1. SENS – the Potential of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Released in a Model of Parkinson’s Disease. Rejuvenation biotechnology encompasses a suite of advanced medical therapies, each of which removes, repairs, replaces, or renders harmless one of the forms of cellular or molecular damage that accumulates in an aging tissue over time and impairs its …
A foldable robot electrical scooter controlled by a smart phone is the Kowa-tmsuk personal mobility Kobot. The Kobot is a scooter-like three-wheeler with just one seat that can can be packed away after use in a space of around one square metre. With a target speed of 30kmh, makers Kowa Tmsuk. The driver uses a …
A statite (a portmanteau of static and satellite) is a hypothetical type of artificial satellite that employs a solar sail to continuously modify its orbit in ways that gravity alone would not allow. Typically, a statite would use the solar sail to “hover” in a location that would not otherwise be available as a stable …
This session at Techonomy 2011 features Ned Hooper of Cisco, Doreen Lorenzo of frog, and Guo Xiao of ThoughtWorks. Gary Rieschel of Qiming Venture Partners moderates. Watch live streaming video from techonomy at livestream.com If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a …
Calling for more rapid innovation in science and technology, Peter Thiel today launched a new program of the Thiel Foundation, Breakout Labs. Thiel announced that Breakout Labs will use a revolving fund to improve the way early-stage science and technology research is funded by helping independent scientists and early-stage companies develop their most radical ideas. …
Mythbusters put 2 pounds of C4 5 feet away from a regular wood and drywall wall coated with truck bedliner and the coated wall resisted the 95 PSI force. There has been wall paper that has been developed to make walls blast resistant but truck liner is cheaper. If you liked this article, please give …
Techcrunch – At the 2011 Techonomy conference, Intuit co-founder Scott Cook was pretty radical in his economic and political analysis. Arguing that all companies need to turn themselves upside down, he told me that it’s the young technology entrepreneur – the Zuckerberg or the Shawn Fanning – who is most skilled at navigating today’s ever-turbulent …
IEEE Spectrum – new antennas based on metamaterials, though, may soon rescue Web-addicted travelers from expensive connections in the air and elsewhere, and a group at the patent-licensing firm Intellectual Ventures (IV) thinks that it can implement the new technology by 2014. While IV has researched exotic applications of metamaterials like cloaking devices that could …