So, here is what we found out about COWS. Cows are social animals. They form strong bonds and prefer staying close to their friends in the pasture, often grazing, resting, and grooming each other. Research shows that heart rates increase and stress hormone levels rise in cows that are separated from their bonded friends. BTW - a stressed cow produces less milk than a happy one.
Onto airbags and their uses. Where do you think they could be used (other than cars)? Soft landings for gymnasts, perhaps? Miniature ones attached to your breakables? Or just a part of your jeans as an everyday consumer fall-protection device. Think about it 🤔.
And finally, elections and indelible ink. Is it a good business? How big? If it is so indelible, can we use it for other purposes? Clinical trials? Marking prisoners? Equipment identification? Wow! It is almost as powerful as blockchain😎.
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[00:00:00] So, like with everything that is humorous and firm, you know, before the main event, you kind of do a little bit of a warm up, you know, like they stretch yourselves out and you know get the blood flowing.
[00:00:23] So it's similar with our shorts, you know, before that we need, before we start off, we need to kind of get ourselves in a mood. So, here's me getting us all in a mood to say funny things. So, to begin with, I discovered that Bananas are radioactive.
[00:00:41] They contain what is called potassium 40 which is naturally occurring, I sort of, that makes them slightly radioactive. So, I mean, if you want to be the radioactive guy then, you know, Bananas are for you.
[00:00:55] The other thing I discovered was that a day in Venus is actually longer than a year. And the reason for that is that it takes Venus longer to rotate on its axis, which is
[00:01:08] what the day night thing is, which is it takes 243 days to do that, but it takes 225 days to go around the sun. So, you know, there you have. And the third thing that I thought would really, really get you excited is the fact that cows
[00:01:24] have best friends and they get stressed when they are separated. So, research is shown that cows form, clothes form, bonds with other members of their herd. And as we progress through this, I will also give you a great example of the same happening to parents.
[00:01:43] So, there's a good one since you started with, you know, this, this weird funny stuff to get in the mood. I also thought of some weird tech for this shorts, okay.
[00:01:56] And I, I changed upon one such weird tech and I thought, okay, let me search a bit more and I found, so I have three. So, there is a Swedish company called Mo cycle. I don't know whether to, in two of you have seen this.
[00:02:11] So, they have, they have created the world's first airbag for two-wheeler. Now, how do you create an airbag for two-wheeler? So, the airbag has to be in your pants. So, they have essentially created the first pair of airbag jeans, okay.
[00:02:30] And it, so if you fall off your two-wheeler, it inflates upon impact, okay. So, opening the blow-over motorcycle collision and according to this Swedish company, the jeans are just as comfortable as a regular pair of pants.
[00:02:48] But in theory, in a later stage, these could be airbags for walking around. So, if you, well, if you can wear, if you fall on the ground, it will inflate and we just be bobbbing around. Oh, the feel. Exactly.
[00:03:00] And the only thing is, like, like in car when the airbags are inflated within that cloth or whatever jeans, you have to replace that canister, right? Because in the end, it's a gas which, like, inflates it.
[00:03:14] So it deflies and obviously gets deflated and so you have to put it again. But the best part is that they look good and they are very comfortable, waterproof, it seems. So they are, you know, they are also fashions, they demand it, whatever.
[00:03:34] In a country where people don't even wear helmets, I'm wondering how the airbags are going It's Swedish companies, it's not in India. In the early helmet, I would call it a regular correct.
[00:03:48] So that was my first, I one day if they have a little pin which stays on your head like a headphone thing and then if you fall, then it inflate, it becomes a helmet. Because we are not as, you know, as weird, but they are quite.
[00:04:09] So, and this is for you, Samiran. Because I know you have been looking for rings and you bought one ring, right? And this tracks your health and also everyone has heard of health tracking rings.
[00:04:24] So now here is a company and the guy, the startup is by Indian guy, US, US-based Indian and second generation. And the startup is called Lotus and this, this is a stylish ring which actually controls your lights and TV.
[00:04:43] Now the interesting thing is, I mean what I liked about it, this whole Lotus ring was that he has actually targeted a very interesting niche. Now I don't know whether a market remains a decade down the line but essentially if you
[00:04:58] had in US and Europe, you know, many people have these nest and home devices right, Google and Apple. But you need compatible smart devices with it. So there is this niche I figured out that people who believe this ring was fantastic
[00:05:15] because there are people who don't have smart devices, right? So you have to do some basic setting when you don't have smart devices and this ring helps you control your lights and TV and you do not have to get up.
[00:05:30] It has a small nice button and it's quite a non-intrusive kind of ring, but it doesn't track health so I don't know how many rings you will wear right? There will be a health tracking ring, there will be controlling of lights and fan ring.
[00:05:44] And this is literally like in India actually people are used to wearing rings then that you have on this metal ring for a warning of evil like all rings everywhere. So Samiran will wear all these rings and they will be called Nord of Deririnks.
[00:05:58] Or I could even be Thanos, I'll just after that I'll just snap by finger and then how the population is. And my weird thing is something called this is done by S.il. or Luxotica right? And they created Luke and listen glasses they are called Noons okay.
[00:06:17] Nothing in this sets in your ear and it has some technology where by when so if I look at Samiran and even if he whispers I'll hear him. So it is directional so I have to look at that you know party and then I'll be able to listen
[00:06:37] what they it's quite costly but it's interesting because people with hearing difficulties what they you know most of the research shows it's very difficult to get used to aids which sit inside ear right. So so this one this one is very non-intrusive in that sense
[00:06:55] so you just wear a Kashmah and wear it directional so you have to look at that thing and then yeah you can engage it. But yeah so basically if you want to say some bad thing about that they have to wait for him to
[00:07:09] and then start with that he's okay. He's like she's like she's like she's like my one weird tech shot. So I didn't have too much of one weird tech but you know we are in elections season we're going to be voting on Monday the 20th for ourselves and
[00:07:31] everybody's been I've been kind of tracking the elections like everybody else in this country one of the things that I've been reading about is the cost of elections right everybody's been talking about how expensive elections have become and so yeah I'm sure most people know about
[00:07:50] the fact that when we had the first elections in 1951 52 we spent 10.8 crores to take the country into elections okay for the looks of elections. This year in 2024 we're going to spend 100,000 crores. Okay that's it from 10 crores to 100,000
[00:08:12] crores that's the jump. So it's quite funny because in the first time in 1951 we spent six picep per elector as the EC cost in 2014 we spent 46 rupees so from six picep to 46 rupees. I don't know how much you can attribute to inflation etc but that's how expensive
[00:08:42] electionings become. Having said that I said look interesting but there's a lot of money which goes into media and this and that but the one thing that got my attention was one of the large
[00:08:55] costs right and it's quite phenomenal is the cost of the indelible ink which we never think about. So we spent I think this year we will spend 55 crores only on indelible ink and there is only one company which produces all the indelible ink that is used during
[00:09:24] elections. So I thought that was really fascinated so there's a company called my sort of pens and varnished limited they create they will create some 26 and a half lakh vials of indelible ink because per vial you can put the mark on 700 or people okay and you're expecting
[00:09:47] about 900 or 900 million or people to vote. So 26 and a half lakh vials for an electorate which is going to cost us 55 crores and what is this for for you to go and show the world that you
[00:10:05] voted. No but she tell because these guys also will go bankrupt now because now if one should become one country, one election and state and this thing you won't have so many elections
[00:10:16] also you only have it once in five years these guys will only on 50 crores once in five years now. So not a good stop. I was thinking about it. So they'll have to do a business
[00:10:29] not a good stock. And first I would have said that but I said interesting 51 if you had invested in the elections as a company. You would have made more money than you were. Very interesting statistic because I would have thought that you know 10 crores
[00:10:45] okay today it's 100,000 crores but the people also have increased massively right the number of but you said per person the cost has also gone up so much six-pesser to 46 rupees. Okay from six-pesser and this isn't 46 rupees isn't 2014 which means this time it will be much more.
[00:11:10] There's much more because now the even to register yourself there is a process by which there is a boot level officer who comes to your house to verify if you stay there you know before kind of go into the list. So yeah it is a cost-free effort.
[00:11:29] Sumeran so it's quite interesting so when you were talking about the company two things have happened. The while cost has also gone okay so in the last election the per while cost was 160 rupees now it is 174 rupees because of the cost of the key ingredient going up but
[00:11:46] what is fascinating is that this company is actually figuring out how they can make mocker pens. To replace glass vials because I'm quite sure that some glass vials must be breaking. And you can bet somebody else is figuring out how to replicate this that is the key
[00:12:02] this problem. So imagine that it's one company in the entire country which creates this in-delabeling for elections every four years which I thought was really interesting a yes the amount of
[00:12:18] money that we spend in elections because if we just put all that money and give it to the people I think we won't have too many below poverty line but I guess we need to have elections.
[00:12:30] But I thought that the cost of 55 crores for just in-delabeling was quite something. And then you start thinking that you know honestly one nation one election makes sense you know
[00:12:42] in economic terms if it can be done in the same this thing. True true and this it's just crazy. And so there's also very interesting election tech so we'll talk about it when we do
[00:12:54] another set of shorts but I found there are so many different technologies being used by countries around the world when it comes to election tech and you know some of them use blockchain. So I thought that would be very very interesting for you because.
[00:13:10] So I mean I don't do one of this is relevant but I also found one really stupid fact it says the average human body contains enough carbon to make 900 pencils. I don't know if that can be used in any
[00:13:22] way. True. You're also a mirror and I'm going to be very rude to you on this one but here we're about to talk about the fact that all kinds of founders have done like the Frisbee guy
[00:13:35] who's taken his ashes and converted into whatever we'll take ashes, compress it and see whether the carbon actually converts into this. We'll take a portion of your ashes and do it. I don't know what proportionate ashes work or no but. And we will say dedicated to science.
[00:14:01] The facts of facts what can you do? That's true. So with that horrible piece on my end of the mirror ashes being converted into carbon pencils when the springs us to the end of our
[00:14:17] and this episode of our shots we hope you enjoy these as much as we do. We promise to keep bringing you crazy stuff, funny stuff, really, really exciting statistics as part of our shot. So keep hearing, keep listening and see you soon.