I don't wants to be critique here but there is a set of mentality in Pak forces (top level) that they don't wants or belief that a local technology really work. Some time I really felt they have American technology phobia but that might be my observation.
Ishtiaq
There may be other places where it is already developed, the one I know for sure is Cambrige Labs, UK.
Few applications are detecting harmful biological, chemical elements at security checkpoints, detection of weapons, bombs etc etc Communication of scent is also possible where scent is encoded and decoded at other end ...
My point was more about the attitude. In newzeland a while ago there was mine accident and people were trapped inside. Universities came to scene with donation of unmaned robotic vehicles that gave video fotage from inside mines and identified where people were trapped. they were rescued by vertical digg into the mine near their location.
Separation of research institutes from universities is better organization in terms of knowledge creation with positive pratical impact?
From: yahyamalik19@hotmail.com
To: rafiqusman@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [pakgrid] About Siachen Disaster
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:19:23 -0700
Aslaam O Alaikum,
Could you kindly elaborate on …. nanotechnology to have sniffing power … who developed it and what is the use of it
Yahya Malik
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From: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com [mailto:pakgrid@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Usman Rafique
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 11:12 AM
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [pakgrid] About Siachen Disaster
I wonder what technologies could have been used to save lives of soldiers of Giari Sector in Siachin. How far our society and specially universities will have to go to get into the position to help the nation in the time of need?
For example there is a chip that uses nanotechnology to have sniffing power (meeting or even exceeding) to those of dogs and can be programmed for specialized ordors. Since dogs cannot sniff humans at such height of snow rubble and pin point exact locations of bodies, such chip could have been used at bore head to go inside snow for sniffing of human bodies. Similary some ground based sonar or radar waves could have been used.
This time is gone but how in future we can develop capacity (proactively) to take swift action to be able to help society in such citicial events? It is useless to expect national level stuff from private universities as they are busy counting cash, so all hope is from public sector universities that they come ahead and demonstrate their impact on society.
Regards,
Usman Rafique
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