Touch-based illusion

Anyone who has seen an optical illusion can recall the quirky moment when you realize that the image being perceived is different from objective reality. Now, a team of scientists from MIT, Harvard and McGill has designed a new illusion involving the sense of touch, which is helping to glean new insights into perception and how different senses--such as touch and sight--work together.

Ambiguous visual images are fascinating because it is often difficult to imagine seeing them any other way--until something flips within the brain and the alternative perception is revealed. This phenomenon, known as perceptual rivalry, is of great interest to neuroscience. Because rivalrous illusions produce changes in perception that are independent of changes in the stimulus itself, they may help to understand how the brain gives rise to conscious experience.

Read more at the news Source: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/touch-0717.html

Scratch - New Programming Language from MIT

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/scratch-0721.html

WiTricity (Wireless Electricity)

http://web.mit.edu/isn/newsandevents/wireless_power.html

Imagine a future in which wireless power transfer is feasible: cell phones, household robots, mp3 players, laptop computers, and other portable electronics capable of charging themselves without ever being plugged in, freeing us from that final, ubiquitous power wire. Some of these devices might not even need their bulky batteries to operate. A team from MIT's Department of Physics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) has experimentally demonstrated an important step toward accomplishing this vision of the future. The team members are Andre Kurs, Aristeidis Karalis, Robert Moffatt, Prof. Peter Fisher, and Prof. John Joannopoulos (Francis Wright Davis Chair and Director of ISN), led by Prof. Marin Soljačić.

My hearty congratulations to this team.

Vaarnam Ayiram - Ragasiyam Onru

Song: Ragasiyam Onru......
Lyricist : Thamarai

Pallavi:
Female:
Ragasiyam onru sonnanadi, kadhal vandhadhenru
Oru Nodi En Idhayamey, Nindru Thudithadhenru
Enakkuley Pesum Pazhakkam
Ithu Eppadi vandhathu enakkum
Vizhikalukken intha puzhukkam
Avan kulir mugam parthathum thudikkum

Male(Chorus):
Kannipparuvam thuyar illai sugam sugam
Kadhal sumandhal ennavaagum penney
Unnil Puguntha Thokkam-kolaikaran Thokkam tholaithan..

Female: (Ragasiyam ...)

Charanam :

Male:
Azhagaai Maarinen, Kanavukkul Vaazhgiren
Enakkul Moozhgiye, Naan Ennai Thedinen
Kaatril kalandha aval swaasam, Ennai Mattum theenda...
Kollai Kondu aval ponaal, Iruntha nenjam ondrai...
Kangal Kalanguthey, vidai kodu..

Female(Chorus):
Kannil Therinthal Thuyarillai, Sugam Sugam
Kadhal sumandhal ennavaagum kanna
Unnil Puguntha Thokkam-kolaikari Thokkam tholaithal....

Venmegam Pennaga - Yaradee Nee Mohini

Lyrics of Venmegam Pennaga Uruvaanadho !
Singer: The gr8.Hariharan ji

Pallavi

Ven megam pennaaga uruvaanadho
innearam enaippaarththu vilaiyaadudho
unnaaley pala nyaabagam
en munney vandhaadudhey
oru nenjam thindaadudhey

(Ven Megam)

vaarthai oru vaarthai sonnalenna
paarvai oru paarvai paarthalenna
unnaaley pala nyaabagam
en munney vandhaadudhey
oru nenjam thindaadudhey (Venmeagam)

Charanam - 1

Manjal veiyil nee minnal oli nee
unnai kandavarai kan kalanga nirkavaikkum thee
penney ennadi unmai solladi
oru punnagail pen-inamey kobap-pattadhennadi

devadhai vaazhvadhu veedillai kovil
kadavulin kaal thadam paarkkirean
ondraa irandaa unnazhagai paada
kanmoodi oru Oram naan saaigirean
kaaneer anandham naan kaangirean

unnaaley pala ngaabagam
en munney vandhaadudhey
oru nenjam thindaadudhey

Charanam - 2

Engal manadhai kollai-yadiththaai
indha thandhiramum mandhiramum engu sendru padithaai
vizhi asaivil valai viriththaai
unnai pallakkinil thookki sella kattalaigal vidhiththaai

un viral pidithidum varam ondru kidaikka
uyirudan vaazhgirean naan-adi

en kadhalum ennagumo
un paadhathil mannaagumo......

(Venmegam)

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