Image: ESO
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) created this image of the region known as NGC 2264 (2600 light years from earth) from images taken with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) which is a special astronomical camera attached to the 2.2 meter Max-Planck Society telescope at the La Silla observatory in Chile. The La [...]
Continue reading about The Christmas Tree Star Cluster – A Sparkling Spray of Stars
‘When Things Start To Think’ - book by Neil Gershenfeld now online:
Neil Gershenfeld offers a readable tour of what the world will be like tomorrow as computers become invisible, such as wearable computers, nanotech implants, and interactive digital books with electronic ink.
Neil Gershenfeld
Professor Neil Gershenfeld leads the Physics and Media Group at [...]
South Korean Professor Cho Jae-Phil of Hanyang University and his team have developed lithium batteries that are 90% more efficient than current models. You will be able to do stuff 8 times longer – cell phones, notebook computers, cameras, etc. They replaced the graphite in the batteries with three-dimensional porous silicon particles. Professor Jae-Phil [...]
The Bionic Body Shop
Combine your bioengineering with a wearable robotic suit
to live your best life now!
HAL – Hybrid Assistive Limb
See Also:
Telekinesis – The Brain-Gate Neural Interface System (BGNIS)
Nanoglue and Carbon Nanotube Technology
Extracellular Matrix – re-generate limbs and heal wounds
How to Become a Superhero Through Science
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WhiteBoard PONG - 1:30
Irregular Pong played on a regular Whiteboard with regular Whiteboard markers is a demonstration of a Physics Engine responding to it’s real life surroundings, the computer sees and recognizes the black shapes on the whiteboard and the virtual ball behaves accordingly. ENESS, based in Melbourne, Australia is a multidisciplinary design team that [...]
via: spacemonitor.blogspot.com
The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, or EADS for short, has recently announced its plans to enter the suborbital space tourism race:
The flight will consist of two stages on a space jet comparable to a business jet sized vehicle and will carry four passengers. The space jet will take off from a [...]
10 times lighter than steel, while 250 times stronger and highly conductive of both heat and electricity, future planes and cars may be made of ‘buckypaper’:
from: buckpaper.com
Buckypaper is made of tube shaped carbon molecules (AKA carbon nanotubes) that are 50,000 times thinner than a human hair.
The Florida Advanced Center for Composite Technologies (FAC2T) , at [...]
via: National Geographic
2008 International Science and Engineering
Visualization Challenge Winners
The awards are sponsored jointly by the journal Science and the National Science Foundation
First Place, Illustration: "Zoom Into the Human Bloodstream"
– by Linda Nye
Deft manipulation of perspective gives viewers a detailed look inside the human circulatory system. This unusual view won artist Linda [...]
Phylotaxis is an exploration of the space where science meets culture done by Jonathan Harris for Seed Magazine. Select a position on the bar and then click on one of the stories.
From Number27.org (The Work of Jonathan Harris):
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Do you hear it? That whooshing sound? Sure you do. Just listen:
It is there – the future rushing toward us ever faster!
I am fascinated by potential. In this case the potential of “computing” to increase from the equivalent of a mouse brain to that of a human brain in about 12 years from [...]
Worlds in Flux
Our physical world is in constant flux.
A chaos of ever-changing geometries.
Click the 4 Arrows to view - FULL Screen
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A message from the future - A “Temporal Blowback” occurred as a result of a tachyon field failure in CERN’s Large Haldron Collider (LCH) on 22nd October 2008 resulting in the vaporization and destruction of the world.
