Phone Out of Juice? Yell to Charge It!
Smarter phones require more power. So, when you need your phone to make a call because you’re stranded on the side of the road or you’re bored in the doctor’s waiting room and need to…
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Stratasys To Acquire GrabCAD For $100 Million In Cash & Stock
Stratasys, a 3D-printing company, has agreed to purchase GrabCAD for around $100 million in cash and stock. According to Streetinsider, “The acquisition is expected to enable Stratasys to provide its customers with enhanced collaboration tools…
Meet the World’s First Full-Size, Driveable, 3D Printed Car
3D Manufacturing Breakthrough The Strati is the world’s first 3D printed car. It’s a two-seater that took 45 hours to build and is a “runabout” neighborhood car with a range of 120 miles and a…
Sci Fi Tech Warfare Concept Introduces Transformer-Like Aircraft That Self Heals
The use of sci-fi technology in war would change the realities of warfare in the future. Scientists and engineers from a British defense giant BAE Systems is researching sci-fi technology. The company believes that in…
Google Purchases Maker of Smart Spoon Device… Helps Compensate For Tremors.
Google has purchased Lift Labs, the startup behind an electronic smart spoon. The Internet giant made the purchase in an effort to expand the Liftware product line. The main goal behind Liftware is to compensate…
SciCast: World’s Largest Crowdsourced Science and Technology Forecasting Site
Creating a “Social Process” to Answer Technology and Futurism Questions Dr. Robin Hanson and Dr. Charles Twardy of George Mason University lead the SciCast project, which has become the largest crowdsourced science and technology forecasting…
Bulb Eater Lamp Crusher: The “Cookie Monster” of Florescent Light Bulbs
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: for Cookie Monster, it is cookies, for the Bulb Eater it is florescent light tubes. A company called Aircycle Corporation of Lisle, Illinois, has designed a contraption…
Apple Kills the Iconic iPod Classic
Apple’s widely talked about recent keynote featured a whole slew of announcements from a watch to new iPhones, and even a mobile payment system. While everyone was certainly excited about the new products, one iconic…
“Chindia” Rising – What China & India Will Do By 2050
China and India have 40% of the world’s population, while the US has about 5%. So, it is incredible to see that US GDP has dwarfed the combined GDP of China and India for the…
The Science of Soft Robotics Is Rapidly Advancing…
The science of soft robotics is rapidly growing and the latest advancement has come out of the University of Illinois, with researchers developing centimeter-long biobots controlled by an electrical field and powered by muscle cells. Incredibly,…
