A battery from an orange!
There’s plenty of talk about alternative energy options out there, but this battery powered by an orange has to be one of the more interesting attempts at it. The result is pretty cool looking to boot....
View ArticleWindows turns 27 today.
With all of the hoopla surrounding the release of Windows 8, you may have missed the fact that the Windows operating system itself has just turned 27 years old. These days we tend to think of the...
View ArticleGet your photo – in 3D!
A couple of month’s ago, Makerbot opened the first retail 3D printing store in the U.S., located in the hip confines of New York’s lower Manhattan area. Now the company has taken another step towards...
View ArticleCompact DNA analyser works in under 25 minutes …
In the paranoid future of the genetically discriminatory security state, your life will be defined by your DNA, and access will be controlled by machines that instantly read samples of your genetic...
View ArticleFinally … a touchscreen that you can actually feel.
No longer will we have to slave over smartphones with buttons you can’t touch. Finally, a touchscreen has been developed that feels like touching actual buttons. Kyocera has created a touchscreen that,...
View ArticleA breath test for cancer diagnosis
Breath tests could potentially be used to help diagnose colorectal cancer, a new study has discovered. The work was led by Donato F Altomare, managing director of the Department of Emergency and Organ...
View ArticleMade in India … a wristwatch that protects women!
Imagine you are walking. Alone. Down a dark street. A man approaches. He gets aggressive. What do you do next? Look at your watch! The Indian government unveiled early plans for a new device it hopes...
View ArticleHow to analyse fatty acids using gas chromatography …
With an increased interest in studying the health effects of fatty acids, it is essential to understand the different means to analyze them. Fatty acid methylesters (FAME) are created from an alkali...
View ArticleA new method to harness solar power …
A new method of harvesting the Sun’s energy is emerging, thanks to scientists at UC Santa Barbara’s Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Materials. Though still in its infancy, the...
View ArticleScientists reverse memory loss in brain cells …
Neuroscientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have taken a major step in their efforts to help people with memory loss tied to brain disorders such as...
View ArticleThe power of a thousand suns!
IBM is rethinking the solar panel. A team of scientists led by the tech company has been awarded a three year $2.4 million grant to develop a solar power generator that’s capable of concentrating the...
View ArticlePrint your own shoes!
Pensar Studios has conceived of a very exclusive shoe, one that only fits you. And the buying process is nothing if not thorough. You first outfit a pair of regular old sneakers with pressure sensors...
View ArticleHow about a 31 inch monitor?
Credit: ASUS ASUS has done small, and now the company has unveiled something in the complete opposite direction. The future is bigger than ever before. You’re probably on a 20ish-inch monitor with a...
View ArticleSolar powered rickshaw.
Rickshaws are a standard fixture in big cities. We have carts pulled by bikes here in New York City, London has similar vehicles, and places such as Bangkok, Thailand have zippy little cartspowered by...
View ArticleIs this is a solar car, or what?
Never mind that this solar-powered car looks like a streamlined humpback whale covered with high-tech barnacles. The SolarWorld No.1 can hit a top speed of 75mph, and averaged 45mph over an 1864-mile...
View ArticleSolar power in a suitcase.
Credit: Image via We Care Solar Here are some somber statistics: a doctor in the Congo said that of 50 percent of patients who died, 80 percent of those died at night. The reason was two-fold: not...
View ArticleSolar copter.
What if you had a flying solar panel that could remain perpetually in flight, moving to sunnier areas at different times of the day in order to draw on new power when a charge is needed? That is the...
View ArticleMangalyaan … India reaches out to Mars.
India has successfully launched its Mars Orbiter Mission. The MOM spacecraft was launched atop at Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle blasting off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 9:08 UTC on...
View ArticleTurning bacteria into chemical factories.
Prather examines yeast cells in her lab. Credit: M. Scott Brauer Most academics follow a very traditional path to a job as a professor: earn a PhD, spend a few years as a postdoc, then find a...
View ArticleRetinal implant helps the blind to see.
A couple of years ago we told you about Second Sight’s Argus II retinal implant, an amazing device that gives certain blind patients the ability to discern shapes and patterns. Now in a new...
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