NoMix toilets make a splash in European study

NoMix Toilet

If you’ve ever considered the humble urinal, you might have noticed that it uses much less water than a toilet. It only makes...

Read More »

Are Animals People?

SAN DIEGO -  In this undated handout photo sup...

Image by Getty Images via Daylife The disparity between experiments that suggest sophisticated cognition in animals and those that find hard limits to animal ...

Read More »

India’s Rural Cell Movement: Can You Hear Me Now?

Mobile phone subscribers per 100 inhabitants 1...

Image via Wikipedia Last time I was in India I wrote about the amazing business model innovation that had allowed telecom operators to make money...

Read More »

Press Gang

President George W. Bush and British Prime Min...

Image via Wikipedia With New York City about to let bloggers qualify for press passes, a look at what breaking down the walls between old...

Read More »

Craig Barrett Takes On Vivek Wadhwa In The Tech Education Debate

Editor’s note: The most valuable employees of any technology company are the engineers and scientists, which is why everyone in Silicon Valley does...

Read More »

4D heart imaging could have far-reaching effects for patients

4D Heart Imaging

Heart disease is the number one killer in the U.S, and congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect around the world....

Read More »

Vittana Applies The Kiva Model To Help Finance Education In Developing Countries

Image representing Vittana as depicted in Crun...

Image via CrunchBase The microfinance model has proved to be a valuable way to raise funds for entrepreneurs all over the country, as exemplified by...

Read More »

Breakthrough in quest for solar hydrogen production

WOC

Scientists at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, have built on feats of Mother Nature to develop the most potent homogeneous catalyst known for water...

Read More »

Laser-activated nanotube speakers could be invisibly embedded in windows and walls

Nanotube Speakers

It is known that intense sound can be produced by electrically-powered nanotubes stretched into sheets, but researchers from University of Texas at Dallas...

Read More »

Solar panels made three times cheaper and four times more efficient

Technique Solar

As regular readers will know, we cover more than our fair share of breakthroughs promising next-generation super-efficient solar cells. Everything from growing photovoltaic...

Read More »

Eye concept – a glimpse of Tesla’s future?

Tesla Eye

The all-electric Tesla Roadster is indeed a fine-looking, high-performance automobile, but its projected $US109,000 price tag will likely put it out of reach of the...

Read More »

3D TV is here

3D TV

After all the hype prompted by the success of Avatar in cinemas and the flood of 3D technology unveiled at trade shows like CES...

Read More »

Storing megawatts: Liquid-metal batteries and electricity

Aluminium

Image via Wikipedia Making aluminum requires a lot of electricity. That's because the metal bonds tightly to oxygen and it takes a lot of energy...

Read More »

Zep’lin flying boat ponders the future of electric vehicles

Zep'lin Flying Boat

A boat that flies. Now there's a vehicle Phileas Fogg could really have used. Zep'lin is a blue-sky concept developed by industrial designer Damien...

Read More »

The Lithium Chase

Lithium-Abfall

Image by lennox_mcdough via Flickr For many years, few metals drew bigger yawns from mining executives than lithium, a lightweight element long associated mostly...

Read More »

Carbon nanotubes offer new way to produce electricity

Carbon Nanotube

Scientists have discovered that a moving pulse of heat traveling along the miniscule wires known as carbon nanotubes can cause powerful waves of...

Read More »

Monitoring greenhouse gases

Graph of CO 2  (green), reconstructed temperat...

Image via Wikipedia Highs and lows You might think that measuring the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would be a priority. If you did...

Read More »

Magic Fingers: Digging Into Multi-Touch Technology with Both Hands

Perceptive Pixel

Image by Eliel via Flickr At Perceptive Pixel's offices on Manhattan's West Side, Jefferson Han stands in front of a megasize multi-touch screen and...

Read More »

Antro SOLO human-electric-hybrid aims for double the fun

Antro SOLO

Hungarian designers Antro are aiming to introduce a new fuel efficient vehicle to the consumer market by 2012 which (like the recently covered HumanCar) will...

Read More »

Tree seeds could provide low-cost water purification for developing nations

Moringa Tree

“In the developing world, more than 1 billion people cannot get clean drinking water... The United Nations says that dirty water causes 80 percent...

Read More »

It’s 2010 – finally my jet pack is here!

Martin Aircraft Company Jet Pack

It's been a long time coming. While Arthur C. Clarke's satellites have taken to space, and James Bond's futuristic mobile technology has become common...

Read More »

Google Busting Out Breakthrough Solar Thermal Technology in 1-3 Years?

Image representing eSolar as depicted in Crunc...

Image via CrunchBase Google “green czar” Bill Weihl has just reported that if all things go as planned, we could see Google rolling...

Read More »

Building a Better Teacher

A diagram of the education system in the Unite...

Image via Wikipedia ON A WINTER DAY five years ago, Doug Lemov realized he had a problem. After a successful career as a teacher, a...

Read More »

China’s Cyberposse

NASA composite satellite photo

Image via Wikipedia The short video made its way around China’s Web in early 2006, passed on through file sharing and recommended in chat rooms....

Read More »

Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes
Green Web Hosting

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

20 visitors online now
20 guests, 0 members
Max visitors today: 34 at 07:40 pm 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