RenewEconomy follows the money in alternative energy, and focuses on a Deutsche Bank report that finds ever-cheaper batteries will make existing solar power tech way more workable:
… Read the rest “Deutsche Bank says solar has already won.”But
International Business Times reveals the bright future (from an economic standpoint, at least) of the nascent companies making clear solar panels:
… Read the rest “Clear solar panels could turn windows (and smart phones) into power plants.”The “transparent luminescent solar
The Gajitz blog has the scoop on the kid who invented a battery-free flashlight that runs on body heat:
… Read the rest “Teenager’s bright idea: flashlight fueled by body heat.”Ann Makosinski, a 15 year old student from Canada, made a flashlight for her science
Outside has a hopeful, intriguing report on an Australian company that’s figured out how to print electricity-generating solar cells on plastic… or whatever:
… Read the rest “Printing solar cells.”The Victorian
ScienceDaily has more on a Northwestern University experiment using transcranial magnetic stimulation to improve memory:
… Read the rest “Magnets zap memories into brains.”The discovery opens a new field of possibilities for treating
From IBM’s patent 3470399, a device to tell how fast an electric motor is running by detecting its magnetic field.
Science magazine turns on yet another way electromagnetism can alter the way we think and remember – by switching on vivid visual hallucinations:
… Read the rest “A vision machine (as in, it gives you visions).”A 22-year-old male was receiving
Science Daily is rubbing their hands (and stomping their feet) over new breakthroughs in harnessing your everyday movements to power up your batteries:
… Read the rest “Take a walk to charge your phone.”…[Georgia Institute of
New Scientist has an amazing new therapy for patients in a vegetative state – using the same direct current-stimulation that increases creative “flow” to turn their… Read the rest “Electric current rouses the vegetative after years of unconsciousness.”
The medievalists at Medievalists.net are all excited over a new technology that “unerases” writings that were erased by scribes to make more room on precious parchment:… Read the rest “Invisible ink revealed… a few centuries later.”
PhysOrg is sending out the call, as the Pentagon prepares to team up with brain-tech DIYers:
… Read the rest “Brain-tech DIYers! Grinders! Wire-heads! Uncle Sam wants YOU!”[…A]t the Maker Faire in New York, a new low-cost EEG recording front end was debuted at
This device is “a regulateur des intermittences”, according to La Nature. I’m not sure what “intermittences” are exactly, but Gustave Trouvet was going… Read the rest “Science Art: Appareil Electromedical de G. Trouvet, from La Nature, 1878”
Laboratory Equipment reveals a quantum leap in tDCS – transcranial direct current stimulation, or zapping your brain to make it do things differently. As the regular reader knows… Read the rest “They just invented the wire. (Electrodes that release opiates in the brain.)”
Gigaom has the scoop on Tesla’s bid to change the face of America – by introducing a network of electric-car charging stations:
… Read the rest “Tesla unveils the electric filling station.”Eectric car maker Tesla announced on Monday
Science Daily creeps us out with a military-funded project that’s turning snails into living batteries:
… Read the rest “Living snail batteries – and backyard spies.”The electrified snail, being a biotechnological living device, was able
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