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Holographic Runway

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:00:34 GMT

clipped by: bidwell
clipper's remarks: A little long but WOW! Kiss the future..

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Diesel 'Liquid Space' Holographic Fashion Show

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Tags: science, fashion, entertainment

Perpetual Motion Paradise

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:06:43 GMT

clipped by: bidwell
clipper's remarks: Well, one can at least hope...

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Clip Source: www.trendhunter.com

A small Irish company, Steorn, is competing for world class chutzpah by having taken out a full page ad in The Economist challenging scientists to test their claims to have invented a perpetual motion machine. Which is to scientists, pretty much crazy talk. Like prove that I don’t have a goose that lays golden eggs. Basically a perpetual motion machine means free energy, or energy from nothing. This is a no go from a physics point of view, a God machine. They have sunk a lot of money into the Orbo, thats what they call their machine. Have they all kissed the Blarney Stone?

Tags: science, future, dreams

Healing Helmet

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:41:24 GMT

clipped by: bidwell
clipper's remarks: Finally, look good with helmet head!

Clip Source: www.trendhunter.com

Stormtrooper Fitness - The 'Breathe Air' Helmet Purifies Your O2

Now you have a legitimate excuse to dress up like your favorite Star Wars character. The Breathe Air bike helmet was developed by a university student in the UK to provide head protection to cyclists and act as an air filter. The helmet was created to help alleviate symptoms of asthma and hay fever by filtering out irritating particles. So far, the helmet is just a concept, although the student is looking for a manufacturer. The target price is roughly $200. [More]

Tags: hi tech, gadgets, science

Old-School Hi Tech

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:25:23 GMT

clipped by: bidwell
clipper's remarks: Nice work, young man....

Clip Source: www.emergetrends.com

Kartik Madiraju- in a move that's at once innovative and reminscent of an era of innovation that seemed far behind us- has invented a new source of ecologically benign energy. In contrast to the complex sorts of experiments going on night and day at particle accelerators around the world, Madiraju, a 16-year old student from Montreal, happened across an amazingly simple way to generate electricity. His solution, with potential applications ranging from clean-running powerplants to micro-power sources for nanotechnologies?

Magnetic bacteria.

Madiraju has found a way to generate roughly half the power of a standard AA battery with about an ounce of the bacteria- which is commonly found in water- for 48 hours. The magnetotactic bacteria, which he learned about reading Nature, are placed free-floating into tiny plastic bottles with metal strips on the sides serving as electrodes, causing crystals of magnetite inside the bacteria to spin and generate a magnetic field and electrical current.

Tags: science, invention, energy

Tasty Toaster

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:15:51 GMT

clipped by: bidwell
clipper's remarks: Dummy-proof toast! Hey, what's that burning?

Clip Source: www.emergetrends.com

See through toaster prevents burnt toast

Tags: hi-tech, gadgets

Human Experience on the head of a pin

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:53:11 GMT

clipped by: bidwell
clipper's remarks: Remarkable. Say goodbye to privacy, hello nanny (umm, NANO) state!

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

UK science fiction writer Charles Stross, author of novels Accelerando and Singularity Sky, posits a future in which all human experience is record on devices the size of a grain of sand.

We're only a few years away from the cost of data storage dropping so far that we can record "everything" that happens to us: our location at any given time, what we are hearing, what we are seeing, and what we are saying or doing.

For the first time ever, the human species will have an accurate and unblinking, unvarnished view of its own past as far back as the dark ages of the first decade of the 21st Century, when recorded history "really" began.

Tags: nanotechnology, inventions, science

It's a great product - and it's free.

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:36:31 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: friendlyatheist.com

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Tags: atheism, humour, humor, video

New Velcro

Wed, 23 May 2007 19:51:32 GMT

clipped by: dorine
clipper's remarks: Great idea! We'll be seeing this.

Clip Source: www.popsci.com

THE FASTENER KING Leonard Duffy has used his snapping straps to bind everything from snowshoes to a radical new plastic cast.

A stronger, better grip without the incessant ripping sound. Has a long-standing dream finally been realized?

Name: Slidingly Engaging Fastener
Inventor: Leonard Duffy
Cost to Develop: $40,000
Time: 8 years
Prototype | | | | | Product

66-year-old architect Leonard Duffy has reinvented Velcro. No one has offered a viable alternative to the ubiquitous hook-and-loop closure in 50 years. But Duffy's "slidingly engaging fasteners" link up easily and silently, don't wear down over time, and support eight times the weight that the stuff on your jacket can with plastic straps that bind together through matching, interlocking grids of little hexagonal or triangular islands. Duffy has used them to replace the laces on sneakers and the straps on ski gloves and wristwatches and to seal a breathable, waterproof cast he calls the Unitary Wrap.

Tags: invention, velcro, technology