Nature has more on a cell phone gizmo that’s changing how medicine is done in remote places:
… Read the rest “Mobile phone microscope saving lives (and eyes) in Africa”In a study in Science Translational Medicine on 6 May, bioengineer Daniel Fletcher of the
Science magazine is shaping up for a flexible future, with a whole new kind of 3D LCD screen:
… Read the rest “Programmable solids. Any shape you like.”The moving images we see on a display are created by controlling the net orientation of the molecules,
I don’t normally go to Business Insider for science news, but they’ve actually got a pretty good rundown of recent research into the problems with taking smart phones to bed… Read the rest “Screen light too bright, can’t get to sleep at night (now, eyes won’t focus right).”
Dezeen, the design magazine, gives the specs on a high-tech suit that cleans the air around the wearer:
… Read the rest “Clean suit filters pollution out of the air. (And hooks you up to the internet.)”Designers Borre Akkersdijk and Eva de Laat collaborated with Martijn ten Bhomer from
Science Daily breaks the news that telepathy – brain communication through machines – is not only possible, but scientists have already done it across 5,000 miles:
… Read the rest “Brain-to-brain communication via EEG over the internet.”“We
Laboratory Equipment reveals recent findings (as cannabis becomes easier to research) that the marijuana plant might make better supercapacitors than the “wonder material”… Read the rest “Hemp really IS a super-material… in circuitry, that is.”
Live Science hails a bold new step in connectivity as researchers in New York City successfully transmitted a smell to Paris… via the internet:
… Read the rest “E-smell delivered across the Atlantic”NEW YORK — The first transatlantic
From Basic Electronics, Part 5, a manual used by the U.S. Navy to train people in the basics of aerials, transmitters, frequency modulation and all that great stuff… especially signal-to-noise… Read the rest “Science Art: Man-Made Producers of Noise, by Van Valkenburgh, Nooger & Neville, 1959.”
SONG: “Starter Home.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Home Tweet Home: High-Tech Solutions for … Read the rest “SONG: “Starter Home””
The New York Times looks inside the house of tomorrow, which is staying in touch with its owner via Twitter:
… Read the rest “This home really speaks to me. Over the internet…”So it is with Tom Coates’s San Francisco home, which live-tweets the movements
PhysOrg explains that circuits using lasers are already around, but tend to be too bulky to fit into your average TV set or smartphone. That might not be true for much longer, though:
… Read the rest “Laser-powered “optochips” could make tiny tech.”Through
The Telegraph is comparing it to a James Bond movie – a ray that makes any electronic devices in range stop working:
… Read the rest “NATO creates electronic-stopping beam.”Scientists from the UK, Norway, the US, Germany, France and a number
University of California, Riverside, researchers have made a very small breakthrough in the way computers work… one that might lead to big changes soon. They’re using atom-thin… Read the rest “Graphene makes *different* computer chips.”
PhysOrg gives new meaning to “magic marker” with these pens that draw flexible circuits in whatever shape you like:
… Read the rest “Paint your own circuits with electronic pens.”London-based Bare Conductive Ltd. makes electrically
I looove DIY projects, and this one’s a doozy. Techli’s got the inside scoop on a Chicago science-artist’s system for not only creating remote-controlled cockroaches,… Read the rest “Create your own robo-roach at home!”
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