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| Peddling
a two-wheeled dream |
| A Bengali inventor is trying to hawk
his design for a personal mobility vehicle for the common man, report Subrata
Mukherjee and Anirban Das Mahapatra |
| Meet Anadish Pal, a self-taught
electronics designer who used to do freelance projects for companies such as Maruti
Udyog, Honda, the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped, Dehradun, and
Duracell (now a part of Gillette India) — and now has turned his attention
to inventions. He has several US patents in his name, the most significant of
them being his design for a personal mobility vehicle (PMV) for the common man.
The two-wheeled vehicle is ready to go to the prototype development stage and
Pal has been trying to get companies interested in it ... | Read.. |
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| Coming, mobile shopping |
| Imagine going to a multiplex
and deciding what movie to go for by simply downloading the video trailer instantaneously
on your mobile phone and purcha ... | Read.. |
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| The
ipod killer |
As soon as they had the call from Microsoft’s headquarters in Washington
state, the record company executives knew something huge was about to happen.
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| Bite
of death |
Every year, almost 30,000 people die of rabies in India, according to the World
Health Organisation (WHO). Exact numbers are unavailable because the disease is
not categorised as a notifiable disease by the government, and hence it is not
mandatory t ... | Read.. |
| The
scalpel, to cut flab |
 A
drastic operation is the last resort to treating morbid obesity, reports Shabina
Akhtar ... | Read.. |
| Your
Health: Sweating it out
is really healthy |
 I
am a 21-year-old girl and skinny. I am very particular about my diet and eat only
healthy and nutritious food ... | Read.. |
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| Solar
scars |
Not every woman finds premature baldness a turn off. One of our readers has been happily married to a man for 44 years who was already going bald in the sixth-form. Many women discover that although early baldness is often genetic it is also frequentl
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Robert Oerter
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