Pokémon fever is sweeping the globe thanks to a new augmented-reality version of the monster-collecting game, which sees players hunt through real-world locations for digital critters. Pokémon Go officially launched on iPhone and Android last week in the US, Australia and New Zealand, but people worldwide have been unofficially downloading the app and heading out …
Ralph Merkle, Robert Freitas and others have a theoretical design for a molecular mechanical computer that would be 100 billion times more energy efficient than the most energy efficient conventional green supercomputer. Removing the need for gears, clutches, switches, springs makes the design easier to build. Existing designs for mechanical computing can be vastly improved …
Kyle Reese – The 600 series had rubber skin, we spotted them easy. But these are new, they look Human, sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot [Quote from the first Terminator movie] Humanoid robots could soon look even more human thanks to a soft, stretchable skin. The skin is called hyper-elastic light-emitting capacitor. …
The Carnival of Nuclear energy 300 is up at Neutron Bytes Atomic Insights – All-nuclear power grids are not only feasible, but proven and operating today It is already well-proven that it’s possible to operate village and small town sized electrical grids using nuclear power plants designed for responsiveness, reliability, ease of operation and maintainability. …
MIT grad students beat out more than 100 other teams with their design for a passenger-carrying Hyperloop “pod,” and will now start building a small-scale prototype to test this summer next to SpaceX’s headquarters The Delft University of Technology from the Netherlands were the next runners-up. Auburn University won in the category of best overall …
China’s Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter which conducted its first test flight in 2011 cannot be counted as a fifth-generation fighter yet, the Kanwa Defense Review. The J-20 prototypes have Russian-built AL-31F or domestic WS-10 engines designed for fourth-generation fighters like the Russian Su-27 and Chinese J-10. Because the J-20 cannot achieve supersonic flight or supermaneuverable …
Additive manufacturing, including emerging “3D printing” technologies, is booming. Last year an astronaut on the International Space Station used a 3D printer to make a socket wrench in space, hinting at a future when digital code will replace the need to launch specialized tools into orbit. Here on Earth, the Navy is considering applications for …
A guided HVP (Hyper Velocity Projectile.) round from a standard Mk 45 deck gun could bring a significant margin of the railguns promised capabilities to the fleet sooner, USNI News understands. The HVPs from a traditional deck gun will be slower than one launched from a railgun — a little over Mach 3 versus Mach …
A UNSW-led research team has encoded quantum information in silicon using simple electrical pulses for the first time, bringing affordable large-scale quantum computers one step closer to reality. The team has already improved the control of these qubits to an accuracy of above 99% and established the world record for how long quantum information can …
CEO Elon Musk’s mysterious tweet a teaser about a new non-car product offering from Tesla Motors that will be announced with great fanfare April 30. Major new Tesla product line — not a car — will be unveiled at our Hawthorne Design Studio on Thurs 8pm, April 30 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 30, 2015 …
Microsoft has unveiled a head-mounted holographic computer called Project HoloLens. Microsoft HoloLens goes beyond augmented reality and virtual reality by enabling you to interact with three-dimensional holograms blended with your real world. Microsoft HoloLens is more than a simple heads-up display, and its transparency means you never lose sight of the world around you. High-definition …