TechEBlog & Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of. This week, our editors have compiled a list of the "Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future", from solar powered LEDs to memory LCD screens, it's all here. Which ones are your favorites? 10. Citizen's Memory LCD Citizen Japan has unveiled a new LCD technology -- called "memory liquid crystal" -- that retains the image even when turned off. 9. The EyeMove PC combines the functionality of a digital projector and computer into one circular-shaped device. With the wireless controller you can forget the old mouse, your keyboard, joystick, you have it all in one with a touch screen wireless controller [Source] 8. The Scarpar is a futuristic board that "apparently gives you the best of snowboarding, surfing, skating and motocross". 7. 3D Video Game Combining interactive art and gaming, xBlocks delivers a unique experience to say the least.
Using standard game controllers, two opposing players must help their characters navigate in and around a three dimensional maze. [Source] 6. 5. 4. [Source] 3. 2. Science Now. :: News : OpenOffice.org : Forget Sun a. & Bill Gates demands open source | Open. I had to read this one a few times to believe it.
Bill Gates is demanding that AIDS researchers share or open source their results if they're to get some of the $287 million the Gates Foundation is putting into the search for AIDS vaccines. The Foundation has recognized that one of the forces slowing medical progress is greed -- commercial rivalries, bureaucratic rivalries, personal rivalries. The gift, which is the largest Foundation gift yet in the fight against AIDS, is aimed at turning that around. "We have to change the way we work," is the way Nick Hellman, the interim director of HIV projects at the Foundation, put it.
If you can change the way things work in AIDS vaccines, how about the world's other pressing challenges? I think it is. The Future of New York City: A Vision of 2. We are a city of 8 million people, give or take a few hundred thousand. But we are building a city for 9 million. Literally. Right now. That will be New York City’s total population just a couple of decades hence, and politicians, bureaucrats, developers, architects, and engineers are, as you read these words, figuring out how to fit another million people onto the collection of islands and peninsulas we call home.
We can’t just bulldoze and slap up some towers—we’ve learned some lessons from the sixties—and it isn’t just half a million new homes that we need. Those million need offices, factories, labs to work in. This is Tomorrowland—a new city, a city larger than San Francisco, built on top of the city we know. When New York didn’t get the Olympics or the Jets, there were lots of pitying articles about how Mayor Bloomberg’s (and Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff’s) big dreams had died. And New York is—finally—getting greener. But often in some peculiar locations.
Stimulation Of The Semicircu. By applying electrical currents across the heads of people while they walk, researchers have improved our understanding of how our vestibular system helps us maintain upright posture; at the same time, the researchers found that the stimulus could be applied in a way that allowed a person who was walking straight ahead to be steered by "remote control" without her balance being affected.
The findings are reported by Richard Fitzpatrick and Jane E. Butler of the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute and the University of New South Wales, Australia, and Brian L. Day of University College London in the August 8th issue of Current Biology, published by Cell Press. Known as bipedalism, our habitual upright posture is unique in the animal kingdom and has arisen through specific complementary adaptations of the body and brain. It has been believed that the key to human balance has come from a precise sense of--and ability to align the body to--the direction of gravity.
Scientists Learn How Brain Boots up to Pro. The same chemical in the body that is targeted by the drug Viagra also helps our brains “boot up” in the morning so we can process sights, sound, touch and other sensory information. The discovery could lead to a better understanding of major brain disorders, according to researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. “We’ve learned new information about how our brains process sensory information, which may help increase our understanding of what goes awry in conditions such as schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder and epilepsy,” said Dwayne Godwin, Ph.D., associate professor of neurobiology and anatomy and senior author of the study, reported on-line this week in the journal Neuroscience.
Through studying ferrets, the researchers set out to understand the role of nitric oxide, a small gaseous molecule with big roles in health. The drug Viagra acts by slowing down the breakdown of nitric oxide in the penis, leading to increased blood flow. PNNL NEWSROOM - Live Wire. July 10, 2006 PNNL Media Contacts, (509) 375-3776 A microbiologist discovers our planet is hard-wired with electricity-producing bacteria RICHLAND, Wash. – When Yuri Gorby discovered that a microbe which transforms toxic metals can sprout tiny electrically conductive wires from its cell membrane, he reasoned this anatomical oddity and its metal-changing physiology must be related.
A colleague who had heard Gorby’s presentation at a scientific meeting later reported that he, too, was able to coax nanowires from another so-called metal-reducing bacteria species and further suggested the wires, called pili, could be used to bioengineer electrical devices. It now turns out that not only are the wires and their ability to alter metal connected—but that many other bacteria, including species involved in fermentation and photosynthesis, can also form wires under a variety of environmental conditions. Tags: Energy, Fuel Cells, Batteries. News/2006/061016/full/061016-15... Populair.eu - Where do you get all those c. Original Signal - Transmitting Digg. Web reaches new milestone: 100 million sit. Story Highlights • The Web now has 100 million sites • There were 18,000 Web sites in August of 1995 • Web sites have become a way to bond and belong By Marsha Walton CNN Adjust font size: (CNN) -- Are your Web surfing fingers getting tired?
There may be a reason. Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company that has tracked Web growth since 1995, says a mammoth milestone was reached during the month of October. "Within that, there are some that are busy and updated more often, and that represents the active sites, which are at about 47 or 48 million," he said.
Bloggers, small businesses, and simplicity have combined to create the dramatic growth of sites, much of it just in the past two years. "The bottom line is it's much easier to create a Web site nowadays, and it's much easier to make money with a Web site," said Miller. There were just 18,000 Web sites when Netcraft, based in Bath, England, began keeping track in August of 1995. But what was the subject of Web site number one in 1989? 25 Sites We Cant Live Without -- The Observer | Review | Websites that chan. Johannes Gutenberg took the idea of printing by moveable type and turned it into a publishing system.
In doing so he changed the world. But he did not live to see the extent of the revolution he had brought about. If you'd told him in 1468 - the year he died - that the Bible he had published in 1455 would undermine the authority of the Catholic church, power the Renaissance and the Reformation, enable the Enlightenment and the rise of modern science, create new social classes and even change our concept of childhood, he would have looked at you blankly. But there lives among us today a man who has done something similar, and survived to see the fruits of his work.
He is Tim Berners-Lee, and he conceived a system for turning the internet into a publishing medium. Just over 15 years ago - on 6 August 1991, to be precise - he released the code for his invention on to the internet. And just about everyone did, with the result that the web grew exponentially. 1. eBay.com Users: 168m Users: 15m. Technology Research New. DigiTimes daily IT new. Science/Nature | Secrets of oce. The largest tear in the Earth's crust seen in decades, if not centuries, could carve out a new ocean in Africa, according to satellite data.
Geologists say a crack that opened up last year may eventually reach the Red Sea, isolating much of Ethiopia and Eritrea from the rest of Africa. The 60km-long rift was initially sparked by an earthquake in September. Follow-up observations reported in the journal Nature suggest the split is growing at an unprecedented rate. It betrays events deep beneath the ground, where some of the tectonic plates that form Africa are gradually moving apart from the Arabian plate, causing the crust to stretch and thin. As rifts appear, molten rock bubbles up from beneath the surface, hardening to form a new strip of ocean floor. Dr Tim Wright from the University of Oxford, UK, said if the ripping of the crust continued, the horn of Africa would eventually split off from the rest of the continent, in about a million years. Fundamental processes Space techniques. Walking on all fours with the ancestors -
A Yo-Yo Powered MP3 Player. Solar Storm Warning. + Play Audio | + Download Audio | + Historia en Español | + Join mailing list March 10, 2006: It's official: Solar minimum has arrived. Sunspots have all but vanished. Solar flares are nonexistent. The sun is utterly quiet. Like the quiet before a storm. This week researchers announced that a storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). That was a solar maximum. Right: Intense auroras over Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1958.
Dikpati's prediction is unprecedented. The key to the mystery, Dikpati realized years ago, is a conveyor belt on the sun. We have something similar here on Earth—the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, popularized in the sci-fi movie The Day After Tomorrow. Above: Earth's "Great Ocean Conveyor Belt. " The sun's conveyor belt is a current, not of water, but of electrically-conducting gas. Enter the conveyor belt. Right: The sun's "great conveyor belt. " Eco &Sustainability idea. Gain instant and exclusive access to over 5,000 of the most creative ideas, innovations and startups on our database and use our smart filters to take you direct to those that are most relevant to your industry and your needs.
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It covers subjects like intellect augmentation, personal knowledge management, mind-amplifying devices, self-evolving collective intelligence networks, knowledge technologies. It involves new unconventional teaching and learning methods like asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, concept maps, Personal Brain, and synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter. The duration of the course is 6 weeks between October 17 and November 30, along 6 weekly modules, as follows: Module 1: Roots & Visions of AugmentationModule 2: Social Bookmarking as Collective IntelligenceModule 3: Concept MappingModule 4: Personal Knowledge ManagementModule 5: The Extended MindModule 6: Self-Organized Co-Learning Important note about participation If you’re interested in registering for this course, you should know that the course is collaborative and participative, not a passive enjoyment of online lectures.
Schumer On Net Neutrality. Schumer On Net Neutrality by Matt Stoller , Mon Aug 28, 2006 at 12:26:20 PM EDT I'm no fan of Chuck Schumer's political decision-making, as many of you know. As a legislator, though, he can be great sometimes. He did single-handedly keep the Bankrupcty Bill from passing for four years in the Senate. And now he's out on net neutrality . "I believe that Internet access for consumers must be protected, and that's why I support net neutrality. This is a very very good thing. Chuck Schumer , net neutrality ( all tags ) Loading 0 recs Share Permalink. MIT student hacks his dorm room door lock. Miniature Computer. I-Techs Virtual Laser Keyboard (Home page) Cheoptics360: the future of 3D video is he. Computations New Leaf: Science News Online. Tesla Motor. What is Vitrification? 1) Living tissue is mostly made of water: 2) Water is part of a solution with other molecules in living things: 3) When tissue is cooled below freezing, water molecules gather together and form growing ice crystals: 4) Ice squeezes other molecules into a harmful concentrated solution: 5) On a cellular scale, ice forms first outside cells: 6) Growing ice causes cells to dehydrate and shrink: 7) Finally cells are left damaged and squashed between ice crystals: 8) Adding chemicals called cryoprotectants to water can prevent water molecules from gathering together to form ice: 9) Instead of freezing, molecules just move slower and slower as they are cooled: 10) Finally, at temperatures below -100° C, molecules become locked in place and a solid is formed. 11) Cryoprotectants are added to cells before deep cooling: 12) There is no damage to cells during cooling because no ice is formed: 13) Finally cells are vitrified and biological time is stopped: Asymptote Cool Guide to Cryopreservation.
The Internet Black Hole That Is North Kore. Computer Program Helps Reduce Drinking. Hewlett-Packard will apparently need close to two months to start fulfilling backorders for the (temporarily) revived TouchPad tablet. "It will take 6-8 weeks to build enough HP TouchPads to meet our current commitments, during which time your order will then ship from this stock with free ground shipping," read an email sent to customers and reprinted in a Sept. 7 posting on the Precentral.net blog. "You will receive a shipping notification with a tracking number once your order has shipped. "That would place the new TouchPads in consumers' hands sometime in either late October or early November. The reduced-price devices are not returnable, according to the email. HP originally acquired webOS as part of its takeover of Palm in 2010. The manufacturer originally had big plans for loading the operating system onto a variety of devices, including tablets, smartphones, desktops and laptops.
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