Deutsche Bank says solar has already won.
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 […]
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Clear solar panels could turn windows (and smart phones) into power plants.
International Business Times reveals the bright future (from an economic standpoint, at least) of the nascent companies making clear solar panels: The “transparent luminescent solar […]
Teenager’s bright idea: flashlight fueled by body heat.
The Gajitz blog has the scoop on the kid who invented a battery-free flashlight that runs on body heat: Ann Makosinski, a 15 year old […]
Printing solar cells.
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: The Victorian […]
Magnets zap memories into brains.
ScienceDaily has more on a Northwestern University experiment using transcranial magnetic stimulation to improve memory: The discovery opens a new field of possibilities for treating […]
Science Art: Linear Motor Velocity Detection Apparatus, by James L. Johnson and Harold C. Stephens, 1969
From IBM’s patent 3470399, a device to tell how fast an electric motor is running by detecting its magnetic field.
A vision machine (as in, it gives you visions).
Science magazine turns on yet another way electromagnetism can alter the way we think and remember – by switching on vivid visual hallucinations: A 22-year-old […]
Take a walk to charge your phone.
Science Daily is rubbing their hands (and stomping their feet) over new breakthroughs in harnessing your everyday movements to power up your batteries: …[Georgia Institute […]
Electric current rouses the vegetative after years of unconsciousness.
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 […]
Invisible ink revealed… a few centuries later.
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 […]
Brain-tech DIYers! Grinders! Wire-heads! Uncle Sam wants YOU!
PhysOrg is sending out the call, as the Pentagon prepares to team up with brain-tech DIYers: […A]t the Maker Faire in New York, a new […]
Science Art: Appareil Electromedical de G. Trouvet, from La Nature, 1878
This device is “a regulateur des intermittences”, according to La Nature. I’m not sure what “intermittences” are exactly, but Gustave Trouvet was going to fix […]
They just invented the wire. (Electrodes that release opiates in the brain.)
Laboratory Equipment reveals a quantum leap in tDCS – transcranial direct current stimulation, or zapping your brain to make it do things differently. As the […]
Tesla unveils the electric filling station.
Gigaom has the scoop on Tesla’s bid to change the face of America – by introducing a network of electric-car charging stations: Eectric car maker […]
Living snail batteries – and backyard spies.
Science Daily creeps us out with a military-funded project that’s turning snails into living batteries: The electrified snail, being a biotechnological living device, was able […]