Follow the Road
by admin on 15/09/09 at 10:34 am
Idaho-based Solar Roadways founder Scott Brusaw is excited that his company has a received a USD$100,000 U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) grant to develop further his prototype that turns roads in giant electricity-generating solar panels. Apart from providing energy to power our homes, street lighting and so on, the roads could contain thousands of embedded […]
Full StoryFishes are robots? Oh My!
Robots swim with the fishes New robots mimic fish’s swimming, could be used in underwater exploration Anne Trafton, News Office August 24, 2009 Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real thing, if not quite as […]
Full StoryTweezer Master
University Park, Pa. — Manipulating tiny objects like single cells or nanosized beads often requires relatively large, unwieldy equipment, but now a system that uses sound as a tiny tweezers can be small enough to place on a chip, according to Penn State engineers. “Current methods for moving individual cells or tiny beads include such […]
Full StoryBill Gates: The Man That Controls Weather
Hurricane experts are throwing cold water on an idea backed by billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates aimed at controlling the weather. Gates and a dozen other scientists have raised eyebrows by submitting patent applications for a technology to reduce the danger of approaching hurricanes by cooling ocean temperatures. It’s a noble idea, given the horrible […]
Full Story
