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Self-Sterilising Plastics - PolyMedix Innovation
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Stanford University scientists have now developed and patented special bandages to prevent the stretching and raising of scars. They are made from special “memory” polymers which remember their shape once applied. Very strong adhesives or sewing and stapling during surgery have to be used to ke…[More]
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Anti-Scar Bandage - Memory Polymers Preserve Your Beauty
Doug Selsam’s turbine ideas are not just blowing in the wind; they are transforming the wind into power-generating machines. At a cost of $250,000 to develop, the 25-rotor turbine ‘Sky Serpent’ is said to produce three kilowatts (3000 watts) of power. The Sky Serpent is still in the concept st…[More]
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Super Turbines - Sky Serpent (GALLERY)
I wonder if these things have Air Miles? Mega Veggies are grown from seeds that were fired into space, where for two weeks, they orbited the Earth. Once returned, the seeds are cultivated in hothouses and the final product is the HUGE specimens seen in these photos.
Mega Veggies are a product of th…[More]
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Space Produce - Mega Veggies Could End World Hunger (GALLERY)
Sacred of needles? Many people are. It hurts because the needles are not fine enough, and up until now, it was impossible to make very fine ones. Scientist Hyung Il Jung from Yonsei University in Seoul Korea has recently filed a patent for the manufacture of an small array of microneedles designed …[More]
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Painless Injections- Dissolving Hypodermic Needles
Polar Bears are officially on the global list of animals to be protected. As global warming continues, their natural habitats are threatened as global sea ice melts and their ability to survive is threatened. If nothing is done, the great white bears will face extinction.
Thankfully an initiative b…[More]
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Protecting Polar Bears - Officially Listed As Endangered (VIDEO)
If you travel across different timezones, you know how it feels to be jetlagged. You become sleepy, moody, can't concentrate and you have a hard time staying awake in the day, and can't fall sleep at night. The Re-Time Jetlag Glasses solve this problem.
The glasses will adjust your body's natural …[More]
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Anti-Jetlag Glasses - Re-Set Your Body's Clock on the Fly (GALLERY)
Spot Cool Stuff found a line of clothing, aptly named Buzz Off, that contains Permethrin, a man-made version of a natural insect repellent, woven into the fibers.
Made by Ex Officio, the repellent properties work on mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, and flies and lasts for about 70 washes. It also provide…[More]
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Insect Repelling Clothes - Buzz Off
The sassy term, "talk to the hand" takes on a whole new meaning with HandTalk, a sensor equipped glove that translates finger and hand gestures into spoken words on a cell phone.
The motivation behind HandGlove, a project by engineering students at Carnegie Mellon University, was to enable easy com…[More]
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Sign Language Translators - HandTalk Glove (GALLERY)
You know how you've really made it big? They name a spider after you. That's what happened to Neil Young recently. A new breed of trapdoor spider was discovered, and the researchers, who were clearly huge fans of the Canadian singer, named it Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi.
The biologist and bit time fa…[More]
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Featured as a Creature - Spider Named After Neil Young
Recent discussions of property rights n the moon has pointed out an interesting point - that the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 makes it legal for corporations to claim lunar property.
Companies could therefore stick their proverbial flag in the moon dust to mark it as their own.
Talk about an incre…[More]
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Lunar Real Estate - Can Corporations Claim Lunar Property?
There is a man who has been contacted by the Iraqis, the Chinese, and several other world powers. Why? The German inventor, Werner Nickel, has developed a paint that can make whatever it coats invisible - at least to radar.
Located somewhere in the United Arab Emirates deserts, Nickel somehow inve…[More]
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Invisibility Paint - AR 1 Camouflages Radar
I am a great believer in education, but sometimes I question whether it is necessary to teach skills to creatures other than humans. Dogs are trained to find drugs or chase criminals, so I guess that's fine, but goldfish? Now, thats a stretch....
The R2 Fishschool provides a training kit that is fa…[More]
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Teach Fish Tricks - R2 Fish School (VIDEO)
With a one mile wide base and a staggering two mile high rooftop, the Ultima Tower by Eugene Tsui is inspired by nature: the elegant termite mound. It is aerodynamically efficient, resistant to earthquake shock waves, and is cooled by flowing water.
OK, so let's put aside the fact that if the Eart…[More]
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Termite-Inspired Mega Buildings - Ultima Tower
If you've ever wanted your living room (I would say den, but I don't think this would fit) to look like the Federal government's Central Command, then you're in luck! 9XMedia now offers a multi-screen display system that feature 15 monitors.
But wait... for the ultimate in digital displays, you ca…[More]
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Digital Display Walls - 9XMedia 15-Monitor Display
The robometer is a mood-sensing, wrist-mounted devise that measures your level of happiness. Has society really become so desensitized that we can't tell when we are happy?
Pontification aside, the Robometer takes readings of of the surface of your skin to asses your mood.
This feature would be …[More]
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Mood-Sensitive Wristbands - Robometer Measures Happiness
At first glance, I thought this shirt was designed to be a hydration system for racers. I was only half right. It's meant for racers, but not the running kind. The Cool Shirt is supposed to cool down a very hot driver. It connects to an ice-water cooler and circulates the freezing water through its …[More]
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Liquid Cooled Clothes - The Cool Shirt
The Hy-Bird, a hydrogen-powered electric airplane that gets 10% of its power through solar-cells, is made of super-lightweight (and expensive) carbon fibre. The French company behind it, Lisa Airplanes, states that the power system will allow the plane to circumnavigate the globe in 3,000 km stages.…[More]
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Round-the-World Green Flights - Solar-Cell Hy-Bird (GALLERY)
Eco-bedding company, Keetsa, scores each one of their products with a Keetsa Quotient, or a score of how environmentally-friendly they are. Take their Tea Leaf Classic mattress for instance. It scores a 67.08 out of 100 -- compare that to their Tea Leaf Supreme that has a 90.38! It seems that there …[More]
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Green Tea Mattresses - Keetsa
Not so long ago we mentioned that a Japanese astronaut would be experimenting with the physics of objects in space, and that included flying paper airplanes and boomerangs. This video, released by JAXA, shows the result of Takao Doi's boomerang experiment in the International Space Station’s Harmo…[More]
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Space Boomerangs (UPDATE) - The Result (VIDEO)
The Overall Health Balance Scale from Japan’s National Electric is fitness gadgetry at its very best.
This devise measures your weight and BMI, the amount of fat under your skin, organ fat, how muscular you are, and your metabolic rate. After it’s taken all those readings, it tells you how out…[More]
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High-Tech Fat Analysis - Overall Health Balance Scale (GALLERY)
Behold the modern library experience.
The recently renewed Library of Congress includes a bunch of exciting new interactive technologies, courtesy of Microsoft.
These exhibitions make the Library of Congress and its collections more dynamic and accessible than ever. Touch-screen kiosks with the …[More]
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Interactive History Lessons - The Library of Congress Experience (GALLERY)
Character animation is becoming more evolved than ever before, as proven by the latest teaser for Grand Theft Auto 4 (GTA4). The game, to be released next week, uses a new Euphoria Engine, thought to be among the most realistic at rendering character animation.
What does this engine actually do an…[More]
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Character Animation Evolved - GTA4's Euphoria Engine (VIDEO)
In celebration of the Hubble telescope's 18th anniversary, NASA has released a compilation of 59 galactic photographs taken from the renowned telescope. NASA calling the the collection of dynamic images "Galaxies Gone Wild".
These five pics are my favorites from the "Galaxies Gone Wild" collection…[More]
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Galaxies Gone Wild - Breathtaking NASA Images to Celebrate 18th Anniversary of the Hubble (GALLERY)
Previously we've featured Smart Things that transfer your data. It's like in those spy movies where two agents shake hands, then part immediately after, totally baffling the enemy agents as to how they transferred the information. Well, we just gave away the secret. The Nippon Telephones and Telegra…[More]
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Data Transfer Via Hand Shake 2 - Firmo (GALLERY)
A breakthrough new technique has been developed by Dutch researchers at University Medical Center Utrecht and the Hubrecht Institute to grow new heart muscle tissue from adult heart stem cells. According to the medical center website, the researchers were able to coax stem cells from the heart itsel…[More]
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Adult Heart Stem Cell Breathrough - Potential Treatment For Heart Attack Victims
What does a small business owner do when he's tired of his pub getting broken into? He builds a robot, of course. Atlanta pub owner Rufus Terrill is an upstanding citizen, he's owned his successful business for four years and sits on the board of a nearby child care center. But he's angry about crim…[More]
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Robotic Bouncers - "Bum Bot" Shoos away Homeless (VIDEO)
Oh for the love of God, this is just ridiculous! Biblically Correct Tours aim to explain that scientists are liars and to prove their point, conducts tours of museums correcting the science and explaining how it all really happened.
Ie., the Earth is only 6,000 years old and people used to live unt…[More]
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Biblically Correct Tours - Christians Rewriting History (VIDEO)
Holograms are an increasingly hot innovation in technology and design. Now we bring you the next step, interactive holograms that you can control and communicate with using hand gestures!
Developed by LM3Labs, AirStrike opens the door to exciting applications in interactive advertising and novelty…[More]
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Interactive Holograms - AirStrike (VIDEO)
The OLE robot is a product of the industrial-design studio at the University of Magdeburg-Stendal in Germany. The OLE, which is autonomous and is guided by GPS, intelligent feelers, infrared and heat sensors, is equipped with tanks of water and powdered fire-extinguishing agents.
The armor of this …[More]
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