has been no exception, Akbaruddin brought a whiff of fresh air when the MEA’s XP Division was just losing momentum and sheen.

Akbaruddin took his job far more seriously than his predecessors. There used to be a time when the MEA would hold daily briefings. With the advent of Internet, Email and mobile phone SMSes, the concept of holding daily briefings became outdated and briefings became fewer.

Akbaruddin not only saw to it that MEA briefings become a regular feature but also made it a point to impart value addition by organizing background briefings on burning topics regularly for the news-hungry media.



However, one questionable practice started by Akbaruddin was to set a cap of one question for every journalist. Many MEA beat old hounds, like this writer, detested this capHuman 2.0

Open Prosthetics Project September 23, 2008

Scientific America has a fantastic article about a man who is revolutionizing the prosthetics design industry. Jonathan Kuniholm, a marine reservist, lost his right arm in Iraq after his platoon was ambushed by insurgents. Due to advances in medical technology surgeons were able to save his life but Kuniholm now suffered a fate shared by many soldiers, where wounds that in the past would have killed them now leave them maimed and disfigured. Upon returning to the United States, Kuniholm was was fitted with two prosthesis. The first was a standard split-hook device operated by a harness and cable system controlled by the shoulder and arm, and a more advanced myoelectric device which picks up nerve signals produced by muscle contraction to