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NASA Offering Zero Gravity Flight For Free

NASA is looking for new technologies that have potential use in future agency projects which could benefit from testing during flights on an airplane that simulates the weightless conditions of space. The testing opportunities are being offered to U.S. companies, individuals, academic or research institutions, or government agencies. Through a partnership agreement, NASA will provide free flight time for the tests while project teams will be responsible for all other expenses. Proposals are due by March 20.

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The Waterpod: a Floating Eco-Habitat

The Waterpod is a visionary, floating habitat set to launch on May 1st.

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Exoskeleton power steering

The excoskeleton by Cyberdyne called HAL can magnify a person's strength by between two and 10 times. But this technique can have difficulties measuring and interpreting electrical activity in the body – in particular, the way electrical activity varies between individuals, and the confusing electrical signals given off by many muscles in one part of the body moving at once.

Now Japanese car giant Honda is patenting a different approach for its own exoskeletons. The company's suit senses the force and velocity of a limb in motion and then attempts to match the movement using whatever force is necessary.

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Stanford University encode letters "S" and "U" as small as 0.3 nanometers

The researchers encoded the letters "S" and "U" (as in Stanford University) within the interference patterns formed by quantum electron waves on the surface of a sliver of copper. The wave patterns even project a tiny hologram of the data, which can be viewed with a powerful microscope.

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Fracture Putty - bone-healing wonder materials

Two teams of Rice University bioengineers and colleagues at the Texas Medical Center have been asked to create a putty-like wonder material that can be packed around broken bones on the battlefield to reduce complications from compound fractures.

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The Playpump

The Playpump is a playground merry-go-round that uses the boundless energy of children to pump water out of the ground. More than 1000 such pumps have been installed in schools in South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zambia and apart from bringing joy to children, and providing easy access to clean drinking water for the local community.

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Do we really need handwriting any more?

"...two schools of thought: One is that it wouldn’t matter if nobody learned handwriting because we all have computers, and the other is that this is an interesting, historic, valuable, and beautiful skill that has been around for thousands of years, and we are just tossing it out."



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One man's vision for Augmented Reality and Holography

It's very cool!

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Intel's RF energy harvester

Intel set up a TV antenna on a balcony with line of sight to the KING-TV tower 4.1 km away. The TV station broadcasts on channel 48 between 674 and 680 MHz with an effective radiation power (ERP) of 960 Kw. The TV antenna used was a UHF log periodic with 5 dBi gain connected to a 4 stage charge pump power harvesting circuit of the same design as that found in an RFID tag. Across an 8 KOhm load the team measured 0.7V, corresponding to 60 microwatts of power harvested. That was enough to drive a thermometer/hygrometer and its LCD display, which is normally powered, by a 1.5 volt AAA battery.

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Mitsubishi's compact electric car

The i MiEV SPORT AIR. The futuristic vehicle will run on a 63horsepower (46kilawatt) electric motor powered by 330-volt lithium ion batteries.

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Media Vehicle pod offers virtual reality

Once inside a large spherical display acts as your virtual video experience while your legs are allowed to move freely on a movable track.

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Your Own Country

Start your own country at sea, living in your own utopia with its own laws, customs and peculiarities. Sure, it's been tried before with varying degrees of success, but now the nonprofit Seasteading Institute says such a platform can be built safely, and at reasonable cost.

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The Moller Flying Car

It's here!

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The ion-propelled, remotely-powered jetpack

A new U.S. patent has been awarded to a company that has plans for a safe, silent personal flight device using electromagnetic ion propulsion as its primary thrust generator and drawing its power wirelessly from earthbound inductive green power broadcast stations.

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Water Proof Books

Never be afraid to get a precious book wet, again.

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Microsatellites

Information on the microsatellites themselves is virtually nonexistent. The MiTEx launch, on June 18, was heralded by a press release touting its upper stage as a “technology demonstrator,” but this is where the story gets interesting.

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Digital Needle - A Virtual Gramophone

An inspired engineer imagines he is an archaeologist from the future, working to uncover the purpose of those flat, grooved discs that we know today as vinyl records.

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Quieting Sonic Booms

NASA is concluding a series of flight tests to measure shock waves generated by an F-15 jet, in an effort to validate computer models that could be used in designing quieter supersonic aircraft. The Lift and Nozzle Change Effects on Tail Shock, or Lancets, project aims to enable the development of commercial aircraft that can fly faster than the speed of sound without generating annoying sonic booms.

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Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Announces First Round of Registered Teams in Competition to Develop 100 MPGe Vehicles

This first wave of Registered Teams, representing 10 states and five countries, are among the first to have submitted their registration applications.

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