If you had a supercar - say, one costing a quarter million bucks - you could get this service from some insurers (you phoned them when you started driving the car and phoned again when you stopped), but it wasn’t practical for most people. Now Norwich Union in the UK is offering it - [...]
MIT boffins have powered a 60 watt light bulb wirelessly that was two meters away from its power source. Two metal coils were used to transmit the power - the first time that this has been demonstrated. They transmitted the power with 45 percent efficiency. More details are available in two [...]
Researchers at Indiana’s University of Notre Dame, have discovered a way to increase the efficiency of nanoparticle based solar cells using carbon nanotubes and some commonly available chemicals. “This is very important work,” says Gerald Meyer, professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. “Using carbon nanotubes as a conduit for electrons from titanium oxide [...]
Intel’s recent announcement of a 80 core processor on a single chip combined with this story on the huge amount of energy used by data centres has (I predict) data centre managers on the edges of their seats - hoping that the Intel innovation is released to market soon. If you combine that with [...]
This would be useful for astronauts on the ISS - but the delay caused by the Moon’s distance from Earth would probably make it unpractical for a Moon colony.
“Doctors to reach out to patients thousands of miles away“
Now surgery from a distance may become a more pervasive reality thanks to a touch-simulation toolkit created by [...]
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