How Improved Batteries Will Make Electric Vehicles Competitive
• http://www.technologyreview.com, By Kevin BullisIt will likely take a decade, but improvements to lithium-ion batteries could lead to much cheaper EVs.
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Can Andrea Rossi's Infinite-Energy Black Box Power The World--Or Just Scam It?
• http://www.popsci.com, By Steve FeatherstoneRossi--a lone Italian inventor with no real credentials and a history as a convicted scam artist--has convinced a small army of researchers that his box can harness a new type of nuclear reaction. What if they're right?
The Decades That Invented the Future, Part 4: 1931-1940
• http://www.wired.comToday's leading-edge technology is headed straight for tomorrow's junk pile, but that doesn't make it any less awesome.
ELON MUSK: 'If We Published Patents, It Would Be Farcical'
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Kim BhasinThe patent system has been getting a lot of heat lately, especially with the high-profile fight between Apple and Samsung.
Organ-on-a-Chip Mimics Deadly Lung Condition
• http://www.technologyreview.com, By Susan YoungThe organ-mimicking microdevice may one day reduce the need for animal testing.
Quantum Dots Make Artificial Photosynthesis Last Longer
• http://www.technologyreview.com, By Kevin BullisNanoparticles offer a solution to a key problem with splitting water with sunlight to generate hydrogen.
How To Use Fire, Yes Fire, To Charge Your iPhone
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Nicholas CarlsonActually it's pretty easy.
Air-Powered Motorcycle Runs on Scuba Tank, Rotary Engine
• http://www.wired.com, By Alexander GeorgeIf you haven’t already accepted that motorcycles running on something other than dead dino juice are the real deal, then you probably should come around.
Man Climbs Skyscraper with Mind-Controlled Bionic Leg
• http://www.technewsdaily.com, StaffA mind-controlled prosthetic leg was put to the test this weekend by a man who used it to climb 103 flights of stairs to the top of Chicago's Willis Tower, one of the world's tallest skyscrapers.
10 Reasons Why Tesla Is a Scientific God
• http://science.howstuffworks.com, by Nicholas GerbHistory, they say, is written by the victors, but that's cold comfort to the men and women x-ed out by the editor's pen.
OLED data glasses controlled with eye movements
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben CoxworthFraunhofer's OLED data glasses
Efficiency Breakthrough Promises Smartphones that Use Half the Power
• http://www.technologyreview.com, By David TalbotA startup says it's cracked a decades-old efficiency problem dogging wireless communications.
DARWIND5 wind turbine improves on an old design
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Antonio PasoliniOntario, Canada has carved out a niche for itself as a hub of green technology.
Apple Stores Will Sell Lightbulbs You Can Control With Your iPad
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Dylan LovePhilips is manufacturing lightbulbs called "Hue" that can be controlled with your smartphone, and starting today, you can buy them exclusively at the Apple Store.
LiquidPiston unveils 40-bhp X2 rotary engine with 75 percent thermal efficiency
• http://www.gizmag.com, By David SzondyThe internal combustion engine (ICE) has had a remarkably successful century and a half.
Drop Ping-Pong Balls on People With This iPhone-Controlled Copter
• http://www.wired.com, By Christina BonningtonHere at Wired we’re big fans of office weaponry. And drones. So when we learned of the Kickstarter for the iStrike Shuttle, for the iStrike Shuttle, an iOS-controlled flying machine that can drop ping-pong balls onto your target of choice, we got pre
Custom Casts Let You Pimp Your Broken Bones
• http://www.wired.com, By Joseph FlahertyThe unlucky no longer need to rely on friends with Sharpies to decorate casts — they can tattoo their fiberglass forearms with cartoon characters, fluorescent pink tiger stripes, or most impressively, custom X-ray images.
Double-Diamond Anvil Creates Pressures Greater Than Earth's Inner Core
• http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca BoyleWith that much pressure, unique compounds can form and materials change their chemical and physical properties.
New 'One-Shot' Rifle Sight Could Make Snipers Deadlier Than Ever
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey IngersollSnipers are already one of the more deadly anti-personnel assets the U.S. military has, but somehow, they're going to get deadlier.
Portable Power Center wind turbine fits into a shipping container
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Adam WilliamsIn an average wind speed of 12 mph (20 km/h), the PPC is said to produce 12 kW of power
3-D-printed airplane takes to the skies
• http://www.nbcnews.com, staff report3-D printers are already being used to create machine parts and small toys, but engineers have now used the technology to build an entire vehicle: a plastic, unmanned airplane that actually flies.
Watch A Humanoid Robot Walk A Tightrope
• http://www.popsci.com, By Colin LecherFrom the inventor of the bicycle-riding 'bot, a new creation
Can Andrea Rossi's Infinite-Energy Black Box Power The World--Or Just Scam It?
• http://www.popsci.com, By Steve FeatherstoneRossi--a lone Italian inventor with no real credentials and a history as a convicted scam artist--has convinced a small army of researchers that his box can harness a new type of nuclear reaction. What if they're right?
DIY Laser Cutter Raises Capital, Concerns
• http://www.wired.com, By Joseph FlahertyThese are great days for makers. Affordable 3-D printers and CNC mills are popping up everywhere, opening up new worlds of production to wide ranges of designers.
The Decades That Invented the Future, Part 1: 1900-1910
• http://www.wired.comToday's leading-edge technology is headed straight for tomorrow's junk pile, but that doesn't make it any less awesome. Everyone loves the latest and greatest.
Audi all-electric F12 “e Sport” prototype rolls out of e performance research project
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Darren QuickThe all electric F12 represent the 'e Sport' segment of the scalable electric vehicle technology platform resulting from the e performance research project
Sony patents temperature feedback games controller
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Jonathan FincherSony received a patent recently for a PS3 Move controller that changes temperature between hot and cold in response to in-game actions
Carbon nanotube composite material could replace carbon fiber
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben CoxworthWhen people need a material that’s strong yet lightweight, they usually look to carbon fiber. In the near future, however, they may instead choose to go with composite materials made from stretched carbon nanotubes.
See How The University Of Maryland Almost Won $250K With This Human Powered Helicopter
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey IngersollIn 1980, the American Helicopter Association established the Sikorsky Prize, a challenge for human powered helicopters with a grant reward of $250,000.
Sand Flea Jumping Robot
• youtubeSand Flea is an 11-lb robot with one trick up its sleeve: Normally it drives like an RC car, but when it needs to it can jump 30 feet into the air
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