bangalore from computers in underwear that have a sweatiness index to interactive family photosona frame prof peter thomas conjured amazing images for students of the pes institute of technology in bangalore delivering his inaugural address of the indouk science festival in south india peter thomas professor of computing in middlesex university uk is part of the visiting team of uk scientists at the fest his lecture on small is beautiful stories from the evolution of the personal computer traced the evolution right from the alltoofamiliar chinese abacus to the sciencefiction futuretense age of computers embedded in a persons brain to give augmented memory if you were to meet a person this memory would allow you to recall all stored information on the person to help you make a decent conversation with them we may have modern computers but what about sufficient power to run them was audience query smart shoes are the solution computers imbedded in them would help convert energy produced while walking an average stroll generates 140 watts to run the system you could have computers on your body where energy produced by the body keeps it running or music tshirts with earphones for its hood drawstrings my prediction is that the word computer wont exist in the early years of the next decade he said they will be more than mere computers they will be appliances he explained the age of ubquitous computers computers in various forms in an average household that have the characteristics of portability location reporting and constant connectivity philips was planning intelligent garbage bins that would sort and recycle trash and remote eyes wireless cameras that will dot walls of all households inaugurating the festival in south india dr n sheshagiri former chairman of the national centre for training in informatics ncti suggested that educational institutions and industry must recognise the potential of digital games as tools for selflearning worldwide the computer game industry was 10 billion us dollars and by 2005 it was expected to reach 30 billion dollars india can be the offshore outsourcing destination for digital games he said animation and multimedia would be the new opportunities for the students when they graduate he said book exhibitionas part of the science festival an exhibition of 200 latest books and other published material on biomedical research biotechnology digital communication and environment will be on display at the british library on st marks road in bangalore from january 8 to 20 supplementing the exhibition will be a demo of jgate for british science journals jgate the ejournal portal from informatics indialtd has an aggregated index to over 1500 british science and technology journals they provide bibliographic access to journals on the portal with links to full text available on the web