We’re sharing and collaborating at a rate unsurpassed in human history. Pictures, videos, research and news is being transported at blistering speeds from one corner of the globe to another. What if we could transmit data 85,000 times faster than we are today?
That idea won’t seem so farfetched if you examine research by scientists in the field of twisted light.
If you haven’t heard of the incredible opportunities that haptics offers us, then prepare to have your mind blown. Haptics essentially enables us to transmit touch via the internet, much the same way we currently transmit sound and sight. Some of the top companies in the world such as Apple are working to bring haptics to their product lines as soon as possible.
These days, we have a tremendous amount on our plates. We’re constantly looking for an energy boost, something that can give us an edge and extra motivation to get through the day. While coffee, cigarettes, energy drinks and other remedies have received mixed reviews, the most natural of solutions could be the secret to workplace productivity and a sense of well-being.
For all of you weekend warriors some exciting new open source 3D printing technology may well save your life one day. Researchers collaborating between Pennsylvania University and MIT have made significant strides in solving a huge problem in creating lab grown organs such as livers.
Innovation in the world’s most popular sport
In a monumental decision that may affect professional sports the world over, IFAB, the International Football Association Board unanimously approved the use of goal-line technology for immediate implementation in soccer at the highest level. The technology will need to be licensed, installed and inspected in each individual stadium before it can be used, but should be seen on the pitch by 2013.
Nearly 97% of the Earth’s water is unpotable salt water. With the current expensive and energy guzzling nature of desalination, fresh water is becoming increasingly difficult to come by.
“The scarcity of fresh water resources and the need for additional water supplies is already critical in many arid regions of the world and will be increasingly important in the future.” -U.S. Geological Survey
Scientists at MIT have fine-tuned a computer simulation that would allow graphene, the strongest material currently known to man, to serve as the perfect low-cost, low-energy filter to harvest seawater as a consumable resource.
Even with our incredible scientific and technological advancements, we still don’t understand the composition of 96% of the universe. That’s all about to change.
Years of research, hard work and setbacks have finally paid off; the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider has finally proven it’s worth. An international team of scientists and engineers in Switzerland today announced with 99.99% certainty that a new particle has been discovered, one that could be the missing piece to the standard model of particle physics. It’s the most massive particle known to science, and it’s attributes are consistent with the elusive Higgs Boson ‘God’ Particle.
The Burj Khalifa in Dubai has been the subject of an incredible amount of admiration, appearing in media and pop culture worldwide. The Burj, along with the man made islands, have made Dubai one of the most envied cities on the planet.
China is on the rise, and they’re looking to steal some of the thunder away from the Emirate to their west. They have laid the foundation to steal away the title of world’s tallest building, and they’re aiming to do it by next year!
Hundreds of homes have been destroyed, thousands have been evacuated, hundreds of thousands of acres have been destroyed. Colorado is facing the worst wildfire season in over a decade. You know a problem is serious when it’s visible from space.
This video was taken from aboard the International Space Station. You start to be able to notice the smoke about :30 into the video. It’s amazing that even from space, it takes a number of minutes just to orbit around a single state. Helps you appreciate the true size of our planet, as well as the fires themselves.
In the 80s, you weren’t cool if you weren’t rocking a boombox; now in the 201st decade, you might not be cool unless you have a boombot.
A company called TovBot, a compilation of robot researchers and entrepreneurs hailing from Georgia Tech, IDC in Israel, and MIT Media Lab, was over the plain old method for taking in music. They wanted an interactive and intelligent user experience. A new robofriend named Shimi (fittingly pronounced shimmy) has been born to do just that. Shimi has some pretty amazing features for an mp3 dock, and should be in your living room in 2013.