Tag Archive for 'science'
It looks like the dream of flexible and stretchy electronics will come true sometime in the semi-near future. A group of scientists at the University of Tokyo have recently developed a material that both conducts electricity and is made of a rubbery material that can be stretched to more than twice its size.
Mammograms are one thing that if you bring it up in a room full of women, you’re bound to here a bit of grumbling. They are uncomfortable and apparently not always that accurate. Well now there is a new method in the works that is more accurate and one that is hopefully less [...]
Women progressing in the technology field is often a hot topic. Mainly because study after study says that women are not interested in technology, much less want to work in a field involving it. For those of us that do enjoy technology, that are female, those studies tend to annoy the piss out [...]
These DIY batgoggles may have a well-intentioned purpose - to teach the principles of echo-location to kids visiting a science center - but they also could make midnight paintballing a whole lot more interesting (and/or painful). Bleeping angrily whenever an object or person is in front of you, they’re part of Suneth S. Attygalle’s “Dynamic User-centered Research [...]
When you’re playing a round of Halo, which would you say you enjoyed more, killing, or being killed? That’s easy, no one likes to lose, which is why we spend the entire time running around shooting at people. If we actually enjoyed dying, we’d just stand out in the open and wait to be [...]
Next time you flight over Phoenix, take a look outside the window, you may find world’s largest parabolic mirrors, 2,700 of them, spread over a 3-mile-square stretch of desert about 70 miles southwest of Phoenix.
So this company sends you a kit, and you send it back with some saliva (drool) and a thousand dollars and they’ll genotype your ass. You they check about 600,000 data points in your DNA and can inform you of bad things to come, such as inherited defects, a predisposition to certain health conditions, things [...]
The Wang’s nano-squad at Georgia Tech has developed a microfiber-infused nanogenerator to harvest energy from physical movement. The fiber can be embedded into human wearable shirt, then harness power from simply walking around or even from a slight breeze.
This little glider can power itself for months on end, well, at least its movement could be powered by itself. It still needs battery power for all the electronics inside that make it useful, but it can use the oceans warm upper layer and cool lower layer to move.
The space tourism company Virgin Galactic unveiled a new model of the commercial spaceship, SpaceShip Two rocket plane and WhiteKnight Two mothership in New York today. The owner Richard Branson says he is hoping the new design will provide paying passengers into space on a regular basic next year. The commercialize space business from [...]
