The total mobile phone market, at 438.1 million units, was flat year-on-year, while the worldwide smart phone market grew 37%. Android smart phones accounted for 34% of all phone shipments and iOS phones 11%. Smart phones now represent almost 50% of all the phones that shipped in Q4 2012. Non-smartphone mobile phones should be virtually …
46 minute podcast interview of Aubrey de Grey on Gluck radio. Aubrey is emphasizing that he wants to eliminate the diseases of aging and making people healthy. He is de-emphasizing the life extension. Meet revolutionary scientist Aubrey de Grey. Aubrey started a foundation called SENS, which is looking to do what seems like the impossible: …
A recent NBC News (KCRA) report indicates that Paul Moller (after 50 years) is finally going to release a flying car (Sky Car 200). Moller has a partner with $80 million in funding from Athena Technologies and serious interest from China for a flying car production plant. Paul Moller has previously been sued for fraud …
Eight great technologies which will propel the UK to future growth have received a £600 million funding boost. There will be: £189 million for big data £25 million for space £35 million for robotics and autonomous systems £88 million for synthetic biology £20 million for regenerative medicine £30 million for agri-science campuses £73 million for …
Brookhaven National Lab researchers have studied a personality-modifying dopamine gene in a group of 1,151 individuals between 90 and 109 years old. This genetic variant – a derivative of a dopamine-receptor gene (the DRD4 7R allele) – appears at significantly higher rates in individuals over the age of 90, and is linked to lifespan increases …
A team at the Cognitive Systems lab put together inertial sensors, an accelerometer and a gyroscope on a knit glove. The retooled mitt recognizes letter and words and even sentences as its wearer draws them in the air. Airwriting: Hands-free Mobile Text Input by Spotting and Continuous Recognition of 3d-Space Handwriting with Inertial Sensors We …
Orbitec has flown a radical new engine technology that promises to cut the size, weight and therefore the cost of putting a rocket – and payload – into space. Regular rocket engines get incredibly hot, reaching temperatures upwards of 3,000C (5,400F) or more, hot enough to melt the metal chamber in which the rocket fuel …
1. Commercial operation of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project has been delayed to January, 2013 It is India’s first 1,000MW first unit. 2. Russia has told India that Kudankulam nuclear power plants 3 and 4 would cost “double”, after New Delhi decided that the next two reactors would come under the new civil nuclear liability …
Beijing’s leadership say they want to boost imports and speed the integration of rural migrants into cities as ways to boost domestic consumption, according to reports in China’s state-owned news agency, Xinhua. China needed to show “more courage to reform,” the statement said. The conference was chaired by the incoming premier, Li Keqiang, and focused …
1. Removed New Energy Times article. Here is a presentation with three slides which describe transmutation work done by Mitsubishi. 2. Ecat World – Francesco Celani has sent a letter to 22Passi.blogspot.com announcing a successful 3rd party replication of his LENR system, which apparently has been improved since he did the demonstration at NI Week …
The next Star Trek movie into Darkness has a release date of May 17, 2013 in the USA. A few more seconds in the Trailer for Japan If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science …