Do Air Purifiers Work in Indian Homes? CADR, HEPA and Room Size (2026)
Do air purifiers work in India? Yes, for PM2.5 in a closed room sized right. How HEPA and CADR work, what your room needs, and what purifiers can't fix.
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Front Load vs Top Load Washing Machine: Which to Buy in India (2026)
Front load vs top load washing machine in India: yearly water and power cost from real BEE labels, plus pressure, hard water, power cuts and price.
Inverter vs Normal Microwave: Worth It in India? (2026)
Inverter vs normal microwave: both use a magnetron. What an inverter changes, what tests show, who sells one in India, and whether it's worth paying for.
How Far Should You Sit From Your TV? Viewing Distance Guide for India (2026)
How far to sit from a 32 to 85-inch TV, the right TV size for your room in metres and feet, and 43 vs 55-inch compared, for Indian homes.
OLED vs QLED vs Mini LED vs LED: Which TV to Buy in India? (2026)
OLED vs QLED vs Mini LED vs LED: what each TV panel type does, what it costs at 55 inches in India, and which one suits your room and budget.
BEE Star Rating 2025 vs 2026 in India: What Changed for ACs and Fridges
BEE star rating 2025 vs 2026: why a 3-star fridge is now 2-star, the new 5-star AC ISEER, washers unchanged, and 10 real models compared.
PriceBaba’s Android Consumption Report for India: Jelly Bean Rules with 52%
The smartphone market in India has changed drastically over the last few years. There are smartphones been launched every alternate days, the number of people adopting to new technology has constantly been on rise. And with affordable Indian and China-based…
How to Protect Our Online Data
In the advent of the digital age, our privacy is under attack from all quarters. Recently, the circulation of nude photographs stolen from celebrities online accounts has raised questions about the security of storing information over the internet. Apple confirmed…
Tata Brings Air Powered Car to India, Calls it AirPod (Video)
The car might look like one of those vague concepts you come across in TV serials or artists impressions which would never materialize. But the one in the image below is a working prototype which can soon be seen on…
Synthetic Seabed for Renewable Energy From Ocean Waves
We are sure there have been many interesting theories propsed before for generating renewable energy. But this one is right up there as Mohammed Reza Alam propses a radically different approach by utilizing the effects waves have on the ocean…
Microsoft and Nokia Announces App Development Program – AppCampus
In a bid to create a friendly ‘app’mosphere for the Mobile Windows platform, Microsoft and Nokia have teamed up for an app development program termed as AppCampus. The AppCampus program has been set up to help the creation of innovative…
Microsoft Patents Compact Virtual Image Display System for Xbox
At times, when lawsuits are being slapped for patent infringements in the world of technology, Microsoft has decided to rather play it safe, than being sorry. The software giant patents compact virtual image display designed to be used for gaming…
ZTE Achieves Next-Gen Data Transmission Speed of 1.7Tbps
China based telecommunication and network solutions provider ZTE has achieved an all new high with field demonstration of data being transported at a speed of 1.7Tbps over optical network. This demonstration of speed is not only path-breaking, but also one-of-a-kind…
[How To] Test your Router for Internet Connectivity Parameters?
Routers, in its most simplest explanation, are devices which direct the Internet from a Modem to the PC. Now they may be Consumer grade where you may have just one or two PC / Mac or an Industrial grade with…
Pivo 3 a Self Parking & Self Driving Concept EV by Nissan (Video)
We have been seeing a lot of concept cars, while some like the BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics look ravishing, there are some which look ordinary to say the least like the Terrafugia Transition. Well it promises to fly atleast which…
Pepsi’s “Sound Of Football” Project For the Visually Impaired
This was a match between former pro soccer players and the visually impaired. But this wasn’t the kind of match as you would imagine it to be. It was an experiment wherein both the teams were brought to the same…
LED Window Panes by Samsung. Coming Soon!
Samsung is one of the top players in the manufacturing and supplying of LED’s in the market. Samsung is not only a leading player but has also been a pioneer in the field of displays which include foldable displays and…
Audi’s Electric Urban Concept Beats Nano for Size
Tata Nano developed one of the smallest but affordable production car. But who would have thought that Audi, one of the best luxury car makers in the automobile industry will ever make a car this small. Well as you can…
New Jelly Battery: Cheaper, Safer and Long Lasting
There have been innumerable instances of manufacturers struggling with their batteries. Smartphones running out of battery are a common phenomena or laptops batteries being recalled due to safety issues is also not rare. Well all this could soon be a…
YouTurn, Turn Signals Meet Hand!
Well, we all know how difficult it is surviving with a bicycle on roads these days. Cycling during the day in broad daylight is much safer as compared to the night wherein there is a constant fear of the racing…
EADS’ Zehst Travels At Mach 4, Paris to Tokyo in 2 Hrs! (Video)
Zehst which stands for Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation is a concept jet made by EADS, parent company of the Airbus. This is a zero emissions environment friendly jet which was unveiled at the Paris Air Show today. This Concorde look…
Out Of Battery, Head Straight To The Strawberry Tree! (Video)
Yes you read that right! So in Belgrade when people run out of battery they have the option to head to this innovative solar powered mobile battery station located on the street called the Strawberry Tree. Milos Milisavljevic, conceived this…
BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Concept Car
Well its not often that a concept car is unveiled in India, that too a BMW. So it was a welcome surprise to have a BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics concept car unveiled in by Praful Patel, Honorable Minister for Heavy…
Can you bend your phone? World’s first paper computer set to revolutionize smartphones
How cool would it be if your smartphone was paper thin? And if you could fold it and keep it in your pocket? Well, researchers from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada have just done that. The smartphone prototype, called…
Google’s Body Browser Debuts. Offers 3D Views Of Your Insides
Google has introduced a new interesting browser based tool called Body Browser, an app analogous to Google Earth – but limited to viewing the details of the human body – in full 3D. The app is a complete “in browser” affair and uses HTML 5 and Web GL, a…
Indian Government shows a $35 tablet, readying a $10 one!
Yes, you read that heading right. The Indian Government is evidently working on a tablet that will cost about as much as a low-end phone – around Rs 1500 ($35 approx). And that is not all, efforts are on to trim the price further to an unbelieved Rs 500 ($10 approx). According to…
Seen Sixth Sense? Now See Mouseless!
Having a mouse to interact with a computer sounds as natural has our hands to eat, but then when the Sixth Sense guy Pranav Mistry thinks of this, you get mouseless! Pranav along with a couple of his colleagues Patti…
Will you use the briefcase laptop?
Playing By Heart concept by Zhang Shouze sure gives you the 21st century businessman the most relevant briefcase in today’s world. With cloud computing taking over work & smartphones getting smarter at-least I don’t see too many people carrying with…
FERVOUR 2010: THE GREEN EFFORT
The IEEE fest of Student Branch of BVCOE, FERVOUR, is organized on an annual basis. This extravaganza witnesses some truly eye catching events and is held on a large and magnanimous scale. With a wide spectrum of activities, the fest…
Loved Ironman or Jetsons? Then try Jetlev!
Love Iron Man? Or for that matter Jetsons and the whole action of flying around with Jetpacks? Well then here is Jetlev Flyer that brings you the experience of flying like none other. 9 years in development and here is…
Waterpebble: checks the water wastage
Waterpebble is a unique tiny gadget that monitors the amount of water you consume during a shower and helps you save water. The tiny pebble shaped gizmo placed below your shower checks the water outflow via the plughole. Using your…
Align several mobile phones to make one large screen (patent)
Yes weird as it sounds and geeky for sure! The idea of combining several cellphone displays by just placing them next to each other is certainly impressive and Motoorla is on it (the only problem is I don’t see a…
The Bloom Box: Green Energy for the Future! (Video)
One block of these can power 4 to 6 Indian homes or one home in the UK whereas you put the two together and its ready to power an American home. That’s the power of the Bloom box created by…
Green Award winning Siemens SpeedMatic Dishwasher
This is the award winning Siemens speedMatic Dishwasher. It is 20% more efficient than any other in the highest energy-efficiency category. Its minimal water consumption of 10 instead of 14 litres per cycle is also a new record by the…
N-Gage gone, in comes the Nokia Ovi Orion concept
Nokia has said RIP to Gage for sure, but you never know what’s actually cooking in Finland. Nokia might well be planning some groovy gaming phones that could match up with the challenge thrown by the iPhone / Android…
[Video] Interview with Dr Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of the USB
Special thanks to @sengupta (Blog) for the interview on behalf of OnlyGizmos Dr. Ajay Bhatt certainly knows how to use self deprecatory humour well. He began his lecture by screening this clip of him trying to emulate the rockstar image…
The Age of Stupid – Time for a reality check
I have just returned after a terrific 18 hour coverage of the IIT Techfest 2010 Day 1 and the last event I attended was the screening of this Documentary / Movie – The Age of Stupid. While in another 6…
The hunt for the best technology startups has begun
While we count the days to the upcoming Apple event that would shed some official light (hopefully) on the entire tablet case. A lot of speculation about the technical specification and Apple’s game plan has just emerged (warning: take every…
Sensor Networks — robot to anything, interaction
As we gear up for the IIT Techfest 2010, lets have a look at what powers those wondrous robots that we see at the TechFest every year. Saptarshi Chatterjee from Robosoft Systems (the official component suppliers for Techfest) explains the…
Charging batteries with WI-FI: RCA AIRNERGY
We have already heard about solar chargers and kinetic chargers (theses are the ones with the dynamos attached to it). The latest one doing the rounds is the WI-FI charger. Yes, you heard it right and its no typo error……
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