One of the newest TED talks in which Henry Markham, director of Blue Brain, a supercomputing project shows how he built a brain in a supercomputer.
Category Archives: Future
Commercial jetpack
The Martin Jetpack is the world’s first practical jetpack. It consists of a purpose-built gasoline engine driving twin ducted fans which produce sufficient thrust to lift the aircraft and a pilot in vertical takeoff and landing, enabling sustained flight. The Martin Jetpack – is creating a new segment in the aviation and recreational vehicle markets. [...]
Nuclear reactor means
“…A nuclear reactor means bring fissile material to a point at which it is hot enough to boil water (in a light-water reactor) and not enough to melt and go supercritical (China syndrome or a Chernobyl incident). You simply cannot let it get away from you because if it does, you can’t stop it. The [...]
Future technology 2010 – 2025
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worlds first offshore floating windmill
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iRobot Roomba 560
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The Smallest Robot in the World
Bruce Donald and his colleagues, engineers and computer scientists from Dartmouth College have built the smallest robot in the world which is the thickness of human hair and shorter than the sharp point of a thumb tack, integrated in a small package, wireless powered and controlled. However, the robot takes over ten thousand steps a [...]
One day we will run out of oil
Independent has published an interview with Dr Fatih Birol, the chief economist at the respected International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris where he said that the public and many governments appeared to be oblivious to the fact that the oil on which modern civilisation depends is running out far faster than previously predicted and that [...]
September 22, 2012 Catastrophe
According to newscientist.com it is midnight on September 22, 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colorful light. Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora this far south but their fascination is short-lived. Within a few seconds, electric bulbs dim and flicker, then become unusually bright for a fleeting [...]