Posted by PauloFurtado On July - 26 - 2010
The walking robot unveiled for the first time Myon is an 1.25 meters humanoid robot, whose body parts can be removed and reattached without loosing full functionality. It was revealed to the public for the first time at the International Design Festival DMY and the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin) and it caused [...]
Posted by PauloFurtado On July - 21 - 2010
Another step closer to reducing our carbon footprint Inbicon, a developer of biomass refineries in Kalundborg, Denmark, has turned wheat straw into cellulosic ethanol and is calling it “The New Ethanol.” To mass produce this ethanol, the company also announced its plan to open its first “Inbicon Biomass Refinery.” Ethanol is a fuel made from feedstock [...]
Posted by PauloFurtado On May - 17 - 2010
NEW YORK: The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 without fundamental restructuring of the fishing industry, UN experts said Monday. “If the various estimates we have received… come true, then we are in the situation where 40 years down the line we, effectively, are out of fish,” Pavan Sukhdev, head of [...]
Posted by PauloFurtado On September - 22 - 2009
Contact lenses have traditionally been engineered to help the visually impaired see the world around them more clearly–to attain perfect, or close to perfect, vision. But why not super vision? Why not a lens that could superimpose holographic driving control panels over a pilot’s otherwise normal view? Enable Web surfing on the go? Provide a [...]
Posted by PauloFurtado On August - 31 - 2009
They Might Be Giants continues its cerebral dominance of the pop music world with Here Comes Science, a CD/DVD release created for kids but smart enough for the adults in the mosh pit. Exclusively available digitally on iTunes and physically on Amazon.com starting Tuesday, the follow-up to John Flansburgh and John Linnell’s Grammy-winning 2008 effort Here Come [...]
Posted by PauloFurtado On August - 26 - 2009
A staple of backyard barbecues and summer time snacks, watermelon is also a promising new source of renewable energy. According to a new study, leftover watermelons from farms’ harvests could be converted into up to 9.4 million liters (2.5 million gallons) of clean, renewable ethanol fuel every year destined for your car, truck, or airplane’s gas [...]
Posted by PauloFurtado On August - 13 - 2009
Big-picture thinking and inventiveness are going to be the key to professional success in a new “conceptual age.” In a series of posts over at WebWorkerDaily, Imran Ali has been musing on the type of work that we might be doing in the future, the skills that will be required, and the type of teams we [...]
Posted by PauloFurtado On August - 6 - 2009
Director Ridley Scott has signed on to direct the latest big-screen adaptation of Aldus Huxley’s “Brave New World.” Scott will serve as both director and producer on the project according to reports. Leonardo DiCaprio will assist Scott in the producer duties and star in the film, the Hollywood Reporter reports. “Brave New World” is set [...]