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Subject: Noteworthy Tech Developments Posted by: Baldwin - [111112015] Sat, Jul 12, 2003, 17:24 The Science Development Thread needs a companion. Here is a development I have wanted to see for a while now. Save 2 Billion gallons of fuel a year while upgrading comfort. | |||||||
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| 220 | Boldwin ID: 18643169 Mon, Aug 06, 2012, 16:13 | Finally, a robot that can shoot martians with lasers. | ||||||
| 221 | Boldwin ID: 77422621 Sun, Aug 26, 2012, 22:42 |
Revolutionary breakthru to replace bulky and inefficient silicon based electronics with 2D molybdenum. 
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| 222 | Boldwin ID: 478592622 Thu, Sep 27, 2012, 08:51 |
You'd expect this is just an internet prank. Right? Nope, an actual product @$100. Which makes this prototype a done deal as well. Complete with IPhone app that tags your mood as you travel around the city. | ||||||
| 223 | sarge33rd ID: 12554167 Tue, Oct 02, 2012, 20:11 |
we want one just to put on our desk and scare the pets. Conley 609 V-8 6 cu in, 9 HP | ||||||
| 224 | sarge33rd ID: 12554167 Wed, Oct 17, 2012, 11:36 | Japanese engineer says he can "distill" 1 kg of plastic into 1 liter of oil, vs burning 1 kg of plastic and getting 3 kg of CO2 | ||||||
| 225 | boikin ID: 532592112 Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 14:20 | The swedes solve two problems at once: Trash used as fuel. | ||||||
| 226 | Boldwin ID: 411162810 Fri, Dec 28, 2012, 18:52 | Not sure what stage of development this idea is. Could be in beta. | ||||||
| 227 | Boldwin ID: 49142129 Tue, Feb 12, 2013, 10:42 | |||||||
| 228 | Mith ID: 4310402110 Fri, Mar 08, 2013, 14:05 | Popular Science: Everything you need to know about drones. | ||||||
| 229 | Boldwin ID: 2635426 Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 08:53 | Earl Grey, Hot | ||||||
| 230 | Perm Dude ID: 201027169 Sat, Apr 06, 2013, 16:12 | Hydrogen fuel availability just made a huge leap forward? | ||||||
| 231 | Boldwin ID: 43318184 Thu, Apr 18, 2013, 05:18 | Algorithms TED speech | ||||||
| 232 | Boldwin ID: 43318184 Thu, Apr 18, 2013, 11:40 |
Somewhere close to revolutionary. Most battery tech improvements are unfortunately incremental. Relatively small increments. I'm happy to see 10-20% improvements. This one is a whole order of improvement better.  The University of Illinois team says its use of 3D-electrodes allows it to build "microbatteries" that are many times smaller than commercially available options, or the same size and many times more powerful.Trust me on this, when they say there are safety issues to overcome, they aren't kidding. Substantial safety problems involved. Do not throw away your jumper cables. | ||||||
| 233 | Frick ID: 432501512 Wed, Apr 24, 2013, 10:47 |
Pew Research Center Science and Technology Quiz 13 total questions, the one question that I wasn't positive of, had one of the higher percentages of correct answers. Not sure what to make of that. | ||||||
| 234 | Boldwin ID: 25332317 Wed, Apr 24, 2013, 11:11 |
I only missed nitrogen. I knew that was the answer ringing the bells for me, but hydrogen is just so overwhelmingly the most common atom in the universe, I just thot it must be. Never go against the gut. Weird cause I studied the process which strips elements from the atmosphere just this month. | ||||||
| 235 | C1-NRB ID: 451120913 Wed, Apr 24, 2013, 12:01 | I could've sworn an electron was a sub-atomic paricle. That was my wrong answer. | ||||||
| 236 | Boldwin ID: 25332317 Wed, Apr 24, 2013, 12:07 | Of course it is...wtf. | ||||||
| 237 | Boldwin ID: 25332317 Wed, Apr 24, 2013, 12:08 | You must have found the wording tricky or something like that. | ||||||
| 238 | DWetzel ID: 59149910 Wed, Apr 24, 2013, 12:15 |
Science and Technology Knowledge Quiz Results You answered 13 of 13 questions correctly. link | ||||||
| 239 | Boldwin ID: 4382910 Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 14:37 | Cyborg kidneys, livers and pancreas. | ||||||
| 240 | Boldwin ID: 4243997 Thu, May 09, 2013, 09:01 |
In 1973 a 'mainframe computer' cost a quarter of a million dollars and had 64K of memory. Moore's Law still looking good even now. | ||||||
| 241 | Boldwin ID: 4243997 Thu, May 09, 2013, 09:42 |
 It'll set you back $500,000. But compare that to the $1 billion-plus price tag on, say, Fujitsu's "K" supercomputer, installed in Japan in 2011, and you've got a screaming deal. | ||||||
| 242 | Boldwin ID: 184541216 Sun, May 12, 2013, 19:46 | Quantum computing looks closer to market than expected. | ||||||
| 243 | Boldwin ID: 294281510 Wed, May 15, 2013, 15:06 |
Heart stops for 30 minutes? No problem. Meet a fully established and available "AutoPulse," CPR technology far superior to traditional one point heart manipulation. Distribute these faster please. | ||||||
| 244 | Boldwin ID: 504361623 Fri, May 17, 2013, 00:53 |
Well every now and then I have to admit some things that are just beyond my grasp and phonons, quasiparticles, nanoplasmonics...I was just born to soon to absorb this stuff perfectly. But if I could, I'd understand how this guy is designing low efficiency but relatively cheap paint-on photovoltaics. | ||||||
| 245 | Boldwin ID: 4429213 Tue, May 21, 2013, 04:29 | Ultra cheap, ultra reliable, private space tech comin' on strong. | ||||||
| 246 | Boldwin ID: 434372312 Thu, May 23, 2013, 13:47 | Print this! | ||||||
| 247 | Boldwin ID: 15522295 Sat, Jun 29, 2013, 09:22 | |||||||
| 248 | sarge33rd ID: 4609710 Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 04:57 |
Canadian team wins 33 yr old challenge ofr human powered helicopter flight TORONTO - When Todd Reichert settles into the pilot seat of the helicopter he helped build, there are no fancy electronic switches to flip, there's no fuel tank to fill and certainly no computer to configure before take off. What allows the 31-year-old to defy gravity is sheer human power, delivered to the craft's four rotors through the bicycle pedals he steadily pumps throughout his flight. It's that fragile machine, built by Reichert's Canadian team, which has now won a long-coveted international prize that lay unclaimed for years. The AHS Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition was established in 1980 for the first successful controlled flight of a human powered helicopter that could reach a height of three metres while hovering for at least one minute in a 10-square-meter area. | ||||||
| 249 | sarge33rd ID: 4609710 Tue, Jul 23, 2013, 08:19 | assembling the crane, that assembles the wid turbine; in Europe | ||||||
| 250 | biliruben ID: 41431323 Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 05:12 |
 But who filled out the form? http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/12/02/ive-got-drones-in-different-area-codes | ||||||
| 251 | boikin ID: 430211013 Mon, Dec 09, 2013, 10:20 | 3-D printers that print the parts to make better versions of themselves. | ||||||
| 252 | Boldwin ID: 510591420 Wed, Dec 24, 2014, 12:20 |
What if the government policy wasn't to bankrupt the coal industry and drive everyone's energy costs thru the roof in order to make Obama's Solyndra's break even? What if [with a little subsidy] we took the carbon dioxide from the coal plants, used it as the necessary ingredient for enhanced oil recovery and suddenly we could double the recoverable oil in our oil fields? Cheap power, double our assets, sequester carbon underground forever...win, win, win! We currently only recover 1/3 of the oil. Carbon dioxide injection recovers another third. | ||||||
| 253 | Bean ID: 121011511 Wed, Dec 24, 2014, 13:15 |
If the goal is to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere, then how bout we all plant trees, preferably a fruit or nut tree and pay forward. How come Almonds and Pistachios are so cheap now? They used to be expensive. Is the peanut now dead? Perhaps that's where the Chinese are spending all their money. | ||||||
| 254 | Boldwin ID: 510591420 Wed, Dec 24, 2014, 15:26 |
You retired, Bean? You could always join an NGO and go plant some trees... In Africa  or China for example. | ||||||
| 255 | Bean ID: 121011511 Thu, Dec 25, 2014, 12:31 |
Funny thing about retirement, it's usually something that happens to the old and frail. I wouldn't last a week at hard labor at my age (59). I'm content to slowly plant fruit trees on my semi-arid 5 acres here in Colorado Springs. We've got 10 fruit trees going now (4 apple, 2 pear, 2 plum and 2 cherry). They are surviving and fruiting most years with watering only during the dry spells. They have a lot more success growing fruit trees near Grand Junction, the soil is a little more fertile there. I've planted about 50 trees, mostly evergreen, since retiring 11 years ago. Lost maybe 15%, most of those were Junipers that were probably sickly when I bought them at Lowes. Seriously, I dont envy millenials the challenges they'll have with the environment. Public panic does no good, national policy has to be the solution. We all can do some small things to help though. | ||||||
| 256 | Perm Dude ID: 431013412 Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 19:05 |
Transparent solar panels reach 1% efficiency. This is very big news, IMO. Even at 1% efficiency, they are starting to make it worth using in long term installations like office windows. | ||||||
| 257 | Boldwin ID: 112382716 Tue, Apr 07, 2015, 07:31 |
Internet of everyThings is percolating just below the surface. Early investors are piling on Ineda as the presumptive winner of Apple's favor for their chips. Expect an explosion of low power sub-$10 chips glomming onto every device that can be made to have electricity running thru any part of itself. If Apple has anything to say about it, most of them will only talk to Apple products. Recent Iphone iterations have had one of these auxillary chips that are very low power and which can operate while the main chip powers down. It stays alert to situations that call for the main chip to spring to life. One of it's early jobs was to know exactly where it was and to make sense of the situation. They'll all first and foremost know exactly where they are. Something useful to totalitarians determined to know where you are and to keeping you doing what you are supposed to be doing. | ||||||
| 258 | Boldwin ID: 112382716 Tue, Apr 07, 2015, 07:42 |
"Sensors detect a woman nearby. You are not thinking of raping her, are you? Remember we are watching." "Sensors detect a PoC approaching. You are not going to oppress them again, are you? Remember to grovel at their feet as they pass by. We are watching you." "Heroes of labor keep their heart rate higher than this. Hop to it! We are watching." | ||||||
| 259 | Boldwin ID: 112382716 Tue, Apr 07, 2015, 08:12 |
"I know what you did last..."
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| 260 | Boldwin ID: 112382716 Tue, Apr 07, 2015, 08:25 | "You have exceeded allowable tolerances. Any further instances of supremacist posture towards AI persons in the environment will be accompanied by an appropriate shock." | ||||||
| 261 | Bean ID: 14147911 Tue, Apr 07, 2015, 09:39 | Premise for a sci fi movie.......the Amish were right. Wait they've done that one before.....well as long as it was a hit, no need to re-invent. | ||||||
| 262 | Boldwin ID: 49572022 Wed, Jul 08, 2015, 21:17 |
An interesting wave energy project. I should point out on the other-hand that Google was planning on tackling this tech challenge and came away from their analysis proclaiming that it was impossible to derive power economically from wave power. Some awfully sharp and creative minds over there at Google. Really makes ya wonder. The idea always intrigued me. | ||||||
| 263 | Boldwin ID: 49572022 Wed, Jul 08, 2015, 21:24 |
 400HP engine that weights a scant...88lbs.Named the DIG-T R, the 3 cylinder 1.5 liter engine has a power to weight ratio of 10HP per kilo, besting even high performance Formula 1 engines. Carried aboard Nissan’s Zero Emmision ZEOD the 500mm tall, 400mm long, and 200mm wide (19.68 x 15.74 x 7.78 in) package is one of the most compact performance engines every built.First to appear at Lemans. Then into products for the masses. | ||||||
| 264 | Boldwin ID: 49572022 Wed, Jul 08, 2015, 21:38 |
Pacific Rim is real. | ||||||
| 265 | Boldwin ID: 49572022 Fri, Jul 10, 2015, 14:39 |
Boeing's new engine patent. Lasers and nuclear fusion powered. Virtually no fuel needed. You will never see it built but wow, just wow, what a concept. | ||||||
| 266 | Boldwin ID: 2711516 Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 18:51 | Is there anyone here who actually wants a self-driving car? | ||||||
| 267 | Boldwin ID: 2711516 Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 18:52 | Because I am thinking the only ones who like this idea are totalitarians who want to make sure they know where you are at all times. | ||||||
| 268 | biliruben ID: 28420307 Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 18:58 | Having just driven 1700 miles, yes. | ||||||
| 269 | Boldwin ID: 2711516 Sun, Aug 23, 2015, 23:20 | Accidental quantum leap in rechargable battery tech! | ||||||
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