March 2012
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800 pound paper airplane
The plane, aptly named Arturo’s Desert Eagle, weighed 800 pounds and stretched 45 feet long with a 24-foot wingspan. The museum constructed it out of falcon board, a kind of corrugated cardboard, as part of its Giant Paper Airplane Project, the goal of which is to generate interest in aviation and engineering among young people.
Arturo designed and folded his plane for the competition,...
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Perpetual Ocean
This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through Decmeber 2007. The visualization does not include a narration or annotations; the goal was to use ocean flow data to create a simple, visceral experience. This visualization was produced using NASA/JPL’s computational model called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean,...
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Rejected patents on genes
Amid all the hype over the federal health care law before the Supreme Court, you might have missed this even more relevant news: The high court rejected an appeals court ruling allowing genes to be patented. The case involves two genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer, patented by Myriad Genetics Inc.
The ruling is not a final decision, but sends the case back down to the district court for...
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Boston Dynamics "Big Dog"
BigDog is funded by (DARPA) in the hopes that it will be able to serve as a robotic mule. to accompany soldiers in terrain too rough for conventional vehicles. Instead of wheels or treads, BigDog uses four legs for movement, allowing it to move across surfaces that would defeat wheels. The legs contain a variety of sensors, including joint position and ground contact.Approximately 50 sensors are...
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Windows 8 tablet, just as Crisp as the ipad3?
Windows 8 calls for three standard scaling percentages that ensure applications written for the operating system are functional and attractive no matter what size screen they are on, so long as they meet the minimum display specs a senior program manager on the Windows user experience team.
The minimum requirement is 1024 by 768 to allow more than bare-bones layouts, to fall in line with most...
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ipad 3 increasing pixel density 200%
“Some might be curious about the new iPad screen. For this screen, Apple has chosen a scale factor of 200%. The new screen has twice the pixel density (132 PPI to 234 PPI) on the same size screen. Because iOS and developers only need to support the predefined resolutions, they only need to design for this one additional scaling factor. In the case of iPad 2 compared to new iPad the 200%...
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Navy sails 1,200 miles
Newt Gingrich may mock algae as a source of clean fuel, but the U.S. Navy’s got no problem with it. In fact, the Navy is extending its use of biofuels derived from the stuff.
Last November, a remotely controlled destroyer using a 50-50 blend of algae-derived, hydro-processed oil and a standard petroleum fuel made a 17 hour trek 150 or so miles up the California coast from San Diego to...
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Human connectome project
The complex architecture of the human brain and how its billions of nerve cells communicate has baffled the greatest minds for centuries. But now, new technology is allowing neuroscientists to map the brain’s connections in ever greater detail. The creation of a map, or “connectome” as it has been dubbed, is raising hopes that brain disorders like autism and schizophrenia will...
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Ramping up SpaceX
The first flight of a commercial vessel to the International Space Station in late April will signal a bigger role for the private sector and open up space tourism opportunities. SpaceX, owned by Internet entrepreneur and PayPal founder Elon Musk, made history with its Dragon launch in December 2010, becoming the first private company to send a spacecraft into orbit and back, under a contract...
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Bill Gates on the Future of Nuclear Power
Bill gates predicts Terrapower, the next generation nuclear power developer he’s invested in, will build a new nuclear reactor by 2022, and have a fully functional power plant by 2028. Gates has said that nuclear power is critical in replacing fossil fuel energy and cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Mr. Gates says he’s invested in TerraPower “not because I expect to make a ton of...
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o2 Pursuit Air powered Motorcycle
Using nothing more then compressed air the o2 pursuit is the cleanest non burning dirtbike ever made.
O2 is indeed a wonderful, stylish and green commuting dirtbike that can refuel in less then 2 hours costing nothing more then the electricity used to fuel it. A final year Bachelor of Design student, has designed and developed the O2 Pursuit, a functional prototype of a motorcross bike. Mr...
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methane Ice fuel of the future?
The sedimentary methane hydrate reservoir probably contains 2–10 times the currently known reserves of conventional natural gas. This represents a potentially important future source of hydrocarbon fuel. Methane hydrate, sometimes referred to as ice that burns, is a strange lemon looking material that exists naturally in huge quantities in a number of places around the world, and locks up vast...
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China's monopoly on rare earth material
The US, Europe and Japan have lodged a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization over China’s export of rare earths. The US, EU, and Japan argue that by setting export restrictions such as quotas and taxes, China artificially lowers domestic prices and boosts domestic supply, thus granting local manufacturers an advantage against foreign competition. As a result, Chinese companies...
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Brain-Enhancing Drugs improve mouse memory
A new Drug enzyme PKR has shown to dramatically improve learning and memory in mice. The new molecule could show promise as a therapy for Alzheimer’s disease in humans, researchers say. The treatment involves the enzyme PKR, which protects against viral infections. It serves two functions in the brain, acting as a stress responder that can cause cell death and regulating synaptic activity as it...
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Lithium Air Battery With a 500-Mile Range
IBM thinks it’s on a breakthrough lithium-air battery’s that can theoretically store 1,000 times more energy than today’s lithium ion battery. The energy density could effectively increase electric vehicle’s range from 100 miles to 500 miles. This research on lithium air batteries has been on going since 2009 when IBM first started the Battery 500 project. Scientists predict...
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IBM Watson Gets a Job....Oncologist
IBM partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering to develop tools to help improve decision making for diagnosis and therapy in cancer. What Watson can do is read and understand huge volumes of information. There is so much information being developed in health care in general, with Watson having the ability to understand all this information out there and the rapid increase in cpu power, Watson is...
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Google Geothermal invest $10million
The energy from the heat beneath the earth’s surface is essentially an unlimited resource. Google invested $10.25 million in investments in a breakthrough energy technology called Enhanced Geothermal Systems.
Part of the $10.25million also includes funding for research on next-generation geothermal resource mapping, EGS information tools, and a policy agenda for geothermal energy. MIT...
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Woolly Mammoth found in Syberia
Russian and South Korean scientists have signed a deal on joint research intended to recreate a woolly mammoth, an animal which last walked the earth some 10,000 years ago. Stem cell scientists are now setting their sights on the extinct woolly mammoth, after there remains were discovered. The South Korean foundation said it would transfer technology to the Russian university, which has already...
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yamaha Y125 Moegi 125cc gets a amazing 188-220mpg!
One of my favorite 2012 motorcycle, a 125 cc motorcycle that is so lightweight gets 188-220mpgs. With rising gas prices i can see these motorcycle selling extremely fast. Basically the next generation of Yamaha first motorcycle! Unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show in November, the Yamaha Y125 concept is modeled on the YA-1, the company’s first motorcycle. But where the YA-1 weighed 140 Kg and was...
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Oxygen Concentrators into a blow torch?!
Oxygen a gas that we breath every second of the day we often forget that this gas can become flammable! A man took a couple oxygen concentrators, normally for the use of the elderly had a strong enough pressure to create a giant flaming torch. Oxygen a gas alone can achieve extremely high temperatures, creating this beautiful blue flame as he calls it his light saber. Made with 3 EX-15 Oxygen...
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Slimy future
Algae may be the future of oil, small single cell’s algae contains as much as 40% oil content. The advantage of this plant over more common plants is its ability to produce thousands of gallons of oil no bigger then a common pool. Here is a video detailing the process of how algae can be turned into a useable oil. One of the leading companys in this field is Solix biosystemsa leading...
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snack on this CGI
Nothing like great CGI to get your taste buds going. Here’s a great creamy snack made in today’s greatest animation software, enjoy. videos on my blog »»>
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