| Title | Description |
| Colorado’s Opportunity to Take the Lead in the Alternative Transportation Marketplace |
Futurist Thomas Frey: The first time I rode on a Segway, I was confused. Even though I loved the experience, I couldn’t quite figure out how it would fit into my life. It wasn’t going to replace my car and it certainly wasn’t a substitute for my bicycle, so what exactly was it? [...] |
| Printing Australia?s largest solar cells |
Flexible solar cells. The Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC), CSIRO, and the University of Melbourne has developed a new printer that has allowed researchers at the university to print solar cells up to the size of an A3 sheet of paper. The solar cell printer makes renewable energy even easier to source. The solar cell printer can transform plastic [...] |
| Electrical brain stimulation improves mathematical abilities |
Electrical brain stimulation benefited subjects for months. A small laboratory study of university students has found that random electrical stimulation, a technique that applies a gentle current through the skull, leads to a long-lasting boost in the speed of mental calculations. If unobtrusive brain stimulation proves safe and effective in larger classroom trials, [...] |
| The end of the future and the rise of the present |
. Douglas Rushkoff is a “presentist,” not a futurist. Rushkoff explains in the video that it means that he no longer is concerned with the future, because the future is merely a construct of a certain, linear way of viewing time. He argues, that the model in his book Present Shock, is no longer operable in [...] |
| Precision agriculture moves farmers into the high tech age |
A variable rate irrigation system installed to water crops saves hundreds of thousands of gallons of water. The U.S. has seen record-setting drought in recent years. The drought has pushed everyone to look for new ways to save water. So, the The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has joined forces with America’s beer brewers to change how [...] |
| Top 10 Photos of the Week |
Something tells me this is not a gesture of kindness! Quote of the Day: ”Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.” – Frank Lloyd Wright . When teddy bears grow up… . . . The car I’ve been dreaming about since I was 8 years old… . . . Challenge accepted! [...] |
| Researchers clone human embryonic stem cells |
Creating stem cells from skin. Researchers have converted human skin cells into embryonic stem cells using the same process involved in cloning, which have the capability to turn into any type of cell in the body. Stem cell researchers have reached a long-sought milestone in “regenerative” medicine that seeks to provide rejection-free replacement transplant tissues [...] |
| Udacity introduces $7,000 Master Degree Program |
Georgia Tech teams up with Udacity. Sebastian Thrun and Udacity’s resolve to re-imagine higher education in a more affordable, accessible virtual classroom. Udacity continues to push forward with its plans to bring higher education online — and not just in bits, pieces and homework assignments. Following 2U’s lead, Udacity has partnered with its [...] |
| U.S. government student loan policy reaping $51 billion profit |
At $1.1 trillion, student debt eclipses all other forms of household debt, except for home mortgages. The U.S. government is forecast to turn a record $51 billion profit this year from student loan borrowers, a sum greater than the earnings of the nation’s most profitable companies and roughly equal to the combined net income of [...] |
| Kirk McDonald: ?Sorry, college grads, I probably won?t hire you? |
Please learn a little computer programming. Kirk McDonald: Dear college graduates: The next month is going to be thrilling as you cross this major milestone in your education. Enjoy the pomp and circumstance, the congratulations, and the parties. But when it’s all over and you’re ready to go out into the world, you’d probably like [...] |
| Tesla Model S outsells Mercedes, BMW and Audi |
Tesla Model S More people bought a Tesla Model S, the $70,000 (and up) electric car, in the first quarter of 2013 than bought any of the similarly priced gasoline-powered cars from the top three German luxury brands, according to data from LMC Automotive. About 4,750 buyers bought a Model S while just over 3,000 [...] |
| YouTube is responsible for 17% of home Internet traffic |
YouTube’s share of residential downstream traffic has been growing, and is up from 13.8 percent a year ago. According to Sandvine’s latest global internet phenomena report, YouTube is now responsible for 17.1 percent of all residential fixed-line downstream traffic in North America. The traffic management specialist’s report for the first half of 2013 still [...] |
| SheerWind wind turbine can generate 600% more energy than conventional turbines |
An innovator in high-performance, cost-efficient wind energy technology is SheerWind. Initial field-testing results have been announced which compares INVELOX commercial-grade wind energy generation with the same turbine on a traditional tower-mounted system. The test results indicate that INVELOX significantly out-performs the traditional turbine and is competitive with natural gas and hydroelectric generation by: * [...] |
| Texting while driving kills more U.S. teens than drunk driving |
Texting behind the wheel is much more dangerous than driving drunk because of the frequency in which teenagers send texts verses how often they drink. A new study has found that texting while driving has now replaced drunk driving as the number one cause of teenage deaths on the road in the U.S. [...] |
| 3D printers will change the future of manufacturing |
How do we prepare for this manufacturing revolution in the making? You can now print your own gun. And there are plenty of ways to do so, legal and otherwise. A group called Defense Distributed offered you a new one last week: It published instructions for creating a plastic firearm using a 3-D printer. One guy [...] |
| When will your doctor start wearing Google Glass? |
Google Glass holds a lot of promise in the medical field. Google Glass uses augmented reality and voice activation to project data into our field of vision. The technology Google Glass is using is still in its early stages, but it holds a lot of promise in the medical field. One obvious use includes [...] |
| New wave of cyberattacks against U.S. corporations |
The new attacks seek to destroy data or to manipulate industrial machinery and take over or shut down the networks that deliver energy or run industrial processes. Warnings from federal officials, including a vague one issued last week by the Department of Homeland Security, are being prompted by a new wave of cyberattacks that are striking [...] |
| Samsung promises 5G wireless data connections by 2020 |
4G networks have yet to launched in some parts of the world, including China. But Samsung is already promising to deliver high speed 5G wireless data connections to consumers by 2020. The claim comes as the firm announced it had developed its first core technology for fifth-generation networks. The Korean tech giant says its 5G [...] |
| Instabeat ? Google Glass for swimmers |
Instabeat is a new device that attaches to your goggles and lets you track your performance using a Heads-up-display (HUD) when swimming. It can track heart rate, breathing pace, calories, laps and turns during your swimming session. The device weighs only 30g and is designed to reduce water friction – meaning it won’t get [...] |
| Google Glass-wearing gamblers will be banned at Caesars Palace |
Gamblers at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas will not be allowed to wear Google Glass. Caesars Palace, the world famous Las Vegas casino, has confirmed that patrons won’t be allowed to wear Google Glass when gambling. Previous statements had indicated that the heads-up display would be permitted on the casino floor as long as it wasn’t being [...] |
