Electrolux Design Lab 2010 Eight Finalists Reviewed. MICHAELJANTZEN.COM. Painting with light and strobe bullet time. Gallant Lab at UC Berkeley. 'Welcome to the Anthropocene' Earth Animation. The Giant Paper Airplane Flight. Cameron Dive First Attempt in Over 50 Years. Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature: Puns. Many names are curious because of how they sound, either because they sound like other words or because they sound funny on their own. Miscellaneous Abra cadabra (Eames & Wilkins) 1957 (clam) Now, alas, in the genus Theora. Agra cadabra Erwin (carabid) Agra dable Erwin, 2002 (carabid) From Spanish word 'agradable' meaning 'pleasing'. Agra memnon Erwin, 1987 (carabid) Agra vation Erwin, 1983 (carabid) Erwin says there is nothing aggravating about it. Agra phobia Erwin (carabid) Apopyllus now Platnick & Shadab, 1984 (spider) Arkansaurus Sattler, 1993 (Ornithomimid dinosaur) from Arkansas; now known as Arkanosaurus.
Atrochus Wierzejski, 1893 (rotifer) Ba humbugi Solem, 1983 (endodontoid snail) from Mba island, Fiji. Bombylius aureocookae Evenhuis, 1984 (bee fly) Carmenelectra shechisme Evenhuis, 2002 (fossil mythicmyiid) from Dominican amber. Castnia inca dincadu Miller, 1972 (castniid moth) [Bull. Cephise nuspesez Burns (skipper butterfly) pronounced "new species". Eurygenius (pedilid beetle) Iron Man-style jet pack 'Flyboard' lets you become a human dolphin. Machine can propel user 30ft into the air By Ted Thornhill Updated: 19:36 GMT, 6 December 2011 Ever dreamed of zooming through the water and leaping in the air like a dolphin? Well now you can thanks to an Iron Man-style jet pack called a Flyboard.
Built by water sports enthusiast Franky Zapata, from Marseille, the wearer straps his or her feet into shoes that are attached to powerful water jets, providing lift, with hand-guided nozzles stabilising the flight. Earlier this year much excitement was generated by the water-powered Jetlev jetpack, but the difference with the Flyboard is that you can dive back in the water and out again. Up from the depths: Zapata powers to the surface Take off: Zapata flies along just like a dolphin Sea-ing is believing: Zapata crashes back under the surface High life: The Flyboard can hit heights of 30 feet The other difference is the price. The power of the water is controlled by an operator on the jetski, which has to have at least 100hp to operate the Flyboard. 2011-11-09-lasers1.jpg (980×1737) Mirage effect from thermally modulated transparent carbon nanotube sheets. The single-beam mirage effect, also known as photothermal deflection, is studied using a free-standing, highly aligned carbon nanotube aerogel sheet as the heat source.
The extremely low thermal capacitance and high heat transfer ability of these transparent forest-drawn carbon nanotube sheets enables high frequency modulation of sheet temperature over an enormous temperature range, thereby providing a sharp, rapidly changing gradient of refractive index in the surrounding liquid or gas. The advantages of temperature modulation using carbon nanotube sheets are multiple: in inert gases the temperature can reach > 2500 K; the obtained frequency range for photothermal modulation is ~ 100 kHz in gases and over 100 Hz in high refractive index liquids; and the heat source is transparent for optical and acoustical waves.
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