Eat your heart out, Energizer bunny. Battery maker Contour Energy Systems has snapped up some MIT nanotechnology that can give lithium-ion batteries a tenfold increase in power--eliminating all concerns about the range of electric cars.READ»
ARPA-E is the U.S. Department of Energy program that awards grants to "moonshot" green technologies. The latest round goes to offbeat ideas like cryogenic carbon capture, nano-magnets, and some very large kites.READ»
Researchers at Cal Berkeley have come up with a new nanowire "skin" prototype that some are touting as either a future robotic skin or prosthetic. That might be overly optimistic, but it is a very promising technology.READ»
Today, diabetics monitoring their blood sugar sometimes have to endure multiple needle pricks every day. But biomedical engineer Heather Clark of Draper Laboratory is developing a less invasive way to measure blood glucose. She describes it as a "nanotech tattoo."READ»
Rice University scientists are reporting advances in shrinking the technology that makes computer memory work--a huge key to the next revolution in gadget design. Soon your supercomputer may be iPhone-sized.READ»
President Obama, frustrated at slapdash efforts to stem the leaking Gulf oil, has done something remarkable: He's pulled together a crack science team. Among its members are an H-bomb scientist and an expert in nanotech and ...READ»
Talk of androids, advanced computer-based brain simulations and war robots is very exiting, but the development of artificial intelligence has been slightly stumped by a lack of transistors that work like our brains do. Until now.Now, ...READ»
Companies like Terracycle are great at upcycling trash into brand new consumer products, but researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois are taking the concept of turning trash into treasure to new heights with a ...READ»
It's 2014. Instead of hiring workers to install solar panels on your roof, you spray solar ink all over the rooftop and sun-facing walls of your home. It's not science fiction--it could be reality in three to five years according to ...READ»
You've no doubt heard about how nano materials are going to revolutionize our existence on earth... but frankly we've seen none of the microscopic robots and superconductive microprocessors we were promised. Fortunately Bandai Japan ...READ»
With Hollywood prepping big-budget versions of Monopoly, Bazooka Joe, and Stretch Armstrong, what's next? Here's another blockbuster that Rooftop Comedy came up with.READ»
Caveat parentis: Nanovor is coming. Something akin to the Pokemon phenomenon, it may soon sweep the world, seizing kids in its grip and voraciously sucking cash from your wallet. The secret sauce is in the game's online/real world ...READ»
Where can science fiction possibly go when real-life headlines proclaim that researchers have created LED lightbulbs from salmon DNA? University of Connecticut researchers have added fluorescent dye ...READ»
We're all used to water-repellent materials nowadays, and it's no surprise to see droplets running off special cloth without wetting it. The technology has, however, only worked for cold water. Until now, thanks to ...READ»
Some new research by iSuppli has an interesting implication--sparked by the iPhone's innovations, accelerometers are going to be the thing to have in cell phones over the next year. In fact, one in three phones will have them.
The ...READ»
Hydrogen fuel cell technology is full of promise, but it's being held back by the problem of storing the dangerous gas safely and efficiently. Some U.S. scientists have been tackling this, and their solution is as ingenious as it ...READ»
Lithium battery technology--the hidden power behind much of the improvements in our portable gadgets--is about to make a huge step-change, thanks to two different science groups. One uses sulfur and the other uses air--but both ...READ»
Just the other day I was moaning about the sorry state of consumer LED bulbs, and now Nexxus Lighting has released high-end LED unit that shines a more natural, warmer light than others available. Best of all--from a geeky point of ...READ»
The future is scary: hadron colliders, HD-video iPhones and nanotube lightbulbs are as bizarre as they are promising. Thankfully, this week on the Web shows us that not all that much has changed; we're still the same gawkers we were ...READ»
The AlloSphere is a three-story tall spherical chamber lined on the inside with 360-degree display screens--kind of like an IMAX theater, except panoramic. You view the sphere's content by standing on a breezeway that bisects the ...READ»
