“Revolutionary new optical-storage technology currently under development will allow the equivalent of 250,000 high-quality MP3s or more than 115 DVD-quality movies and about 40 HD movies on a single CD-size medium. At 200 layers a disc, future versions of the technology will make it possible to store up to 5TB of data on one disc.”
The future of things gives you a peek into the magical world of tomorrow with the latest scientific and technological breakthroughs.
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PopSci staff staff photographer has invented this homebrew microbrewery to make beer at home. Hallowed be thy name O’ holy one.
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“Researchers at Indiana’s Purdue University have further developed a recently described technology that can break down water directly into hydrogen and oxygen without input power.
It is based on the idea of taking an aluminum/gallium alloy and flowing water across it. The aluminum splits the water into hydrogen and oxygen without any input power. Basically, the oxygen is drawn to the aluminum and the hydrogen bubbles away to be collected. The gallium is present to prevent normal oxidation on the aluminum’s surface, thereby keeping the source free from almost immediate contamination which normally occurs on aluminum during electrolysis. It’s an interesting use of the material because gallium is even a waste byproduct of aluminum manufacturing.”
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In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission.
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2 unique engine designs and cars that run on them
they use compressed air for fuel, 200kms for 2$ worth of electrical
recharge.. thts economical
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A company named Hydrogen Technology Applications claims to have invented a new previously undiscovered gas that can be produced from water using a process similar to electrolysis. The Aquygen Gas, denoted as HHO, is being claimed as a new form of water in gaseous state, which seems to have very unique chemical properties like – anomalous adhesion to gases, liquids and solids, does not follow the fundamental PVT law for gases, instantaneously reaches temperatures of up to 10,000 F and can easily melt tungsten, bricks, and other highly refractive substances. Their heavy claims sound a bit shady though, considering that the company is known to not respond to mails and telephone calls by interested investors. Uhh, we’ll wait and see.
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Well not exactly, its actually fire on water. The news at hand, though, is more than about fire and smoke. Some scientist named John Kanzius while working on his research to find a cure for cancer seems to have hit double jackpot of sorts. Mr. Kanzius has discovered a way to cure cancer by killing bad cells using small metal particles and radio waves and while he was doing so, he went a step ahead and figured a way to split hydrogen and oxygen from salt water using just radio waves. In theory, this could mean an end of oil dependence for humanity and a new way to treat cancer. Sounds too good to be true, we’ll wait and see how it further develops.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kanzius
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Google Earth now gives you more than just Earth. You can now browse through stars, planets, constellations and pretty much all there is in the sky. I’ll sure use this nifty tool to plan my next trip to Jupiter.
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MS Research has come up with a new addition to the set of .NET languages – F#
“F# is a pragmatically-oriented variant of ML that shares a core language with OCaml. F# programs run on top of the .NET Framework. Unlike other scripting languages it executes at or near the speed of C# and C++, making use of the performance that comes through strong typing. Unlike many statically-typed languages it also supports many dynamic language techniques, such as property discovery and reflection where needed. F# includes extensions for working across languages and for object-oriented programming, and it works seamlessly with other .NET programming languages and tools.F# gives you a combination of interactive scripting like Python, the foundations for an interactive data visualization environment like MATLAB, the strong type inference and safety of ML, a cross-compiling compatible core shared with the popular OCaml language, a performance profile like that of C#, easy access to the entire range of powerful .NET libraries and database tools, a foundational simplicity with similar roots to Scheme and more…”
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