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Seems like a technique created for food may be applicable to medical use. Scientists are proposing that the technique used to preserve sushi can be used on human organs. Making longer term storage viable. Normally, when something is frozen ice crystals form and as they form they expand, rupturing the cell walls and [...] I’ve said before how wonderful nature is. Some things are beautiful but deadly such as this cancer. Some things are ugly but beneficial such as this Axokotl. We discover new things every day that make us wonder and we learn from them. Medicine seems to be one of the biggest areas of [...] Adding smells to computer games and movies has been discussed before and so far there didn’t really seem a good way of doing it. So along come ScentScape. Like a printer is has 20 base smells in cartridges which it mixes and matches to make the smells that have been programmed. I think [...] While not quite up to the standard of a Star Trek Replicator (by a long long way) we have now got a system that can form 3D parts from a PC at a reasonable price. Read about the MakerBot Thing-O-Matic here. Now I’ve mentioned these systems before but then they were either custom built [...] The pace of technical innovation accelerates, as usual, and the devices of the future certainly look to be shrinking, again as usual. Here and here are the latest examples from established manufacturers for the tablet/pad market. IMO the way of the future. Although servers are going the same way they tend to be [...] We all know that we have image enhancement devices that we can use to look well beyond our normal sight and they are also electronically enhanced to see heat signatures through walls or vegetation. Basically an enhancement to the eyes. Now one thing I would think that we would have difficult conceptualising is [...] Now this is impressive. A real time translator of signs for the iPhone. You select the app ‘WordLens’ and then point the phone at the sign and in the screen you see the translation. In real time. Impressive. With smart phones being able to do so many things now and we have [...] It seems Voyager 1, at 10.8 billion miles from Earth, is detecting changes to the solar wind that indicates it is near the boundaries of the heliosphere. That means it is only a few years away from leaving our solar system and entering Interstellar Space. It will be the first time a man made [...] It seems that the platoon car testing system (SARTRE) is to enter road trials before the end of the year with plans(?) to finish in 2011/12 with a goal to going live in a decade. Personally, I’m all for things like this which makes life easier all around for drivers. Drive yourself or [...] |
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eBooks take another step forward
I like books. I like to hold them and read them, make notes in them and put little bits of paper in them to mark the interesting passages and they can be put down within reach for easy reference. As far as books are concerned I’m a Luddite and I’m happy with it.
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