Posted by admin in Science on 31. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Thorium One ton of thorium can produce as much energy as 200 tons of uranium and 3.5 million tons of coal, according to the former director of CERN. An abundant metal with vast energy potential could quickly wean the world off oil, if only Western political leaders would muster the will to do it, a [...]
A new breakthrough in cell regeneration could lead to the repair of damaged hearts Heart disease remains one the biggest killers in the Western world. When a heart attack or heart failure occurs, permanent damage often affects the heart, destroying live cells and leaving the patient with irreversible scarring. This scarring can often lead to [...]
The Tevatron Accelerator An interesting blog post from University of Padua physicist Tommaso Dorigo is churning up the rumor mill this morning, and it’s so tantalizing we can’t help but engage in a little rumormongering ourselves. So without any evidence or proof, we’re just going to dive right into the meat of the matter: there’s [...]
The Fusion Core of Suppes’ Homemade Reactor Need a weekend project around the house? Mark Suppes, web developer by day, has built his own nuclear fusion reactor in a Brooklyn workspace. It kind of makes that project car you’ve got rusting in the garage seem lame by comparison. Suppes’ reactor – it’s about the size [...]
You know the Bat Computer, Batman’s machine that can answer any question? Well, IBM has been working on developing something like it for well on three years now, and now the company feels that the machine is nearly ready for prime time. Literally — called "Watson," the Q&A supercomputer is scheduled to appear on Jeopardy! [...]
Posted by admin in Computers on 02. Sep, 2010 | No Comments
Apple’s shrunk down Apple TV The “one more thing” at Apple’s September 1 event was an updated Apple TV. Apple has certainly cranked up the ol’ shrink ray for a form factor that is 80 percent smaller than the previous generation. The rumored addition of apps didn’t eventuate nor did the rebranding to “iTV” but, [...]
Posted by admin in Electronics on 01. Sep, 2010 | No Comments
Cheyenne Crow from Exmovere Holdings with child wearing Exmobaby pajamas Seems not even babies are safe from the advances in wearable technology. Nowadays, unborn children can tweet or listen to music and fully-fledged infants can wear a suit that changes color when they have a fever. The latest wearable concept is the Exmobaby sleep suit [...]
Posted by admin in Concept on 30. Aug, 2010 | No Comments
Carl Zeiss has been making their Cinemizer video glasses for a few years, but now they added 3D capability for home theater and gaming applications. The Cinemizer Plus video glasses have a tiny 16:9 format OLED screen in each eyepiece, with a native resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. The resulting field of view is [...]
Posted by admin in Computers, Hi-tech on 28. Aug, 2010 | No Comments
It’s Only Blurry Because It’s Magnified The world’s smallest University of Michigan logo, magnified thousands of times. Apple is justifiably proud of their so called "retina display", but a new display technology promises to make it look like about as sharp as a worn out 1977 Sylvania Superset. This picture might look fuzzy, but that’s [...]
Posted by admin in Space on 28. Aug, 2010 | No Comments
500,000 Asteroids Discovered From 1980 to 2010 In this amazing video of the solar system, the asteroids that were discovered from 1980 to 2010 appear in the sequence as they were discovered. It’s very cool to watch the process of discovery. You can observe patterns, as technological innovations come online and spur new batches of [...]
