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Nuclear-powered aircraft so large other aircraft can land on them in our future?

Shane McGlaun, Oct 25th 2011 Discuss [20]

This is a very wild idea to me and I don’t think that many people would get behind the idea of an aircraft powered by a conventional nuclear reactor. However, if it were a new kind of nuclear energy that produces little radiation the support for a massive aircraft powered by a reactor using low energy nuclear reaction or LENR technology might make such an aircraft possible. LENR has been researched for decades and according to NASA Langley energy expert Joe Zawodny experimental evidence has proven LENR might be an extremely clean energy source. Read The Full Story

Vuzix secures Nokia technology license for see-through optics technology

Chris Burns, Oct 24th 2011 Discuss [1]

It appears that the folks at Vuzix have come one step closer to creating a perfect pair of displays in eyeglasses as they today collaborate with Nokia to enter into a technology license agreement to both develop and create see-through waveguide optics for near-eye display systems. This agreement is for head mounted displays as well as video eyewear, all of this based on Nokia's see-through EPE (Exit Pupil Expanding) optics technology. Will this bring your glasses into the display-toting future for a much easier way to tap into the science fiction of tomorrow? Let's see! Read The Full Story

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Tech groups using celebrities as spokespeople: a quick look

Chris Burns, Oct 20th 2011 Discuss [1]

You may have noticed over the past few weeks that celebrities are quickly becoming the spokespeople for technology products, and not only just in the mobile landscape. Smartphones are being promoted by sports stars, reality TV “celebrities” are taking on product launches, and no less than MC Hammer is bringing forth the idea that web search can be much more deep than it currently is. Is this the obvious next step for technology startups as well as established groups across the board? Let me show you three examples of celebrities as spokespeople that’ve popped up over the past couple of weeks in the tech space and you tell ME what you think about it.

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GM smart collision avoidance tech alerts drivers, won’t fix stupid

Shane McGlaun, Oct 20th 2011 Discuss [0]

I think most people that get behind the wheel of a car are decent enough drivers. Some of the people out there that drive are plain stupid though. You know the sort that drive 90 mph on the highway when it's raining so hard you can’t see in front of your car. Or the sort of driver in the 4x4 truck that thinks they can drive 75 while everyone else crawls along at 30 mph in a snowstorm. I don’t think there is enough tech in the world to make this sort of driver safer. Read The Full Story

Apple shares jump up on iPhone 4S launch day

Chris Burns, Oct 14th 2011 Discuss [1]

It appears that it's not just the hoards of iPhone lovers that are heading to the market to jam their hard-earned dollars in the pockets of Apple Computer, stocks have jumped - or steadily rose, however you want to look at it, by right around 3% in the morning hours of iPhone 4S launch day. Since 10AM local time on October the 14th, 2011, the same day the iPhone 4S was launched, until the time of this posting (approximately 3:36 PM local time the same day), APPL stock rose 12.07 points for a total of 2.96 percent and trade at $420.50 per share, this showing the stock as rising quite nicely since September 19th when it was then big news that it'd hit a record high at $413.23 per share. UPDATE: the Siri screenshot you see here is more recent - and higher! If only, as nearly everyone on earth is saying, we'd invested earlier. Read The Full Story

Cree lights up first LED highway project in China with more than a million LEDs

Shane McGlaun, Oct 14th 2011 Discuss [0]

CREE makes a bunch of different LED lighting products. LEDs are starting to go more mainstream today as a green replacement for traditional bulbs. The upside to the LED is that it needs less power than a traditional incandescent bulb and lasts much longer. The downside is that the LED lights are still much more expensive than others forms of green lighting and traditional bulbs. Read The Full Story

Faster than light neutrino puzzle solved?

Shane McGlaun, Oct 14th 2011 Discuss [21]

Last month we wrote about something that the researchers at the CERN particle research facility and the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy had stumbled across that rocked the physics world. The team of scientists though they had observed neutrinos that traveled faster than the speed of light. If true this would undermine the long-standing theory of special relativity Einstein came up with decades ago. Since the announcement, there have been lots of researchers trying to figure out how to debunk or how to prove that the neutrinos did travel faster than light. Read The Full Story

PayPal, S1, and NCR team for payments from ATM to individuals

Shane McGlaun, Oct 13th 2011 Discuss [0]

If you pick a random bank in your area and drive up to the ATM there is a very good chance that you will find the machine is made by NCR. The company has a huge amount of ATMs in service around the country and the world. NCR has announced that it is teaming up with PayPal and S1 to offer the ability for users to pay a PayPal account holder directly from the ATM. Read The Full Story

Dart programming language for web programming unveiled

Shane McGlaun, Oct 10th 2011 Discuss [7]

The fine folks over at the Chromium Blog have chosen to pull the covers off an entirely new programming language called Dart. The goal is to make Dart a new programming language specifically for designing web content. The Dart language is being shown off on the Chromium Blog as an early preview. Dart is described with three main goals. The first is to be a flexible, but structured language. Read The Full Story

Researchers working on nanorockets to deliver medications inside the body

Shane McGlaun, Oct 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

Scientists and researchers have been working for years on new and novel methods to deliver medications to a specific area inside the body. Among the applications for such technology is the ability to shoot medications directly to a tumor site to help reduce the side effects of the cancer treatment to the patient. Scientists have developed a new nanorocket that might be able to deliver these medications quickly to specific spots in the body. Read The Full Story

Boeing sends first 787 Dreamliner aircraft to ANA in Japan

Cory Gunther, Sep 27th 2011 Discuss [2]

Boeing has just signed and hand delivered the first ever 787 "Dreamliner" aircraft to All Nippon Airways in Japan. We can't really say hand delivered because this aircraft is simply massive. It's so big in fact, that they've even announced it twice. Bringing years of aircraft technology from Boeing into one of the biggest, and most technology filled planes to date. Read The Full Story

Perseid meteor photo shot from ISS

Shane McGlaun, Aug 15th 2011 Discuss [7]

This time each year you can step outside and see some really cool shooting stars as they plummet though the atmosphere. Almost all of them burn up during entry and leave glowing streaks behind for people to stare at. You can see the Perseid meteors from space as well as evidenced by this awesome photo shot by an astronaut on the ISS. Read The Full Story