Development of Tiny Thorium Reactors Could Wean the World Off Oil In Just Five Years
Posted by admin in Science on 31. Aug, 2010 | 10 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 [...]
OLED glasses are your own personal 3D home theater
Posted by admin in Concept on 30. Aug, 2010 | 0 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 [...]
Nanoresonators Form Super-High-Resolution Display, With Pixels Eight Times Finer Than iPhone’s
Posted by admin in Computers, Hi-tech on 28. Aug, 2010 | 0 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 [...]
Timelapse Video Illustrates 500,000 Asteroid Discoveries
Posted by admin in Space on 28. Aug, 2010 | 0 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 [...]
Mysteriously, Solar Activity Found to Influence Behavior of Radioactive Materials On Earth
Posted by admin in Space on 26. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
How’s this for spooky action at a distance? The sun, at 93 million miles away, appears to be influencing the decay of radioactive elements inside the Earth, researchers say. Given what we know about radioactivity and solar neutrinos, this should not happen. It’s so bizarre that a couple scientists at Stanford and Purdue universities believe [...]
