Author Archive

Invisibility cloak created in 3-D

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Scientists have created the first device to render an object invisible in three dimensions.
The “cloak”, described in the journal Science, hid an object from detection using light of wavelengths close to those that are visible to humans.
Previous devices have been able to hide objects from light travelling in only one [...]

Tags: , , ,
Posted in BBC, Consider This, Cutting-edge Research, Innovation, Shape of Things to Come?, disruptive innovation | No Comments »

Mile-High Mega Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power Plants

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Image via Wikipedia

Take a huge oceanic catamaran, stick a hydroelectric turbine underneath it, and hitch it to a 6.5 million-square-foot parafoil flying nearly a mile in the air. That’s a Korean research team’s new proposal for generating gigawatts of clean energy.
As the parafoil pulls the boat, seawater would be forced through the [...]

Tags: , , ,
Posted in 5 Years Out, Consider This, Cutting-edge Research, Innovation, Innovation Needed, Project Energy, Shape of Things to Come?, Wired.com | No Comments »

Smoothing Out the Wind

Friday, March 19th, 2010

A cunning plan to store energy underwater may help fulfil the promise of wind power
THE problem with wind power is that is cannot always be relied upon. The wind—and other transient, environmental energy sources such as solar—must either be used when it is harvested or stored expensively in batteries or specially [...]

Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in 5 Years Out, Cutting-edge Research, Economist, Innovation, Innovation Needed, Project Energy | No Comments »

Nose scanner identity verification developed

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

As identity theft continues to rise, authorities are on the lookout for ways to use a person’s physical characteristics to distinguish between an imposter and the genuine article.
Whereas eyes change shape according to facial expression and ears can be hidden away, researchers from the University of Bath have discovered that [...]

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Consider This, Cutting-edge Research, Innovation in Society, Shape of Things to Come?, gizmag | No Comments »

Momentum Reel push mower stores energy for a burst of extra cutting power

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

“Green” mowers like the human-powered Mow Cycle are great for keeping that well manicured lawn along with a clear conscience.
But there’s always the chance of running into a patch of particularly thick grass that makes push mowers that little bit less attractive. The Momentum Reel Mower tackles this shortcoming in an [...]

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Innovation, environment, gizmag | No Comments »

Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes

Innovation Search

Translator

English flagItalian flagKorean flagChinese (Simplified) flagChinese (Traditional) flagPortuguese flagGerman flagFrench flag
Spanish flagJapanese flagArabic flagRussian flagGreek flagDutch flagBulgarian flagCzech flag
Croatian flagDanish flagFinnish flagHindi flagPolish flagRomanian flagSwedish flagNorwegian flag
Catalan flagFilipino flagHebrew flagIndonesian flagLatvian flagLithuanian flagSerbian flagSlovak flag
Slovenian flagUkrainian flagVietnamese flagAlbanian flagEstonian flagGalician flagMaltese flagThai flag
Turkish flagHungarian flag      

Categories

17 visitors online now
17 guests, 0 members
Max visitors today: 18 at 12:01 am EDT
This month: 44 at 03-18-2010 04:38 am EDT
This year: 70 at 01-17-2010 12:44 pm EST
All time: 113 at 12-03-2009 10:18 pm EST