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Power 3,000 Homes with a Lightening Bolt
2007-12-17 15:00:00 Steven LeRoy has shocking dreams. Some may even call them electrifying. He has developed a way to harvest lightening as an alternative power source. But it seems that he isn’t the only one sizzling over his invention. Alternate Energy Holdings is out to attack his research to benefit their bottom line. After majoring in electrical engineering ... More About: Science , Power , Green , Homes , Bolt
The Hypersonic Scramjet: NY to Tokyo in 2h
2007-12-15 03:44:00 Scramjet engines would be capable of flying from New York to Tokyo in two hours. They’ve been in development for decades and governments from around the world - USA, Australia and China - are finally making them a reality. So just how fast is a scramjet? You may need a bit of comparison: A Boeing 747 cruises ... More About: Technology , Scramjet , Cram
Underwater Hotel: Sleeping with the Fishes
2007-12-12 17:00:00 When you picture your perfect seaborne vacation it probably didn’t look as permanent as hanging out with Luca Debrazi. But if you’re dieing for the experience, between cement shoes and $10k a night, I’d take a room at the Hydropolis Underwater Hotel any day. The idea of building a hotel set in the deep blue isn’t ... More About: Travel , Architecture , Sleeping
Can Researchers Read Your Mind?
2007-12-10 15:00:00 Armed with a headset that can sense breathing patterns, heart rate, blink rate, temperature and motion, San Fransisco based Emsense says it has your thoughts down to a science. Their technology centers around an electroencephalography sensor (EEG) on the forehead and an algorithm that has been built upon three years of market research. Metrics are analyzed ... More About: Science , Business , Read , Mind
New Microwave Gun Puts an End to Car Chases
2007-12-05 18:00:00 Growing up in Southern California you see a lot of car chases on TV. They’re a sick sort of tradition, with an interruption to regularly scheduled programming and friends gathering around to watch. It’s the equivalent of LA’s NASCAR, the fans are looking for a wreck. The problem is they put lives at risk and ... More About: Technology , Lasers , Microwave , Hase
Black Boxes & Big Brother - Innovation Gone Wrong
2007-12-03 15:00:00 Put this harmless black box in your vehicle, U.K. insurer Norwich Union says, and we’ll lower your insurance rates. You might as well drive over your personal rights while you’re at it. By developing an advanced tracking system, Norwich intends to reward its best drivers with rate cuts. It factors in route, time of day, braking ... More About: Big Brother , Consumer , Innovation , Black , Wrong
November 2007?s Most Popular Articles
2007-12-01 20:37:00 House of the Future Flexes in its Off-Grid Glory: It’s the self-sustaining home of the future, on steroids. And all along you thought going green was for design challenged weenies? Flying Dragonfly Spies Go Everywhere Insects Can: Spy camera that is as small as an actual dragonfly. This self-stabilizing marvel can fly 30mph for 15 minutes, ... More About: Articles , Popular , November , November 2007 , Pula
A Robot Slave to Do All Your Menial Tasks
2007-11-28 18:51:00 Who doesn’t want a robot to clean the house, put the dishes back in the cupboard, feed the pets and clear a cluttered table? Those types of life sucking chores are the exact reason we always dream of having the little guys around in the first place. The problem with robots is that we are always ... More About: Technology , Robot , Tasks , Slave , Task
Bionic Man Becomes Reality with Exoskeleton
2007-11-26 15:00:00 In 2001 fourteen companies were bidding to make the first functional exoskeleton for the army. Now the hybrid man-machine has become a reality. I can hear it now, “We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better…stronger…faster.” ; Salt Lake City based Sarcos is well known as the creators ... More About: Technology , Reality , Bionic , Exoskeleton , Ality
Scan Your DNA to Find Out What Makes You Tick
2007-11-23 15:00:00 For the first time in history a company will be able to scan your DNA and tell you the history of your cells, where you’ve been for the past billion years and where your genetic future is going. 23andMe, a silicon valley startup with links to Google offers you the chance to shell out $999 ... More About: Science , Consumer , Find , Scan , Medical Research
The Resurgence of Supersonic Air Travel
2007-11-21 15:00:00 The death of supersonic air travel baffled me. In a world with unlimited capabilities and exponential advances in technology, the Concorde still used 1960’s technology. Then one day in 2003 it was retired and since there have been no commercial flights over Mach 1. Aerion, a private US based company plans to remedy that. Their supersonic ... More About: Technology , Travel , Air Travel , Urge
Lending Person-to-Person Helps You Beat the S&P
2007-11-19 15:00:00 Anyone would be weary to lend $50 to a stranger on the street, so why should you do it over the web? That’s because the numbers at Prosper.com, the first person-to-person lending marketplace in the US, have proven to be quite lucrative. The website came to my attention after it was mentioned by commenter Drew Smith ... More About: Economics , Credit Cards , Person , Beat , Lending
Tattoo Design Evolves with 3-D Previews
2007-11-16 15:00:00 Taking the risk out of getting a bad tattoo is a difficult proposition. Complicated designs are becoming commonplace for tattoo artists. Yet even the masters have trouble with work that has extra sharp details. Not to mention that you never know how it will turn out until it’s completed. That was a problem for Loïc Zimmerman, ... More About: Design , Tattoo
House of the Future Flexes in its Off-Grid Glory
2007-11-14 15:00:00 It’s the self-sustaining home of the future, on steroids. And all along you thought going green was for design challenged weenies? The zeroHouse by Scott Specht is futuristic architecture that laughs in the face of ‘the man.’ This setup is made to work completely off the grid. It generates all of it’s own power by means ... More About: Future , The Future , Grid , Glory
Mind Controlled Brain Machine Implants
2007-11-12 15:00:00 Microchips in your head? It’s nothing to panic over, brain machine interfaces have been around for a while now. They are slowly beginning to fulfill their role as a functional tool for people with disabilities. With them, patients are able to move a computer cursor, move their wheelchair or jerkily pinch at something with a ... More About: Science , Machine , Mind , Brain , Implants
Lightsabers and Opera Singers to Cure AIDS?
2007-11-07 19:03:00 We’re all so excited to see lasers used as light sabers instead of key chain pointers. The gap between the two may actually prove to unite us against a common enemy. No, it’s not the Sith. Viruses and diseases are being targeted by groundbreaking laser research. Currently, lasers can cause more harm than good, sometimes destroying ... More About: Science , Lasers , Opera , Singers , Cure
1,000 Year Forest Clock, a Monument to Change
2007-11-05 15:00:00 Time is fleeting, especially in the span of 1,000 years. How would you convey the passage of time over ten generations as an art piece? Greg Blonder, the former Bell Labs chief scientist has an inventive and elegant solution. TiWalkMe is a concept design that would have a forest planted along a ribbon of land in ... More About: Clock , Change , Forest , Year , Chang
Dragonfly Spy Cameras Go Everywhere Insects Can
2007-11-02 16:38:00 As if insects weren’t bad enough already. Now you’re going to have to keep an eye on more than just the ones that bite. That’s because the day has finally come, the DelFly II, developed by the Delft University of Technology is a dragonfly and a spy camera all rolled into one. This little critter ... More About: Insects , Cameras , Dragonfly , Drago
New Device Brings Virtual Sight to the Blind
2007-10-31 15:00:00 Braille, in its original form, has been helping the blind read since 1821. It’s static, plain and unmoving. Sounds like it’s also time for a change. A blend of technologies from the National Institute for Standards and Technology hopes to push the threshold of reading to seeing by incorporating images and simple animations. A computer translates ... More About: Virtual , Device , Blind , Sight
October 2007 Most Popular Articles
2007-10-30 03:18:00 Isengard Desert Tower Will Make Its Own Energy: The Burj Al-Taqa Energy Tower in the Middle East will produce zero emissions by generating all its power from the sun, wind and water. Suzuki Unveils the Jetsons Car Inside a Car: The next generation in fuel efficiency and sustainable mobility, a pod inside a larger vehicle. Better ... More About: Articles , Popular , October 2007 , October , Pula
Microlending: Earn Money while Ending Poverty
2007-10-26 16:00:00 My introduction to microfinance was during my visit to India about two years ago. I heard that a banking institution was loaning low-income households and businesses amounts that ranged from $50-$500 to be paid back at 3% per year over 3 years. My first thought was that the default rate, or unlikelihood of paying back the ... More About: Economics , Credit Cards , Money , Earn Money , Poverty
Websites to Help You Choose the Next President
2007-10-24 18:00:00 So I admit, I tend to tune politics out. That is, unless it involves issues I’m passionate about. Like many of you I took political science classes in school, yet I could never identify myself clearly within a political party. I tend to sway with the issues. So then who should I vote for this ... More About: President , Web 2 , Websites , Choose , Resident
Robots Get So Small They Can Fit in Arteries
2007-10-22 17:34:00 What has six legs, smaller than a grain of salt and is designed clear blocked arteries? Give up? It’s a new microscopic robot that was produced by the Chonnam National University in Korea. This little crab-like device was designed to release a chemical that will immediately clear obstructions to the heart. The legs are made of ... More About: Science , Robots , Small , So Small , Robo
Isengard Desert Tower Will Make Its Own Energy
2007-10-19 17:35:00 What does ?300 million buy a sheikh in the Middle East when he asks for a high rise that is not only beautiful but radically innovative? The Burj Al-Taqa (Energy Tower ) will look like the tower Isengard from the Lord of the Rings. You might even be fooled into believing there is a wizard inside. ... More About: Architecture , Green , Make
Cheating Death Part II: Uploading Your Brain
2007-10-17 17:45:00 Transhumanism is the name, uploading your brain to a computer is the game. Neuroscientists, biologists and futurists met at the World Transhumanist Association’s ninth annual meeting last week to discuss the viability of a shocking acceleration in human evolution: fusing man and machine. Ideas include wrapping the brain in plastic, slicing it with lasers and diamond ... More About: Science , Cheating , Death , Part , Brain
Power of Lightning for More than Flux Capacitors
2007-10-16 08:15:00 That’s right, the 1.21 gigawatt’s that hit the clock tower in Back to the Future will do more than power the flux capacitor. It’s going to be channeled directly into your home. An innovative way of generating and harvesting lightning has been proposed by Steve LeRoy in Illinois as the next move in environmentally friendly power. In ... More About: Science , Power , Lightning , Green
Anti-Marketing Reinvents the Music Industry
2007-10-12 18:18:00 You may have noticed that the music industry hasn’t exactly been doing well lately. Fans fail to see the value of purchased music when they can go online and download albums for free. Smashing Pumpkins has released their music for free via website. Radiohead recently released its new album, In Rainbows, for whatever price you chose ... More About: Marketing , Business , Music , Industry , Anti
Batteries that Are Woven Into Clothing
2007-10-10 18:13:00 The U.S. Army has commissioned an ultra futuristic machine that weaves microscopic fibers into soldier’s uniforms in order to generate and store power. The fibers will cross section with up to three different materials such as plastic, metal and fabric to create rechargeable batteries and wearable fuel cells. As of now a five day mission ... More About: Technology , Clothing , Batteries , Erie , Cloth
Scientist Poised to Create the First Artificial Life
2007-10-08 17:18:00 Right here in San Diego biologist Craig Ventre teeters on the verge of creating the first artificial life form on Earth. His group has created the first synthetic chromosome from lab materials, a feat in itself that is nothing short of magnificent. They’ve previously introduced the genome into dead bacteria, completely changing its makeup. Now the ... More About: Science , Life , Scientist , Artificial Life , Create
Your Body as a 3D Avatar in Your Doctors Office
More articles from this author:2007-10-06 08:30:00 Heath care records have just gone to the next level, or at least IBM wants it that way. They have developed software that turns medical data into a visual 3D image for doctors. The Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine allows doctors to look under the skin to review previous injuries, the cardiovascular system and muscle tissue. ... More About: Technology , Doctors , Office , Body , Avatar 1, 2, 3 |
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