$30,000 will buy a high end life-sized video conferencing system on wheels, giving users a feeling of tele-presence. It sports two 5 Mpixels eyes, full voice telephony to speak and hear and a laser pointer as a finger. Users can control the sleek five-foot, 35 pound robot remotely from any web browser using nothing more …
Mark Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, has written a review of solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy security which examines all energy sources. The Jacobson analysis is very biased in favor of wind and against nuclear and biofuels. Nuclear power is burdened with CO2 from “burning cities in …
The Aerion Supersonic Jet has test flights planned for 2012. – Aerion Supersonic Jet will fly New York to Paris flights in four hours and 15 minutes versus about seven and a half hours in existing subsonic models. The SBJ will fly coast to coast U.S. at speeds up to .99 Mach in less than …
Researchers have successfully found not only a delivery method for gene therapy that can reach every muscle of the body in a large animal model, but a therapy that will work on both skeletal muscle, the type found in arms and legs, and cardiac muscle, such as the heart. Dongsheng Duan’s team of University of …
A new and highly reliable approach for making graphene membranes of a macroscopic size (currently up to 100 μm in diameter) provided a lot fo graphene samples for strength tests Such measurements had never been taken before because they must be performed on perfect samples of graphene, with no tears or missing atoms. Graphene transistors …
Since the recent trial [with explosive arcing problems] , Peck and his colleagues at the University of Michigan and State University of New York, Binghamton, have successfully tested (but not yet published) their propulsion system, which could speed satellites along at more than four and a half miles a second. More recent tests of solder-less …
Titanium could become a lot cheaper and more commongly used. A non-melt consolidation process being developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and industry partners could reduce the amount of energy required and the cost to make titanium parts from powders by up to 50 percent, making it feasible to use titanium alloys for brake rotors, …
Up until now inkjet has been the favoured manufacturing technique of the burgeoning organic light-emitting diode (OLED) industry, but a growing number of companies and organisations are looking to roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing for making OLED displays. GE Global Research has reached a milestone in next-generation lighting, demonstrating the world’s first roll-to-roll manufactured organic light emitting …
Forbes has its latest survey of the Worlds’s billionaires Warren Buffet is back to being the world’s richest man. 2007 2006 2005 2004 Wealth Amount 8 5 3 2 US$30B+ Forbes list (which mainly catches owners 77 67 49 32 US$10B+ of public assets, can underestimate some 203 167 124 102 US$5B+ like CTO of …
McKinsey Global has an energy productivity plan (36 pages) An additional $170 billion per year invested in energy efficiency can provide 17% average internal rate of return and cut projected energy demand growth by half by 2020. We could use existing technologies to pay for themselves. It would provide up to half of the global …
A group at the California Institute of Technology, led by biomolecular engineer Niles Pierce, has created a DNA-based fabricator. This is a huge development in being able to program the reactions in biochemistry. This is a system that allows the team to specify a piece of DNA with a desired shape and function, and then …