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  • Sefe, Inc. Power the Entire World

    • 2 May 2012
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    • Electricity Inventions May 02 2012 Renewable Energy Technology
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    "A city appears—out of thin air. And the power to run that growing city? It’s out of thin air, too. Magic? No, more like a revolution, one created by a vision and a simple, yet profound, premise:

    Sustainable change.

    Maximum impact.

    SEFE is that vision…and a wholly unique way to power the world. The entire world, regardless of geography, politics or infrastructure.

    It isn’t alternative energy, because alternative energy—like wind farms, solar arrays and the like—actually need to create electricity from some other means. Instead, SEFE taps the source, capturing and converting naturally occurring static electricity in the atmosphere into a constant, abundant and decidedly green source of renewable energy."

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  • Journey to the Center of the CPU

    • 25 Mar 2012
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    • Computer March 25 2012 Photographs Technology
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    "...the one chip that towers above all others—the big, bad CPU. We know there are millions, and often billions, of transistors packed inside each and every modern-day processor. This in itself is a testament not only to man's obsession with miniaturization but his unstoppable thirst for power. But there's other stuff too—silicon wafers; dielectric insulators; copper electroplating; a high-speed, multi-layered highway of interconnections; and assorted unit-specific bits and pieces.

    Wanna see what it all looks like? Check out the gallery below !"

    via maximumpc.com

     

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  • Electron Ptychography Could Create Sharpest Images Ever

    • 17 Mar 2012
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    • March 17 2012 Photomicrography Technology
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    Lily Anther, Still Alive

    "Using a new microscopy technique, scientists can see living cells clearly without the need to stain them, a process which usually kills the cells. These cells are from a lily anther, the pollen-carrying reproductive portion of the flower. University of Sheffield 

    A new microscopy method called electron ptychography that ditches lenses altogether could create the highest-resolution images ever seen. The system reconstructs an image from the electron waves scattered by a sample, and has no fundamental experimental limits imposed by constraints like blurry glass or wavelengths of visible light. It can even be used to image live cells without harming them."

    via popsci.com

     

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  • How to grow a Rainbow Rose, Naturally

    • 13 Mar 2012
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    • Flora Horticulture March 13 2012 Rainbows Technology
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    "In 2004, two dutch companies, River Flowers and F.J. Zandbergen, experimented and successfully grew a rose that had its petals rainbow colored. As petals get their nourishment through stem, the idea is to split the stem into several channels and dip each one in a different colored water. This way all the colors will be drawn by the stem into petals and resultant rose will have all the colors in it."
    via mytechnologyworld9.blogspot.com

     

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  • How to Use Tech to Plan and Optimize Your Garden

    • 10 Mar 2012
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    • Gardening March 10 2012 Planning Technology Tools
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    "Planning a garden of any kind isn't an easy task. Plants grow at different rates, they never grow to the size you expect, and more often than not, they don't grow at all. Using a bit of tech to help you plan your garden is an easy and cheap way to ensure you're not wasting time and space."
    much more via lifehacker.com

     

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  • Robotic Bees Closer To Reality

    • 10 Mar 2012
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    • Honeybees March 10 2012 Microbots Prototype Robotics Technology
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    "Do bees, swarms of bees, make you nervous? Maybe not. Maybe they remind you of honey, flowers and warm summer days. You stay out of their way and they stay out of yours. What if, however, the bees weren't bees at all but hundreds (or thousands) of autonomous microbots, facsimiles of the real thing, buzzing around in the real world?"
    more via npr.org

     

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  • Bear 71 on Vimeo

    • 19 Feb 2012
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    • Bears February 19 2012 Interactive Natural History Technology
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    "Bear 71 Live observes and records the intersection of humans, nature and technology in a live, Internet connected event. Questioning how we see the world through the lens of technology, this multi-user, interactive story blurs the line between the wild world and the wired one. And it involves an augmented reality app. "
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  • Unmanned, Autonomous, Deadly ~ Death and Destruction by Machine

    • 1 Feb 2012
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    • Autonomous Drones February 01 2012 Robotics Technology Warfare
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    By W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times 
    January 26, 2012

    "The X-47B drone, above, marks a paradigm shift in warfare, one that is likely to have far-reaching consequences. With the drone’s ability to be flown autonomously by onboard computers, it could usher in an era when death and destruction can be dealt by machines operating semi-independently.

    via latimes.com

     

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  • The Wave Disk Generator

    • 25 Jan 2012
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    • Automobile Engines January 25 2012 Prototype Technology
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    Researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. Their so-called Wave Disk Generator could greatly improve the efficiency of gas-electric hybrid automobiles and potentially decrease auto emissions up to 90 percent when compared with conventional combustion engines.
    via news.discovery.com

     

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  • Visualizing The World’s Supercomputers

    • 4 Jan 2012
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    • Computer Historical Infographic January 04 2012 Technology
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