Posts Tagged ‘ Technology ’

Self healing rubber

An inventor working at the Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution (ESPCI) in Paris, France, has come up with a new type of synthetic rubber. The rubber can be cut, torn, or ripped, and then pressed back together to form a bond as strong as if it had never been torn in the first [ READ MORE ]

Outlets anywhere on your wall

PhysOrg has an article about a new type of wallpaper developed by Philips. The idea is to have the wallpaper contain conducting strips that could be used to power electronics. Everything from TVs to room lights and even general purpose outlets. Since the strips are embedded in the wallpaper, the outlets could be positioned anywhere on [ READ MORE ]

Feeling what you see

Io9, a new blog that I’ve been reading lately, posted a very interesting story about a new device that is being developed. The device is a synaesthesia machine. “Synesthesia (also spelled synaesthesia), is a neurologically-based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or [ READ MORE ]

Explosion proof fabric

Gizmodo had a really interesting post about a new type of fabric. It seems that this fabric is strong enough to withstand numerous explosions without being torn or ripped. By using a technique called helical-auxetics, the company can create a fabric that actually gets wider as it is stretched rather than thinner. Which effectively makes [ READ MORE ]

Launching helicopters from underwater

Popular Science pointed me at an interesting development. A team of students from the Pennsylvania State University and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have designed a helicopter that can be launched from a submarine at periscope depth. The helicopter can hold two people and can be launched from existing missile silos. Once launched, [ READ MORE ]

How Cell Phones are affecting our world

Jan Chipchase a researcher at Nokia gave this very interesting presentation on how cell phones are changing peoples concept of self and place. I was really intrigued by this video. Mainly because I wonder what the future will hold for us as our “connectedness” increases. Watch the video. I personally think it will be worth [ READ MORE ]

E85 causes more smog than gasoline

The big news today is that Ethanol based fuels may actually be just as bad for the environment and for public health as Gasoline. In fact, Ethanol can even increase smog in some areas of the country. Ethanol is a plant, usually corn, based fuel that can be produced locally in our country. E85 is [ READ MORE ]

Singles Map

Found this very interesting map(click on it for a bigger view) from the February edition of National Geographic. It maps out the percentages of single men vs the percentages of single women across the country. Seems that there are a lot more single Women on the east coast than on the West coast. There doesn’t [ READ MORE ]