Six sources of heat you probably didn’t know you had can help with your electric bill and maybe even help you burn less wood (if you’re fortunate enough to have a wood-burning stove). Step 3 is clever: Run your dishwasher during the early evening (rather than after everyone has gone to bed). Some heat will [...]
Scientists Make Fuel from CO2 Emissions and Sunlight : Gas 2.0. The device is called the Counter-Rotating-Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator or the CR5 for short. I think we’ll stick to that shorter title for now. This method of forced-photosynthesis was initially designed for creating cheap abundant hydrogen fuel. “In the short term we see this as [...]
I’ve been avoiding iPhone deliberately. It’s just too easy. However, with all of the talk of augmented reality lately, I had to post this: EASTER EGG: Yelp Is the iPhone’s First Augmented Reality App.
It was only a matter of time before augmented reality apps started showing up on the iTunes app store. Nearest Tube from acrossair displays information on London Tube station locations over a live view from the camera. Check out the video:
Augmented reality is old news in academic circles, but a new application called Layar may well the tipping point, bringing really useful information to the mobile-device-carrying masses. The app uses a mobile device’s built-in camera, magentometer, GPS, and data connection to determine where the user is at and what they are looking at. Then it [...]
Inventor/Mechanical genius Greg Schroll’s take on an all-terrain robot – put the robot inside of a big ball:
More discussion on the organic transistors enabling the flexible electronics I wrote about yesterday on the Nature Podcast this week: Download this episode of the Podcast Nature Podcast on iTunes
The New York Times is running a story about a new flexible electronics technology. Graphene is a single-layer sheet of carbon atoms (the building block, in fact, of the graphite used in pencils) and has properties that make electronics engineers swoon. … In addition to being nearly transparent and having excellent electrical characteristics, the films [...]
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