Category: Life in the Future
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Tracking The Carbon Footprint Near You
Since it is Earth Day it is a good day to review a new website which helps show how green your neighborhood is (or is not). This new website UrbanEcoMap.com will have the ability to show the carbon levels in a given zip code. Currently the city of San Francisco is the only city supporting…
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The Death of the Guard?
Suffering the same fate as many other technology projects during our economic slowdown it appears the CommerceGuard project has had it operations suspended by GE. The CommerceGuard project was responsible for development of the CommerceGuard Container Security Device System (CSD) whose purpose was to track and secure shipment containers. The system was developed to meet…
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Read a bedtime story by your Scanner?
Similar to the functions of the new Kindle device. A new high tech document scanner with OCR functions built in will not only scan documents or books for you but also reads them back to you. Now if only it could turn its own pages! Plustek Reader
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Nanomuscle technology has arrived!
Strong as Diamond, Flexible as Rubber Baughman and his colleagues have produced a formulation that’s stronger than steel, as light as air and more flexible than rubber — a truly 21st century muscle. It could be used to make artificial limbs, “smart” skins, shape-changing structures, ultra-strong robots and — in the immediate future — highly-efficient…
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Earth Covered in Liquid Hot Mag..er Plasma
Ok. So its not really liquid or hot but more of warm cloaking thing.. But it seems a team of scientist believe they have discovered a layer of plasma which is part of the Earth’s magnetosphere. Some of the interesting points are how it is believed to only cover 3/4 of the planet and actually…
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Amnesia Beams for Real?
A team of scientists from the U.S. and China announced last week that, for the first time, they had found a means of selectively and safely erasing memories in mice, using the signaling molecule αCaMKII. More Info…
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Telltale waving in the martian winds
This series of images show Phoenix’s telltale instrument waving in the Martian wind. Documenting the telltale’s movement helps mission scientists and engineers determine what the wind is like on Mars. More Info…
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Chevy Unveils VOLT … 1st truly electric car (supported by the industry)
First on the market with a mass production electric car Chevy finally unveiled the VOLT. Here are some of the specs Model:Chevrolet Volt Concept Body style / driveline: 4-5-passenger sedan, unitized frame, electric propulsion, front wheel drive Construction: body-frame-integral structure with composite exterior panels and roof EPA vehicle class: compact car (four doors with rear…
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