Let your watery imagination go wild, earlier this week an international team of architects and engineers led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology said they have designed a building made of water. Called the “Digital Water Pavilion, the interactive structure made of digitally controlled water curtains will be unveiled at the 2008 Expo Zaragoza in Zaragoza, [...]
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The space shuttle Atlantis remains docked to the International Space Station as crews in space and others on the ground work to correct computer problems on the orbiting lab. A pair of computers on the Russian side of the space station shutdown on Wednesday. The computers involved control navigation of the space station and oxygen [...]
Rochester, New York-based, Kodak unveiled on Thursday an inventive advancement in image sensor technology that will help to make dark, blurry digital photos a thing of the past. Kodak’s new sensor technology provides a 2x to 4x increase in sensitivity to light (from one to two photographic stops) compared to current sensor designs. Image sensors [...]
Corn and potato crops may soon provide information to farmers about when they need water and how much should be delivered, thanks to a University of Colorado at Boulder invention optioned to AgriHouse Inc., a Berthoud, Colo., high-tech company. The technology includes a tiny sensor that can be clipped to plant leaves charting their thickness, [...]
Serious competition for your internet browsing space has intensified, which include rivals like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7, and the open source browser, Firefox. And now the iPod maker is taking a dip into the hot waters of Windows operating system’s internet browsers pool. With its impressive and speedy new addition for Windows, Apple unveiled on [...]
Eco-friendly lighting company, EcoLEDs has launched the brightest LED (light-emitting diode) light bulb ever made available to consumers in the United States. Using just 10 watts and a single LED component made in the USA, the LED light uses just 1/10th the electricity of an incandescent light bulb and reduces CO2 emissions by 9,070 pounds [...]
The next generation of self-healing materials, invented by researchers at the University of Illinois, mimics human skin by healing itself time after time. The new materials rely upon embedded, three-dimensional microvascular networks that emulate biological circulatory systems. “In the same manner that a cut in the skin triggers blood flow to promote healing, a crack [...]
Picture the Milky Way galaxy-a disk of stars and gas, a stellar spheroid and an enormous halo of dark matter. It spirals around a black hole that is supermassive-about three million solar masses. The Milky Way’s total mass is about 100 billion solar masses-enormous to us but average among galaxies. Then imagine that galaxy encountering [...]
It took two days to get there, but the space shuttle Atlantis arrived Sunday at the International Space Station. The afternoon docking delivers a new truss segment and crew member to the orbiting laboratory.
