Cool Tech Friday


Cool Tech Friday09 Dec 2005 06:49 pm

Biotech

  1. Sound of Dog`s Laugh Calms Other Pooches
  2. Dog Genome Mapped, Shows Similarities to Humans
  3. Wasps Could Replace Bomb, Drug Dogs
  4. Lack of Mirror Neurons May Help Explain Autism
  5. Study Suggests Caffeine Can Help Liver
  6. Gene variant may depress IQ of males
  7. Scientists discover how cancer spreads
  8. Why this brain flies on rat cunning

Culture

  1. Color Photos From the World War I Era
  2. Has tallest tower caused more quakes?
  3. KU pulls intelligent design course
  4. Anti-creationism prof quits department chair

Environment

  1. Company says run your car on cow fuel – Yahoo! News
  2. Poison + Water = Hydrogen. New Microbial Genome Shows How
  3. New mammal seen in Borneo woods
  4. A Tour of the Cryosphere: Earth\’s Frozen Assets

Physics

  1. Are Black Holes And Dark Matter The Same?
  2. First quantum byte created
  3. Simple Experiment Creates Surprising State of Matter

Space

  1. Cornell astronomers investigate cosmic forces that produce new galaxies
  2. Scientists figure out our place in Milky Way
  3. Interstellar Spaceflight: Is It Possible?
  4. Massive black hole spotted without galaxy
  5. The Mini Shuttle
  6. Optical Vortex Could Look Directly At Extrasolar Planets
  7. NASA seeks help from private rocketeers

Tech

  1. 3D Without The Glasses
  2. NEC`s paper thin, rapid recharge batteries
  3. An unexpected discovery could yield a full spectrum solar cell
  4. Princeton`s Group Nanotechnology discovery by could have radical implications
  5. Anti-Fog Glass
  6. General Motors Advanced Design Group envisages the mobile home
  7. Translucent roofing system uses aerogel to allow full spectrum, natural light into living spaces
  8. Eleksen Introduces Electro Fabric
  9. Getting energy out of man made tornados – The Atmospheric Vortex Engine
  10. Car paints changing with temperature
  11. UK researchers find way to reduce power consumption of transistors in computer chips
  12. Gekkomat Enables You to Climb Like a Gecko
  13. New Soft Helmet Turns Hard in Crash
Cool Tech Friday02 Dec 2005 07:06 pm

Well, here we are, back from turkey day with a larger then normal Cool Tech Firday. Enjoy.

Biotech

  1. Scientists engineer bacteria to create living photographs
  2. S Korea cloning pioneer disgraced
  3. Regeneration Gene Identified
  4. Anti-cancer Compound In Beer Gaining Interest
  5. Woman has first face transplant
  6. The nose cells that may help the paralysed walk again
  7. Bionic Hands to Become a Reality Soon?
  8. Robot to handle med ampules
  9. Geneticists claim ageing breakthrough but immortality will have to wait

Culture

  1. The MySpace Generation

Entertainment

  1. AWOL – inhaling alcohol

Environment

  1. Humanity Responsible For Current Climate Change
  2. Cheaper Veggie Diesel May Change the Way We Drive
  3. Failing ocean current raises fears of mini ice age
  4. Atlantic currents show signs of weakening

Physics

  1. Breakthrough for quantum measurement
  2. Fuel`s paradise? Power source that turns physics on its headEd Note: This has a high likehood of being psudoscience
  3. Beginner`s Guide to Quantum Entanglement
  4. NASA – Space-time Vortex

Space

  1. Hayabusa Probe Lands on Asteroid After All
  2. Mesmerized by Moondust
  3. The Fountains of Enceladus
  4. Radar reveals ice deep below Martian surface
  5. Most detailed image of the Crab Nebula
  6. NASA Spacecraft Is Halfway Toward Mars

Tech

  1. Bendable concrete
  2. Mixaerator sterilises water without chemicals
  3. Inflatable composite structures enable lightweight transportable buildings
  4. For Your Ears Only – The Audio Tooth
  5. The world’s lightest solid finds myriad other applications
  6. Aerogel: The World’s lightest solid
  7. Company Develops Microwave-powered Water Heater
  8. The 360 degree LED television
  9. Auto Skins – digital clothing for your car
  10. The first watch that uses flexible e-paper hits the stores
  11. Scratches no match for Nissan’s new car paint
  12. The Magic Paint Brush
  13. Teen Repellent
  14. Samsung Unveils 7-Inch Flexible LCD
  15. Maxell Releases Holographic Storage
  16. Hover chairĀ glides around your cubicle on a cushion of air
  17. The rear-view helmet
  18. `BrainGate` Brain-Machine-Interface takes shape
  19. Miniature robot for exploring your inner self (quite literally)
  20. Protective clothing goes on the attack
  21. Brown Team Creates `Impossible` Silicon Laser
  22. Wired News: Say Sayonara to Blurry Pics
  23. Horseback Riding Machine
  24. Singapore Students Invent Waterless Washing Machine
Cool Tech Friday18 Nov 2005 03:36 pm

So this is my first week testing an automated Cool Tech friday. When I ahve hacked on this a little more, I’ll even be able to take submissions from people for tech stories.

And now on to cool tech this week:

Biotech

  1. Deleting `Anti-Aging` Gene From Yeast Greatly Lengthens Life Span
  2. New Scientist Breaking News – Gene turn-off makes meek mice fearless
  3. Blood Vessels Grown From Skin – New York Times
  4. Giant ape lived along-side humans

Culture

  1. Democrats unveil universal broadband
  2. Massachusetts Governor Calls for More Tech Innovation
  3. UK to passivly monitor all vehicles

Entertainment

  1. Warner Brothers to Put Classic TV on Home Computer

Environment

  1. Huge Solar Plants Bloom in Desert
  2. Truckers Choose Hydrogen Power
  3. Australia pioneers geothermal energy

Military

  1. Marines Quiet About Brutal New Weapon: The SMAW-NE

Physics

  1. Is Gravity Leaking From Our Universe?
  2. The Universe is Only Pretending, 3 dimensions may not exist

Space

  1. Wired News: Making the Red Planet Green
  2. Celestial odd couple baffles astronomers
  3. Lunar lawnmower to deal with Moon dust menace
  4. Stereo View of the Sun
  5. Japanese `Minerva` Robot asteroid-explorer is lost in space

Tech

  1. $100-laptop created for world’s poorest countries
  2. Turner Entertainment turns to holographic storage – Computerworld
  3. The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles
  4. Popular Science Best of Whats New 2005
Cool Tech Friday11 Nov 2005 04:58 pm

Electronics/Robotics/mechanics

  1. Half Life 2 (A computer game) used to train people in serious jobs
  2. MIT’s fab lab
  3. Self parking cars

Biotech

  1. Organ printing one step closer
  2. Whew….Caffine doesn’t raise blood pressure
  3. Safe Smokes?
  4. Anonymous sperm donership not so anonymous now
  5. Nanotubes new tool in fight against cancer
  6. Nanotube cancer cure
  7. Stem cell hope hits home

Physics

  1. Scientists closing in on gravity waves
  2. New power source brings up questions about Quantum Mechanics

Space

  1. Science projects on ISS halted
  2. Venus Express en route to umm…well…Venus
  3. Space Tug design uses Gravity to deflect asteroids
  4. Lichens…..In…..Spaaaaaaace

Military

  1. Non-lethal laser rifle created: PHASR

Environment

  1. Storing liquid CO2 deep in the oceans
  2. British helping china to build Eco-Cities
  3. New turbine design may boost wind energy yield
  4. New ideas to make hydrogen power feasable
  5. Biodiesel for home use

Humor

  1. Tin foil hats *help* government control radio waves
  2. Cunning rat outsmarts scientists

Culture

  1. Vatican disses Intelligent Design
  2. Patents exert a chilling effect on science, not stimulus
  3. Intelligent Design proponents get the boot in PA
  4. Intelligent Design proponents get approval in KS

Cool Tech Friday04 Nov 2005 03:23 pm

Electronics/Robotics/mechanics

  1. Seeing through walls
  2. Breakthrough in lasers
  3. Robots may perform surgury in space
  4. NBC Nightly News to be show on the net
  5. Using cell phones to track traffic
  6. End of the light bulb

Biotech

  1. Los Alamos Bug: Artifical life
  2. Remote controlled humans
  3. Map of human genetic variation completed
  4. Gene found in black death survivors halts HIV
  5. Fertilization gene discovered
  6. Warm blooded fish?

Physics

  1. IBM Slows the speed of light

Space

  1. Video of the closest know star to the galactic core black hole found
  2. Nasa returning to rockets
  3. Nasa’s Space Elevator contest finds no winners
  4. Martian rovers energizer bunny like (2)
  5. Mars swings unusually close to earth
  6. Martian dust storm visible with terrestial telescopes
  7. Student made satellite launches
  8. Probe to study pluto’s moons
  9. ISS hits 5th year of habitation
  10. Nasa puts the breaks on stellar romance
  11. Esa Venus mission on hold

Environment

  1. Tropical Storm Alpha Sets Naming Record
  2. Wilma: Natural capacitor and particle accelerator
  3. Hydrogen fuel cell car tested

Culture

  1. Worse jobs in science
  2. Is the US hostile to science?
  3. Using copyrights to fight Intelligent Design
  4. Best science photographs of 2005
Cool Tech Friday21 Oct 2005 03:48 pm

Electronics/Robotics/mechanics

  1. German Encyclopedia Kicks Ass, Is Small
  2. Gen H-4 Personal Helicopter
  3. Transparent Aluminum: Air Force testing new transparent armor
  4. Intel Slashes PC Power-up Time
  5. Flexible Electronic Paper Display
  6. Cell Phones learn to recognize their owner’s face

Nanotech

  1. World’s smallest car
  2. Does Asbestos Hold the Key for Understanding nanotechnology risks?

Biotech

  1. Marijuana Compound Spurs Brain Cell Growth
  2. MIT explains why bad habits are hard to break
  3. Studies May Calm Stem-Cell Qualms
  4. New Stem-Cell Methods Fall Short
  5. Are Antibiotics Killing Us?

Physics

  1. Ever wonder what quarks would look like? A visual representation of particles

Space

  1. The ‘why’ behind China’s own private space race
  2. Hubble Zooms In On Moon Minerals
  3. SpaceX Sues Boeing and Lockheed Martin
  4. New map provides more evidence Mars once like Earth
  5. GPS users must plan for outages

Culture

  1. 4000 year old noodles discovered at the Lajia site in China
Cool Tech Friday14 Oct 2005 02:20 pm

It’s been a long time since I have posted one of these, but I have decided to take a stab at doing this again for my family and friends (and now readers) who don’t get to see all the cool stuff happening in science these days. So, without furthur ado:

Electronics/Robotics/mechanics

  1. Stanford’s Stanley wins DARPA Grand Challenge
  2. Robots on their own in race
  3. Supersonic jet launch ‘successful’
  4. The Rise of the Body Bots
  5. Nanotubes refine computer memory – Manufacturers gear up to mass-produce unconventional chips
  6. The intelligent door handle
  7. Microgrids as peer-to-peer energy
  8. Nanotechnology catches on at Ford
  9. Robotic patients help train doctors
  10. Plastic Solar, On The Cheap
  11. ePaper To Be Used For Newspapers and Magazines

Biotech

  1. Nobel for stomach ulcer discovery
  2. Simple blood test will accurately diagnose anxiety
  3. Da Vinci clue for heart surgeon
  4. Adult stem cells restore feeling in paraplegic
  5. Insect Substance Synthesized For Science

Physics

  1. Nobel Prize in Physics: Seeing the Light
  2. Good bye Dark Matter, Hello General Relativity

Space

  1. X Prize Founder Launches Rocket Racing League
  2. Scientists Discover 10th Planet’s Moon
  3. Colliding Stars Behind 35-year-old Mystery
  4. Robotic Vehicles Battle for Spot in Race
  5. Google and Nasa in space venture
  6. Big News about Small Satellites: Cubesats Rule!
  7. CU Proposal To Image Distant Planets Is Funded For Second Round Of Study
  8. Solar Flares Shield Astronauts from Cosmic Rays

Environment

  1. 2005 hottest year on record

Science News

  1. Spider ‘is 20 million years old’
  2. Bone of Hobbit-like species uncovered
  3. Dinosaur Forces Rethink Of Flight’s Evolution
  4. Giant Squid caught on video

Culture

  1. Google ETA? 300 years to index the world’s info
  2. Tomb of Odysseus Found
  3. Top Advisory Panel Warns of an Erosion of the U.S. Competitive Edge in Science

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