New way of space travel
Written by TheNark admin on September 11th, 2009 | 0 CommentsScientists have successfully levitated mice in the laboratory, in an experiment which may help research into space travel.
Using powerful magnets, the creatures were held in a zero-gravity like setting inside a tiny canister, where – after a little acclimatisation – they floated around inside their cage.
The researchers, working at various American institutes on behalf of [...]
Eco-friendly Concept Cars
Written by TheNark admin on June 2nd, 2009 | 0 CommentsThe Royal College of Art recently revealed a rousing rally of auto designs that match sleek profiles with cutting-edge concepts in sustainability. From efficient electric engines to ultra-lightweight materials and driver-less navigation systems, the RCA’s 2008 crop of concept cars struck us as nothing short of stunning.
These concept cars build upon the RCA’s world-renowned vehicle [...]
NEC introduces world’s first USB 3.0 host controller
Written by TheNark admin on May 25th, 2009 | 0 CommentsNEC has unveiled the world’s first SuperSpeed USB 3.0 host controller. The new standard is backwards compatible with its predecessors, USB 2.0, 1.1 and 1.0. Supporting transfer speeds of up to 5Gb/s, on paper, the µPD720200 is ten times the speed of USB 2.0.
NEC states that their new host controller makes it possible to broaden [...]
Mondo Spider
Written by TheNark admin on April 22nd, 2009 | 1 CommentHow it all started
The Mondo Spider Project was founded by five Vancouverites: Charlie Brinson, Dillard Brinson, Alex Mossman, Leigh Christie and Jonathan Tippett.
Junkyard Wars
Inspired by the famous TV shows Scrapheap Challenge and Junkyard Wars USA, Alex Mossman, Brian Wells and several other brilliant local Vancouver Engineers started a competition known as The Vancouver Junkyard Wars [...]
Pyramids of the future
Written by TheNark admin on March 31st, 2009 | 0 CommentsDubai’s latest offering is a carbon-neutral ‘pyramid’ city
“Ziggurat” is the name of the temple towers of the ancient Mesopotamian valley with the characteristic form of a terraced pyramid with successively receding stories. Now the name is about to enter a new phase. Timelinks, a Dubai-based pioneering environmental design company, has chosen it to describe a [...]
Napkin PC Concept by Avery Holleman
Written by TheNark admin on February 28th, 2009 | 1 CommentAvery Holleman has developed a PC design that can turn out to be a very useful tool on your conference tables. Named as Napkin PC, the design resembles a Napkin holder, which combines multiple touch screen devices within a collaborative network. The digital pens which are a part of the device allow the users to [...]
Strongest Laser Ever
Written by TheNark admin on February 28th, 2009 | 1 CommentWeighing in at a mere 20 billion trillion watts per square
centimeter and containing a measly 300 terawatts of power, the
University of Michigan has broken a record with a 1.3-micron speck wide
laser. It’s about two orders of magnitude higher than any other laser
in the world and can perform for 30 femtoseconds once every ten seconds
— some [...]
3D MAPPING VIDEO PROJECTED
Written by TheNark admin on February 25th, 2009 | 0 Comments3D Projections on Buildings; Looks pretty awesome, I’m supprised at the ammount of image/light/whatever you want to call it on the building, i’m sure these were recorded under optimal conditions, but that makes this no less impressive..
NEW TECHNOLOGY – EVENT COMMUNICATIONS
Innovator and spectacular, 3D Mapping Video projected is intergrated perfectly into a strategy of global [...]
First probabilistic CPU 30x more power-efficient
Written by TheNark admin on February 17th, 2009 | 0 CommentsRice University today used the International Solid-State Circuits Conference to reveal that it has tested a real-world example of a processor founded on probability math. Called a PCMOS (probability-based complementary metal-oxide semiconductor), the chip abandons the either/or Boolean logic of all current processors in favor of calculations that rely on the most likely answer in [...]
The world’ largest tunnel under the sea
Written by TheNark admin on February 5th, 2009 | 1 CommentThe Channel Tunnel
Eurostar speeds you through the Channel Tunnel, one of Europe’s biggest infrastructure projects to date. The $15 billion Channel Tunnel makes the old dream of a ground link between Great Britain and continental Europe a reality for the first time since the Ice Ages.
The tunnel consists of 3 interconnected tubes: 1 rail track [...]
Fuel cell powered Jaguar C-XC
Written by TheNark admin on February 4th, 2009 | 1 CommentEco Factor: Zero emission car powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
It’s always great to see how the addition of green technologies can beautify our cars. Similar is the work of Philip Dean, who has designed a concept car powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Dubbed the Jaguar C-XC, the car is a stylish 2+2 coupe designed with [...]
Underground garage
Written by TheNark admin on February 4th, 2009 | 0 CommentsFor those of you who always dreamed at your very own top-secret underground parking, like those you saw in movies here is an innovative design that aims to tackle the growing loss of front gardens to car park space in urban areas. A West London resident decided to combine the garden an the parking space [...]
Make toast with your PC
Written by TheNark admin on February 1st, 2009 | 0 CommentsAs soon as human kind brought computer technology to the commercial level, we figured out that food and our favourite PC game, movie, or software go along really well. As a matter of fact most of us can’t imagine not having snacks around the computer. This unusualy placed toaster is powered by your computer and [...]
Bicycle of future
Written by TheNark admin on January 31st, 2009 | 0 CommentsRealized by the Industrial Design Department of Alberto Del Biondi Industria Del Design in Italy, this avant-garde concept plays on the latest bicycle materials and technology. The new design is a minimalistic play on the typical city bike, using the concept of less is more to an extreme degree. Lines are simple yet dynamic while [...]
Humans microchips
Written by TheNark admin on January 31st, 2009 | 0 CommentsAll Australians could be implanted with microchips for tracking and identification within the next two or three generations, a prominent academic says.
Michael G Michael from the University of Wollongong’s School of Information Systems and Technology, has coined the term “uberveillance” to describe the emerging trend of all-encompassing surveillance.
“Uberveillance is not on the outside looking down, [...]
Drive your bike safetly at the night
Written by TheNark admin on January 26th, 2009 | 0 CommentsA close brush with a distracted driver is enought to intimidate the most avid bikers from riding at night. The problem is not just about visibility, as safety lights are effective at capturing the attention of a driver. However, these lights are typically constrained to the bike frame, which highlights only a fraction of the [...]
Hologram or reality?
Written by TheNark admin on January 25th, 2009 | 0 CommentsYou might think that your modern PC screen has a pretty high resolution, but reality is a quadrillion times better – a hundred trillion dots per inch, can you imagine? A collaboration between Fermilab scientists and a hundreds of meters of laser may have found the very pixels of reality, grains of spacetime one tenth [...]
The display of future
Written by TheNark admin on January 20th, 2009 | 0 CommentsThin paper-like displays came one step closer to reality today, with HP Labs and the Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University unveiling the first working prototype of a supposedly affordable flexible display. The display is made almost entirely out of plastic which enables it to be easily portable and consume less power than typical [...]
