The Artificial Womb Is Born And The World of the Matrix Begins ”One by one the eggs were transferred from their test-tubes to the larger containers; deftly the peritoneal lining was slit, the morula dropped into place, the saline solution poured . . . and already the bottle had passed on through an opening in the wall, slowly on into the Social Predestination Room.” Aldous Huxley, ”Brave New World” The artificial womb exists. Yoshinori Kuwabara, chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Juntendo University in Tokyo, has been working on artificial placentas for a decade. Kuwabara and his associates have kept the goat fetuses in this environment for as long as three weeks. For a moment, as you contemplate those fetal goats, it may seem a short hop to the Central Hatchery of Aldous Huxley’s imagination. The future of human reproductive medicine lies along the speeding trajectories of several different technologies. Between Womb and Air The Fetus as Patient ”I was frustrated taking care of newborns,” says N. But What Do We Want?
Energy-producing shell covered with hairs that can extract wind energy Belatchew Architects presents a visionary idea called STRAWSCRAPER, the first project to come out of their business called Belatchew Labs. STRAWSCRAPER is an extension of the south tower on Södermalm in Stockholm with a new energy-producing shell covered with hairs that can extract wind energy. What was originally meant to be 40 storeys became only 26. Belatchew Architects want to give South tower its original proportions and at the same time explore new technologies to create the future of urban wind farming. Furthermore, an additional aspect is revealed when the constant movement of the straws creates an undulating landscape on the facades.
Plastic film is future of 3-D on-the-go Ditch the 3D glasses. Thanks to a simple plastic filter, mobile device users can now view unprecedented, distortion-free, brilliant 3D content with the naked eye. This latest innovation from Temasek Polytechnic and A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering is the first ever glasses-free 3D accessory that can display content in both portrait and landscape mode, and measures less than 0.1 mm in thickness. "The filter is essentially a piece of plastic film with about half a million perfectly shaped lenses engineered onto its surface using IMRE's proprietary nanoimprinting technology," said Dr Jaslyn Law, the IMRE scientist who worked with TP on the nanoimprinting R&D since 2010 to enhance the film's smoothness, clarity and transparency compared to other films in the market. "Our breakthrough is a game-changing piece of plastic that simply fits onto current smartphones or tablets to give users breathtaking 3D graphics on their smart devices.
MIT's shapeshifting display lets you reach out and touch someone MIT has demonstrated a "Dynamic Shape Display" that can physically change shape to render 3D content. As Fast Company reports, the display is called inFORM, and it's a large surface that sits atop a series of pins, actuators, and linkages. By moving each actuator, inFORM can move the pin it's attached to up or down, allowing for a wide range of interactions. A projector mounted above the surface provides context to the shapeshifting pins, giving them color and highlighting depth. When used in conjunction with a Kinect sensor, inFORM gets a lot more interesting. MIT says it's exploring "a number of application domains" for inFORM. It's extremely impressive stuff, but it's just one step on a long path to what MIT calls Radical Atoms. MIT likens TUIs to a digital iceberg: just the tip of the digital content emerges "above water" into the physical realm.
New Invention Makes Ocean Water Drinkable Susanne Posel Occupy Corporatism July 2, 2013 Chemists with the University of Texas and the University of Marburg have devised a method of using a small electrical field that will remove the salt from seawater. Incredibly this technique requires little more than a store-bought battery. Called electrochemically mediated seawater desalination (EMSD) this technique has improved upon the current water desalination method. Richard Cooks, chemistry professor at the University of Austin said : “The availability of water for drinking and crop irrigation is one of the most basic requirements for maintaining and improving human health.” Cooks continued: “Seawater desalination is one way to address this need, but most current methods for desalinating water rely on expensive and easily contaminated membranes. Kyle Krust, lead author of the study said: “We’ve made comparable performance improvements while developing other applications based on the formation of an ion depletion zone.
How 3D Printing Actually Works Now that 3D printing — the process of making three-dimensional solid objects from digital designs — is available and affordable to individual consumers, it's piqued a lot of interest across the tech space in the past few years. From scale models, gifts and clothing to prosthetic limbs, hearing aids and the prospect of 3D-printed homes, the possibilities seem endless. The concept of 3D printing is by no means new, however. Chuck Hull invented and patented stereolithography (also known as solid imaging) in the mid-1980s, when he founded 3D Systems, Inc. But how do 3D printers actually work? Designing an Idea It all starts with a concept. Whichever program you choose, you're able to create a virtual blueprint of the object you want to print. If you're not particularly design-inclined, you can purchase, download or request ready-made designs from sites like Shapeways, Sculpteo or Thingiverse. The 3D Printing Process Now for the fun part. Pushing Innovation
21 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2013 Power plant claims to produce hydrogen by splitting water with sunlight The plant would use an array of mirrors to focus sunlight onto a huge towerThe tower heats up to 1,350 °C - enough to liberate hydrogen from steamScientists describe the process as the Holy Grail of a hydrogen economy By Ellie Zolfagharifard Published: 18:07 GMT, 1 August 2013 | Updated: 11:31 GMT, 14 November 2013 Scientists believe they have achieved the ‘holy grail’ of the green economy by designing a hydrogen production plant that can split water with sunlight. The University of Colorado at Boulder envisages an array of mirrors that would focus sunlight onto a central tower several hundred feet tall. The tower would heat up to around 1,350 °C - enough to liberate hydrogen from steam with the help of a metal oxide compound. A concept design of a hydrogen production plant that could fuel a sustainable green economy with sunlight and water. An array of mirrors focuses sunlight onto a central tower several hundred feet tall. This frees up hydrogen molecules for collection as hydrogen gas.
Dita Von Teese předvedla první šaty z 3D tiskárny - iDNES.cz 9. března 2013 16:23 Americká burleskní umělkyně Dita Von Teese jako první oblékla šaty z látky potištěné nejmodernější 3D tiskárnou a posetou krystaly. Předvedla je v New Yorku. Dita Von Teese v šatech z 3D tiskárny | foto: Albert Sanchez Černou róbu vyrobila tiskárna Shapeways na nejvyspělejší 3D tiskárně, která vytváří prostorové objekty nanášením několika vrstev. Róbu sešitou ze 17 potištěných kusů a posetou 13 tisíci krystaly od značky Swarovski navrhl Michael Schmidt. "Samotné šaty jsem navrhoval na iPadu, dolaďovali jsme je přes Skype, poslal jsem je elektronicky Francisovi a ten je poslal do tiskárny," citoval Schmidta server Foxnews.com.
L'article faux qui a rapporté 1,4 million de visites à BuzzFeed - Capture d'écran de BuzzFeed - Au lieu de faire quelque chose de productif comme finir le deuxième chapitre de mon livre (c'est en bonne voie de toute façon), j'ai passé une heure ce mardi 3 décembre à regarder comment l'Internet s'était fait avoir par un nouveau canular. Elan Gale, un producteur de The Bachelor et donc une des pires personnes de la planète, a passé une partie de son Thanksgiving à live-tweeter ce qu'il affirmait être une querelle avec une femme irritante portant «des jeans de maman» qui se plaignait trop bruyamment du retard de son avion. Gale lui a envoyé des boissons et des petits mots pour lui dire de se taire et de «manger une bite» («eat a dick» en anglais, expression utilisée pour répondre en marquant son énervement à une attaque verbale). publicité Internet a adoré, surtout BuzzFeed. Problème: l'histoire de Gale n'était pas vraie. BuzzFeed s'est moqué de moi Je ne dis pas que BuzzFeed devrait virer qui que ce soit. Malheureusement fréquent «Trop bon pour vérifier»
Graphene Batteries Offer 5-Second iPhone Charging Researchers at UCLA have discovered a way to make graphene batteries that charge super fast, are inexpensively produced, are non-toxic, and that blow current battery technology out of the water in terms of efficiency and performance. An iPhone powered by a graphene supercapacitor could charge in five-seconds. A MacBook powered by a graphene supercapacitor could charge 30-seconds. The new energy technology was developed by Richard Kaner, a member of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA where he is also a professor of chemistry and biochemistry. “To label discs using LightScribe, the surface of the disc is coated with a reactive dye that changes color on exposure to the laser light. The micro-supercapacitors created by Kaner and El-Kady are highly bendable and twistable and will be ideal for future flexible displays, e-paper, and wearable electronics. Graphene batteries sound almost too good to be true. [UCLA Newsroom Press Release]
The World’s First 3D Printing Pen that Lets you Draw Sculptures Forget those pesky 3D printers that require software and the knowledge of 3D modeling and behold the 3Doodler, the world’s first pen that draws in three dimensions in real time. Imagine holding a pen and waving it through the air, only the line your pen creates stays frozen, suspended and permanent in 3D space. Sound like magic? Well it certainly looks like it, watch the video above to see the thing in action. The 3Doodler was designed by Boston-based company WobbleWorks who recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to sell the miraculous little devices that utilizes a special plastic which is heated and instantly cooled to form solid structures as you draw. L’homme au même niveau que l’anchois dans la chaîne alimentaire Dans la chaîne alimentaire, l'homme ne se situe pas au sommet, comme il pourrait le penser, mais au même niveau que... les anchois et les cochons. Bien loin, donc, d'un super prédateur. C'est la conclusion d'une étude originale, visant à mesurer l'impact de la consommation humaine sur les écosystèmes, publiée dans les Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences lundi 2 décembre. Pour arriver à ce résultat déroutant, l'équipe conjointe de l'Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (Ifremer), de l'Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) et d'Agrocampus-Ouest a utilisé un outil classique en écologie, mais qui n'avait jamais été appliqué à l'homme auparavant : le niveau trophique, qui permet de positionner les différentes espèces dans la chaîne alimentaire. A la base de cette échelle, et donc tout en bas de la chaîne alimentaire, la valeur 1 correspond aux plantes et au plancton. Car manger un carnivore n'a pas le même impact que manger un végétal.
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