Green Bullets

The Department of Defense started the Green Bullets program and developed a new nontoxic bullet designed for the M-16 rifles used by US and NATO troops. This new "green bullet" is just as effective as traditional ammo but poses no environmental threat. Instead of a lead core, the bullet is composed of a mixture of tungsten and tin.

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The AirPod

The AirPod vehicle is small, holding just three passengers, with a single seat facing front for the driver and a bench facing backward for two more people. MDI claims a range of more than 112 miles in an urban setting, and less than two minutes to refill the 46-gallon air tank. But even though the AirPod can reach speeds of just less than 45 mph, the air-powered engine produces only 8 horsepower, suggesting slow acceleration.

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Make or Break for Green Industries

Facing the worst economic conditions since World War II, the green-tech industry is heading for a make-or-break period in which perhaps only the well-funded, the most innovative, and the most politically connected will survive.

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Mitsubishi's iMiev electric car

Official production isn't intended to start until 2010.

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The Smart Grid

A smart grid delivers electricity from suppliers to consumers using digital technology to save energy, reduce cost and increase reliability.
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DOE's Introduction to the Smart Grid

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Cyber-robots

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has created software that uses colonies of borg-like cyberrobots it says will help government agencies detect and fend off attacks on the nation's computer network infrastructure.

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SMiShing

A phishing attack making the rounds tries to dupe cell phone users into revealing their personal data over the phone. It uses SMS messages, which makes it a "SMiShing" attempt.

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Office 14

Microsoft has said it will offer desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote as well as versions that can run online in a browser, be it Internet Explorer, Safari, or Firefox. As previously noted, that means that for the first time Office will also work on both Linux and Apple's iPhone. CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts last week that Office 14 would not come out this year.

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RainCloud

Anyone with a home dehumidifier knows water can be sucked out of the air. Cleanworld Ltd. in the UK designed the RainCloud C-15 for your home or office. Simply put, it's a small dehumidifier with a built-in water purification system to produce drinking water, with hot and cold options.

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Temperature Sensitive Tiles

These are temperature sensitive textured glass tiles which change color with the ambient, body or water temperature.

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Holographic 3D TV

A 3D television system which would display holographic images floating in mid air - reminiscent of a famous scene from Star Wars - could be a reality in households within the next decade according to findings by a team of University of Aberdeen academics.

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Autostereoscopy

Creating Matrix-Style Simulated Realities

Supercomputers are on the verge of creating Matrix-style simulated realities. Michael McGuigan at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, says that virtual worlds realistic enough to be mistaken for the real thing are just a few years away.

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Toward the Graphics Turing Scale on a Blue Gene Supercomputer

McKinsey's newest Web site launches this week.

McKinsey is using the site to give some of the world's leading thinkers an opportunity to weigh in on questions that will shape the future. Every few weeks, the site will highlight a different topic, along with a related debate.

For the first, climate change, our experts argue the merits of a carbon tax versus a cap-and-trade system.

What Matters

Rubidium May Reveal Clues For Exotic Computing

Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaborative venture of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland at College Park, have caused ultracold rubidium atoms to undergo a startling transformation.

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Quantum Computing and Teleportation

Researchers have for the first time succeeded in teleporting the state of an atom across a significant distance to another atom. That's important because atoms can be trapped and held in the same quantum state for considerable periods of time, so can serve as memory units for quantum information. Teleportation between atoms could therefore be an important ingredient in quantum computers or quantum communication systems.

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Canada and Quantum Computing

Canada will become home to the largest concentration of quantum computing talent in the world, thanks to $150 million in funding from government and the founder of Research In Motion Ltd.

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Lockheed's ready-to-go supersoldier exoskeleton

The exoskeleton is based on a design from Berkeley Bionics of California.



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Immersive Virtual Reality Process technology

Invensys Process Systems (IPS), a global technology and consulting firm, today unveiled its Immersive Virtual Reality Process technology, a next-generation human machine interface (HMI) solution that will revolutionize the way engineers and operator trainees see and interact with the plant and the processes they control.

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Light-guide Solar Optic

By Morgan Solar, Toronto, Canada -- a revolutionary new way to capture, transport and concentrate sunlight.

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MIT's 10 technologies that can change the way we live.

MIT's Technology Review has announced the annual list of 10 emerging technologies with the potential to shape the way we live and do business. Clicking on the MIT link below will give you the 10 emerging technologies for each year from 2001.

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