If you’ve ever considered the humble urinal, you might have noticed that it uses much less water than a toilet. It only makes...
Are Animals People?
Image by Getty Images via Daylife The disparity between experiments that suggest sophisticated cognition in animals and those that find hard limits to animal ...
India’s Rural Cell Movement: Can You Hear Me Now?
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...
Press Gang
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...
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...
4D heart imaging could have far-reaching effects for patients
Heart disease is the number one killer in the U.S, and congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect around the world....
Vittana Applies The Kiva Model To Help Finance Education In Developing Countries
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...
Breakthrough in quest for solar hydrogen production
Scientists at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, have built on feats of Mother Nature to develop the most potent homogeneous catalyst known for water...
Laser-activated nanotube speakers could be invisibly embedded in windows and walls
It is known that intense sound can be produced by electrically-powered nanotubes stretched into sheets, but researchers from University of Texas at Dallas...
Solar panels made three times cheaper and four times more efficient
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...
Eye concept – a glimpse of Tesla’s future?
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...
3D TV is here
After all the hype prompted by the success of Avatar in cinemas and the flood of 3D technology unveiled at trade shows like CES...
Storing megawatts: Liquid-metal batteries and electricity
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...
Zep’lin flying boat ponders the future of electric vehicles
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...
The Lithium Chase
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...
Carbon nanotubes offer new way to produce electricity
Scientists have discovered that a moving pulse of heat traveling along the miniscule wires known as carbon nanotubes can cause powerful waves of...
Monitoring greenhouse gases
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...
Magic Fingers: Digging Into Multi-Touch Technology with Both Hands
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...
Antro SOLO human-electric-hybrid aims for double the fun
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...
Tree seeds could provide low-cost water purification for developing nations
“In the developing world, more than 1 billion people cannot get clean drinking water... The United Nations says that dirty water causes 80 percent...
It’s 2010 – finally my jet pack is here!
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...
Google Busting Out Breakthrough Solar Thermal Technology in 1-3 Years?
Image via CrunchBase Google “green czar” Bill Weihl has just reported that if all things go as planned, we could see Google rolling...
Building a Better Teacher
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...
China’s Cyberposse
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....
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