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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008This is amazing ! Researchers in Australia (woot!) have discovered a way to coat wool (and seemingly other keratin-based materials) with titanium dioxide crystals, in a way that, using sunlight, organic dirt is ‘burned’ and removed. This is dissimilar to other methods that repell water, oil or dirt in that the dirt is actually consumed [...]
Open helix structures in space contain liquids better than closed containers.
Friday, January 25th, 2008Instead of using coffee cups in space, dear spaceman, try drinking your coffee from corkscrew (helix) cups.
I have a hard time to see how somebody on Earth managed to find this solution to a problem in space, but it is very cool ! Potentially, it could also have big implications in nano workings, where things [...]
Racetrack memory.
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Interesting post pointing to the possibility of a new kind of memory called ‘racetrack memory‘ under development by an IBM Fellow.
If this could become a reality within a few years, I agree with the author - this could change the way we look at storing data, heck you wouldn’t mind letting your camera on all [...]
Detecting Cancer Cells in the blood in your body a.k.a Medical Tricorder !
Friday, September 7th, 2007The Star Trek medical diagnostic appliance called the tricorder is not very far away anymore. In facts, it’s here.
You do need to have a labelling-agent inside you so that only the tumor-cells fluoresce, but hey, the days are still young. A few adaptations and hop, soon we will all have those gadget devices that Doctor [...]
Amazing.
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007You can find more videos of people helped by AssistiveWare here.
Cooking with sound : a combo stove-generator-fridge
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007ArsTechnica has a cool new post about a tool to help developing nations use their energy more efficiently.
It’s a combination stove/fridge/generator that is ingeniously crafted. Yet, according to Ars, the building and maintenance of the thing itself (that is based on a stirling engine) is not difficult. What it means is that the design was [...]
RFID firewalls are here !
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007Today I read an Ars Technica article about a new protection for your RFID tags (you know, those tags that are now used for taking stock of inventory, theft protection, and are now showing up in passports).
What great about this new protection is that you can configure which tags you want to allow to [...]
Using RFID to configure your wireless network
Thursday, March 15th, 2007Apple has gotten a bright idea (and patented it right away too) : put a Radio Frequency ID (RFID) chip in your networking device, and bring them in close proximity to each other.
They’ll recognise each other, and can then configure the rest of the wireless network setup themselves : an extract from the MacRumors site [...]
Cool ! Easing phantom limb pain using Virtual Reality
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006This seems to be a great way for amputees to ease their phantom limb pain :
The research has focused on a small group of patients who had lost a limb between one and 40 years ago. Two were upper limb amputees and two had lost parts of their legs. They all used the virtual world [...]
Going Bedouin
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006Going Bedouin is the latest way of doing business being discussed.
Small.
Flexible.
Being in constant communication with each other.
I think it’ll work for small companies, but not if you have a 1000 people working for you - unless you can divide them up in their own sub-company.
Real 3D images made from light
Monday, February 20th, 2006This is sooooooo cool !!!
I hope to see some more -practical- applications of this in the future to come…
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The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles - Popular Science
Friday, November 18th, 2005The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles - Popular Science
This article recounts the amazing discovery of coloured bubbles and how hard it is to make them.
In the end, it seems that they may only be a side-effect of the new dyes that were created : instead of colours that persist, they have invented colours [...]