Bandages Made of Edible Starch Could Dissolve On Your Skin Once You're Healed
• http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca BoyleNo need to peel them off
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Inventions
Who Needs a Remote-Controlled Car?
• http://www.technologyreview.com, David ZaxAt the Beijing Auto Show, one car in particular raised eyebrows: a remote-controlled car.
Ford’s Alan Mulally on the Future of Driving
• http://www.wired.com, By Michael V. CopelandIf you are trying to get a bead on what kind of car to buy next, you’d figure asking Alan Mulally, CEO of Ford, would be a safe bet. Should you go hybrid, plug-in-hybrid, clean diesel, high efficiency gas, or all-electric? Mulally doesn’t have an ans
The Jets of the Future
• popsci.com, By Andrew Rosenblum and Rose PastoreHow NASA and aircraft engineers intend to shape the future of air travel
I have seen the future (And it's made of glass)
• http://www.computerworld.com, By Mike ElganHere's how incredible breakthroughs in glass technology will transform consumer electronics
100 miles per gallon car with a 5 star crash rating! You can get one for $25,000
• http://www.wikispeed.com/NotableFactsWikispeed Car
Tinted Windows that Generate Electricity
• http://www.technologyreview.com, By Kevin BullisA German company borrows the materials and manufacturing process of OLED displays to make a new kind of solar panel.
Cause of North Korea Rocket Failure May Remain a Mystery
• http://www.space.com, by Mike WallThe general public will likely never know just what caused a North Korean rocket to crash and burn on Friday (April 13), one expert says.
Will 3-D printing launch a new industrial revolution? (already has)
• phys.orgPeter Schmitt, an MIT doctoral student, printed a clock in 2009. He didn't print an image of a clock on a piece of paper. He printed a three-dimensional clock -- an eight-inch diameter plastic timekeeping device with moving gears, hands and counterwe
This New $7 Billion Warship Is Part Of The US Response To China's Military Buildup
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert JohnsonLooking a bit like an old Civil War Ironclad, the $7 billion DDG 1000 USS Zumwalt will focus on land attacks, relying heavily on its advanced stealth technology to slip in close to shore before unleashing its massive onboard arsenal.
Are our street names sexist?
• http://www.bbc.co.uk, By Mark BosworthA tiny proportion of streets in Rome are named after women, while nearly half are named after men - and it is a similar story in other major cities around the world. Outrageous sexism, a simple fact of history, or both?
Without Smarts, New York's 'Taxi of Tomorrow' is Really the Taxi of Yesterday
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comThe New York City taxi fleet is a machine that runs on data. So why isn't it more intelligent?
Get Ready For The Tidal Wave Of Drug Patent Expirations
• http://www.businessinsider.com,The Daily Reckoningcompetition from the new commodity, the new technology, the new source of supply, the new type of organization…
Google Gets Transparent With Glass, Its Augmented Reality Project
• Steven Levy via WIRED.comLarry Page and Sergey Brin have long had the dream of a hands-free, mobile Google, where search was a seamless process as you moved around the world.
First Bedside Genetic Test Could Prevent Heart Complications
• Susan Young via TechnologyReview.comA genotyping test from a Canadian biotech company enables timely personalized drug treatment.
Solar Cell Thinner Than Spider Silk Could Power Internet of Things
• Christopher Mims via TechnologyReview.comWhen you think about how to power a distributed network of environmental sensors, the kind we'll want to have in order to connect the entirety of our physical world to the Internet of Things, the answer is obvious: solar power.
Crunching the Big Bang With the Greatest Supercomputer Ever Built
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comLittle more than a decade from now, one of the world's great arid plains will become a bustling intersection of high-resolution astronomy and high-powered computing. Scrub land in either South Africa or Australia will host the biggest telescope ever.
Scrunchable Space Sieves Could Work as Tiny Foldable Satellite-Borne Telescopes
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comA perforated plastic sheet carried into space in a microsatellite could serve as a cheap alternative space telescope, according to researchers at the U.S. Air Force Academy. The devices would sift photons like spaceborne cheesecloths.
How Seagate's Terabit-Per-Square-Inch Hard Drive Works
• Prachi Patel via TechnologyReview.comMagnetic hard disks will soon be able to store one terabit (a trillion bits) per square inch. Seagate has demonstrated that landmark storage density using a new magnetic recording method
Facebook Condemns Companies That Demand User Logins
• Caleb Garling via Wired.comFacebook has spoken out against businesses that demand Facebook usernames and passwords from their employees and prospective hires.
Video: Face-Recognition System Can Sort Through 36 Million Faces Per Second
• Paul Adams via PopSci.comDiginfo brings us news of this Hitachi Kokusai system that can monitor video feeds from around the world in real time, scanning for a particular face. When it finds what it's looking for, it closes in to provide footage
Longest-Ever Fiber-Optic Link Will Run Through Thawing Arctic, Between UK and Japan
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comDiminishing sea ice in the Arctic could be a boon for international trade — both for heavy ships using the Northwest Passage, and now for speedier telecommunications via new fiber-optic cables.
2 guns are better than 1,...unless they ARE 1!
• www.arsenalfirearms.comIn the greatest case of “Because we can” manufacturing, Arsenal Firearms introduces the AF2011-A1 pistol. It is a double-barrel 1911 pistol.This gun spits two .45 bullets down range with each press of the dual triggers.
New Breed of 'Nuclear Clocks' Could be 100 Times More Accurate than Today's Atomic Timek
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comAn international team of researchers from the University of New South Wales, the University of Nevada, and Georgia Tech have propsed a new kind of atomic timekeeper that wouldn’t lose or gain 1/20th of a second in 14 billion years
Holey Optochip! The One-Trillion-Bits-Per-Second Chip is Here
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comThe high data loads of the future--and even the present--require that optical communications platforms continue to get faster, leaner, and cheaper.
Japanese Giant Builds Computer Memory With Light
• Eric Smalley via WIRED.comA piece of the future internet has surfaced in a lab in Japan: a memory chip that stores bits of light
Consumer groups urge Google to delay privacy revamp
• The RawStory.comA coalition of European and US consumer advocacy groups made a last-ditch appeal to Internet search and advertising giant Google on Wednesday to delay changes to its privacy policies.
The NSA Builds a Super-secure Android Device
• Tom Simonite via TechnologyReview.comThe prototypes, code-named "Fishbowl", make encrypted calls, and may be emulated by handset manufacturers.
Trillion-Dollar Stealth Fighter Cleared for Flight Training
• David Axe via WIRED.comThe Air Force’s F-35A Joint Strike Fighter is finally cleared to begin introductory flights at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida — four months late.
Lytro Camera Lets You Shoot Now, Focus Later
• John Bradley via WIRED.comAfter two weeks with the Lytro camera, I still can’t decide if it’s a highly refined proof-of-concept or an uneven look at the future of photography. It’s simultaneously addictive and frustrating. It’s also a truly unique photographic experience.
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