As 3D printing technology matures, scientists can foresee the day when we simply "bio-print" replacement human organs -- putting an end to transplant waiting lists. But science may push the technology even farther, says Dr. Ibrahim Ozbolat, co-director of the University of Iowa's Advanced Manufacturing Technology Group. Ozbolat told HuffPost Live's Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani that while... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pgH6YMby3M A study investigating an explosive cancer therapy that was developed two years ago by scientists at Rice University has demonstrated its highly promising potential against stubborn drug-resistant cancers in pre-clinical animal trials. The technology, dubbed “quadrapeutics”, marries four clinically approved existing treatments in a lethal combination that is capable of seeking out and destroying... Continue Reading →
http://youtu.be/xgY-n7oTsE0 A CNN Money survey found the "magic number" that would make Americans happy financially is less than $100,000. And it turns out many Americans don't think they need a CEO paycheck to be happy, or even six figures. When asked how much would do the trick, just over half of people surveyed in CNNMoney's... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc4CD1aEFwE Fifteen-year-old Angelo Casimiro from the Philippines has just invented a smart shoe insole that produces enough electricity when you walk to charge small USB devices. The gizmo consists of piezoelectric materials, which, as Angela explains, can generate an alternating current voltage when actuated. (Solid materials like certain ceramics and salts exhibit this effect, which... Continue Reading →
A program introduced in November 2013 to put 3D printers into classrooms has already attracted 1,000 schools. The latest is California's Oakland High School, which is receiving its first MakerBot Replicator 2 this week, a result of participation in MakerBot's Academy program. The program invites teachers to post their request onto DonorsChoose to pursue contributions... Continue Reading →
Kim Dotcom is pulling out all the stops in his fight against the U.S. government and his adversaries in Hollywood. On the table now sits a $5 million bounty for anyone prepared to reveal behind-the-scenes wrongdoing and corruption. Dotcom told TorrentFreak how it will work. Whichever way you look at it, Kim Dotcom has a... Continue Reading →
Could your car seats become large, comfortable batteries? If experiments by scientists at Fudan University in Shanghai, China become reality, perhaps they could, as the group has developed battery technology that can be woven into fabrics. According to Phys.org, researcher Wei Weng and his colleagues have designed and fabricated carbon nanotube composite yarns, wound around... Continue Reading →
From a sleeping bag that charges your gadgets to entire buildings warmed by body heat, scientists are harvesting the heat emitted by humans as a source of renewable energy. But the latest development in thermoelectric energy generation doesn’t come from a high-tech lab at MIT; it comes from Ann Makosinski, a 15-year-old Canadian girl who... Continue Reading →
It’s not the overdone media coverage, or that you’ve read too many columns by MarketWatch’s Paul Farrell, who says: “We live in a noisy, new world filled with rage.” There actually is increasing unrest worldwide, according to a new report by Citi’s chief global political analyst, Tina M. Fordham, and Willem Buiter, the bank’s chief... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwMJCAZUyGc Like the Tin Man in The Wizard Of Oz, the robot community has finally found its heart. This time around it's not made of sawdust-stuffed silk. Better -- sensors, cameras, microphones and proprietary algorithms that calculate human emotion according to vocal intonation and facial expressions. And soon it could be ambling around your home,... Continue Reading →
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