FYI: How Quantum Teleportation Can Bring Us Secure Communications
• http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca BoyleWhy are all these world records for quantum teleportation so important?
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Inventions
Money Seeks Idea
• Antonio Regalado via TechnologyReview.comBusinesses are adapting their R&D spending to the idea that innovation can come from anywhere.
NASA’s Newest Autonomous Lander Passes Flight Test
• Adam Mann via WIRED.comA prototype NASA lander completed a successful free flight on Sept. 5, helping to bring a new generation of landing vehicles closer to reality.
Cyborg Cockroach Scurries Along a Precise, Curved Path
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comWe’ve seen schemes for remotely-controlled cyborg insects before, including at least one DIY kit for building your own robotically-enhanced cockroach, but researchers at NC State are really moving this discipline forward (literally).
How Quantum Teleportation Can Bring Us Secure Communications
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comWhy are all these world records for quantum teleportation so important?
LiftPort plans to build space elevator on the Moon by 2020
• http://www.gizmag.com, By David SzondyWhen the late Neil Armstrong and the crew of Apollo 11 went to the Moon, they did so sitting atop a rocket the size of a skyscraper that blasted out jets of smoke and flame as it hurtled skyward.
Japanese model enthusiast builds paper robot powered by elastic bands
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Adam WilliamsA Japanese paper-modelling enthusiast has constructed a bipedal “robot” dubbed the “Paper Robot III” (or PR-III).
Gnarboard electric skateboard takes on a C5 Corvette
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Darren QuickWhen we first took a look at the Gnarboards Trail Rider electric skateboard a couple of months ago, we likened it to a “Ferrari for your feet” due to it boasting a power-to-weight ratio that would put many cars to shame.
Video: A Ball of Metal Bounces Off a Thin Sheet of Super-Tough Hydrogel
• http://www.popsci.com, By Colin LecherWe've seen hydrogels--the squishy material of the future--do some neat tricks before.
Maryland Student Hovers 8 Feet High in Human-Powered Helicopter
• http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca BoyleRecords are made to be broken, and a bunch of students at the University of Maryland are smashing the ones they just set earlier this summer.
Wood pulp extract stronger than carbon fiber or Kevlar
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Brian DodsonThe Forest Products Laboratory of the US Forest Service has opened a US$1.7 million pilot plant for the production of cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) from wood by-products materials such as wood chips and sawdust.
Graphene: The Future’s Supermaterial?
• http://theperiodical.info, Oliver CawthorneGraphene, a single layer of the common graphite, is a largely overlooked allotrope of carbon as compared to the more popular ‘eternal’ diamonds
Buckyballs: wide open playing field for chemists.
• highbeam.com, Koshland, Daniel E., Jr.; CulottaThe roundest, most symmetrical large molecule found so far, buckminsterfullerene, continues to astonish with one amazing property after another.
Replacing Your Password with a Finger Swipe
• David Talbot via TechnologyReview.comThe new device could transmit a user-specific ID through the skin.
‘Super Wi-Fi’ poised for growth in U.S., elsewhere
• The RawStory.comMove over Wi-Fi, there’s a new wireless technology coming.
Up in the air with a human-powered helicopter
• http://news.yahoo.com, By Claudine ZapStudents at University of Maryland are using pedal power to break a human-powered helicopter record (but hopefully to break nothing else).
Nikola Tesla - The Untold Story
• http://www.youtube.com, UFOTVstudiosThis program reveals the discoveries of a forgotten genius, many of which went virtually unnoticed for nearly a century.
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Nikola Tesla
• http://www.youtube.com, HowStuffWorksWhen impoverished inventor Nikola Tesla died in New York City, the U.S. government confiscated his notes.
Nikola Tesla Inventions In Three-Dimensions
• http://www.youtube.com, AkaUfoAkaUfoNikola Tesla Inventions In Three-Dimensions.
An ultrafast nickel–iron battery
• http://www.nature.comUltrafast rechargeable batteries made from low-cost and abundant electrode materials operating in safe aqueous electrolytes could be attractive for electrochemical energy storage.
Ideal Solar Storage Batteries invented in 1902 by Edison are Rediscovered (Part 1) : Ian Soutar
• http://www.youtube.com, ideawavevideosIdeal Solar Storage Batteries invented in 1902
30 Innovations That Will Change The World
• http://www.businessinsider.com30 Innovations That Will Change The World
Video: A Body-Cooling Glove Could Give Athletes a Better Boost Than Steroids
• http://www.popsci.com, By Colin Lecher... a body-cooling glove out of Stanford that researchers say might be more potent--and obviously much more legal--than steroids.
Video: Maryland Student Hovers 8 Feet High in Human-Powered Helicopter...
• http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca BoyleRecords are made to be broken, and a bunch of students at the University of Maryland are smashing the ones they just set earlier this summer.
This Touch Screen Knows Your Touch
• http://www.technologyreview.com, David TalbotThe new device could transmit a user-specific ID through the skin.
Light-Activated Muscle Could Make Robots Move Like Real Creatures
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comThe blue dot represents a pulse of blue light used to activate skeletal muscle grown in a lab. This light-sensitive genetically engineered tissue is being used to build highly articulated machines.
South African Scientists Claim Breakthrough Drug Cures All Strains of Malaria
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comMalaria is the scourge of tropical nations, crippling its victims with symptoms like debilitating fever, convulsions and nausea, and killing half a million people annually.
A Body-Cooling Glove Could Give Athletes a Better Boost Than Steroids
• Colin Lecher via PopSci.comAlmost all mammals have a network of veins near a hairless part of their skin that controls rapid temperature management--and it's no different for people.
30 Innovations That Will Change The World
• http://www.businessinsider.com30 Innovations That Will Change The World
Grant Lets Kids With Disabilities Become Gamers With Adaptive Technology
• Ethan Gilsdorf via WIRED.comLearning a new videogame can be frustrating. But for kids with disabilities, the experience can be especially hard. If you can’t play what the other kids are playing, it’s like being picked last for the kickball team.
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