Aviva Presser Aiden (Harvard) and colleagues are working to develop microbial-based cell phone charger to increase access to health care via mobile apps. Their project to use dirt-powered batteries to charge cell phones in Africa won a $100,000 grant from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation today. The goal is to make a charger would …
The Carnival of Space 196 is up at vintage space Ian ONeill at Discovery news looks at black holes in our modern universe that were created before the Big Bang. Pre-Big Bang black holes with masses of a few hundred million kilograms to the mass of the sun might have made it through. Black holes …
Illumati Motor Works Seven car officially received an EPA mileage rating of 207.5 MPGe, based on the official EPA 74 test cycle used for determining mileage for electric and hybrid vehicles like the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf, during its recently completed testing at the Chrysler Proving Grounds in Chelsea Michigan. The car came in …
In July 2010, Nextbigfuture had a Sander Olson interview of roboticist Dennis Hong. Dennis Hong’s dream for 2020 is to see the CHARLIE H robot being used in millions of households as a robot helper. Forbes has a recent feature on Dennis Hong and his humanoid robot Charli. New robot wave using open source software …
Digitimes System – Foxconn Electronics’ (Hon Hai Precision Industry’s) plants in Shenzhen, China have recently been notified they will ship Apple’s iPad 2 within the next 100 days with initial shipments to reach 400,000-600,000 units, according to sources from Taiwan-based component makers Apple originally planned to start mass production in January, but because the device’s …
Economy Watch lists the 12 fastest growing economies of 2011 GDP Growth Value 2011 forecasted population and GDP (Constant Prices, National Currency) Ghana 20.146 % (24.3 million people, US$23.4 billion GDP) Qatar 14.337 % (1.5 million people, US$132 billion GDP) Turkmenistan 12.178 % (5.5 million people, US$41 billion GDP PPP) China 9.908 % (1.35 billion …
According to Michael Kruse, consultant on nuclear systems for Arthur D. Little, the Chinese are ready to spend $511 billion to build up to 245 reactors. Money is not an issue, which is different from the rest of the world. The Chinese have the capacity to deliver and they are deadly serious about achieving it,” …
The first Singularity University 9 week semester is completing today. A goal of the Singularity University is to catalyze projects that could possibly help 1 Billion People in Under Ten Years. The team projects from the first semester include the following reports: * One Global Voice leverages mobile phone proliferation to accelerate economic development. It …
University of Missouri scientist and his team have identified the location of the genetic material responsible for a molecular compound that is vital to curing the Muscular dystrophy (MD). The new advance will improve gene therapy strategies and they have turned muscle in mice with muscular dystrophy into regular muscle again. Even if there is …
Andy Grove has criticized how the pharmaceutical industry operates and performs research. What I would really like to do is to contact Andy Grove and suggest that he use his semiconductor knowledge to help a company release a lot of inexpensive and capable lab on a chip testing systems to track biomarkers. Labs on a …