Here’s How You Can Use An iPad LCD Screen As Your Laptop’s Extra Display

Do you feel like having more real estate with your laptop screen? Wouldn’t it be fascinating if we told you that you could attach your iPad’s LCD screen to it as additional screen that would perfectly well with your laptop? Oh no, we are so not talking about the Air Display – we are talking about plugging the screen in via the USB port and using the laptop with more freedom than you have ever done before.

A typical iPad LCD on eBay will cost you around $50 and you would be surprised to know that they come with a display port interface. Why is it such a great thing? Because now all you need to is to the splice the ribbon connector into a display port cable, throw a backlight driver in the mix and the display can be used with any computer.

You’ll need to buy a pre-made breakout board (unless you want to make one yourself) and a backlight driver along with it as well. This will cost you about $35. If you power it only via the USB, you’ll notice that only one half of the backlight is lit. Now adjusting the brightness will result in current demand going to 600mA and to counter that, you’ll need to replace the stock resistors with the ones that can cater for the 600mA current.

The next issue to tackle is how do you provide 600mA since the USB 2.0 maxes out at 500mA.

The key is to fool your computer into thinking that the plugged in device is a USB 3.0 high power device and for that you’ll need to go and buy $10 external USB 3.0 hard drive enclosure. Add jumpers between the LCD driver board and the power pins on the enclosure board and you are good to go. The final result will look something like the picture that is given below.

A pretty cool DIY trick, isn’t it?

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Google To Provide Free Internet For All Humans On Earth Via It’s Satellites

Internet has become a vital part of our life over decades and now you can’t possibly imagine life without it will be. However, you’d be surprised to know that even now 2/3rd of Earth’s population doesn’t have access to internet. This is where Google comes in who has decided to change this by launching a myriad of satellites in order to provide internet services to the 4.8 billion people who are still offline.

According to the information; the company is spending about $1 billion on this project which will rival Facebook’s effort to provide free internet to the world. There are rumors that Google will launch 180 satellites for this project. They will orbit the Earth at somewhat lower altitudes when compared to the conventional satellites.

Google’s project is being headed by Greg Wyler who is the founder of the O3b Networks, a start-up aimed at satellite communications, and there are rumors that the team might launch twice the suggested number of satellites. But that is still a speculation and the final verdict will be made once the final design in submitted. This project is basically the latest venture undertaken by Silicon Valley whereas we also have a separate project by Google which plans on employing hot air high altitude balloons to provide internet, dubbed as Project Loon.

Professor William Webb, Deputy President of the Institution of Engineering, said: ‘The idea of using aerial platforms to deliver connectivity is one that is many decades old, from low-orbital satellites to balloons and more recently unmanned aerial vehicles. The difficulty has always been one of keeping the aerial platform in the right place in the sky for weeks or months at a low enough cost. As technologies mature we get ever closer to achieving this and Facebook’s intervention in this space is a welcome boost to the area.’

Right now the task at hand is to make the project economically feasible while ensuring that it serves the purpose. Good luck to Google!

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Funny And Interesting Google

Google is best known as search engine. But it is more than a search engine, it plays prank with us, celebrate birthdays, affected by gravity and much more. It is totally like a emotional and funny robot which can search solution for any possible problems with you in seconds.  So, Here we have collected some funny and interesting searches by which Google makes itself more than a search engine.

Do a barrel roll

The Keyword ‘Do a barrel roll’  rotate  the result page around it’s own axis. Search the keyword without quotes (‘) for funny result.

Google Gravity

Google Gravity proves that Google is also affected by Gravitational force. Access Google Gravity and watch Google falling apart and the effects of gravity.

Pirate Google

The Pirate Google was made to serve as a memorial day to pirate. And it’s not the ‘Search’,  yes, ‘Searrrch’ . Everything is in the language of the pirates.

Google MentalPlex

The Google MentalPlex is the tool which enables search by  just thinking. According to the instructions, You Should removes your hat and glasses and think about what you want to find. Of course it does not work, right? It was only a joke of April 1st.

Tilt

As the the keywords suggests google page will lean by searching these keywords ‘Tilt’ or ‘Askew’ without quotes (‘).

Ascii Art

Ascii Art is the name given to drawings using only characters. When looking for Ascii Art in Google. The doodle will Appear written in Ascii form.

Pacman

It was created for the anniversary of the game pacman, but is still available. Go to page Google Pacman and play version of this famous game.

Les Paul

This was created to celebrate the guitarist Les Paul Birthday. Google doodle is turned into a guitar that Can be played with the mouse or the keyboard keys. It is made  to record the songs and send to someone via the link generated.

Google Sphere

Look for Google Sphere with I’m Feeling Lucky and see it turning into a moving ball. You can even search images but the result will be moving form.

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