3.5 million robot workers may be needed by 2025, as Japan's population ages.Full Story
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
New LEED Museum Uses Solar Power
The Water + Life Museums complex in Hemet, California has a 540 watt, 3000 panel solar array that produces almost half of the complex’s power.Full Story
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
A Keyboard You Can Wash in Your Sink
This washable keyboard is something that has been needed for a long time. I am glad it finally arrived.Full Story
Plastic Blood Cells Could Help Deliver Oxygen
Red Blood Cells
Professor Joseph M. DeSimone University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has created artificial blood cells that might help patients with narrowed arteries.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Potential Herpes Vaccine goes to Phase II Trials
This has the potential to be a major breakthrough in the prevention and treatment of herpes HSV-2 infection.Full Story
Data Glove Allows Soldiers a Way to Access Their Computers on the Move
Rally Point has developed an input device for soldiers’ wearable computer systems. It's also a good idea for law enforcement, fire fighters, etc.Full Story
Inexpensive Multi-Touch White Board and Head Tracking 3D With Your Wii!!
These two new uses for the Wii are fantastic! Carnage Mellon Graduate student Johnny Lee has made two new hacks for the Nintendo Wii. You've got to watch the two videos below to believe it!Full Story
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Robots that Reassemble Themselves and Continue Their Task
On the surface this seems like a great idea, and maybe for dumb robots it would be, but, I just can't help thinking of Replicators from StarGate SG1.Full Story
Modular Robots at Work
New Green Collar Jobs Seem to be Arriving
The idea of green collar jobs is a really good one, and it does seem to be gaining momentum in the northwest.Full Story
Friday, April 25, 2008
Open Source Robotics is a Good Idea
There seems to be a big push for open source robotics in education. I hope it really happens.Full Story
Fire Fighting Robot
Although this is just a concept robot, it is good to see someone is starting to think of these things. A telepresence robot would work well in fire fighting.Full Story
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Nano Fiber Optics Have Now Been Made
Because of this discovery, bandwith will become so cheap it will almost be free. Note, the nano fiber optic strand is rapped around a human hair.Full Story
Finnish Electric Sail, Could Soon Be Riding the Solar Wind
There seem to be two great uses for the solar sail, to explore outside our solar system, and to provide transport with the solar system. It also might have a turbo charge on it.Full Story
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
SpaceX Gets a Contract With NASA
Who knows what this will really mean when NASA uses a phrase like, "an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for launch services." This indefinitely might happen.Full Story
Oil Billionaire Wants to Put 2700 Wind Turbines in the Texas Panhandle
T. Boone Pickens is going to build a wind farm to provide 4000 megawatts of power. That is enough to power about a million homes. Yeah! Way to go!Full Story
A Great Use For Old Subway Cars
New York City subway cars are being used to help make coral reefs. 714 cars have been used so far.Full Story
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Using Gas Hydrates Could be the Way of the Future
There are more gas hydrates in the ocean than all other fossil fuels combined. A new process is now letting us use it.Full Story
Oyster Blood Deposits Pearl-like Coating on Metals; it may have Aircraft Applications
Clemson University's Dr. Andrew Mount discovered that oysters use blood cells to deposit crystals that form shell and pearl, which was unknown before.Full Story
Monday, April 21, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
CAVEman "4D" Virtual Man Allows for Greater In Depth Study
This visual system allows you to "see" diseases working and the effects of interventions, such as drugs, on these diseases. After they add in real time scanning it will just keep getting more useful.Full Story
Friday, April 18, 2008
500,000 gigabytes in One Square Inch!
Your Ipod or Iphone might someday look like this, but carry everything and anything, with 150,000 times more storage capacity than your device has now!Full Story
Thursday, April 17, 2008
FloDesign Wind Turbine
This new design by FlowDesign, utilizing jet engine technology might be 3 times more efficient than regular wind turbines.Full Story
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Whirlpool Creates "Eco-System" For Kitchen
This is a great new system that uses the waste heat from one appliance to heat water for another one. It boasts a 70% energy efficiency over ordinary kitchens — yielding up to 24% in money savings.Full Story
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Meat Minus Living Animals!
While it might not seem appetizing now, vat grown meat will be the way of the future. It has so many advantages over, growing the animal feed, raising the animals, the distasteful slaughtering of animals, and the risk of contamination. PETA is even offering 1 million dollars for the first vat grown meat by 2012.Full Story
DALI Could be the Largest Telescope Ever Built
The Dark Ages Lunar Interferometer or DALI is a new proposed radio telescope to be put on the far side of the moon.Full Story
CO2 to DVDs to Carbon Sequestration
This new process by Thomas E. Müller and Toshiyasu Sakakura won't solve the CO2 problem, but, it would help.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Rocket Racing League Sets Date for First Race!
This is going to be really cool. I was at the Xcup Prize when the Rocket Racing League showed the first flybys, and just that was great.Full Story
Oilgae to Fuel our Cars!
Algae produces 30 times more energy per acre than corn or soybeans and can grow in salt water. This is a great biofuel.Full Story
New Explotation of Rivers by use of Vortex Power
Professor Michael M. Bernitsas is developing Vortex hydroelectric power. This is a great way to get power from rivers, and get rid of dams in the process. Converting Radiation Directly into Power
Using radioactive material allows 20 times more power to be extracted from radioactive decay than thermoelectric materials. This could be a great way to power spacecraft.Full Story
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Baby Mammoth is most Preserved Yet
Even though they say they are not planning to clone this mammoth, they are sequencing its genome, and that means somebody somewhere probably will.Full Story
