Happy Thanksgiving

source: Clay Bennett

Brilliant Minds Forecast Next 50 Years

What will be the biggest breakthrough of the next 50 years? As part of our 50^th anniversary celebrations NewScientist asked over 70 of the world's most brilliant scientists for their ideas.


Brilliant Minds Forecast Next 50 Years

Wireless power...finally..almost there!

I was always thinking...why can't this be done and how useful it would be to have wireless power for travellers, mobile users,.. it here..almost..according to this article from BBC

US researchers have outlined a relatively simple system that could deliver power to devices such as laptop computers or MP3 players without wires.

The concept exploits century-old physics and could work over distances of many metres.

Instead of using acoustic vibrations, the team's system exploits the resonance of electromagnetic waves. Electromagnetic radiation includes radio waves, infrared and X-rays.

This is so exciting :o)

Move over Copperfield

Sketch furniture via Rapid Prototyping

Amazing stuff...thought it's a gimmick...some sort of animated stuff! But I believe this is a process called Rapid Prototyping and now it's mostly limited to certain metals but advances are being made every day.

Here are more details

Diet Coke & Mentos - Experiments

I quote a comment from another site -- "Image what we'd miss w/o the internet..."