Wired reveals how MIT made this cool magic trick happen – by using a little bit electricity to convert heat into light:
… Read the rest “100% efficiency? Bah. Here’s an LED that’s MORE than 100% efficient.”The LED produces 69 picowatts of light using 30 picowatts of power,
Science Daily has the skinny on cheaper solar power:
… Read the rest “Bringing down the sun.”Stanford engineers have figured out how to simultaneously use the light and heat of the sun to generate electricity in a way that could
If you’re one of history’s greatest electrical inventors, it is only suitable to have stationery that’s equal to your stature.
The central image is of the unfinished… Read the rest “Science Art: Nikola Tesla’s Letterhead”
SONG: “My Girlfriend’s a Robot” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant. Originally done like this.
SOURCE: This is a penitential… Read the rest “SONG: My Girlfriend’s a Robot (penitential cover)”
Over at VentureBeat’s “GreenBeat” section, they’ve got a profile of a promising new Panasonic project, building batteries powerful enough to run your average… Read the rest “Batteries for solar homes.”
Surgeons are readying their Frankenstein-style electrodes, NBC says, in preparation for building new blood vessels with the power (and shape) of lightning:
… Read the rest “Electricity in my veins.”The artificial organs begin
It’s soooo cute! Look at the widdle wight buwb! Aw, New Scientist, if that tiny lamp isn’t the cutest thing ever!:
… Read the rest “Nanolamp!”Chris Regan’s team at the University of California,
SONG: “64 Actuators” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Jacket Lets You Feel the Movies”, IEEE Spectrum… Read the rest “SONG: 64 Actuators”
The sober, respectable Financial Times isn’t really the publication one would expect to be covering OH EM GEE THE ROBOT THINKS IT THINKS! kind of breakthroughs, but that’s… Read the rest “AI baby step: Robot masters scientific method.”
Where Edison’s power came from. It’s a step up from what was called, no lie, an iron-clad machine.
Today, we use alternating current. (Go ahead, click that link. It lets you … Read the rest “Science Art: Bipolar direct-current generator, Webster’s New International”
New Scientist pulls back the veil from a team of Canadian biotech researchers who have built a yeast-based fuel cell that can run on blood:
… Read the rest “Vampire batteries for implants eternal!”Such fuel cells would be especially useful for devices,
The IEEE (what used to be the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) reports in Spectrum about a strange new entertainment breakthrough that combines neurology, electronics… Read the rest “Jacket makes movies feelies.”
The New York Times gives hope for a better drive home with a report on a new approach to electric cars… from the filling station up:
… Read the rest “Electric cars still driving!”We started from the infrastructure. We came up with
Wired’s Danger Room blog now has me imagining what it would be like to come under attack from a buzzing swarm of remote-controlled rhinoceros beetles:
… Read the rest “Cyber-insects taking off.”Researchers hooked a series
Bet your iPhone can’t do this…. UCLA scientists have found a way to rig an ordinary cell phone, an LED, a light filter and some wiring together, Wired reports, into a cheap and… Read the rest “Cell Phone Blood Scanner”
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