Top New Inventions of 2011. The Bed Bug Detective Who doesn't know what bed bugs? They are tiny, difficult to get rid of, and worst of all they suck your blood and leave horrible marks on your body. Have you seen the commercials on television with the dogs especially trained to sniff and locate bed bugs? It costs on average about $40,000 to train such a dog and that inspired mechanical engineer, Chris Goggin from Wilmington, NC, to invent a portable, electronic nose that can sniff out bed bugs as well as any bloodhound. According to the Star News, Goggin's Bed Bug Detective uses a digitized organic compound sensor that detects bed bugs by detecting two bed bug-specific pheromones at concentrations as small as 200 parts per million in the air.
Chris Goggin, a seasoned innovator, holds several patents, and whose previous inventions include: military missile electronics, the George Foreman Spin Fryer, and fuel-tank mechanisms for the F-22 Raptor jet. The 2011 PopSci Invention Awards. Year round cleaner air inside commercial buildings, better insulation, and it PUTS OUT FIRES. Hello, My son and I invented the Ceiling Firefighter(TM) Published US Patent No. 61/272,800 with the publication date of 04 NOV 2009 The Ceiling Firefighter works year round to refresh the air quality of commercial buildings by taking advantage of the leaked air of the buildings air duct system - the very same air pressure that disperses the toxins found in conventional ceiling tiles.
As well the Ceiling Firefighter also improves ceiling insulation performance. Even better the Ceiling Firefighter is there when a fire breaks out and puts the fire OUT. The Ceiling Firefighter also resolves the six known hazards and flaws of conventional ceiling tiles: (1) only slow the spread of fire, (2) asbestos media, (3) cause more smoke during an active fire, (4) do little to save lives, (5) do little to save property, and (6) provides less insulation than the Ceiling Firefighter. Sincere thanks, Trillion-frame-per-second video: Researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow. MIT researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion exposures per second.
That's fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling the length of a one-liter bottle, bouncing off the cap and reflecting back to the bottle's bottom. Media Lab postdoc Andreas Velten, one of the system's developers, calls it the "ultimate" in slow motion: "There's nothing in the universe that looks fast to this camera," he says.
The system relies on a recent technology called a streak camera, deployed in a totally unexpected way. The aperture of the streak camera is a narrow slit. The image produced by the camera is thus two-dimensional, but only one of the dimensions -- the one corresponding to the direction of the slit -- is spatial. The camera was intended for use in experiments where light passes through or is emitted by a chemical sample.
But it's a serious drawback in a video camera. Doing the math "It's very interesting work. Whole new meaning for thinking on your feet: Brains of small spiders overflow into legs. Smithsonian researchers report that the brains of tiny spiders are so large that they fill their body cavities and overflow into their legs. As part of ongoing research to understand how miniaturization affects brain size and behavior, researchers measured the central nervous systems of nine species of spiders, from rainforest giants to spiders smaller than the head of a pin. As the spiders get smaller, their brains get proportionally bigger, filling up more and more of their body cavities.
"The smaller the animal, the more it has to invest in its brain, which means even very tiny spiders are able to weave a web and perform other fairly complex behaviors," said William Wcislo, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. "We discovered that the central nervous systems of the smallest spiders fill up almost 80 percent of their total body cavity, including about 25 percent of their legs. " Top News. The strangest recent scientific discoveries - by Nora Carver. Nora Carver's image for: "The Strangest Recent Scientific Discoveries" Caption: Location: Image by: It is human nature to want to know the how and the why of everything.
Sometimes those curious inclinations can lead us to some pretty strange and rather unusual places. 1. 2. 3. 4.Bat Bugs evolve fake genitals to avoid sex injuries. 5.A Salamander's tounge is the worlds most explosive muscle. 6.Cockroach learning behavior. 7. 8. 9. 10. So you can see quantam leaps and photon torpedoes aren't the only things we have a curiosity to learn about!.