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New Light Source that can Last 12 Years

Very soon, Cyalume sticks (aka glow sticks) will be history. MPK CO. has invented a new kind of light source called Litroenergy that acts somewhat like a glow stick, but lasts more than 12 years without ever needing a recharge. No electricity nor solar exposure required! “The Litrospheres are not effected by heat or cold, and [...]

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Artificial Cornea Gives Hope To The Blind

Major advancements in technology like this one are what makes the future worth looking forward to. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have invented an artificial cornea that may well be the key to restoring sight for our people with damaged corneas. “Our artificial corneas are based on a commercially available polymer which absorbs no [...]

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Self-Cleaning Clothings

The scientists working for the US Air Force have invented a new kind of fabric that can be worn for weeks without washing. Although the idea of wearing the same clothings for weeks may not appeal to most, it can be a dream come true for the military, athletes, NASA, or even gaming addicts that [...]

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Dual-Core? Quad-Core? How About A 512-Core Processor!

While we mere mortals are all happy with our dual-core processors and all excited about the upcoming quad-core processors, several researchers from Tokyo University are secretly snickering at us. But of course, they have all the right to do so since they invented a 512-core processor known as the Grape DR chip. To be accurate, the [...]

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Insane 1,000ppm Printing Speed with JeTrix

What’s the fastest inkjet printer now? 30 pages per minute (ppm)? Ha! Don’t make JeTrix laugh. The new JeTrix printing technology is invented by Flamingo Electronics and is capable of hitting 1,000ppm printing speed! That is insanely fast. They achieved the speed by making the print head as large as a full page itself and sporting [...]

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The Self-Collapsing and Self-Assembling Robotic Chair

Alright, this seems really pointless, but it’s pretty cool nonetheless. It would have been even cooler if it could just assemble a little faster. Created by Raffaello D’Andrea and Max Dean, the Robotic Chair is meant to be an art piece that employs robotic technology. By communicating with a computer, the disassembled chair is able [...]

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RuBot II: Robot that Solves Rubik’s Cubes in under 50 Seconds

This badass-looking robot is known as RuBot II, a robot that can solve any Rubik’s Cube in under 50 seconds. It speaks in a rather gentlemanly manner. And upon placing a Rubik’s Cube on its tray, it picks it up, scans the cube with its camera-fitted eyes, and goes on to solving it in blazing [...]

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Platinum-coated Virus to become Super Memory of the Future

The phrase “my computer has got virus!” may just take on a new meaning in the future. Researchers have invented a way to coat 30-nanometre-long chunks of tobacco mosaic virus with platinum nano-particles, creating a transistor with very fast switching speed. And by combining millions of these transistors, super-fast memory chips could be created to [...]

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Scientists Achieved Breakthrough in Teleportation

We are now officially one step closer to Star Trek-like teleportation. Two years ago, teleportation between two atoms at a distance of a fraction of a millimeter was achieved. But today, Danish scientist Eugene Polzik and his team of scientists have managed to perform teleportation between two different objects, light and matter, at a distance [...]

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Three Terabytes (3,000 Gigabytes) on a CD-R?!

Yes, three-holy-terabytes (3,000-gigabytes) of data on an optical disc the size of our regular CD-R might just be possible soon! Harvard researchers have developed an “optical nano antenna” which helps focus light from an inexpensive laser onto a spot size of 40-nanometers. To put things into perspective: CDs use lasers with a wavelength of 780-nanometers, DVDs [...]

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