China showcasing its technological advancement to the world

The motto for the 2008 Olympics is "One World, One Dream". The motto seeks to lift up the vision of world harmony. The Beijing Olympics took seven years in the planning and cost a record-breaking $40billion to stage. China is rightly taking this opportunity to showcase its technological advancement to the world.

Here are few things that got to my attention.

Chinese Weather Planners:
China wants to direct rainfall away from the Olympic venues by seeding clouds with silver iodide pellets. Scientifically this works or not is not yet proved as yet, but this would the right time for Chinese weather planners to test.

China's goal is to pre-empt usual summer showers before the opening ceremonies or reduce the size of water droplets in clouds to delay storms. Only time would show if Weather modification is still a hit-or-miss technology,

Driver less Train:
China has made large investments in transport systems throughout Beijing to ease the way for the 3 million spectators who will pour into the city for the Olympics. Two subway lines and a driverless rail system, which runs both above and below ground comes to the rescue.

The 28-km rail link between Beijing Capital International Airport and the Dongzhimen subway station. The express train features the driverless operation using the Advanced Rapid Transit technology from Canada's Bombardier.

This driverless trains run 62.5 miles per hour making the entire journey from the Beijing airport to the center of the city only 16 minutes. They can carry 4,500 passengers an hour.

RFID Olympics Tickets:
Radio frequency identification technology is taking care of ticketing for the estimated 3 million athletes, journalists, and spectators. These 13.56-MHz HF RFID chips is linked to a remote database, designed primarily to combat counterfeits, facilitate check-in, and so on. Chinese local authorities will also be using an RFID-based food management system to maintain close tabs on food production, processing, and deliveries.

LEDs used at venues:
CREE Inc. is providing about 440,000 LEDs to illuminate the exterior of the Water Cube, where water-sport events will be held. Contractors for the Beijing Olympics found LEDs a more colorful and lower power route to lighting up their creations.

Way to go China...

The digital Beijing building buid for Olympics 2008

The Olympics 2008 games opened at the auspicious Chinese time of 8:08.08 on Friday evening. Around 10,000 performers were taking part in the show to open the Games, which has been seven years in the planning and cost a record-breaking $40billion to stage.

China developed four architecturally interesting new buildings in Beijing in the process of preparing itself for this event. These buildings state of the art technology feature.

1. National Stadium (Bird's Nest)
2. Aquatic Center (Water Cube)
3. Digital Beijing Building
4. CCTV Headquarters

Of which the Digital Beijing Building is something look out for. It is the information facility for the Beijing 2008 Olympics, designed by Studio Pei-Zhu.

The building will provide communication and information services and guarantee information security during the Olympic Games. Check out the video below.

Beijing 2008 Olympics now available on internet

This could be the event of the year, starting 08/08/08 is the 2008 Olympics at Beijing in China. China is ready to host the mecca of sports with hundreds of TV channels covering the event.

Well what about internet ? Well as more and more people watch streaming content like videos, courtesy faster internet connections, there are options available to watch and be updated on the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

So to answer a simple question here's how to watch Olympics online.

1. TV TONIC: Simply download TV Tonic application and watch Olympics on you computer, here is how you can view videos via the TV tonic application. Here is the link

2. NBC OLYMPICS WEBSITE: This is would be hosting 2,200 hours of streamed video content with over 20 concurrent streams covering various events. Here is the website, here you can also access exclusive mobile ON demand video content. You need to point your mobile browser to http://mobile.nbcolympics.com. What more if you have a blog/website add this simple widget and you can stream the event from your website, here is the widget link.

3.Youtube Channel : Youtube Channel will also be providing Olympics Video on GEO blocked basis. This channel will be available in 77 territories across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, including India, Republic of Korea, Nigeria and Indonesia.

So have a sporting time this Olympics.. Your comments most welcomed