Tag: sciences
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Ambio, bacterial lamp
Ocean waves glowing blue in the dark of night, anyone who has ever experienced this knows how magical it looks. The phenomenon is caused by bioluminescent micro-organisms in seawater that emit light when provided with oxygen every time a wave turnes. This principle inspired me to combine my passion for design and biology in a…
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Bricks Grown From Bacteria
A unique start-up company have developed a method of growing bricks from nothing more than bacteria and naturally abundant materials. Having recently won first place in the Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Challenge, has developed a method of growing materials by employing microorganisms. Arguing that the four traditional building materials – concrete, glass, steel and wood – both contain…
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“Invisibility Cloak” Hides Cats and Fish
A fish swims into an enclosure and disappears, while the pondweed behind remains perfectly visible. A cat climbs into a glass box and vanishes, and again the scene behind the box remains visible through the glass. This latest addition to the science of invisibility cloaks is one of the simplest implementations so far, but there’s…
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Between the real and virtual worlds
Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a next generation user interface which can accurately detect the users finger and what it is touching, creating an interactive touchscreen-like system, using objects in the real word. Using this technology, information can be imported from a document as data, by selecting the necessary parts with your finger. This technology measures…
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Food source from non-food plants
A team of Virginia Tech researchers has succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch, a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants not traditionally thought of as food crops. Cellulose is the supporting material in plant cell walls and is the most common carbohydrate on earth. This new development…
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Tomorrow is our permanent address
[ITA – English below] Il futuro è un argomento banale perché noi tutti, consapevolmente o meno, abbiamo continuamentea che fare col futuro, le nostre azioni, attività, i nostri progetti e pensieri, sono rivolti al futuro. La mia ipotesi è che questa naturale inclinazione umana derivi dall’acquisizione della capacità simbolica, centinaia di migliaia di anni fa.…
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Flexible Display Using Printing Technology
There is at least one connection between printing technology and flexible displays. The connection between these two innovative technologies resulted into a huge flexible display with 42-inch diagonal. The display is the result of collaboration between Toppan Printing and Plastic Logic, and the first demo was presented at Retail Tech Japan. The 42-inch bendable display…
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Electric Bacteria for Bio-Batteries
In an important step toward the creation of “bio-batteries,” a new study reveals how bacteria produce electricity when proteins in their cell membranes come into contact with a mineral surface. Scientists have known for some time that a family of marine bacteria known as Shewanella oneidensi, found in deep ocean sediments and soil, can create…
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Scientists Create Recyclable Solar Cells From Trees
Last year in April 2012, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology created the first plastic solar cell which they hope will help change requirements for manufacturing of organic printed electronics. That plastic solar cell was created through a special program at called the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE), which studies the use and development of…
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Personhood Beyond the Human
We declare the following: “The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique…
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Top 10 emerging technologies for 2013
New challenges need new technologies to tackle them. Here, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies identifies the top 10 most promising technology trends that can help to deliver sustainable growth in decades to come as global population and material demands on the environment continue to grow rapidly. These are technologies that the Council…