Butterfly Wing Like Thermosensors Detect Explosives

IndustryTap reported recently on “New Sensors Help Detect, Flush Out Criminals” in which sewers in major cities around the world are being fitted with chemical networks to detect dangerous chemicals that are a signature of…

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Gold Nanotubes Can Image and Destroy Cancer Cells Without Any Side Effects

A team of Scientists from the University of Leeds have discovered that gold nanotubes have the ability to fight cancer through high-resolution imaging. The tubes can also act as the agents for destroying cancer cells…

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Forget Dogs… The Marines Are Testing GuardBot, a Robot Guard Ball!

The Marine Corps is experimenting with a robot guard ball called GuardBot, essentially a big tire body with a dome on each side of its spherical core. GuardBot is being tested for its viability as…

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MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab Has Created a Chair That Puts Itself Together in Water… Future of Furniture?

The future of furniture, or at least furniture assembly, may be revolutionized thanks to a new development by researchers at MIT’s self-assembly lab. Basically, Skylar Tibbits and his team of researchers at MIT created a…

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Legacy Migration – Detecting Outdated Practices

Users and project managers usually instruct a team migrating an old software product to ‘keep the functionality as close to the original as possible’. The implication of this is ‘translate line by line’. As pointed…

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This Redundant Fishing Trawler is Now a Wave Power Plant

All ships are built to withstand stormy seas but eventually end up in a junkyard. But a redundant fishing trawler has been given a fresh lease on life in Norway where it is being used…

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Auto-Lock Your Mac When You Walk Away With Sesame 2

DESCRIPTION Simply keep Sesame in your pocket, and your Mac will auto-lock every time you walk away. When you return, Sesame will auto-unlock your screen, so you can continue right where you left off. It’s…

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AT&T Launching ‘GigaPower’ in Kansas City to Compete With Google Fiber

AT&T has announced it will launch its own super-fast Internet service, “GigaPower”, in Kansas City to rival Google’s Fiber program. Google Fiber once promised internet speeds 75-100X faster than cable or DSL, but only time will…

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Exponential Growth & Disruptive Change

Business people like to think in terms of exponential increase; 3% growth per year, for example, represents a doubling in 24 years. Using Piketty’s example regarding wealth concentration, 5% per year doubles one’s asset values…

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Inside Look at Ferrari’s FXX K: The $2.9 Million Beast Only Deliverable to Race Tracks

If you have the money to splurge on Ferrari’s new $2.9 million FXX K, there will be one place and one place only you get to drive your new vehicle…a race track. That’s right. Ferrari literally…

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