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Enjoy a little taste of life on the grid! While watching TRON: Legacy recently, I decided that my next party needed to channel some of the cool vibe of the Daft Punk dj-ed bar. Most people are probably familiar with the fact that gin and tonics glow under black lights (there’s even a great instructable about it) but what if you’re not a big fan of g&t? Thanks to the fantastic Kryptonite Candy instructable, I learned that vitamin B2 (also know as riboflavin) glows yellow. I decided to experiment to see what adding tonic water and B2 could do to some of my favourite drinks.
Nov 10, 2015
Solar Power To Become Cheapest Source Of Energy In Many Regions By 2025, German Experts Say
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: solar power, sustainability
Solar power still amounts for a small share of net electricity generation around the world. In the USA, for instance, as of December 2014 it was responsible for just 0.45% of the total electricity produced.
Things are changing quite quickly, however, and if the German think tank Agora Energiewende is right, faster than expected.
The main obstacle to a more widespread adoption of photovoltaic so far, has been cost: solar used to be very expensive compared to coal or gas, but, according to Agora — that recently commissioned a study on the subject to the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems — this is no longer true.
Nov 10, 2015
Breakthrough: Preventing a Robot Takeover
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: innovation, robotics/AI
Michio Kaku on A.I.
“Why compete with robots when we can take the best attributes of robots and incoporate it into our body?” — Dr. Michio Kaku. Do you agree?
Nov 10, 2015
3RDi is a Camera for the Middle of Your Forehead
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: electronics, privacy
Think the Google Glass camera glasses are funny looking? Check out the 3RDi. Pronounced “third eye,” it’s a new camera that lets you capture your life while you’re enjoying the moment by placing a camera smack dab in the center of your forehead, making you look like a camera cyclops.
The camera is the brainchild of a Montreal, Quebec-based startup called 3RDiTEK. Style-wise, it looks like a bright white headband with a small black camera built into the forehead section.
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Nov 10, 2015
7 Technologies Turning Science Fiction Into Fact
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
From invisibility cloaks to bringing back extinct species, the truth often catches up with fiction.
Nov 10, 2015
3RDiTEK: The 3RDi (“Third eye”) is a techwear device that allows you to enjoy your present moment while capturing it
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: internet, privacy
with its amazing HD camera, the 3RDi captures videos & photos just like an action camera.
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capture your life.
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Nov 10, 2015
These brilliant scientists each won $3 million for discovering a way to turn brain cells on or off using light
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: genetics, neuroscience
Ed Boyden and Karl Deisseroth won Breakthrough Prizes for their discovery of optogenetics.
Nov 10, 2015
NextTech: This Robotic Snake Is A Shapeshifter
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
Shape — Shifting Robotic Snake
It can morph into a lamp stand as quick as it provides email notifications: There’s not much this shapeshifting snake can’t do. http://voc.tv/1P6L9zh
Nov 10, 2015
Next Big Future: Superconducting at −70 degrees celsius seems to be accepted
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: chemistry, materials, physics
The world of superconductivity is in uproar. Last year, Mikhail Eremets and a couple of pals from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, made the extraordinary claim that they had seen hydrogen sulphide superconducting at −70 °C. That’s some 20 degrees hotter than any other material—a huge increase over the current record.
Eremets and co have worked hard to conjure up the final pieces of conclusive evidence. A few weeks ago, their paper was finally published in the peer reviewed journal Nature, giving it the rubber stamp of respectability that mainstream physics requires. Suddenly, superconductivity is back in the headlines.
Today, Antonio Bianconi and Thomas Jarlborg at the Rome International Center for Materials Science Superstripes in Italy provide a review of this exciting field. These guys give an overview of Eremet and co’s discovery and a treatment of the theoretical work that attempts to explain it.