Technology

Glowing Wallpaper Made Of Plastic- Much Less Annoying Than It Sounds

Using graphene, Swedish and American researchers say they have succeeded in producing a new type of lighting component which they claim will be inexpensive to produce and can be fully recycled. The invention was published in ACS Nano by scientists at Linkö ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2010 - 11:46pm

Cure Governmental Financial Crisis By Using More Holograms

This is a science site and not a political or economics one and therefore we have poor grasp of things we know nothing about, like how missing cigarette tax revenue can possibly be responsible for bloated governments being unable to pay their bills. But ap ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 19 2010 - 3:16pm

Internet school bus

Last week, the New York Times published an item about putting wireless Internet on a school bus. Using a $200 router and $60/month for Internet service, a school district in Arizona has equipped a bus, and is allowing students to use the Internet connecti ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Feb 17 2010 - 8:03pm

Metal Foam Could Build Better Bones, Car Bumpers

No, this isn’t a close-up of the surface of a golf ball. It’s a new type of material, one that is porous and elastic, lighter than solid aluminum yet stronger than steel, one that its creators are calling an “ultra high-strength metal matrix composite foa ...

Article - Lauren Rugani - Feb 19 2010 - 1:48am

Science Imitating Art: Why Is 21st Century Science Obsessed With The Mona Lisa?

Heads up, banner-plane pilots: you, like so many before you, could lose your job to a sleek, 21st century technology that not only performs better than you, but looks way cooler doing it. ...

Article - Lauren Rugani - Feb 22 2010 - 11:35am

Internet camera

You know what I would like? An Internet camera. It would be just like the digital camera I have today: it would take pictures, compress them into JPEG files, and store them on an SD card in the camera. Of course, it would also have a GPS receiver, and it ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Feb 23 2010 - 9:19pm

Designers Compete to Create "Green Gadget" of the Year

This Thursday, the 2010 Greener Gadgets Conference, a daylong event featuring discussions about energy efficiency, sustainable design and product manufacturing, packaging and recycling, will culminate with a Greener Gadgets design competition. Individuals ...

Blog Post - Lauren Rugani - Feb 24 2010 - 12:10am

Scientists Introduce The Cell Phone Of Undersea Communications

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists and engineers have devised an undersea optical communications system that—complemented by acoustics—enables a virtual revolution in high-speed undersea data collection and transmission. Its developers ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2010 - 11:32am

'Piezo-Rubber': New Technology Harvests Electricity From Body Movements

In a study in Nano Letters, scientists report that they have developed a flexible, biocompatible rubber film called Piezo-rubber for use in implantable or wearable energy harvesting systems. The material could be used, for instance, to harvest energy from ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2011 - 7:24pm

And the Greenest Gadget Is...

...The Augmented Living Goods Program (AUG) submitted by a group of recent Savannah College of Art and Design graduates. Their design entered today's competition in 8th place after online voting closed, and I have to admit, I originally dismissed this ...

Blog Post - Lauren Rugani - Feb 25 2010 - 6:14pm