Category: Science
Material ConneXion catalogues newest high-tech materials
“Our motto is material equals design. We believe you can design a wonderful iPod or Blackberry, but if you don’t have a material that prevents it from breaking, your design will be at fault,” said Michele Caniato, executive vice president at Material ConneXion, a library containing over 4000 of new and advanced materials ranging from cement to photo-voltaics. Accessible via subscription. [GT]
Stuff of dreams at Material ConneXion
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Reprogramming the genome to transform one species to another
Craig Venter, best known for his work on the Human Genome Project, has announced the results of his lab’s work on genome transplantation methods that allows for the transformation of one type of bacteria into another, dictated by the transplanted chromosome. In other words, one species becomes another. In speaking of this achievement to Edge, Venter said: “This is a major advance in the field of synthetic genomics. We now know we can create a synthetic organism. It’s not a question of ‘if’, or ‘how’, but ‘when’, and in this regard, think weeks and months, not years.” I’ll take an artificial manatee with hoover attachment and a couple of David Duchovnys. [GT]
CHANGING ONE SPECIES TO ANOTHER (via Boing Boing)
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No contest, I promise. This is an artwork called 'Turning The Place Over', it's sited in a tower block in Liverpool, and it involves a circular wodge cut out of the building that rotates around. Just watch: it's genius….
Get your heart screened, says Little Britain's David Walliams
Philips has teamed up with charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) for a new campaign to raise awareness of heart screening among under-35s. The campaign is kicking off with a short video featuring Little Britain star David Walliams.
The football boots that stamp fertilizer into the pitch
Let’s be honest: the pitch at the new Wembley Stadium is a bit of a dog. It cuts up rough with every slide tackle, leaving divots all over the place, and impeding England’s scintillating passing tactics like… Oh.
Swedes invent "talking paper"
Using pressure-sensitive ink and printed speakers, new “talking paper” is essentially an interactive billboard. “When you approach the billboard and put your hand on a postcard that shows a picture of a beach, you can hear a very brief description of that beach,” suggests project lead Mikael Gulliksson. The electronics are sandwiched between a heavy-duty cardboard backing and the decorative front layer, so it’s not precisely the flimsy thin stuff we think of as paper, but we could soon see pop star posters which whisper sweet nothings to us in our sleep. [GT]
Talking paper made by scientists (via Engadget)
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Ashera: $22,000 cat from Lifestyle Pets
This may look like a regular 4 stone cat on a leash but it’s actually the Cat Of Tomorrow! The Ashera is a blend of the Asian Leopard cat, African Serval and an unnamed domestic breed (probably “alley”). It will grow to be 13-15 kilos. Lifestyle Pets also claims to be developing a tiny dog which I guess can be fed to the cat. My cat Lacerda weighs over 10 kilos, and what did he cost? Nothing, he just showed up in the kitchen one day. Feel free to drop by any I’ll see if I can turn up any of his brothers. But if you want your cat high tech, it’ll be $22,000 – or $28,000 if you want to raise it from a kitten. Plus $1500 shipping. [GT]
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IBM releasing disease prediction software
IBM has announced that it is to donate software to scientists and public health officials that is able to predict the spread of infections diseases amongst countries.
Hitachi develops wearable brain scanner
Hitachi has unveiled a portable brain scanner, which measures your grey cells’ activity when worn over the course of a day. At least, I think they have: the photo sparks suspicions it may be a late April Fool illustrated with some archive Virtual Reality headset promo shots from the 1980s.
Forget CCTV: Get set for unmanned laser surveillance
Public surveillance is a live issue at the moment, what with CCTV cameras springing up in British streets faster than you can say ‘Run for your tin-foil hats! The government is watching us like a hawk!’.
