Oculus Rift
• Technologyreview.comThirty years after virtual-reality goggles and immersive virtual worlds made their debut, the technology finally seems poised for widespread use.
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New antibacterial fabric kills infectious bacteria within 10 minutes
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Nick LavarsWith a well established ability to kill off bacteria, silver has come to play a significant role in the development of antimicrobial materials.
Saroléa's exquisite all-carbon SP7 electric superbike
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Loz BlainResurrecting the name of Belgium's first home-grown motorcycle company, Saroléa racing is gearing up for this year's TT Zero electric motorcycle race at the Isle of Man.
SpaceX Reusable Rocket Prototype Flies 4X Higher In Latest Test | Video
• http://www.space.com,SpaceX has pushed its new reusable rocket prototype to record heights, just a few short weeks after the vehicle's maiden flight.
Inside the Strange New World of DIY Brain Stimulation
• Wired.comWhen Brent Williams got to RadioShack that day in the spring of 2012, he knew exactly what he was looking for: a variable resistor, a current regulator, a circuit board, and a 9-volt battery.
US Army Testing Pilotless Black Hawk Helicopter
• Prison PlanetThe U.S. Army is testing an unmanned version of its famous Black Hawk helicopter. The pilotless, 5-ton drone could one day be used to deliver cargo and supplies to troops autonomously.
Vampire Therapy and Aging
• arcleinThroughout history, cultures across the globe have extolled the properties of youthful blood, with children sacrificed and the blood of young warriors drunk by the victors. It was even rumoured that the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il injected h
The Steel Age Is Over — Here's What The Next Age Will Look Like
• Business InsiderAndrew Carnegie once said, "Aim for the highest." He followed his own advice. The powerful 19th century steel magnate had the foresight to build a bridge spanning the Mississippi river, a total of 6442 feet.
15 Emerging Agriculture Technologies That Will Change The World
• Business InsiderPolicy Horizons Canada worked with futurist and data visualizer Michell Zappa of Envisioning to produce a report called MetaScan 3: Emerging Technologies and accompanying infographics. We are reproducing the summary for emerging agriculture technolog
Qualcomm Toq smartwatch now features voice messaging (and, yes, it works)
• pcworld.comThe Toq smartwatch isn’t so much a retail-ready smartwatch as Qualcomm’s vision of what a smartwatch can be.
How microbes in the gut influence anxiety, depression
• naturalnews.comWe may not give much thought to the 100 trillion microbes living within our guts, but new discoveries within psychiatry have found that these organisms can profoundly affect our moods.
'Vampire therapy' could reverse ageing, scientists find
• www.telegraph.co.ukA transfusion of youthful blood may halt or even reverse the ageing process as two studies find that the chemical make-up of younger blood has surprising health benefits
Get your next eye exam on a smartphone
• http://www.ted.comThirty-nine million people in the world are blind, and the majority lost their sight due to curable and preventable diseases. But how do you test and treat people who live in remote areas, where expensive, bulky eye equipment is hard to come by?
Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?
• http://www.ted.comWhen you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way.
"Neurogrid" circuit modeled on the human brain is the fastest, most energy efficient of it
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Dario BorghinoA group of engineers at Stanford has developed an iPad-sized, highly power-efficient way of simulating a million neurons and billions of synapses for as low as US$400.
Flexible, high-performance battery could soon find its way to your smartwatch
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Dario BorghinoResearchers at Rice University have created an ultra-thin, high-performance flexible battery that is lithium-free, only a hundredth of an inch thick, and also doubles as a supercapacitor.
New element is 40 percent heavier than lead
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Lakshmi SandhanaA new super-heavy element, temporarily called 117, may soon be making its way into the periodic table after being successfully created in a laboratory setting.
Ayahuasca Risks
• arcleinOn the surface, it may not look that different. It really takes time to discern what’s the real deal and what’s not. If we just watch the way someone walks into the room and talks about the medicine – or the way they introduce themselves to yo
Human stem cells used to repair damaged monkey hearts
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Nick LavarsIn what could mark a significant breakthrough in the treatment of heart disease, researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have successfully repaired damaged tissue in monkey hearts using cells created from human embryonic stem cells.
Physics students devise concept for Star Wars-style deflector shields
• phys.orgIf you have often imagined yourself piloting your X-Wing fighter on an attack run on the Death Star, you'll be reassured that University of Leicester students have demonstrated that your shields could take whatever the Imperial fleet can throw at you
Coming soon: a brain implant to restore memory
• news.yahoo.comIn the next few months, highly secretive US military researchers say they will unveil new advances toward developing a brain implant that could one day restore a wounded soldier's memory.
Ganymede May Have Multi-Layered, 'Sandwich'-Like Oceans
• popsci.comThere may be up to three layers of different kinds of ice.
This Week’s Apple Rumors, Ranked From Dumbest to Most Plausible
• Wired.comEach week, there are dozens of rumors, reports, and patent filings that hint at what’s coming out of Cupertino next.
A Biometric Gun Lock That Even the NRA Might Like
• Wired.comOmer Kiyani’s hands still shake when he remembers the day that changed the course of his life.
The Internet Is Waiting Patiently For This Giant Whale To Explode
• Jennifer Welsh and Dina SpectorA few weeks ago an 80-foot-long blue whale carcass washed up in the tiny Newfoundland town of Trout River, after dying when heavy ice broke out in the seas.
SpaceX Video Captures Grainy View of Amazing Reusable Rocket Landing Test
• space.comThe private spaceflight company SpaceX captured potentially amazing video of its unprecedented reusable rocket test this month, but representatives with the company need your help to clean up the grainy footage.
A Different Kind of Gas Shortage
• weeklystandard.comThe politics of helium
Our Year of No Sugar
• arcleinI took all of this new found knowledge and formulated an idea. I wanted to see how hard it would be to have our family — me, my husband, and our two children (ages 6 and 11) — spend an entire year eating foods that contained no added sugar. We’d cut
Google: Driverless Cars are Mastering City Streets
• arcleinThe tech giant's self-driving cars already can navigate freeways comfortably, albeit with a driver ready to take control. But city driving - with its obstacle course of jaywalkers, bicyclists and blind corners - has been a far greater challenge for
New sensor uses colors to show the force exerted on a surface
• sciencerecorder.comEmbedded nanoparticles gradually change from red to blue with increasing pressure.
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