News From The Future – “Termite Batteries”
“Sony invited children to put paper into a mixture of water and enzymes, shake it up and wait for a few minutes to see the liquid become a source of electricity, powering a small fan.”
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What’s Up with Batteries?
I’m no battery expert, but in tracking science and tech sites this year, there seemed to be more promising developments in the field than in previous years. Let’s hope so. Here are a few of the recent headlines that caught my attention on Science Daily
News From The Future – Crowd Sourced T-Shirt Vending Machines
A Threadless kiosk at a Dominick’s at 2550 N. Clybourn. Image Credit: Matt W. News From The Future – Crowd Sourced T-Shirt Vending Machines… …the automated kiosk is part of a pilot program Threadless entered with Coinstar, Inc. Many of us have used Coinstar to cash in large amounts of change at some point. The […]
Using Quadrotors to Assemble a Building
A clever idea, first reported by Gareth a couple years ago: Architects are trying to figure out how to use quadrotors to haul and place individual bricks. The above link is in French; here’s a Google translation. In 2011, Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea launched a pioneering project around training dynamic and robotic procedures […]
News From The Future – ‘Magnetic tongue’ Makes Tastier Processed Foods
“The researchers analyzed 18 canned tomato products from various markets with NMR and found that the instrument could estimate most of the tastes assessed by the human taste testers.”
News From The Future – Lightest Material On Earth
“Scientists have invented a new material that is so lightweight it can sit atop a fluffy dandelion without crushing the little fuzzy seeds. It’s so lightweight, styrofoam is 100 times heavier.”
News From The Future – Nidar Singh Wants You…
A former factory worker from the British Midlands may be the last living master of the centuries-old Sikh battlefield art of shastar vidya. The father of four is now engaged in a full-time search for a successor.
