Cutting-edge Research
3-D Printer Creates Entire Buildings From Solid Rock
Sunday, March 21st, 2010Imagine a 3-d printer so large that it can spit out entire buildings made from stone.
Sounds science fiction-y, right? But that’s exactly what designer Enrico Dini created with his prototype D-Shape printer. Dini hopes to use the printer to create buildings made of stone and eventually, moon dust.
The printing [...]
Energy Generating, Self-Heating Solar Roadway Unveiled
Sunday, March 21st, 2010The makers of the Solar Roadway just got a little closer to their dream of making every road in the United States a high-tech thruway that carries more than just cars.
They’ve completed their first prototype and unveiled the photographs of the revolutionary energy-generating road surface. If installed on a real [...]
Hidden RFID tags could mean end of bar-codes and lines at the checkout
Friday, March 19th, 2010Newly developed radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology could usher in the era of checkout line-free shopping.
The inexpensive, printable transmitter can be invisibly embedded in packaging offering the possibility of customers walking a cartload of groceries or other goods past a scanner that would read all the items at once, total them up [...]
Invisibility cloak created in 3-D
Friday, March 19th, 2010Scientists 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 [...]
Mile-High Mega Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power Plants
Friday, March 19th, 2010Image 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 [...]
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