Indian Scientist Challenges world to break code

An Indian scientist has created a new encryption to provide complete security to computer data. This will be of great help to intelligence agencies, banks and e-commerce.

Dr. Vijay Jha, Director of Delhi based Apostle Embedded Systems, has thrown an open challenge that anybody who could break the code of his encryption will get a reward of Rs. 2 lakh.

-The Asian Age- August 20, 2002

Gadgets : Fighting Crime

Finger Prints

This kit is user friendly and advantageous when compared to the earlier versions. The fingerprints can be made visible easily without leaving behind excess of developing material, which normally interferes during comparison. In this kit, magnetic powders of different colours are used keeping in view the colour of the object on which the latent finger prints are present. This technique has a great advantage. It does not require use of any kind of brush to remove excess of powder. The price of the kit is Rs. 1375 and is supplied by M/s Sirchie FP Laboratories, Raleigh, USA, NC 27613, Fax 1-919-787-2952

-Professional Knowledge Digest, January-March 2002

Gadgets which can help find children

First there were baby monitors and then nanny-cams, but for worried parents of the new millennium, there is an updated selection of devices that beep, buzz or howl when children toddle out of range

One product garnering a lot of interest these days is Wherify Inc's new GPS Personal Locator for Children - a watch-like amulet worn on the wrist that can pinpoint a child's location in minutes through satellite-based GPS (Global Positioning System) technology built into the device.

-The Times of India - September 3, 2002