If you go to MARS, stay there !

In an interview with AFP, moonwalker Buzz Aldrin stated that the first astronauts sent to Mars should be prepared to spend the rest of their lives there, in the same way that European pioneers headed to America knowing they would not return home.

“With what appears to be vast reserves of frozen water, Mars is nearer terrestrial conditions, much better than the Moon and any other place,”. Read more

The First Color Carbon Nanotube-Based Display from Samsung

Samsung and Unidym (the company that developed the carbon nanotubes ) joined forces and developed the world’s first carbon nanotube color active matrix electrophoretic display (EPD) e-paper.
The display is impressive, it has a variety of advantages over traditional flat panels: it doesn’t require backlighting, Read more

Stantum : Multitouch with 10-finger gestures

I guess the two-finger multitouch on the new Macbook Pro wasn’t enough…and now Stantum, a French company, are the ones responsible for taking the concept of muti-touch to another level.

“True multi-touch” as they call it or screen technology, lets you use as many digits as you please on the 15.4-inch screen display. It creates stacks of gestures and controls Read more

The paper of the future: 10 Times Lighter, 500 Times Stronger Than Steel

It’s called “buckypaper”, it looks a lot like ordinary carbon paper, and it has the potential of revolutionize the way everything from airplanes, cars or TVs are made.

It is an amazing material: 10 times lighter but 500 times stronger than steel when sheets of it are stacked and pressed together to form a composite it conducts electricity like copper or silicon and disperses heat like steel or Read more

Hydroelectric shoes

Leaving aside the fact that these shoes are top ugly, we are interested more in what they can do.

How do they work? Kinda like Frank Herbert’ s suit from DUNE these are power generating shoes that use water and a small turbine. As you start to walk , Read more

Bike sunglasses with supervision

Still in a concept stage these are quite the coolest bike glasses I’ve ever seen.

Named Nike Hindsight,the glasses are designed with specifically tuned Fresnel lenses for keeping an eye on approaching taxis/cars/baby strollers.
” Its like giving bicyclists a pair of bifocals for their peripheral vision. By using Fresnel lenses on the sides of eye wear, Read more

New Airport in Japan will use snow for cooling

The smart people of Japan came up with an amazing idea : an entire airport that will collect snow in the winter in order to provide 30% of the terminal building’s cooling in the summer.
So how this airport works? In order to retain the snow Read more

How humans will interact with the computer in the near future ?

If you can add a touch screen interface to a small device such as the iPod Touch (or many other devices out there), adding the interface to a desktop or laptop would make things far more interesting.

If I remember correctly it was Microsoft in 2007, that showed off Read more

The sky is blue…bananas are too !

Hacking into a biology centre with a backpack full of bananas, we found out that ripe bananas don’t only turn yellow; they glow blue! That’s right! Its all because of the chlorophyll derivative that emits blue light when exposed to UV.

If you have a black light device (and I’m sure most of you….do) you can check to see if this is true.
Also don’t forget, bananas are a good source of vitamin C, potassium and dietary fiber!

via: Arstechnica

The invisibility cloak

No, this is not an article about Tolkien and his fiction work or some new skill in World of Warcraft, but a true invisibility cloak that could become a reality within the next five years.

Using nanotechnology and metamaterials combined with a few drops of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, Purdue University, Indiana discovered that they could create such a device by bending light around itself like Read more

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