Metamaterial sound proofing from materials less than an inch thick would be as good as 4 foot thick walls for soundproofing. People outside a metamaterial sound proofed room – no one will hear you screaming inside Applied Physics Letters – Acoustic metamaterial panels for sound attenuation in the 50–1000 Hz regime The Hong Kong University …
US Defense Intelligence Agency Report – Technology Forecast: Worldwide Research on Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions Increasing and Gaining Acceptance (8 page pdf) (H/T (http://newenergytimes.com) Japan, Italy and Israel have the most advanced programs. Russia, France, China, South Korea and India are spending considerable resources. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science …
IAEA Consultancy Meeting on Construction Technologies for New Nuclear Power Projects. Rod Adams, nuclear Australia, reviews several of the new construction methods. The IAEA is trying to document construction technologies for all steps in the construction process • Identify technology options for each step (conventional and advanced)• Utilize developments and experiences from all countries• Ensure …
Wired has a feature on the rapidly progressing capabilities with DNA Nanotechnology Original paper: “Folding DNA into Twisted and Curved Nanoscale Shapes,” by Hendrik Dietz, Shawn M. Douglas, and William M. Shih, published in the August 7, 2009, issue of Science. The ability to engineer complex shapes to custom specification likely will be as critical …
Young K. Bae demonstrated pure photonic propulsion by bouncing 10 Watt lasers between mirrors a few thousand times and generate 35 micronewtons of force. Details on the photonic laser thruster demonstration. Photonic Laser Thruster (PLT) is an innovative photon thruster that amplifies photon thrust by orders of magnitude by exploiting an active resonant optical cavity …
IEEE Spectrum has an article”The shrinking nanotechnology blog universe”, which tries to connect some turnover in nanotechnology blogs with disillusionment with the pace of progress or work towards molecular manufacturing. This is wrong on several levels. The non-focus on molecular manufacturing has existed for over twelve years. So any disillusionment would have been several years …
H Plus Magazine indicates that the Japanese HAL robotic exoskeleton is going into mass production to make 400 suits per year at US$4200. The suit can boost strength by ten times. Lockheed is deploying the HULC lower extremity exoskeleton for the US military. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science …
Singularity University (SU) (www.singularityu.org) will open its doors in June 2009 on the NASA Research Park campus with a nine-week graduate level interdisciplinary curriculum designed to facilitate understanding, collaboration, and innovation across a broad range of carefully chosen scientific and technological disciplines. The curriculum will be broken out into 10 tracks as follows: * future …
A new urine test that is about 80-92% accurate could allow for early detection of coronary artery disease. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is responsible for most of the 1.5 million heart attacks that occur in the United States each year. A cheap and simple test for biomarkers would allow for early detection and monitoring of …
VFT Vapor Fuel System Vapor Fuel Technologies (Beavercreek, Ore.) claims they can increase the mileage of existing automobile and truck engines by almost one-third by vaporizing fuel and mixing it with super-hot air, enabling modified electronic control circuitry to coax the same horsepower out of engines while burning less fuel and cutting emissions. The company …
A repulsive quantum force, opposite of casimir force, has been verified and measured. This is the cover story, [Measured long-range repulsive Casimir-Lifshitz forces], of the Jan 8, 2009 Nature journal and is from Harvard researchers: J. N. Munday, Federico Capasso & V. Adrian Parsegian. Controlling the casimir forces is potentially a huge capability and DARPA …