Here is a little object d’art to brighten up your day. Sure, it is on the pricey side, but just look at it; it is exquisite. Living World Galaxy has rendered the Milky Way based on data provided by Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory. While they do not plot every star of our galaxy, they have managed to plot a total of 80,000 individual stars. The points are all precisely laser etched. Where are we in [...]
If you are going to give a kid a present, I figure that it might as well be educational. The Discovery Ultimate Star Planetarium is exactly that, it will project the night sky as seen from any part of the planet onto any wall or roof. There are a total of 88 different constellations with twelve celestial objects. A one hour timer will see that it doesn’t keep running all night and a talking computer [...]
Every once in a while a story comes along that makes you take a second look. This is one of them. Rory Stokes, a 15-year-old schoolboy of the Australian Science and Mathematics School in Adelaide has disproven a commonly held belief that the memory span of a goldfish is only three seconds. He did so out of a desire to prove to people that keeping fish in tiny tanks is cruel. According to Rory: We [...]
Making use of specially treated paper that can withstand temperatures of up to 250C, Japanese scientists are building origami space craft that they hope will be able to survive reentry into the earth’s atmosphere. The theory that the Japanese scientists are testing is that paper aircraft, being lighter than space shuttles, will generate less heat due to friction; tell me that there is a theory more worth of testing in space at a cost of [...]
This seagoing glider is a particularly interesting piece of equipment. It is described as a “green robot” for the reason that it is powered entirely by the temperature fluctuations occurring at different depths in the water that it is used in. This gives it a limitless power source and an incredible lifespan. According to U.S. based researchers involved in the program: They said the glider had crisscrossed the 13,000-feet-(4,000-meter-)deep Virgin Islands Basin between St. Thomas [...]
Dr John Papandriopoulos is my personal hero right now. He has filed patent applications in the United States and Australia for a new type of technology that will deliver speeds of up to 250 mbps over good old copper lines. This is great news for countries where fiber-optic rollout is prohibitively expensive; countries like Australia, which have always been behind when it comes to Internet speed. Dr Papandriopoulos’ technology works by removing telephone interference that [...]
The UK government has given their approval on a project that will lead to the first full-scale and wide spread wave power generator in the world. To be located on the coast of Cornwall, the Wave Hub system will include an onshore substation connected to electrical equipment on the seabed about 10 miles offshore using a sub-sea cable to transmit the energy. The Wave Hub Project could one day produce enough energy for 7,500 households, [...]
Despite the incredible advancements in medical technology, the steel tools surgeons use for carving at our bodies haven’t changed much in the past millennium or so. With scalpel evolution being at a screeching halt, it’s about time that researchers conceived of a new method for surgical procedures, and recent tests on pigs shows that the technology works. Using a device that emits ultrasound waves to a localized spot of the body, similar to a device [...]
Microorganism-contaminated water is responsible for nearly 3 million deaths a year, mostly in underdeveloped countries. Studies conducted have proven that UV treatment of water can decrease the risk of fatal pathogens infecting your body. The Solar Bottle harnesses the power of solar rays to produce cheap and completely eco-friendly filtered water. Using the SODIS (Solar Water Disinfection) system, the bottle works with the sun’s UV-A radiation and increased water temperatures to significantly decrease the risk [...]
Thanks to Professor Amos Ori from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, my dream of making love to a Victorian-era English dame might be a reality sooner then I had previously thought. Being touted as the “first practical model of a time machine“, the machine would work on the theory of general relativities space curves, which if callibrated correctly, could theoretically allow time traveling possible. The machine would work on the premise that we, as [...]
Our laundry habits are destroying the universe! Ok, sorry, that was slightly sensationalist of me. What I meant to say was, our method of cleaning laundry isn’t exactly the cleanest way of doing so, if you don’t mind my pun. The consumption of electricity and the wasted water that laundry machines produce can’t possibly be a good thing. The Cyclean is a bicycle-powered washing machine which uses no electricity at all. Instead, it works you [...]
Wouldn’t it be fun to use your computer screen as the viewing portal for what’s under your digital microscope? That’s the idea behind the Carson ePix Digital Microscope MM-640. The MM-640, which has 26x-130x zoom magnification, connects to a PC through a USB port so you can view in VGA quality what’s being magnified. You can also capture an image of what you are viewing through a digital camera like feature, which can be stored [...]
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