The "Space cube"

Can you imagine a computer with a shape of cube, which size is only 5 sm.?

The Japanese corporation “Shimafuji” made it a month ago and called it “Space cube”. It is the smallest computer in the world and is projected for the International Space Station.

The mini computer have processor with maximum frequency of 300 MHz and flash memory 16 Mb. The operational memory is Linux Red Hat works with Compact flash and is placed in one of its slots. The memory of the hard disk is 64 Mb (SDRam).

The computer have the following ports – LAN, USB, Ethernet and have other additional extra Space Wire, which permit it to work with another devices.

A space technology detects invisible cracks in Mines

An advanced system-penetrating radar, originally developed to investigate the structure of the lunar soil and other planets in planetary missions of the European Space Agency (ESA), is being used in some mines in Canada to detect cracks and dangerous areas.

The company Germanosuiza RST has designed two radars to detect invisible separations in the roofs and the walls of the mines. They are called CRIS (Crack Identification System), for hard rock mines, and PRIS (Potash Roof Inspection System), for potassium mines. Both incorporate technology developed by ESA to penetrate the soil by a radar, which will be mounted further on the lunar vehicle that will investigate the structure of the earth in our satellite.

"CRIS and PRIS are based on a technology that ESA started to develop in 1994. We have changed the frequencies of operation to search for mines in cracks and structural weaknesses, " says Ynonne Krellmann - the project director, said in a statement from the ESA.

During the tests made in Canada, have already verified that this invention is very useful in recognizing horizontal cracks in the ceilings of the galleries, cracks that are very difficult to identify him by human eye and which, over time, can cause the roof collapse.

The penetration of the ground radar is a non-destructive geophysical technique that uses radio waves to determine structures and objects hidden under the floor. Its main application is the study of the shallow areas where the radar operates at frequencies between 1 and 1000 MHz.

In principle, this radar operates in the same way that makes it a conventional radar to detect the presence of an airplane: an impetus to send radio waves and receives the reflected energy of the object that has found its way. The radio waves are reflected from any boundary where the dielectric properties of materials change.

In the case of the radar from an airplane is when the slings hit another plane. If it is to penetrate the soil in mining, is when the waves are a separation in the material that forms a ceiling or a wall. In this case, the wave reduces its strength. To calculate the distance or depth to the crack, measured the duration of the trip the airwaves.

Ginger uses two frequencies to cover two separate functions. First, it acts just like the "eye" of a vehicle for planetary exploration, making the surface that is visible in front of him through a medium resolution images. At the same time, not only maps the surface through which passes, but penetrating, exploring the structure of the soil.

CRIS was designed to identify yelling in harsh environments with stones. Has been tested successfully in mines Notario, Canada, as well as potassium mines. These mines are especially vulnerable, as well as being located within one kilometer below ground. The enormous pressure exerted by the weight of the rock along certain properties of salt that it is part, can cause deformities in the galleries and, consequently, cracks forming.

This invention was developed a little more up to create the PRIS II, a radar that can be mountained in a jeep or on a machine used in mining, reducing inspection time in the state in which it finds a hole or a gallery. In the tests made by PRISII have been identified and invisible Separations cracks in walls of mine roof of potassium to two meters below the surface.

"At the same time that radar technology was more robust, has been redefined to be understood by mining engineers and other personnel not familiar with the radar. We have been asked by most companies in the mining sector, "says Hans Martin Braun, RST. "Efforts to improve the safety of the mine must include machines that incorporate radar penetration of the land, which is a more efficient and faster to detect weaknesses that the ocular inspection," he concludes.

According to its creators, this invention can be transferred to other applications. For example, one company has been interested in transferring to maintenance of roads and tunnels. Only in Switzerland there are 1,600 kilometers of roads passing through the tunnels (and another 500 under construction). The radar could be used to check the status of those tunnels. This sector, therefore has many potentialities.

Space becomes part of the fight against forest fires

This is a project of the European Space Agency (ESA), called RISK EOS and is part of the program promoted jointly by ESA and the European Commission GMES (Global Monitoring of Environment and Security) that will give Europe a space infrastructure observation, particularly devoted to the management of forest fires and for other types of natural disasters such as floods.

With the application of this technology, the Regional Operations Center (COR), a body of the Plan INFOCID elaborate fires and distribute the resources needed to extinguish them, have gathered information from the satellite to track the fire.

At that meeting, which examines the use of this tool, involving representatives of INFOCID Plan, the European Space Agency, and the consortium in charge of project management-company-INSA. Similarly, there are representatives of European countries that are also involved in the project, such as Italy, Belgium, Sweden, France and Germany.

The development of the project RISK EOS in its first phase ended in December 2004, the date until which was consolidated a portfolio of information services for the management of fires and floods. In fact, this first phase of the Plan INFOCID already have the information via satellite to obtain maps of the areas affected by fire. In its second phase, starting from November 2005, has expanded the coverage of the program with the exploitation of new services, such as the monitoring of fires by satellite.

With this initiative, the INFOCID incorporates new elements in the use of information technologies to perform their tasks. This year the program has incorporated a system to track vehicle fire, also via satellite, which allows its position as well as meteorological data on foot field. On the other hand, is being used in its first phase the system SIADEX, a technology developed by the University of Granada, which allows to optimize the allocation of human and technical resources in case of fire.

Plan on Forest Fires Government of Andalusia, INFOCID, incorporated into upcoming dates tech via satellite to conduct a comprehensive monitoring of forest fires. The headquarters of the Ministry of Environment has hosted a meeting of representatives from various European countries will also launch this initiative.

Suit for sex from distance

Inventor from Singapore James Te has been invented a “suit for hugs from distance”. With this invention soon everybody will have a chance to touch this part of body of loved mate through signal from internet.

At the moment James Te tests the “suit” on domestic poultry. In perspective he wants to create analog for peoples, wrote British newspaper Guardian.

Invention works simply – they put on the bird the suit with built in sensors and direct video camera toward it. The sensors send information through internet to the “office” where terminal shows 3D image of the bird. Touching this image reflexes to the suit.

From this point isn’t far away from virtual hugs between two peoples.

Through signals sended by internet, exact places of the suit will change the pressure and the temperature.

If the scientist goes on his experiments in that direction, he might be the one who solved the problem with the sex from distance.

By the way NASA has been seriously take up the problem with the lack of sex on the astronauts who are on long missions. Many scientists think that the sex would help the astronauts to create sensation of stability and normal life.

Space light-emitting diode

The space LED technology gave to the medicine new ability to deliver light deep in the tissues of the body, the wavelength is ideal for treating cancer and healing of wounds. This technology already flies into space and is promising for healing of wounds of astronauts.

The photon therapy is the application of the process called photostimulation, at the cellular level. First, when light or photon bombards the skin, the cells absorb photon energy, which increases the circulation of oxygen and removing the toxins. Second, the energy from the light stimulates the acupressure points releasing any blockages that may impede the recovery. Tissues transform them into light energy and transfer it to the brain through the nervous system. Finally, the light waves work with bioenergy magnetic field, realigning any imbalance that may undermine the ability to cure the body. By stimulating certain parts of the body with a quantity of light, the photon therapy can help to reduce pain or to help the recovery process.

The photons optimize the human bioenergy, which in consequence of the disease has become unrelated and disbalance. It accelerates the recovery process in the body, strengthen the immune system, relieve pain, calms inflammations, balance the loss of energy and increases the overall activity of the body and brain. The photons which are broadcast through the LED, are absorbed by the skin photoreceptors, and then travel through the nervous system to the brain, which helps to regulate the human bioenergy.

Advanced scientific underwater robot

University of Washington recently developed a robot that can dive to a depth of 5000 meters in the ocean, has been completed successfully by scientists and engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Washington.

Sentry is a pioneering underwater robot which can swim in an independent manner, without wires or other connections to a research ship.

The autonomous underwater vehicle, is preprogrammed with instructions for exploration in deep waters, but also can make its own decisions about navigation on the ocean floor.

In the near future, Sentry conducted oceanographic explorations of high resolution that would otherwise be impossible.

Thanks to Sentry, have been prepared and more accurate maps to date of the Hydrate Ridge and the Axial Volcano, regions of the seabed off the coast of Oregon and Washington.

"We are changing the way that makes ocean science, launching a new era in which a set of technologies provide us with a growing capacity to explore the oceans and interact with them," says John Delaney, chief scientist of the expedition.

The robot can collect the necessary data to make maps of the seabed with a resolution of up to less than one meter.

Powered by more than a thousand lithium-ion batteries similar to those used in laptops, but adapted to extreme pressures, Sentry diving for about 18 hours and traveling 58 kilometers and can make longer trips in the future.

Sentry is designed to swim through the water like a fish or float in it as a way comparable to what makes a helicopter in the air. The ingenious design allows the vehicle hydrodynamic descend quickly from the ocean surface to depths (about 3,500 meters per minute). The novel also gives the vehicle a high stability and a remarkable balance while crossing through the flow of deep water.

The robot has built-in thrusters fins, or wings. As an airplane, the wings allow it to gain lift entrainment or time or directional, as required.

When needed, the robot can also float on the bottom without moving horizontally, to conduct inspections closely, make decisions navigation, or to rise or fall before marine rugged terrain.

The most skillful robot with high passability in the world

U.S. company Boston Dynamics presented to the public new generation four-leg device that shows staggering stability and quickness in movement in severe conditions.

The something named by its creators “Big Dog”, is presented by Boston Dynamics as " the most modern four-leg robot in the world " and "alpha dog" of the family robots of the manufacturer, which also includes and other interesting "robo-fauna".

With its size of 1 meter length, 0.7 height and weight of 75 kg. BigDog actually quite remind a big dog (or a little donkey) and can walk, run (with speeds up to 6-7 km / h), jump and climb in difficult terrain with a gradient of 35 degrees and transferring heavy and bulky loads. The mechanical "dog" draws energy from a petrol engine. It power the special hydraulic drive system, which is perhaps the most interesting thing from the widget.

The legs and the joints of the robot are also shaped like the animal and are equipped with absorbing strikes system. According to its creators, the robot may restore a part of the energy used at each step. Of course, there are built-in computer that controls the "center of balance", guide movements of the Big Dog and process information received from the multiple sensors.

BigDog is designed with the idea to create robots that are sufficiently passable to go anywhere where can reach people and animals, comment Boston Dynamics. Naturally, the program is funded by U.S. Agency for advanced research projects in the area of the defense DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) - the same that finance and development of the Internet.

And in Boston Dynamics appear to have done a good job with the money, if judged by the curious video demonstration that the company has published on its site.

Motorola have been patented a solar battery for GSM

The Giant Motorola have been patented technology that will make possible overcharging the battery of mobile phone by solar cells placed in the LCD screen.

The idea is not new, but in its patent the company claims that is solved the problem of absorption of sufficient light from the cells so the battery can load.

If Motorola successfully run a similar product on the market, then will have no need for recharging the battery of the cell phone through a separate transformer, which plugs into electrical outlets. The phone will always be loaded.

The company believes that the solar cells in the LCD screen of the phone will be able to use over 75 percent of the coming to them light through holestical crystals and polymers.

Will be fall away the use of the metallic reflector, used in the LCD’s for lighting the screen. The reflector reduces the amount light that reaches the solar cells to less than 6 percent, and this is insufficient for recharging the battery.

While technology related to this problem have been patented before, the invention of Motorola is better from commercial point of view.

At present, solar cells are used to power very low energy devices, such as calculators.

Scientists have created a female robot patient

Scientists from the Institute of Medicine of the University of Gifu city (Japan) have created the first robot patient to answer questions on how she feels and moves her body so that stress symptoms of her illness.

The purpose of the invention is to give the medical students experience "from first hand" with rare illness states. When the robot "suffers" from myasthenia gravis – nerve-muscle disease which is difficult to diagnose, leading to muscle weakness and fatigue - she says to the doctor that her eyelids are weigh and change the utterance of her face, slowly leave her shoulders and crouch forward.

For the creators of development has been difficult to make the shoulder joints and a shovels of the robot to move as a human, said Yudzo Takahashi. He says that in the future the scientists want to put in the female robot more illness symptoms and to create realistic training manual.

Given that medical students and the trainee-doctors are quick pass training in various specialties, universal robot-patient may show a wider range of conditions and diseases, rather than offer a small hospital for a month.

Chinese supercomputer make 100 trillion operations per second

In China have been created supercomputer which is able to perform 100 trillion operations per second and with its calculative power it enter into ten fastest computers in the world. The supercomputer have the name "Shuguan-5000" and is developed jointly by the Institute of computing equipment to the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the company Shuguan.

The peak computing power of “Shuguan-5000” reaches 230 teraflops. Based on the method LINPACK, adopted to measuring the performance of the supercomputers productivity of the supecomputer is 160 trillion operations per second.

China became the second country after the U.S. managed to create such supercomputer which output exceed 100 teraflops.

In the beginning of 2008 year China announced the creation of its own supecomputer, with a computing power which reaches one trillion operations per second. Then the Chinese developers have expressed their intention that to end of the year they want to create a computer which computing power to reach 100 teraflops. At the end of August 2008 they reported that in 2010 based on its own processors Godson 3 will create a power supercomputer with power of one fiveflop.

Toshiba demonstrated a new technology for recognizing gestures

The end of the dramas with the dissapeared remote control is near – the prototype solution can put the beginning of a new type of interface for laptops and TVs.

At the exhibition for consumer electronics IFA 2008 in Berlin, the Japanese company have been demonstrated some of its recent achievements in development of so-called image detection technology.

One of the impressive examples was a system for recognizing gestures, which allows the user to interact with the interface of TVs only with movement of his hands. The system monitors the user's appearance in the visual field, then "looks" at the hands. Once they are identified, the viewer can simply shrink hand in a fist and move it in the space, like moving a mouse on a virtual surface, and the TV respond with "moving of the cursor” and menus change depending on the position of the hand.

Toshiba introduced similar technology in some of the latest laptops Qosmio, but there it was in a previous version, while the new is much more sophisticated, it work more smoothly and is not influenced by movements of other users (if there are any in the visual field of the system), told Kate Knill during a demonstration, manager of the department of interactive technologies in British laboratories of the company. Accourding to her, once development reaches that stage, it only remains to improve their application in a real environment so that they become effective alternative to standard remote control.

Mouse vacuum cleaner

The Japanese scientific thought have no holiday! They have been invented a USB mouse with built-in mini vacuum cleaner.

The gray part of the mouse opens to be able to dispose the garbage.

Original and hygienic right?

The function Vacuum cleaner turns on with little black button in the right side of the mouse.

It costs about 19 U.S. dollars.

Phone style Chanel

Small smart design - that is the concept of the phone invented by Fred de Gary. The name of the new phone is Chanel Choco Phone. The appearance of the jewelry is mutch like the legendary fashion brand, but the brand have nothing to do with the creation of Gary. The design is incredible, so soon we can expect from Shanel to produce the creation of the talented designer and show to the market its first phone bearing the proud name of the French brand.

Supercomputer from game consoles

Astrophysics from the University of Massachusetts built supercomputer from 16 game consoles PlayStation 3.

Sony's devices are connected via Ethernet adapters, and the whole system works under Linux. Professor Gaurav Hannah uses the supercomputer for testing the activity of the black holes. With its calculations invention, the scientist describe the properties of the gravitational field, that occurs with a collision of black holes. PS3 consoles use processors Cell.

Except for video games, these chips are used for processing streaming video with high resolution, in cluster calculations and in supercomputers.

Connecting of 16 PS3 consoles in one system provides a power as a PC with four hundred processor.

At the end of last year the Japanese company gave the professor from the University of Massachusetts eight of its entertainment devices, with which Hannah started the study of black holes

LG put Bluetooth into TV

LG Electronics will offer LCD and plasma TVs in Europe with an option for Bluetooth network. The extra, which is standard in many mobile products already appear in the TV industry. Users will be able to use Bluetooth headphones or send photos from their mobile telephones to the TV.

Models of series PG7000 (plasma) and LG7000 (LCD) will occur before the end of September 2008 in Europe and will be with Bluetooth capabilities. LG made a demonstration by 50 inch plasma TV, which accepts and displays photos from a phone at the time of sending. The TV will have more USB slots in which users can connect USB hard drives or memory as the TV show images or to reproduce music.

At the exhibition in Berlin LG Electronics showed and two DVD players. DVS450H have stylish and glossy design. Able to be placed horizontally or at an angle or mounted on a wall. Besides design the device offers support Divx HD - high-definition version of the popular Divx codec. Reproduction is possible from DVD disk or USB device.

The second device is DVS400H, have also impressive vision with rounded corners. The device can download music from CD and convert it into MP3, then write it to USB. Both machines have an HDMI output, compatible with MP3, Windows Media Audio and JPEG. It is expected to occur in October 2008.

IBM has developed a voice Internet

Engineers from the Indian laboratory of IBM are attempting to test the system for voice Internet access called Spoken Web, reported IDG News. This platform allows a connection to people who can not read and write and those who are completely deprived of access to standard Internet.

In the basis of Spoken Web technologies lie VoiceXML and HSTP (Hyper Speech Transfer Protocol), enabling the creation of analogue connectivity in networks. Using Spoken Web users can visit special voice sites each of them have a unique address.

As in standard history spoken pages contain links to other resources and other information. Working in such a network can be carried out either by using voice commands or a combination of telephone keys.

Currently IBM launches first Spoken Web projects jointly with Indian operators. For now from the blue giant did not communicate more information regarding the new service in the Asian country.

Economical TV with perfect picture

Lately many companies are depending on the production of energy-saving electrical apparatuses.

“Grunding” did not keep up with this tendency – they release on the market series of TV “Vision 6 ECO”, which screens are with diagonals of 26, 32, 37 and 40 inches.

The devices are supplied with an internal receiver DVB-T and can receive as much as analogue so and digital signals. The resolution is 1336 x 768 pixels and the contrast is 10 000:1. The all models are created with the technology “Perfect picture” and consummate 48 % less energy than the standard LCD TV-s.

The engineers of Sony flurry the market with the first in the world LCD TV without conductor which working name is EX1. It has a special transducer which emits the image in the shape of HD and rescues the users from the boring HDMI cables.

Again from Sony came the news that we will watch the TV images with the record contrast of 1 000 000:1. The devices that offer this unbelievable comfort are supporting the technology Motion View, thanks to it the screen refreshes at the frequency 120 Hz and the picture is more than perfect.

The car of the future - electricity or hybrid

The car of the future will use electricity or hybrid power module to power its movement.

Very interesting exponent was revealed on the presentation salon in Paris (September 2008). There was established producers and small companies that had felt earlier the market and offering ready for serial production vehicles on decent prices.

The interest to the electro-cars in France is enormous both for the low operating costs and because of the fact that in almost all paid parking spaces they are reserved free places with stations for faster reloading.

From the small companies, that had presented cars in Paris special attention deserves the French Aixam, offering cars powered by electricity both for every day, and for businesses such as truck "Worker”. Ideal for deliveries in the city center with small streets, its maximum speed is 25 km/h.

The Dutch Duracar Holding company showed a small van that is able to reach speed of 120 km/h and having a stockpile of 150 km course. The French Heuliez, previously known for tuning of different models had presented three new developments, driven by electricity. Improvement in its production notes and the French company for racing cars Ligier, also target itself to small ecological cars.

Is not necessary the elektro-car to be bumbling and boring, proving it by the French Lumeneo. Their model "Smera” can surprise everyone on the traffic lights with its acceleration to 100 km/h. for 8 seconds. This fast two-seater is with size of a large motorcycle (length 2.3 meters and width 80 cm).

The micro mobile is driven by two electric motor to power 40 HP and can pass 150 km with one battery charging. “Optimal Energy” of South Africa again has showed its electro mobile "Jul", which comes in two versions - to carry up to six passengers or truck with three seats.

The known little “Smart” of Daymler can also be seen in version of electricity. The car is drawn by the electric motor to power 41 HP and can pass to 115 km with one load from the contact.

From the large manufacturers near serial production of electric cars is only "Mitsubishi" and their “I-MIEV”, expected on the market in Japan in 2009 and in Europe - a year later. 3.30 meters long car has five doors, may rides to four passengers and even has a decent trunk. Its management is like on every little car with automatic speed and with one battery charging can pass to 160 km. The battery charging takes 7 hours from the grid and 30 minutes if you use special power stations for electric cars.

The big companies which are developing electric cars are "Peugeot”, “Citroen”, “Renault”, “Nissan”, “Mitsubishi” and “GM”. Hybrids make “BMW”, “Porsche”, “Mercedes”, “Toyota”, “Ford” and “Fiat”.

Walking on the water is possible

Anyone can now experience what it feels like to walk on water by the ingenuity of a company that in its zeal to bring innovative products to Spain, found in China what it purports to be the feeling of the Spanish coast: the balls waterfowl.

A game of any invention that would be attractive in the marketplace and with the fun is always ensured Bernardo Bravo, manager of Vehicles with Ingenio, a company based in Malaga dedicated to the distribution of all kinds of means of transport provide practical solutions, cheap and ecological movements to urban areas.

The latest addition, are the so-called Water Ball, inflatable plastic balls and transparent elections in which the more daring can be introduced through a zipper and run by water, if they manage to maintain balance. With a simple garden hose connected to an air compressor, these balls are inflated water in seconds to provide the oxygen needed to stay on the inside at least two hours.

So that the bubble is under control before any ocean currents has been fitted with an anchor on which to tie a rope and thereby ensure the safety of its passengers. "At night, people also can be entered with a flashlight, illuminating the bottom and attract fish," said Bravo, a pioneer businessman in Spain to manufacture such products.

In addition to entertain the day-shirt, its promoters intend to also become a genuine article advertising, as it offers its customers the option screen with text or drawings.

Barely a month ago since Vehicles with Ingenio launched to the market and these bubbles have already sold about a dozen, although it costs 500 euros. According to Bravo, many companies, especially those engaged in organizing trips Multiadventures, which have been in contact with him.

But the Water Balls are not the only novelty for this summer. The scooters marine propellers to dive into the pool or sea water scooters and motorcycles electric vehicles are among the most demanded. "The sea scooters and jet skis have been sold very well because we do not need any insurance to use them, do not pollute or make noise and it is not necessary either to obtain a license," said the businessman.

In the series of Bravo are also folding bicycles and tricycles, shoes flying, motorcycles, scooters, cars and aircraft radio-control, and other gadgets powered by different types of energy.

This company, which emerged just over a year to the concern of a group of young people to move around some cities increasingly peatonalizadas, has been increasing its catalog of products going to market only a moped to 34 electric alternative vehicles.

In addition, Bravo and intends to expand this number and said they are working to bring to Spain an electric car manufactured in India and some hubcaps advertising.

The vertical city bionic tower

The vertical city bionic tower is a fruit of seven years work of the company "CERVERA & PIOZ, wpa", which first in Spain are trying to implement the principles of bionics in connection with the problems of high buildings. In the study on the growth of plants of different sizes (from grass to the huge trees), were discovered important innovations that can be attached to the project BVS (bionic vertical city) and mega structures in architecture as a whole.

The challenge is not to reach the highest possible tower, a task which itself stimulates and is set deep in the spirit of each architect. It is finding similarities between the living organisms and the logic of the architectural buildings, logic, to be applied in the design of the high buildings.

A blade of grass several centimeters high and ten meters high tree are two organic systems, they must comply with similar biological, chemical and physical needs. These living organisms solve their problems differently, but both need light, air, water and earth. They have the same needs to grow up from the ground and reach their own weight and height, to charge the forces of wind, to channel internal movement of fluids, to implement complex chemical processes, to allow to grow up with structural and mechanical transformations, which determine their future survival.

The vertical city bionic tower is composed of two bio-environmental urban complexes one in another. One is located horizontally, and the other is vertical. The tower is composed of 12 vertical neighborhoods, each 80 meters high. Each neighborhood has two groups of buildings - external and internal. Both groups are located around large vertical gardens and pools. The second complex, called "Basic Island” is 1000 metres in diameter, in it are located buildings with average height, gardens, swimming pools and communication infrastructures.

Inspired by the endurance and the isolation qualities of the plants, the main structural and vertical communication system between two different neighborhoods are organized into three rings of 92 street-columns, which transports its inhabitants water and other fluids such as the energy required.

External facade of the tower, inspired by endurance of the trees in nature, allows to enter fresh air and light in the interior, creating a natural internal microclimate. The external structure also reduces the pressure of the wind.

Anti seismic system - it is inspired by the flexible-plastic and isolation characteristics of the root system of the huge wood structures. Simplifying the concept we can say that these trees "swim" in the middle of chaotic structure of millions of roots. This makes possible for trees to carry wind disturbance to the soil and have plastic isolation of seismic movements. In mean that the concept of vertical foundations is not the most appropriate to resolve the problem with wind and earthquakes in the large vertical structures over 500 meters high, that kind of foundations is steadier.

Older trees have a system of concentric circles with air tubes, which have greater flexibility, which provides additional protection from fire, preventing the fire to destroy the whole tree. Following the same logic, in the vertical city has 12 vertical neighborhoods separated by watertight zones with 15 meters height, which are the “air mattresses”, they allow to be performed a controlled evacuation in cases of emergencies. The model of vertical neighborhoods allows building of new levels, while lower levels are completed and inhabited.

Maximum values for the vertical city:

Max height: 1.228 meters equivalent to 300 floors

Max Capacity: 100.000 inhabitants

Total area: 2.000.000 square meters

Dimension of Bionic Tower: Elliptic floor of variable dimension (166 x 133 meters maximum

Communications : 368 elevators with vertical and horizontal circulation.

Max speed: 15 m/second.

Max Sway: 2,45 meters of total lateral displacement.

Magic mirror will take care of us

Special mirror – clairvoyant will show us how we would look after few years, according to our way of living. The magic invention is created by a group of French scientists. The acting of the mirror is realized by a video camera, powerful computer and LCD monitor.

When you look at the mirror, first you will see your real reflection. In this time a wireless camera takes a picture of you and sends the information on the computer, which processes the picture and the monitor shows another image - how you will look after 5 years.

The catch is that the camera on the mirror is not the only one. In the whole place are placed hidden mini cameras, which are spying the way of you life – how long you are lounging in bed, what and how much you are eating and how many cups with alcohol you are drinking etc.

Special software processes all data and calculates how you will look after five years. Specialists are thinking that when through their invention a person see how he will change after years, he will think about it and start to live healthier.

Super glue inspired by frogs

Inspired by the pads on the leg fingers of the frogs, Indian scientists are created super glue that can be used over again.

The team of Abhijit Majumder from Indian technological institute in Kanpur was copied the mechanism through which the tree frogs sticks on the surfaces. In result the scientists invented a sticking plaster which can be used over again. When the standard sticking plasters get unstuck, in the glue appear rifts and the stick in dust prevents the sticking plaster to stick again.

The scientists discovered that the frogs have miniature canals on their pads. And exactly they increase the coherence with the surface, and when the animals detach from the ground these canals are obstacles for the rifts came bigger.

The inventors made elastic layers where under the sticking layer have others full with air and fluids. In result the stickiness is increased 30 times and the sticking plasters can be used over again.

“Liquid” lights

The young and talent Brazilian designer Rafael Morgan is staked on the vanguard design and created the lamps “Light drop”. According to him the invention must take the people to think about how they spend natural resources. To be more specific – saving the water as the main source of power for the living organisms. The lamp turning on is by spinning round the tap. But instead of water from the spout starts to stream out light. The stage of the rotation determines the intense of the light.

The tap of the lamps is made of steal and when is mounted on the wall it looks like the real tap.

The lamp is made as light drop, witch is leaking from the tap. The invention is offered in few different models in witch model the drop is in different shape and height. The drop is made from silicon and uses LED technology. The light-emitting diodes spend much less energy than other lamps which additionally reassert the concept of the invention – the saving of the natural resources.

Candles with light-emitting diodes

This is very practical decision of the problem with fire-safe – without giving up of the pleasure atmosphere of burning candles. Although it doesn’t appear to be fake, these candles are not real; they are created with so called LED technology – light with help of light-emitting diodes. This invention is opportunity for everybody that has children or pets and don’t want to fire their home for the sake of a second of inattention. In fact the Candles with light-emitting diodes are made of wax, that’s why they look completely real. To be even more real LED candles have opportunity to turn off like the real ones – as blow out. But more interesting is the fact that you may turn on the candles the same way – by blowing out. To be atmosphere even more realistic the “flame” is flickering to recreate the game between fire and air. The diameter of the candles is 7.6 sm, height - 10 or 15 sm. dependently of the model. With one set of batteries they can light 300 hours. The candles have a button on the bottom witch switches the color of the candle – blue or natural wax.

Electric lamp "Siamese twins"

The author of this invention is the designer Hironao Tsuboi from the Japanese company “100%”. The lamp has two bulb-holders – one real and one fake, the fake is just a part of design and can’t be used. Irregular in the design of the invention is that the real bulb-holder is placed at the top part of the lamp, but the fake is on the regular place. That creates an optical illusion as though the lamp shines without electricity.

Every lamp “Siamese twins” is produced by hand from specialists in production of glass articles. The material of the lamp is standard glass and it weight is 55 gr.

For now this invention is produced only for 30W power. The life of one lamp Siamese twins is about 1500 hours – about 1.5 times more than the life of standard lamp.

The invention can be placed at every place where can be placed ordinary lamps.

The first zero carbon city

The first zero carbon city will be called Masdar, which in Arabic means the source, and will be the first city 100% sustainable planet.

With this, Abu Dhabi, the largest of the UAE, aims to become the first world reference in green energy, despite being one of the biggest global exporter of oil, investing in the proposed 15,000 million dollars in its first phase.

The initiative, born from the mind of Sultan Al Jaber and announced by Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayn at the Energy Summit for the Future, held in the country, will culminate in the release of the British architect Norman Foster, which provides end this adventure green at the end of 2009.

The new city will be self-sufficient in a desert area in the heart of the Arab emirates, finally seized six million square meters, where in summer reach attained 50th centigrade.

In this land of the future, there will be no cars, everything will work through energies renovales digitally monitored and the level of carbon will be reduced to zero, although its appearance is not futuristic, but rather on the contrary, will be adapted to the traditional structures of the area: the style casbah.

In this traditional Arabic prevail pedestrian streets, narrow and bleak, to keep at bay the arid desert climate. Precisely ventilation is one of the largest betting and obsessions of the project, and the solution is to install two towers that reflect the current cold and expel the heat outside the city.

We talk about outside as the forecast is that the city is surrounded by a network of walls that protect them from inclement potential to 50,000 inhabitants, and that outside these are all installed photovoltaic farms, plantations and wind points to supply the energy inside.

To start the building of this historic site, the first step is to build a large solar plant that supplied the works with enough energy to power the entire city erected without the need for external assistance. As the plant will be becoming obsolete and invalid, will be retiring.

For the first four months of this year is believed that the town may already accommodating ecological approximately 15,000 people, and from the office Foster and Partners, Gerard Evenden says that since then it's feasible to get a city carbon and zero waste.

One of the most impressive innovations of the project, is that the structure of the complex will be distributed in such a way that absolutely all the residents will be placed up to 200 meters of public transport, are at the point of the city they are.

The scientists have found the hottest planet

British astronomers, led by Leslie Hebb from the University of St. Andrews, discovered planet outside the solar system - the hottest and the fastest observed by the present. The planet with the code name WASP-12b is located 780 light years from the Earth and weighs 1.5 times more than Jupiter.

Its temperature is about 2250 degrees Celsius.Wasp 12b orbits its star once for every earth day. In all probability the reason for this high temperature is the proximity to its star – the distance is about 40 times less than that between the Earth and the sun.

The planet was discovered within the WASP program during its transition in front the star. According to Leslie Hebb this short period of rotation around the star is amazing. The exoplanets often rotate around their stars for a few days (3 or more), but so short period is meted for the first time, commented the scientist.

The temperature record is no less interesting. Such a temperature is comparable to that of the brown dwarfs - objects that are too small for stars and too large for planets. Until now, the hottest planet was HD 149026b with temperature of 2040 degrees Celsius.

Russian boy reveals 150-years old mystery

The ten years old Adrey Hlopin from Krasnodar explain the origin of so called “silver clouds” that light at night, reported Russian agency.

This phenomenon was a mystery to scientists from 150 years and a boy revealed that on a great height, water turns into ice crystals. Namely, they reflect light and cause sparkle.

For his scientific hypothesis student is entered in the Guinness Book of Records.

A sixteen years old namesake of the Russian boy, Andrei Hodurski of Poltava, is the author of a unique development - a system of lighting the way for cars.

To his invention is interested World Organization for intellectual property. The boy has achieved something over which Americans are sweating more than 20 years, notes with pride Russian agency "Novosti".

His further headlights increase twice and a half highlighting the road at night and do not dazzle drivers from the opposite side. They can be mounted on each vehicle and are not expensive.

The sun is not a perfect sphere

Astronomers measured the shape of the sun with unprecedented accuracy

Hugh Hudson and his colleagues from the University of California at Berkeley used a NASA space apparatus and found that the Sun is not a perfect sphere.

Using the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopid Imager the astronoms measured the shape of the star with unprecedented accuracy. They found not only that the sun is not perfectly round shape, but also that over the years of large solar activity it develop slim "melon rind", which significantly increases the apparent flatness in its poles, so Equatorial diameter of the sun becomes a little more than polar.

The sun is the largest and therefore most smooth object in solar system, perfect to 0,001 % due to extremely strong force of gravity, "says Hudson.

According to the astrophysics the further analysis of the data from the study may help to detect the type of seismic waves that astronomy has long suspected that flow through the interior of the sun. They have called it Gravitational oscillation or "g-mode". Scientists suggest that detecting these waves will provide new opportunities for the Study of the sun's internal nucleus.

A Sonic Boom

Many people have heard a sonic boom, but few have seen one. When an airplane traveling at a speed higher than that of sound, density waves of sound emitted by the plane can not precede it, and then accumulate in a cone behind the aircraft. When this shock wave passes, you hear all at once the sound that had been delivered to over a period of time: a sonic boom. However, when a plane accelerates to the point of breaking the sound barrier, could form an unusual cloud. The origin of this cloud is still under debate. The main theory is that a decrease in atmospheric pressure in the plane, described by the Prandtl-Glauert, singularity occurs so that moist air condenses there and form water droplets. Above, an F/A-18 Hornet was photographed at the right time to break the sound barrier. The large meteors and the space shuttle often produce audible sonic booms before the Earth's atmosphere to slow them at a lower speed than the sound.

The angel light

Troy Hurtubise has done the impossible and violated all known rules of physics, as he says.

The inventor claimed that the idea of this invention has come to him during sleep.

Hartbis claims that his device can catch stealth technology and see through walls, like they not exist at all.

He did tests to prove it with the help of some researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The invention "angel light" is made of three parts.

The main part that Hurtbis called "centrifuge" contain "the brain" of the device and includes black, white, red and fluorescent light sources.

The second part - "reflector" contains a large circular optical glass, microwave part and some highly ionized gas, mixed with carbon dioxide.

The third part contains 8 plasma lighting rods, CO2 charges, industrial magnets, 108 mirrors, 8 ionizing cells and other components that are kept in secret by the inventor.

Hartbis says that the construction of the invention cost him $ 30 000, he sold some of his other inventions to finance it. The constructing of this invention has taken him 800-900 working hours. Troy had a dream that showed him that through the "Angel Light" he will see through walls, as if looking out the window. He dreamed the device three times and then built it without any notes or diagrams.

"I turned it on, and it worked, it was really weird." Says Hartbis. "From my laboratory I managed to see my garage through the wall and even I had read one note."

"I almost broke my fingers because it looked like I can go trough the wall." But something strange happened to the car when it was seen with the invention. The car stopped working. Hartbis then returned to the lab and started to make new tests to other electronic machines like microwave oven, portable radio and TV.

"They all had stopped working" says Hartbis.

He bought a plane with remote control, and went to remote location for testing the plane. When he pointed the light to the plane it fell to the ground.

Hartbis continued testing the light on different matters and found that it could be "seen" also through steel, lead, ceramics and wood.

Then he put his hand in light stream. "I could see the blood, muscles, everything" he says. Soon after that Hartbis found that angel light has devilish side effects. He lost sensation in the fingers of that hand and started to feel a general malaise.

Test on an aquarium with fishes was even greater concern. In a few minutes after being exposed to light all of the fishes had died. After that the inventor had disassembled the invention.

He had not assembled it back until he had called from the French government. Hartbis believes that side effects can be eliminated, but from some expert that is bigger than him.

"My brother told me that I will sell one of my inventions when I start walking on the water. I think I just did it." Says Hartbis

Invisible objects

The metamaterials are composites with extraordinary capabilities for bending electromagnetic waves. And they are on the way to make invisible an object or a person.

To make something invisible, it must have an invisibility shield - the material need to completely bend light waves around the object that we want to make invisible, like water from a river that flows around a rock.

In another class of applications, is also expected great progress. For optical microscopes can discern individual live virus or DNA molecules, the resolution of the microscope must be smaller than the wavelength of light.

The common thread among these metamaterials is negative refraction. Instead, all materials found in nature have a positive index of refraction. The refractive index is a measure of how much warp electromagnetic waves when passing from one medium to another.

In a classic illustration of how it behaves refraction, the shadow of a rod inserted in the water will seem as if it was crooked as we all know. If the water present negative refraction, the submerged part of the rod would appear instead as a crooked outward, or protruding from the surface of the water. Or, to take another example, a fish that swim under water appear to be swimming in the air above the water surface.

Some research teams have already developed metamaterials that operate at optical frequencies, but these materials in 2-D have been limited to a single monolayer artificial atoms whose properties to bend light can not be defined. Metamaterials of increased thickness in 3-D, with negative refraction, have only been achieved so far.

Among the achievements to date, two of the most recent and promising are those reached by two groups of scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, who designed for the first time in 3-D materials that can bend in the right way the natural direction of the light, a development that could help lay the groundwork for obtaining optical images of higher resolution, nanocircuitos for high-powered computers, and, to the delight of lovers of Science fiction and fantasy, as layers of invisibility devices that could make objects invisible to the human eye.

The progress in the development of metamaterials, composite materials with extraordinary capabilities for bending electromagnetic waves, continues to give surprises.

What have done the research teams responsible for the development of the two newest metamaterials is to take two very different approaches to the challenge of creating bulk metamaterials that can exhibit negative refraction at optical frequencies. Both are steps crucial to the development of practical applications for metamaterials.

Humans see the world through a narrow band of electromagnetic radiation known as visible light, with wavelengths ranging from 400 nanometers (violet light and purple), the 700 nanometers (red light dark). The wavelengths of infrared light are longer, measuring from about 750 nanometers to 1 millimeter.

To achieve negative refraction, the structural configuration of a metamaterial must be smaller than the wavelength of electromagnetic used. It is not surprising then that the initial results have not been achieved with visible light, but with microwaves, whose wavelengths, which can measure from 1 millimeter to 30 centimeters in length, is significantly higher than that of visible light.

In one of the two recent research, led by Xiang Zhang, professor of the Center for Science and Nano Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, scientists pile up alternating layers of silver and magnesium fluoride and non-conductive layers conducted in a nano series of cuts, following a pattern similar to that of a fishing net, with the aim of creating a optical raw metamaterial. At wavelengths as short as 1500 nanometers, that is within the area closest to the infrared light in the visible electromagnetic spectrum, the researchers measured a negative index of refraction.

Each pair of conductive and non-conductive layers form a circuit. By stacking alternate layers is achieved by creating a number of circuits that respond so together and in opposition to the magnetic field of the incoming light.

This material, and also the other, achieve negative refraction minimizing the amount of energy that is absorbed or "lost" when light passes through them. In the case of the material, which has a structure in the form of "fishing net", nanocircuitos heavily intertwined allow light to pass through the material and spend less energy to move through the layers of metal.

Natural materials do not respond to the magnetic field of light, but this new metamaterial does. It is the first material that can be manufactured in bulk and that it can be said is that optical magnetism. Thanks to its unique characteristics, electrical and magnetic fields in the wavelength of light are move back into the material. The metamaterial developed by another working group uses a different principle to achieve the goal of doubling the light back. It is composed of silver nanowires formed inside the porous aluminum oxide. And its size is more than 10 times than the wavelength of visible light.

The creators of this material observed negative refraction in the wavelength of red light in lengths as short as 660 nanometers. It is the first demonstration of half voluminous that turns so visible light. The geometry of the vertical nanowires, which were placed equidistant and parallel to each other, was designed to respond only to the electric field in the light waves. The magnetic field present, which oscillates at an angle perpendicular to the electric field at a wavelength of light, is essentially blind to the vertical nanowires, a feature that significantly reduces energy loss.

The innovation of this material is nanowires that uses a new way to bend the light back without achieving, technically speaking, a negative index of refraction.

The benefits of having a real negative index of refraction, as achieved by the metamaterial as a fishing net, is that it can greatly improve the functioning of the antenna, to reduce interference. The materials with negative refractive indices can also reverse the Doppler effect, the phenomenon used in radars of the traffic police used to monitor the speed of passing vehicles. This means that the Doppler frequency waves reduces instead of increasing as we approach the vehicle.

But in most of the suggested applications for metamaterials, such as nano-optical imaging or the manufacture of invisibility devices, both the metamaterial-based nanowires as the structurally similar to a fishing net, can provide a good service.

Artificial Telepathy will be possible

A team of scientists from the University of California has received a grant of $ 4 million from the U.S. Army neuroscientists to study the fundamentals of artificial telepathy.

If the research succeeds significant progress, would develop a communication system that would benefit the soldiers on the battlefield, but also people suffering from paralysis resulting from stroke, and certain other illnesses or injuries, according to Michael D'Zmura, professor at Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California at Irvine.

The brain-computer interface would use a technology similar to the non-invasive electroencephalography to get two people to exchange their thoughts.

For example, a soldier "think" a message to be conveyed and a computerized system for recognition of signals associated with neurological spoke decrypt the signals of the electroencephalogram.

When thoughts are decoded, they would be transmitted using a system that would point in the direction of the target.

This system would require each user to follow a training, both to learn how to send messages and how to receive them.

Initially, the communication would be based on a limited set of words or phrases recognized by the system at the thought of the subjects, to gradually move to cover more complex areas of language and speech as technology develops.

D'Zmura work with Ramesh Srinivasan, Gregory Hickok and Kourosh Saberi, science teachers of cognition. In the team also will work researchers Richard Stern and Vijayakumar Bhagavatula of the Carnegie Mellon University, and David Poeppel of the University of Maryland.

Time machine

The scientist from Israel Armos Ori substantiates possibility for traveling in the time. The worlds science now have the necessary knowledge for claiming that building the time machine is theoretical possible.


The professor from Israeli Technological Institute Armos Ori substantiates his theory trough mathematical formulas. The main conclusion of professor Ori is that “for creating of time machine are needed gigantic gravitational powers”. In the base of his development is the conclusion made in 1949 year from the scientist Kurt Degel that the theory of the relativity supposes the existence of different models of time and space.

According to the calculations of Armos Ori, if the curve of space-time structure takes shape of ring or funnel, it comes a possibility for traveling in the past. And with every new circle in this concentrically structure we go deeper and deeper in the time. But for creating of machine appropriate for that kind of travel in the time are needed gigantic gravitational powers.

It is supposed that they exist around objects like the black holes. For the very first time people started to talk for black holes in 18 century when the scientist Pier Simon Laplas was supposed that exist invisible heavenly bodies, which have so big gravitation that neither one light beam is reflected from them.

To be reflected from that kind of heavenly body, the light beam must exceed the speed of the light. As late as the 20 century the scientists admit that exceeding the speed of the light is possible. They called border of the black hole “horizon of the events”. Every object which go close to it, is drawn in the black hole, and from outside isn’t possible to be seen what happens inside.

The scientist presumes that in the deeper of the black hole the laws of physics don’t act and the space and the time co-ordinates, bluntly speaking, change their places, and the traveling in the space become traveling in the time. In spite of the significance of calculations of Ori is too early for dreaming about passing through the time.

The scientist admits, that is impossible his mathematical model to be realized in practice for now. At the same time he underlines that the process of the technological progress is so fast, that nobody can tell what possibilities will have the humanity after ten years. The possibility for traveling in the time is prognosticatеd by the theory of the relativity of Albert Einstein.

According to him the bodies with big weight bends the space and time, and the time is slowed for objects which have speed bigger than the speed of the light. For us the flight of some pieces in the space will continue thousand years but for the pieces it will be only a few minutes.

Bending of space and time provokes gravitation – the bodies which are close to big bodies are moving around them on bended trajectory. Bended lines of the space and time can be closed and when the object is moving through them, it will inevitably meet himself from the past.