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           Ather Energy gears up for the launch of its first scooter in 2016.Co-founder Tarun Mehta said that the scooter will be priced under Rs. 1,00,000, with a formal price announcement likely three months from now.            The co-founders believe that this space is ripe for disruption, as locally available electric-scooters lack either the speed or the smarts, with a majority of them running on lead-acid batteries.Typically we have electric scooters which have a top speed of 25-40 kmph, they have poor acceleration, and a battery life of 5,000-6,000 kilometres, and a 6-8 hour charging time. Unlike these, our scooter doesn't feel like a step down from a petrol scooter        Ather's smart scooter is spaced to deliver a top speed of 75kmph, and will do 0-60kmph in 11 seconds, have an estimated driving range of 50-100 kilometres, and recharge to about 90 percent ...

Google's Project Ara is a modular smartphone which could arrive in early 2015 to re-define the market Google might have gone a bit sideways with the Nexus 6, but before that the company has proved it clearly knows a thing or two about what your typical  Android  phone buyer wants from their devices; something that's not too expensive, not too fussy, and nicely tailored for a great experience on the Android platform. No frills, and no uneccessary bits that bump up the cost, essentially. So it's not too surprising that the firm  has looked into its crystal ball and realised that there's a market for a user-tailored phone experience. The modular  smartphone . Similar to the custom PC market, there will be users out there who want to simply buy the bits they need to do what they want to do, and to be able to upgrade/retrofit whenever they like. Google's solution is Project Ara...and it's coming inside 2015. The concept is a simple one –– you buy a basic...

What is 3D printing? 3D printing or additive manufacturing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file. The creation of a 3D printed object is achieved using additive processes. In an additive process an object is created by laying down successive layers of material until the entire object is created. Each of these layers can be seen as a thinly sliced horizontal cross-section of the eventual object. How does 3D printing work? It all starts with making a virtual design of the object you want to create. This virtual design is made in a CAD (Computer Aided Design) file using a 3D modeling program (for the creation of a totally new object) or with the use of a 3D scanner (to copy an existing object). A 3D scanner makes a 3D digital copy of an object. 3d scanners use different technologies to generate a 3d model such as time-of-flight, structured / modulated light, volumetric scanning and many more. Recently, many IT companies like Microsoft a...