IBM’s annual list of five innovations set to change our lives in the next five years
Posted by admin in Concept, Hi-tech on 29. Dec, 2010 | 1 Comment
IBM has announced its fifth annual Next Five in Five – a list of five technologies that the company believes “have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years.” While there are no flying cars or robot servants on the list, there are holographic friends, air-powered batteries, [...]
Heat-Channeling Carbon Nanotubes Produce 100 Times More Energy than Li-ion Batteries
Posted by admin in Science on 09. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
"Thermopower waves" could be a brand-new way to produce electricity Nanotube Heat Wave And it burns, burns, burns … Johnny Cash can’t have known about carbon nanotubes when he sang about that burning ring of fire, but MIT scientists have shown how the tiny tubes can channel a ring of heat that creates electrical current [...]
IBM forecasts the next 5 big ideas for the next 5 years
Posted by admin in Future on 29. Dec, 2009 | 0 Comments
IBM predicts smarter buildings, transportation, water systems, medical will impact cities in the next five years Casting one’s eye into a crystal ball is a risky undertaking that can leave the forecaster as visionary or fool – particularly if they are short term predictions that can easily be checked. But that hasn’t deterred the soothsayers [...]
