A company called Aqua Sciences, based out of Miami Beach, can now harvest water from atmospheric moisture - essentially getting “water from thin air.”
Interestingly, although Aqua Sciences wasn’t directly funded through military contracting, it will find early uses in hydrating our troops in Iraq - where it will bring water transportation costs from $30 a […]
This post is a follow-up to Wednesday’s post, in which I talked about the possible effects of global warming.
One obvious effect already occurring that I didn’t mention was the growth of ethanol as a popular fuel additive. Since ethanol is made from crops like corn, it’s driving up food prices all over the world, stirring […]
So, apparently scientists are really close to creating what they call “artificial life.” What does this mean exactly? Basically, a synthetic cell of artificial life created out of the same materials in DNA - in other words, microscopic life, not mail-order blonde artificial life brides.
I bring this up because of two collective issues: it’s important, […]
Read a very interesting article in today’s Business section of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on the future of the automobile.
Industry leaders and analysts are predicting that within the next 10-25 years, vehicles will begin being equipped with a device that will allow vehicles to communicate with one another by way of a wireless network, helping to […]
Two brief stories caught my eye while reading USA Today (Thursday, 5/24/07).
The first one concerned the state of Florida, which opened a hydrogen fueling station in order to accommodate a fleet of Ford buses (eight, to be exact) that the state purchased for the transportation of tourists, customers, and employees between the Orlando International Airport, […]
I read a cool article in the May 2007 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine by Jay Leno, who has an article featured in every month’s issue about his car collection.
In this issue, he titled his article “The 100-Year-Old New Idea.” It’s about three cars he’s owned for years already that run on alternative energy. The newest […]
This is pretty cool: According to an article titled “Turning back brain’s clock?” by John Fauber on the front page of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Sunday, 5/20/07), University of Wisconsin–Madison (UWM) researchers are testing a device on volunteers that simulates a full night’s sleep in just 3-4 hours.
The device is a skullcap consisting of numerous […]
Napoleon once said that an army marches on its stomach, but they didn’t have YouTube back then. The U.S. army is blocking a bunch of sites (11, to be specific) from soldiers, including MySpace and YouTube.
Why, you might ask? Well, apparently all the time soldiers are spending on the internet at those sites slows down […]
Tacking on another notch in the “road until the Matrix movies comes true” chart, scientists have successfully been able to create a device that simulates half a mouse brain.
A mouse brain contains something like eight million neurons, each of which can form up to 8,000 neural connections to other neurons - meaning, in effect, even […]
Another study confirming the obvious was released Thursday, this time in Ireland. Apparently, if you send text messages like “wr R u?”, you’re not actually developing your language skills.
The report laments that, in many cases, candidates seemed “unduly reliant on short sentences, simple tenses and a limited vocabulary”.
I love technology, but I think one […]
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