Brainstorming for effective problem solving.

Brainstorming is one of the most common types of informal invention. Brainstorming involves expert as well as novice peoples, their ideas are different, sometimes out of box. Although brainstorming comes in handy in many situations where creative, cognitive thinking is required, it can be particularly handy when writing. It gives us such ideas which we never thought of.

For effective Brainstorming:

1. Create a mind map: We can only create mind map if we have enough knowledge of problem. First understand problem then solve it.

2. Decide time: This is most important. At particular time our brain can brainstorm optimally. Find that time and use it. It can be any time that you feel would put your brainstorming sessions to their full potential.

3. Go on writing: Even if you have to write down an idea that's completely stupid and wouldn't work, it's better than stopping and interrupting the creative flow. While writing don't think logical let your right brain come up with ideas. You will get stunned with new ideas you never thought of.

4. Assume that no word is self-explanatory: Continue to focus on one topic word until you cannot describe it with any further detail. In other words, take a deeper look at an individual or minute part of a larger whole.

5. As your thoughts slow or become stagnant, begin to review your lists periodically. Previous terms may need further explanation, or may bring forth new ideas to the surface.

7. If you have a sufficient collection of good ideas, begin to work on the rough draft. If more ideas are needed, try other informal invention techniques such as freewriting or mapping.

8. Use online tools such as 420fables to make freewriting a regular part of your daily writing discipline.

9. Utilizing a dictionary, search for random words. Close your eyes and place your finger on the page or choose the most attractive word as you scan through the pages. Write these words down as well as any other thoughts that may be in relation to these words. Another good tool for selecting random words can be found here.

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3D printer? is it real ?

History of 3D printing:

Manufacturers have quietly used 3D printing technology — also known as additive manufacturing — to build models and prototypes of products over the past 20 years. Charles Hull invented the first commercial 3D printer and offered it for sale through his company 3D Systems in 1986. Hull's machine used stereolithography, a technique that relies upon a laser to solidify an ultraviolet-sensitive polymer material wherever the ultraviolet laser touches.

The technology remained relatively unknown to the greater public until the second decade of the 21st century. A combination of U.S. government funding and commercial startups has created a new wave of unprecedented popularity around the idea of 3D printing since that time.

First, President Barack Obama's administration awarded $30 million to create the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) in 2012 as a way of helping to revitalize U.S. manufacturing. NAMII acts as an umbrella organization for a network of universities and companies that aims to refine 3D printing technology for rapid deployment in the manufacturing sector.

Second, a new wave of startups has made the idea of 3D printing popular within the so-called "Maker" movement that emphasizes do-it-yourself projects. Many of those companies offer 3D printing services or sell relatively cheap 3D printers that can cost just hundreds rather than thousands of dollars.

How It Works?

3D printers work by following a computer's digital instructions to "print" an object using materials such as plastic, ceramics and metal. The printing process involves building up an object one layer at a time until it's complete. For instance, some 3D printers squirt out a stream of heated, semi-liquid plastic that solidifies as the printer's head moves around to create the outline of each layer within the object.

The instructions used by 3D printers often take the form of computer-aided design (CAD) files — digital blueprints for making different objects. That means a person can design an object on their computer using 3D modeling software, hook the computer up to a 3D printer, and the watch the 3D printer build the object right before his or her eyes.

In Future of 3D printing:

3D printing probably won't replace many of the usual assembly-line methods for building standard products. Instead, the technology offers the advantage of making individual, specifically tailored parts on demand — something more suited to creating specialized parts for U.S. military aircraft rather than making thousands of trash cans for sale at Wal-Mart. Boeing has already used 3D printing to make more than 22,000 parts used on civilian and military aircraft flying today.

The medical industry has also taken advantage of 3D printing's ability to make unique objects that might otherwise be tough to build using traditional methods. U.S. surgeons implanted a 3D-printed skull piece to replace 75 percent of a patient's skull during an operation in March 2013. Researchers also built a 3D-printed ear mold that served as the framework for a bioengineered ear with living cells.

The spread of 3D printing technology around the world could also shrink geographical distances for both homeowners and businesses. Online marketplaces already allow individuals to upload 3D-printable designs for objects and sell them anywhere in the world. Rather than pay hefty shipping fees and import taxes, sellers can simply arrange for a sold product to be printed at whatever 3D printing facility is closest to the buyer.

Such 3D printing services may not be limited to specialty shops or companies in the near future. Staples stores plan to offer 3D printing services in the Netherlands and Belgium starting in 2013.

Businesses won't be alone in benefiting from 3D printing's print-on-demand-anywhere capability. The U.S. military has deployed 3D printing labs to Afghanistan as a way to speed up the pace of battlefield innovation and rapidly build whatever soldiers might need onsite. NASA has looked into 3D printing for making replacement parts aboard the International Space Station and building spacecraft in orbit.

Most 3D printers don't go beyond the size of household appliances such as refrigerators, but 3D printing could even scale up in size to build objects as big as a house. A separate NASA project has investigated the possibility of building lunar bases for future astronauts by using moon "dirt" known as regolith.

Limitations of 3D printing:

But 3D printing still has its limits. Most 3D printers can only print objects using a specific type of material — a serious limitation that prevents 3D printers from creating complex objects such as an Apple iPhone. Yet researchers and commercial companies have begun developing workarounds. Optomec, a company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has already made a 3D printer capable of printing electronic circuitry onto objects.

The 3D printing boom could eventually prove disruptive in both a positive and negative sense. For instance, the ability to easily share digital blueprints online and print out the objects at home has proven a huge boon for do-it-yourself makers.

But security experts worry about 3D printing's ability to magnify the effects of digital piracy and the sharing of knowledge that could prove dangerous in the wrong hands. Defense Distributed, a Texas group, has already begun pushing societal boundaries by working on the world's first fully 3D-printable gun.

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Bitcoin? Virtual money?

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer payment system and digital currency introduced as open source software in 2009 by pseudonymous developer Satoshi Nakamoto. It is a cryptocurrency, so-called because it uses cryptography to control the creation and transfer of money. Conventionally, "Bitcoin" capitalized refers to thetechnology and network whereas lowercase "bitcoins" refers to the currency itself.

Bitcoins are created by a process called mining, in which participants verify and record payments in exchange for transaction fees and newly minted bitcoins. Users send and receive bitcoins using wallet software on a personal computer, mobile device, or a web application. Bitcoins can be obtained by mining or in exchange for products, services, or other currencies.

It is secure way of transaction. It uses Strong cryptography. Bitcoin verifies transactions with the same 
state-of-the-art encryption that is used in military and government applications.
It is Open and Fully decentralized. Bitcoin is open-source. Nobody owns it; the most popular client is maintained by a community of open-source developers.

There is no fair for using bitcoins. As there is no any centralized entity like bank. Bitcoins transfer is direct pear - to - pear no taxes n all. Using the Bitcoin network is free, except for a voluntary fee you can use to speed up transaction processing.
So be a miner and generate your own bit coins!

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Importance of attachment for a beautiful relationship.

Attachment is powerful and beautiful, only when you are completely attached. But the problem is that we are never attached one hundred percent to anything. One thing stops us from it, fear of getting detached. So we get attached for narrow, selfish, limited gains. Funny as it may sound, we get attached to our Nature which is negative because it makes us attached to our ego and our ignorance and so we always like to live with the two of them.

Attachment is a great power! But we have not discovered that power as yet. We are allowing our senses to play with our life because of our ignorance and our ego which wants constant gratification. When we feel very close to someone, emotionally, physically, mentally we start feeling we are attached. It is not attachment. It is our arrangement made for comfort and maintaining the “self”. We start feeling comfortable with that and we get attached to that, not to the person.

As human beings we have one strong quality: we have the power to transform matter, give shape to it according to our requirements. Even with people, we try to transform that person so that he should be convenient to us. It is not attachment. It is a mental game, your nature and it is our beauty, too. Why beauty? That is how life has seen material progress and we have made all things around us congenial to our existence. This is not attachment; this is our ignorance.

Attachment is very beautiful if it is to nature around us, to sunlight, to something which is bigger than oneself, vast. Attachment born out of our desire for comfort gives us pain and sufferings.

However, if our attachment is one hundred per cent, then there will be no pain or suffering. When the fruit ripens hundred per cent it detaches from the tree. It is the power of attachment. Till your attachment is fifty, sixty, seventy per cent, you are hanging on with that and you will feel yourself miserable with that kind of attachment, you will suffer, cry, complain, but you will have no power to get rid of it. Whatever is giving you pain get attached to that one hundred per cent! You can do that! Do not hang in between, do it one hundred percent, and after one hundred percent something will change in your nature and you start feeling absolutely great.

You can experiment. If you like chocolate, experiment with it, let it be chocolate for breakfast, chocolate for dinner, chocolate for lunch, always eat chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. In twenty four hours you will start feeling an aversion for chocolate. If 24 hours you are listening to the same music, you will start disliking it, but if you are listening to the same music once in a while it will be ok. If I start telling you the same story every day how many times will you listen to it? Once, twice, thrice, ten times? We are not able to tolerate it.

So as soon as you will get one hundred per cent attachment it will teach you healthy detachment. Attachment is one of nature’s processes. Nature wants that you learn to live, learn to grow, learn to progress. Attachment is a power, my power, your power. Learn to use this power. Then you will get attached to the light , soul, to the Divine, Truth, to beauty…true attachment will open everything for you, will give you the conscious clarities, the highest clarities.

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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny...the time of reading, the time defined by the author's language resonating in the self, is not the world's time, but the soul's. 

The energies that otherwise tend to stream outward through a thousand channels of distraction are marshaled by the cadences of the prose; they are brought into focus by the fact that it is an ulterior, and entirely new, world that the reader has entered. 

The free-floating self--the self we diffusely commune with while driving or walking or puttering in the kitchen--is enlisted in the work of bringing the narrative to life. In the process, we are able to shake off the habitual burden of insufficient meaning and flex our deeper natures.  

Here is a beautiful line written by George R.R. Martin, about reader. 

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies", said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only one.” 

               ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons. 

When we read we are in the character of writer. We start experiencing different things written in books.  
I don't know about other peoples.
But when I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.
Stop thinking about why do we read so much. Start reading and when you explore this new world then there is no question "Why do we read?"

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