Alps

Science | 19 Apr, 2012 | No Comments | 50 mins

The Alp Transit Tunnel was the obvious answer to the woes of European merchants and truckers who are deterred by the roadblock the majestic Alps present to them, while the rest of the world wonder about in awe about its magnificence oblivious to the woes of others!

The Alps transit Tunnel will extend to over 56[...]

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Nano: The Next Dimension

Science | 16 Apr, 2012 | 44 Comments | 27 mins

The research community and industry face a dreadful challenge from nanosciences and nanotechnologies. Overcoming these challenges requires a world-class infrastructure, new fundamental knowledge, novel equipment for characterization and manufacturing, multi-disciplinary education and training for innovative and creative engineering apart from a highly responsible attitude to societal demands.

This documentary film provides a quick look at some[...]

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Web 3.0

Science | 01 Apr, 2012 | No Comments | 14 mins

This is a short story about the Semantic Web. It is widely believed by many internet experts that Web 3.0 – the next generation of the Web might be enabled to extract meaning out of complex statements making searches more easy and user friendly. For example, on typing “I want to see a funny movie[...]

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Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

History | 27 Mar, 2012 | 27 Comments | 1 mins

This documentary fascinating but academically presented uses recently declassified military documents and scenes never seen by the public to provide a detailed chronicle of the history of the atomic bomb. The film was made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The creation of technology and the Cold War that followed[...]

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World Island Wonder

Science | 24 Mar, 2012 | 1 Comment | 50 mins

Dubai, which was once considered a desert landscape, is metamorphosing into a hugely popular tourist destination given that it is the most daring reclaimed land project that has been undertaken till date. 300 new islands have emerged on the Arabian Gulf and size of these is so huge that they can be viewed from space!

This[...]

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Great Planes: Boeing 747 and 777

Aviation | 24 Mar, 2012 | No Comments | 53 mins

GREAT PLANES appraises The Boeing 747 – an aviation marvel that stirred the uprising in the passenger air transport segment. This documentary provides us with never before seen footage of the evolution of the classic 747 models, while giving us insights on Jet-airline technology, creation of the world’s first jumbo jet and opening our minds to[...]

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Human v2.0

Science | 23 Mar, 2012 | No Comments | 48 mins

Human v2.0 is a new type of human, which scientists claim to be creating very soon. And it is foretold that this would be a consequence of computer intelligence equaling the immense power of the human brain by 2029.

An invention of this kind is surely expected to revolutionize humanity, hypothetically making it possible for us[...]

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A Machine to Die For: The Quest for Free Energy

Science | 22 Mar, 2012 | 66 Comments | 55 mins

While conventional Science asserts that an engine that can power itself is impossible to make, generations of inventors have been fascinated by the idea.

Machine to Die for is about the search for Perpetual motion and ‘free energy’. One of the reasons behind the spur in the interest in it apart from pollution issues is the[...]

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The Machine That Made Us

Science | 22 Mar, 2012 | No Comments | 8 mins

Stephen Fry scrutinizes the story behind the making of the first media entrepreneur, Johann Gutenberg, who is also the inventor of the Printing press, in this documentary titled The Machine That Made Us.

Fry undertakes to find out how and why did Gutenberg do it and involves historical as well as practical references. To find out[...]

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