Computing Speeds Are A Billion Times Faster, Will Moore’s Law Continue?

A Sputtering Engine Of Growth Moore’s Law, named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, is the observation that computing power doubles approximately every 18 months, or at least it has since 1958. But recently scientists and…

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Solar Powered Headphones That Will Charge Your Phone

OnBeat are solar powered headphones designed by Scottish audio engineer Andrew Anderson, who launched a Kickstarter campaign recently to complete the project and produce the headphones for retail. Anderson describes the headphones as “high quality,…

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The World Would Be Much Better If We Had 50 More Silicon Valleys

Marc Andreessen recently said the world would be much better off if it had 50 more Silicon Valleys. Silicon Valley, a powerhouse combination of innovation and deep pockets has made its bread and butter with…

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Humans Controlling Animals With Their Thoughts, What’s Next?

A New Type of “Rat Control” Technology, Sans Poision Recent experiments at Harvard utilize a Computer Brain Interface (CBI) to control the minds of animals and by extension and with time, possibly humans.  Communication occurs…

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3D Motion Analysis System Could Prevent Shoulder Injuries in Baseball Pitchers

A talented and healthy pitching staff in major league baseball often makes the difference between a postseason run to the World Series or a disappointing season of lost opportunities. All sports have injury risks but…

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Medical Implants That Dissolve When The Body Heals

Doctors have been using stitches that dissolve in the body for years. Now ultra thin electronic implants, made of special materials, are being used for a wide range of medical and consumer devices and products.…

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Reconstructing The Columbia Space Shuttle After Explosion

Challenger Disaster, 1986 I was working on the floor of the American Stock Exchange on January 28, 1986, the day Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just after launch, killing all seven crew members on board.…

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This Is the Million-Dollar Design for Darpa’s Crowdsourced Tank

Defense Suppliers On Defensive vs. Crowdsource Alternative DARPA recently awarded $1 million to “Team Ground Systems” made up of three designers who built a new drivetrain for an amphibious tank, the “Fast, Adaptable, Next-Generation Ground…

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Green Energy Creating Giant Distributed Utilities Powered By You

At a TED conference this week entrepreneur Elon Musk predicted solar and wind energy revolutions would create a “giant distributed utility” bigger and more powerful than monopolistic utilities existing today. Additionally, a recent report from…

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Always Hungry? Miniature Electronic Implant Will Control Your Appetite

“Neuroblocking” The Breadbasket Bioscience pioneers EnteroMedics of the US and MRC Clinical Sciences Centre (MRC-CSC) of the UK believe a miniature implantable device, just a few millimeters wide, attached via electrodes to the vagus nerve in…

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