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A New Lawnmower - with lawn turds

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:56:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: technology at its finest

The grass that is cut is considered to be the useless remainder while cutting grass. The product “Muwi” benefits the third party in numerous ways by the act of cutting grass in order to create fair grass. “Muwi” first acknowledges the entire size of the land and automatically cuts the grass. The cut grass, which is created upon cutting the grass, is stored inside. As the cut grass begins to accumulate inside the machine, “Muwi” constructs and compresses the cut grass into two types of blocks. Then this cut grass is no longer a remainder that needs extra efforts to be thrown out or cleaned up. It rather becomes balls for children to play with or a chair to sit on or any other opportunity. These newly created blocks give care without even realizing it. Furthermore, after these blocks are used and left behind, they naturally go back to its neighboring nature in time. It is circulated again through nature and gives nature and us the natural consideration.

Tags: lawnmower, technology

send text and picture messages to cell phones

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:41:23 GMT

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Clip Source: messagetophone.com

Tags: message to phone, fun pics, email, spammy, fun, technology

Sandia National Laboratories - Renewable Energy

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:42:34 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sandia.gov

The purpose of the Renewable Energy Technologies Division at Sandia National Laboratories is to develop commercially viable energy technologies based on solar, wind, and geothermal resources that become significant domestic and international energy supplies, with a primary focus on the utility sector.

Sandia's photovoltaic programs are part of the National Center for Photovoltaics, which unites much of the photovoltaic work in the United States into a working partnership.

Concentrating Solar Power and Sun Lab

Operating as Sun•Lab, a virtual laboratory comprising CSP groups at Sandia and NREL, Sandia's work focuses on three types of concentrating solar power systems: parabolic troughs, power towers, and dish/engine systems.

The Solar America Initiative

Related Links
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mexico Renewable Energy Program

Distributed Energy Storage

Energy Storage Systems

NSTTF

Tags: sandia national laboratories, renewable energy, commercially viable, technology, solar, wind, geothermal

Just some plane pictures

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:15:59 GMT

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Clip Source: submitarchive.com

Tags: aircraft, plane, pictures, aerial, technology

Fresnel solar furnace constructed at Xenotech Research

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:08:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It will boil steel in seconds, melt ceramics and stone, and can instantly vaporize flesh.

Clip Source: xenotechresearch.com

Here is a presentation of the second generation Fresnel solar furnace constructed at Xenotech Research.

DISCLAIMER: This device is very dangerous. It will boil steel in seconds, melt ceramics and stone, and can instantly vaporize flesh. Do not construct or operate this device without proper safety procedures. You must wear welding type shielding while using this device. Do not look at the focus as it can cause instant and permanent eye damage.

Tags: fresnel solar furnace, xenotech research, technology

The Digital World Encyclopedia Of The Future

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:41:36 GMT

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Clip Source: devicedaily.com

Mobile Touchscreen Tablet Concept - The Digital World Encyclopedia Of The Future

The gadget was designed by Mac Funamizu and uses Google Maps along with a digital camera to show you informations of the thing or place you point it to. The idea is to know anything about anything, meaning you can point it to a flower,muzeum, street and give you details about it. But this is not all, featuring a scanner, WiFi and search.

This could be your personal encyclopedia that won’t let you get lost or uninformed about anything you want. Unfortunately, the current technology isn’t able yet to to all those things and it will take many years until we will see it in stores in this exact form. Until then, a version with less features might get released.

Tags: digital, world, encyclopedia, future, technology

Utility Fog (NanoFog)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:00:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The future I wish to see

Clip Source: www.wildirisdesign.com

Utility Fog

The individual foglets would take up only 2 to 3% of the space in the volume they fill, leaving the rest of the space for air and light. Hence, a room filled with UFog would be transparent up close, somewhat cloudy at a distance. You could fill a house with them and they would be unobtrusive.

They could:

Change a certain volume from one substance to another, ie. change running water to solid wood

Make objects appear and disappear, hence furnish your house

Automatically recycle used or obsolete materials

Connect to a super nano-internet which would provide a complete education for all in all languages

Build entire cities, whether in Bogota or on the Moon

Monitor your bodily functions, such as heartrate, etc. and take preventative action if necessary

Have your DNA pre-programmed, thus provide you with total immunity from all bacterial and viral agents, such as colds and AIDS

Perform surgery on the spot

Read your mind!

These are only a few of the possibilities.

Tags: technology, nano, utilityfog, possibilities

"Stealth" Battleships Coming Soon...?!

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:21:51 GMT

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Clip Source: www.redorbit.com

Technology Brings Warships Closer to Invisibility

Naval warships might look like all-powerful vessels but they are also highly vulnerable to being spotted by the enemy. That fear of being detected has led the military to develop new stealth technologies that allow ships to be virtually invisible to the human eye, to dodge roaming radars, put heat-seeking missiles off the scent, disguise their own sound vibrations and even reduce the way they distort the Earth’s magnetic field, as senior lecture in remote sensing and sensors technology at Britannia Royal Navy College, Chris Lavers, explains in March’s Physics World.

About the research, Chris Lavers writes, “If optical and radar metamaterials could be developed, they might provide a way to make a ship invisible to both human observers and radar systems, although the challenges of building a cloak big enough to hide an entire ship are huge.”

Tags: weapons, ships, stealth, technology

The Big List of Obsolete Skills

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:49:27 GMT

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Clip Source: obsoleteskills.com

Adjusting rabbit ears on top of a TV

Adjusting the dwell angle on the spark distributor of an engine

Aligning the heads on a five and a quarter inch floppy drive

AS 400

Autoexec.bat editing

Balancing the tonearm on a turntable

BASIC

Bootloading with binary switches

Caulking your wagon to ford the river

Changing vacuum tubes

Compiling source code by hand

Converting your albums from vinyl to cassette tape ?

Cranking a telephone

dBase IV

Drafting with pencils and T-square ?

Editing text with a restricted 80-characters per column

Focusing a camera

Grinding grain with a millstone ?

Hypercard and Hyperscript

Interpolating logarithms ?

Jumpers on a Motherboard

Knowing what part of town someone lives in by their phone exchange

Licking stamps or envelopes ?

Long division

4" floppy double-sided ?

Minicomputer programming

Morse-coding messages

Navigating using a compass

Painting cave walls

Tags: funny, list, skills, technology, advances?

The Technology in a Handshake - cool?

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:44:33 GMT

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Clip Source: www.kontrastblog.com

Exchange information with Handshake

Handskake won Red dot award: design concept 2007
Designers: Hideaki Matsui, Dong Ho Yun, Jea Wan Park

Tags: technology, ring, database

A trip to Mars in a Week?

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:42:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wow thats 100 million km

Clip Source: www.photonics.com

Thruster May Shorten Mars Trip

TUSTIN, Calif., Sept. 7, 2007 -- An amplified photon thruster that could potentially shorten the trip to Mars from six months to a week has reportedly attracted the attention of aerospace agencies and contractors.

“This is the tip of the iceberg," Bae said in a statement from the institute. "PLT has immense potential for the aerospace industry. For example, PLT-powered spacecraft could transit the 100 million km to Mars in less than a week.”

The demonstration produced a photon thrust of 35 µN and is scalable to achieve much greater thrust for future space missions, the institute said. Applications include highly precise satellite formation flying configurations for building large synthetic apertures in space for earth or space observation, precision contaminant-free spacecraft docking operations, and propelling spacecraft to unprecedented speeds -- faster than 100 km/sec.

Tags: science, technology

Healing And Protecting The Earth

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:53:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: With replicating assemblers, we will even be able to remove the billions of tons of carbon dioxide that our fuel-burning civilization has dumped into the atmosphere. Climatologists project that climbing carbon dioxide levels, by trapping solar energy, will partially melt the polar caps, raising sea levels and flooding coasts sometime in the middle of the next century. Replicating assemblers, though, will make solar power cheap enough to eliminate the need for fossil fuels. Like trees, solar-powered nanomachines will be able to extract carbon dioxide from the air and split off the oxygen. Unlike trees, they will be able to grow deep storage roots and place carbon back in the coal seams and oil fields from which it came.

Clip Source: www.e-drexler.com

Healing And Protecting The Earth

The failure of Earth's biological systems to adapt to the industrial revolution is also easy to understand. From deforestation to dioxin, we have caused damage faster than evolution can respond. As we have sought more food, goods, and services, our use of bulk technology has forced us to continue such damage. With future technology, though, we will be able to do more good for ourselves, yet do less harm to the Earth. In addition, we will be able to build planet-mending machines to correct damage already done. Cells are not all we will want to repair.

Consider the toxic waste problem.

we will be able to design cleaning machines to remove these poisons wherever they could harm life.

Cleaning machines will render them harmless by rearranging their atoms.

Tags: healing and protecting the earth, technology, speculation, ecology

ENGINES OF CONSTRUCTION

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:52:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Assemblers will take years to emerge, but their emergence seems almost inevitable: Though the path to assemblers has many steps, each step will bring the next in reach, and each will bring immediate rewards. The first steps have already been taken, under the names of "genetic engineering" and "biotechnology." Other paths to assemblers seem possible. Barring worldwide destruction or worldwide controls, the technology race will continue whether we wish it or not. And as advances in computer-aided design speed the development of molecular tools, the advance toward assemblers will quicken.

To have any hope of understanding our future, we must understand the consequences of assemblers, disassemblers, and nanocomputers. They promise to bring changes as profound as the industrial revolution, antibiotics, and nuclear weapons all rolled up in one massive breakthrough. To understand a future of such profound change, it makes sense to seek principles of change that have survived the greatest u

Clip Source: www.e-drexler.com

ENGINES OF CONSTRUCTION

Two Styles Of Technology

Molecular Technology Today

Existing Protein Machines

Designing With Protein

Second-Generation Nanotechnology

Universal Assemblers

Because assemblers will let us place atoms in almost any reasonable arrangement (as discussed in the Notes), they will let us build almost anything that the laws of nature allow to exist. In particular, they will let us build almost anything we can design - including more assemblers. The consequences of this will be profound, because our crude tools have let us explore only a small part of the range of possibilities that natural law permits. Assemblers will open a world of new technologies.

Nailing Down Conclusions

° Will the uncertainty principle of quantum physics make molecular machines unworkable?

° Will the molecular vibrations of heat make molecular machines unworkable or too unreliable for use?

° Will radiation disrupt molecular machines and render them unusable?

Nanocomputers

Disassemblers

The World Made New

Tags: engines of construction, nano, assemblers, technology

Space and Advanced Technology - A Future Space Suit

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:20:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Imagine that you are aboard a space station, spun to simulate Earth's normal gravity. After instruction, you have been given a suit to try out: there it hangs on the wall, a gray, rubbery-looking thing with a transparent helmet. You take it down, heft its substantial weight, strip, and step in through the open seam on the front.

Clip Source: www.e-drexler.com

Space and Advanced Technology

Nowadays, teams of engineers typically take five to ten years to develop a new space system, spending tens to thousands of millions of dollars along the way. These engineering delays and costs make progress painfully slow. In coming years, though, computer-aided design systems will evolve toward automated engineering systems. As they do, engineering delays and costs will shrink and then plummet; computer-controlled manufacturing systems will drop overall costs still further. A day will come when automated design and manufacturing will have made space systems development more than tenfold faster and cheaper. Our progress in space will soar.

Since nanotechnology lends itself to making small things, consider the smallest person-carrying spacecraft: the spacesuit. Forced to use weak, heavy, passive materials, engineers now make bulky, clumsy spacesuits. A look at an advanced spacesuit will illustrate some of the capabilities of nanotechnology.

Tags: space and advanced technology, spacesuit, technology, speculation

THE PRINCIPLES OF CHANGE

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:59:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Yet memes that seal the mind against new ideas protect themselves in a suspiciously self-serving way. While protecting valuable traditions from clumsy editing, they may also shield parasitic claptrap from the test of truth. In times of swift change they can make minds dangerously rigid.

Clip Source: www.e-drexler.com

THE PRINCIPLES OF CHANGE


		Order from Chaos Evolving Molecules Explaining Order Evolving Organisms Another Route Back The Rise of the Replicators Evolving Technology The Evolution of Design What Are the New Replicators? The Creatures of the Mind Selecting Ideas

		References for Chapter 2

Richard Dawkins calls bits of replicating mental patterns "memes" (meme rhymes with cream). He says "examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body [generation to generation] via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation."

Tags: the principles of change, nano, technology, speculation