Gamification Market to Reach $2.8 billon by 2016
All the World’s a . . . Game It has been suggested that US Presidential candidate Herman Cain’s “999 Plan” may have come from SimCity where it is a default formula for running a SimCity…
Technology
What Can We Do With All The Used Electric Car Batteries?
Researchers in Tennessee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are looking into using used electric car batteries to provide back-up power for houses. Using five discarded Chevrolet Volt batteries, researchers at the laboratory will…
Sun’s Huge Solar Eruption Has Particles Traveling Over One Million MPH (Video)
A coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from just around the edge of the sun on May 1, 2013, in a gigantic rolling wave. CMEs can shoot over a billion tons of particles into space at…
US Military Biomimetic Tagging Preventing Electronic Counterfeits
The US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Army Research Office (ARO) have announced the development of optical scanning technology that will be able to identify counterfeit electronic components. The technology is hoped to prevent any…
Mega Trends April 2013, Lambo Police Cars, Supersonic Aircraft And More…
Architecture When you think of architecture you don’t often think of telescopes. But the Thirty Meter Telescope under development at Hawaii’s Mauna Kea facility is something to look at. This telescope will see further than…
Watch A Laser Blast Through 100 Balloons (Video)
100 black balloons vs. Blu-ray laser! It is all over in under 8 seconds. The sound they make as they pop is a bit mesmerizing! Note: The laser used in this video is custom made…
New Light Bulb Cuts Energy Usage In Half, Doubles Light Output
Philips has developed a new light bulb, which it claims is the “most energy efficient” to date and could spell the end for fluorescent lights. The electronics giants unveiled the LED prototype, which will be…
World’s Smallest Flying Robot Weighs Less Than A Tenth Of A Paper Clip
Scientists in the US have created a robot the size of a fly that is able to perform the agile manoeuvres of the ubiquitous insects. This “robo-fly”, built from carbon fibre, weighs a fraction of…
Solar Impulse Plane Takes Another Step Toward Crossing USA – Slide Show
An Aviation First The creators of the solar powered airplane, Solar Impulse, recently completed their first test flight of the aircraft, flying for two hours over San Francisco. The test flight was conducted in advance…
