Scientists transform cement into liquid metal then glass!
Scientists at the Illinois-based Argonne National Laboratory and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute/SPring-8 have developed a method for turning liquid cement into a liquid metal semiconductor. “This new material has lots of applications, including as thin-film resistors used in liquid-crystal displays, basically the flat panel computer monitor that you are probably reading this from [...]
Vote For Your Favorite Robots
Yes, there really is a Robot Hall of Fame! And it’s looking for votes! So if you have a beloved bot you want to support, this might be your chance. Alan Boyle of NBC News’s Cosmic Log says the RHoF will take votes for the first time this year, but an expert panel of [...]
Wired Danger Room: Exclusive Pics: The Navy’s Unmanned, Autonomous ‘UFO’
File this under #WTF and #IThoughtIToldja. Source: Wired; Danger Room Exclusive Pics: The Navy’s Unmanned, Autonomous ‘UFO’ By Spencer Ackerman NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland — If you saw it in person, you’d probably think it was a UFO, too. That’s what happened when the Navy trucked its batwing-shaped drone of the future [...]
Physicists say they’ve found evidence of ‘God particle’
The head of the world’s biggest atom smasher says they have discovered a new particle that is consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson known popularly as the God particle, which is believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape. To cheers and standing ovations from scientists, the world’s biggest atom smasher [...]
Your computer will soon be watching you… FUN!
Imagine a computer that will be able to recognize you. It will know what you like, what’s happening in your life, and how important you are. Put on a happy face! Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report” painted a scary picture of the future in a number of ways. For privacy advocates, one of several [...]
Ray
Well… this is a sad day. The epic Martian Chronicles was one of the reasons I became a filmmaker/storyteller/world builder.Farenheiht 451 helped me to become present. Science fiction author Ray Bradbury, whose imagination yielded classic books such as “Fahrenheit 451,” “The Martian Chronicles” and “Something Wicked This Way [...]
Magic is dead. Long live magic.
MIT genius Jinha Lee has created an incredible computer-controlled system for levitating objects. The project, called ZeroN, uses magnets, a Kinect visual system, plus special software that enables either the computer to move a steel ball around in space, or a human to just grab it and move it, essentially telling the computer where it [...]
How to get from NY to China in 2hrs
A magnetic levitation vacuum tube can transport you around the world in just six hours. Did a cartoon predict our future this whole time? The worst part of traveling is getting stuck on a massively lengthy flight, especially if you’re in a window seat next to a crying baby, a snorer, or that anxious passenger [...]
Is A Cat Parasite Controlling Your Brain?
Just when the recession has Americans unemployed, foreclosed on and generally panicked…enter a new biological contagion. TOXOS, a parasite found in cat poop, has crept into the brains of 20 million Americans and is literally controlling aspects of their behavior. Has Your Cat Infected You With a Mind-Controlling Parasite? Probably. Nature is capable of engineering [...]
Radiation Storm Hits Earth…Yesterday?
If the word ‘radiation’ makes you nervous…and it should, then ‘radiation-storm’ should make you soil your trousers. Or should it? Well, as of last night our Mother Earth is being hit, through all day Wednesday, with the biggest solar radiation storm since 2005. Lock up your satellites and batten down your power-lines because a Coronal [...]
Neurowear– Brain Controlled Cat Ears
Looking for that perfect gift for your favorite geek? Consider purchasing a Necomimi, the furry, high-tech fashion accessory that should be should be on the market later this fall. Literally translated as “cat ears,” Necomimi appears at first glance to be a regular headband topped with two furry ears—just like what you’d expect to receive [...]
GHOST…US Military Meets Sci-Fi!
If you combined a stealth jet fighter and an attack helicopter and stuck them in the water, what would you get? Well, according to the folks at New Hampshire’s Juliet Marine Systems (JMS), you’d get their GHOST marine platform. Privately developed for possible use by the U.S. Navy, the boat would reportedly be invisible to [...]
Flyboards!
This may be the coolest thing I’ve seen since Wingsuits! Flyboards allow you to not only fly over the water but also swim like a dolphin…yes, that’s correct…dive out of the water like a dolphin, dive under and back up again. Amazing!!!
IBM’s “5 in 5″: Predictions in Innovation
Hot off the wires comes this release from the IBM Newsroom: Every year IBM predicts the future of technology via the IBM 5 in 5 initiative–our forecast of five innovations that will help transform aspects of modern life, making the planet smarter, within the next five years. We assess not just the availability of a [...]
Science finds God?
The most coveted prize in particle physics – the Higgs boson – may have been glimpsed, say researchers reporting at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva. The particle is purported to be the means by which everything in the Universe obtains its mass. Scientists say that two experiments at the LHC see hints of [...]
New Earth found 600 light years away… Can Cylons be far behind?
NASA finds new planet Kepler 22b outside solar system with temperature right for life. NASA announced finding an Earth-like planet outside outside the solar system that could have have the right temperature to support life. As Brian Vastag reported : The search for Earth-like planets circling other stars is heating up, but the latest discovery [...]
OmniTouch – One Step Closer to Science Fiction
It’s time again to talk about touchscreens on every surface imaginable, this time through Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University. These groups have brought forth a solution for the age-old first-world problem of how a person who wants dial their phone using only the surface of their hand might do so. The solution is [...]
Uh oh… Second experiment confirms faster-than-light particles… beam me…
A second experiment at the European facility that reported subatomic particles zooming faster than the speed of light — stunning the world of physics — has reached the same result, scientists said late Thursday. The “positive outcome of the [second] test makes us more confident in the result,” said Fernando Ferroni, president of the Italian [...]
NASA RULES
Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by Ron Garan fragileoasis.org/bloggernauts/Astro_Ron and the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km with a high ISO HD Camera developed by NHK Japan, nicknamed the SS-HDTV [...]
Robot PackMule? Stomping with the AlphaDogs
AlphaDog can carry 400 pounds across rough terrain for 20 miles, and looks absolutely terrifying. If you’ve been following military-funded research and development over the last decade, you’ve likely heard of BigDog, the robot designed by researchers at Boston Dynamics to serve as a mobile packmule for soldiers in the field. Ideally, the robot would [...]
Hey Buster, We’ve Found Your Dream Job: Asteroid Landing
In the Hollywood film Armageddon, Bruce Willis and a roughneck band of oil-rig workers were sent to destroy an asteroid on a deadly collision course with Earth. The catastrophic scenes depicted in the film just may be less fiction…and more science reality; especially the rover-craft carried by the Space Shuttles, which were used for surface [...]
UFO v.s. Army over Los Angeles-1942!
1942 footage and radio report of “Battle of Los Angeles” synchronized to Byron Palmer’s detailed account of the UFO incident witnessed by a million people on 26 February in sky over southern California. There were a minimum 1430 artillery rounds fired at the object. Palmer was an announcer for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in [...]
Time Travel Possible?
Theoretically, Time Travel would require that an object be able to move faster than the speed of light which, according to Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity, is impossible. As a matter of fact our understanding of the universe is based on this fact, this constant, that the speed of light is the fastest that any [...]
Talking A.I.’s Argue…for real!
Phathom Breaking News! What happens when two speech-enabled computers are set next to each other and challenged to hold a conversation? Well … This, apparently. Scientists at the Cornell Creative Machines Lab recently fitted two computers with text-to-speech software and a visualization program that makes it look like two people are talking, then plugged the [...]
