10 Futuristic Materials Lifeboat Foundation Safeguarding Humanity Skip to content Switch to White Special Report 10 Futuristic Materials by Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board member Michael Anissimov. 1. Aerogel protecting crayons from a blowtorch. This tiny block of transparent aerogel is supporting a brick weighing 2.5 kg. Aerogel holds 15 entries in the Guinness Book of Records, more than any other material. Carbon nanotubes are long chains of carbon held together by the strongest bond in all chemistry, the sacred sp2 bond, even stronger than the sp3 bonds that hold together diamond. “Metamaterial” refers to any material that gains its properties from structure rather than composition. We’re starting to lay down thick layers of diamond in CVD machines, hinting towards a future of bulk diamond machinery. Diamonds may be strong, but aggregated diamond nanorods (what I call amorphous fullerene) are stronger. Transparent alumina is three times stronger than steel and transparent. inShare28 Materials
Heaven On Earth (8 Pics) For more fun facts, click HERE. robot adapts to injury Lindsay France/University Photography Graduate student Viktor Zykov, former student Josh Bongard, now a professor at the University of Vermont, and Hod Lipson, Cornell assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, watch as a starfish-like robot pulls itself forward, using a gait it developed for itself. the robot's ability to figure out how it is put together, and from that to learn to walk, enables it to adapt and find a new gait when it is damaged. Nothing can possibly go wrong ... go wrong ... go wrong ... The truth behind the old joke is that most robots are programmed with a fairly rigid "model" of what they and the world around them are like. If a robot is damaged or its environment changes unexpectedly, it can't adapt. So Cornell researchers have built a robot that works out its own model of itself and can revise the model to adapt to injury. "Most robots have a fixed model laboriously designed by human engineers," Lipson explained.
The Molecular Biology of Paradise 2012 March 12 - The Scale of the Universe Interactive Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 March 12 The Scale of the Universe - Interactive Flash Animation Credit & Copyright: Cary & Michael Huang Explanation: What does the universe look like on small scales? On large scales? Tomorrow's picture: dust before galaxies Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply.NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important NoticesA service of:ASD at NASA / GSFC& Michigan Tech.
Las impresoras 3D llevan la fábrica a casa Albert Arjona se paga el máster con un negocio casero. Imprime ecografías de embarazos con su impresora 3D. “Sesenta euros con IVA y portes incluidos”, dice el barcelonés. Desde que en 1995 a los estudiantes del MIT Tim Anderson y Jim Bredt se les ocurriera destripar una impresora para sustituir la inyección de tinta por un polvillo, las impresoras 3D han saltado de la gran industria al entorno doméstico. No es aún lo habitual, pero pronto lo será. La acelerada caída de sus costes, a una velocidad que no conocieron el ordenador ni la impresora láser, hace prever que en una década la impresora 3D será tan popular en los hogares como lo es hoy la convencional. Gracias a la inyección de plástico líquido o polvo de arena, de una de estas impresoras salen prótesis dentales o utensilios para el hogar pero, a diferencia de la impresora convencional, su tamaño es fundamental. En UltraSoun3dPrinted.com se ofrecen ecografías tridimensionales. Roger Uceda lleva 15 años trabajando en el futuro.
Is This The Future of Touchscreen Tech? Day of Glass 2 Video Will Blow Your Mind Gorilla Glass manufacturer Corning has unveiled a follow-up YouTube video to its wildly successful "A Day Made of Glass," providing another look into what the future could be like with the growth of glass touchscreen interfaces, from innovative chalkboards and activity tables in classrooms to uses for it in hospitals. Corning released two versions of "A Day Made of Glass 2" — one with a narrator and another, abbreviated version without commentary — the video follows the life of young Amy and her family as they go through their day using various products made of glass. Amy does classwork on a glass tablet, controls the temperature of the car from the backseat and even attends a field trip at the Redwood Forrest with an interactive signage that brings learning to life. Her teacher also works with students on interactive touchscreen activity tables. Corning expects these activity tables to be rolled out in the near future. "You can expect more from us though," Flaws said.
Will Life Be Worth Living In 2,000AD? What sort of life will you be living 39 years from now? Scientists have looked into the future and they can tell you. It looks as if everything will be so easy that people will probably die from sheer boredom. You will be whisked around in monorail vehicles at 200 miles an hour and you will think nothing of taking a fortnight's holiday in outer space. Your house will probably have air walls, and a floating roof, adjustable to the angle of the sun. oors will open automatically, and clothing will be put away by remote control. You'll have a home control room - an electronics centre, where messages will be recorded when you're away from home. You'll have wall-to-wall global TV, an indoor swimming pool, TV-telephones and room-to-room TV. The status symbol of the year 2000 will be the home computer help, which will help mother tend the children, cook the meals and issue reminders of appointments. Cooking will be in solar ovens with microwave controls. There's a lot more besides to make H.G.
How Quantum Suicide Works" A man sits down before a gun, which is pointed at his head. This is no ordinary gun; it's rigged to a machine that measures the spin of a quantum particle. Each time the trigger is pulled, the spin of the quantum particle -- or quark -- is measured. Depending on the measurement, the gun will either fire, or it won't. If the quantum particle is measured as spinning in a clockwise motion, the gun will fire. If the quark is spinning counterclockwise, the gun won't go off. Nervously, the man takes a breath and pulls the trigger. Go back in time to the beginning of the experiment. But, wait. This thought experiment is called quantum suicide.
TechCrunch This is what travel will look like in 2030, 2050 and 2100 Skyscanner's Future of Travel report predicts personalised hotel visitsBiometric scanning could revolutionise the airport check-in processUnderwater hotels will become mainstream and space holidaying possibleAirbus has developed renderings of their panoramic planes of the future By Katie Amey for MailOnline Published: 07:20 GMT, 24 April 2015 | Updated: 20:44 GMT, 24 April 2015 While time travel may be something that we've only seen in sci-fi films, some scientists believe it may be commonplace in as few as 85 years. From biometric scanning to iPad-controlled hotel rooms, glimpses into the future of travel have already begun popping up in airports and resorts around the world. Here, MailOnline Travel looks ahead at exactly what holidaymakers can expect from flights and accommodations in the future, and attempts to answer the age old question: when will teleportation become a reality? What does the future of travel hold? By 2030... In fact, we may not even need to wait a decade and a half.