Posted by hina on November 7, 2008 under Biotech | 
This is definitely a breakthrough technology. Three fishing buddies in Wales have successfully developed a box that is to be fixed underneath the car to replace the normal exhaust pipe. The box will be able to capture the carbon emission of the car, which can then be sent for processing to convert the captured gas to useful biofuel using genetically modified algae. The box is dubbed “Greenbox“, which is able to capture all the culprits of the global warming – carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide. For a car that has it fixed, almost all the carbon emissions will be captured and leaving mostly water vapor be emitted.
The three fishing buddies stumbled across this great finding while experimenting with carbon dioxide to help boost algae growth for fish farming. Over the two years with about 130 tests carried out, they managed to achieve a capture rate between 85 and 95 percent. And the three now has formed a company, called Maes Anturio Limited and they’ve approached several local agencies for support and also approached car-makers Toyota Motor Corp of Japan and General Motors Corp. But the car-makers still remain silent. If this “Greenbox” goes materialized, the car owners who’ve got a “Greenbox” would need to replace it when they fill up their cars and send the “Greenbox” to a bioreactor to be emptied there. At the bioreactor, the captured gas from the box would be fed to algae, which would then be crushed to produce bio-fuel.
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We need greener juice for gadgets to maintain better health of our ozone layer. Look around, what can be used to produce greener juice? Glucose, which is simply excessive for the diabetic patients, but, now Sony has grabbed it for powering your gadgets. Isn’t it fun? In one hand of the lady shown in the picture, is a glucose-operated battery, which was used to power an MP3 player in the other hand of hers. Sony has figured out how power can be generated out of carbohydrates by breaking down enzymes that release active energy. This glucose-generated energy although little but still sufficient to power small electronic device.
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Suck the extra fat out of your body and give it to this guy, Peter Bethune. Let him build a boat that is powered by your body fat to let you sail across the globe in super high speed! It isn’t a joke, the guy mentioned here built an eco-boat, called Earthrace, powered by bio-diesel made of fat from his backside. He intends to set new world speed record for circumventing the globe in the boat next year. More pictures and video after the jump!
His extremely long journey will need 65,000 litres of biodiesel. So, he will need more volunteers to go for liposuction to get the fat out of their bodies for powering his boat. Besides human fat, he will also use vegetable oils and other animal fats during the 24,000-mile trip. This carbon/Kevlar-hulled speedboat sports two, 350kW Cummins engines that generate 1080hp.
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Posted by hina on under Biotech |
What have the scientists taken today’s computer technology to? It’s somehow quite beyond our imagination. Some researchers have claimed that they’ve managed to produce some computer interfaces that can be part of your body and interact with your brain. This new computing technology is called invasive BCI, which stands for brain computer interface, which has now taken BCI a step further for integrating into human body to replace lost body parts.
The invasive BCI is a great invention that can replace the lost parts of your body, such as lost limbs and even lost memory! Of course, you’d argue that artificial limbs have been available for ages. But the invasive BCI is different from the conventional artificial limbs which are made simply plastic imitations of the originals and they’re so called dead, which don’t interact with your brain. The BCIs can be used to produce artificial limbs built with silicon chips that can respond with pulses from the brain, which works exactly like the real limbs.
Currently, there are two groups aggressively into the BCI research, which are the invasive group in North Amercia and the non-invasive group in Europe and Asia. Furthermore, the study seems to have shown that developing silicon chips to replace lost brain tissue is possible – the silicon chips implanted into the human brain would be capable of giving out and receiving electrical signals.
That’s what the researchers are working on, not only focused on developing computer systems for applications in developing humanoids and robotics, but also in biomedical application, which can help people in physical and mental distress.
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Hey man, whether you like it or not, you’ll have no role to play at all in the process of creating new life. Or most probably, you’ll be dumped out of this planet as women will become the dominant and they don’t need men anymore.
Truely speaking, I can hardly believe this piece of news. What the UK scientists have told us is that they’ve found a way to turn women’s bone marrow into sperm, which can take men completely out of the process of creating new life. Are the scientists trying to override what GOD has created for us – the normal process, which creation of new life must be from a man and a woman.
They claim it is good for lesbian couples which they can have children biologically owned by them. Hey, we don’t stop here, it’s also good news for the gay as egg cells can be made from the men’s bone marrow too.
Anyway, the method raised couple of critics as it’s not a natural process for creating new life. Definitely against the law of GOD!
“The research centers around stem cells – the body’s ‘mother’ cells which can turn into any other type of cell. According to New Scientist magazine, the scientists want to take stem cells from a woman donor’s bone marrow and transform them into sperm through the use of special chemicals and vitamins. Newcastle professor Karim Nayernia has applied for permission to carry out the work and is ready to start the experiments within two months.” OMG!
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We love green energy, we’ll spend every single effort to find ways to generate green power for our gadgets, even though it’s little absurd. The new idea here is to make use of the movements of your knee to generate electricity to power your portable gadgets or cellphones. It’s be a device that is to be strapped to your leg around the knee, converting the movements of your knees into electricity while you’re walking.
Surely, at the early prototype stage of the device, it looks bulky, which makes you look little absurd, like a Robocop. Perhaps, it’ll make you a little bit clumsy with your movements, while having it strapped to your knee. The researchers are looking into the possibility of making a much smaller version that could be incorporated into clothing.
Dr Arthur Kuo of the University of Michigan is the inventor of this device. And he calls it “biomechanical energy harvester”. He said the device works similar the power-generating brakes found in hybrid cars.
Anyway, this device will be helpful for joggers to power up their iPods while running or commuters to charge their mobile phones while dashing for a train.
Posted by hina on January 12, 2008 under Accessories, Biotech |
Here is a interesting news on CNN about the possibility of creating the Life artificially. Scientists around the world are trying hard to create life form artificially and they are getting closer. According to the news we can expect an announcement from scientists within 3 to 10 years, in the now little-known field of “wet artificial life”.
If this really happens, that would be a greatest achievement in the history mankind.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Biotech |
Experts have found a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in volunteers. The experiments, described in the Science journal, offer a scientific explanation for a phenomenon experienced by one in 10 people.
Two teams used virtual reality goggles to con the brain into thinking the body was located elsewhere. The visual illusion plus the feel of their real bodies being touched made volunteers sense that they had moved outside of their physical bodies. The researchers say their findings could have practical applications, such as helping take video games to the next level of virtuality so the players feel as if they are actually inside the game