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OnePlus 5 Limited Edition

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OnePlus 5 Limited Edition Now Available in Soft Gold Color with 6GB RAM & 64GB Storage Today, the company revealed the OnePlus 5 in all-new Soft Gold color option. It looks similar to the Soft Gold variant of the OnePlus 3T launched in 2016. The Soft Gold OnePlus 5 will be available only in 6GB RAM variant with 64GB of internal storage. It will be on sale starting August 9th for Rs. 32,999 in India. The device can be purchased from Amazon.in and Oneplusstore.in. In other countries, the OnePlus 5 Soft Gold color variant goes on sale starting today. The device sports a 5.5-inch Optic AMOLED display with Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) resolution. Under the hood is the 64-bit Snapdragon 835 octa-core processor coupled with Adreno 540 GPU. Along with the 6GB RAM variant, the high-end OnePlus 5 comes with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage variant. There is no MicroSD card slot for further expansion of storage. It runs on the latest Android 7.1.1 Nougat out of the box ...

IIT Delhi Wants To Solve the Irrigation Problem For Indian Farmers

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India being an agrarian economy, is largely dependent on farmers, the seasonal monsoon and a reliable irrigation system. In a country where power cuts are in abundance and money is scarce, being able to get a proper irrigation system going is a real challenge. Taking the present scenario in account, the farmers face multiple challenges to simply irrigate the fields. Apart from the endless power cuts and the cost of fuel, other factors like the safety, sustainability and durability of the irrigation system are extremely questionable. Farmers currently resort to a device called “Jugaad pump” for irrigating the fields.This irrigation system is powered by a functional motor bike and is used for extracting water from open channels and ponds to deliver water for irrigation. While this “Juggad” works for some time, the bike run pump is not the ultimate and long term solution. A team of researchers from IIT Delhi has decided to build a solution which is sustainable and durable...