What will Denver be like in 2030?
Stroll the streets of Denver in the year 2030, and you’ll meet the More Likelys.
The average resident of Denver’s future is more likely to be elderly, more likely to be Latino, more likely to hail from a filled-in Stapleton neighborhood, and more likely to have a rapid transit pass [...]
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Infrared Light Could Bring Music To The Deaf
Infrared Light From Xbox
Scientists have accidentally discovered that infrared light can stimulate neurons in the inner ear like sound waves do. While trying to “weld” nerves with heat from a laser, surgeons found that the light could stimulate the ear nerves extremely precisely. A research team led by Claus-Peter Richter at Northwestern University in Chicago [...]
iLane: Reads Emails and Text Messages Aloud
iLane
One of the most frightening things I ever say was a teen girl driving through my neighborhood, on the wrong side of the road, sending a text message. It’s not only a problem with teens, according to a study lots of adults drive and send or read email as well.
A Chair Designed For Web Surfing
New Web Surfing Chair, Easy On The Back.
These days, we’ve got our fair share of futuristic and slickly-designed gadgets. The problem? The furniture we sit in while we use said gadgets has yet to catch up. This day bed by Mauelsaez aims to change that.
AdminPatch: Pain-Free Hypodermic Alternative
Nanobioscience’s AdminPatch sounds like a pretty amazing way to deliver drugs into the body: it’s got a metal surface covered in millions of tiny microneedles that puncture the skin. You may instantly think “Ouch!” but since these are so small and pierce the skin shallow enough to avoid pain receptors, the system is apparently painless.
Devote 10,000 Hours To Become A Genius
Want to be a genius? Well, it’s not that difficult — all you need to do is to devote 10,000 hours to your chosen field, says a new study.
Applause Machine
We often consider ourselves to be the best in what we do. Most times our efforts are applauded, but there are moments when none other than our own self is left to appreciate what we achieve.
The Link Child Locator
The Link Child Locator is a conceptual design for a much needed gadget that enables you to find lost children or other members of your group when separated in a large or crowded space.
Saturn’s Aura
Saturn Spinning A Colorful Light Show
That’s an infrared image of an aurora on Saturn’s polar cap, taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft:
Energetic particles, crashing into the upper atmosphere cause the aurora, shown in blue, to glow brightly at 4 microns (six times the wavelength visible to the human eye). The image shows both a bright ring, [...]
Magic Machine Pulls Water Out Of Thin Air
Drinking Air Can Be Good For You
Water, Water, everywhere; nor any drop to drink. The plight of the Ancient Mariner is about to be alleviated thanks to a firm of eco-inventors from Canada who claim to have found the solution to the world’s worsening water shortages by drawing the liquid of life from an unlimited [...]
Introducing the Zoybar Guitar
More videos on Zoybar
Zoybar is a modular hardware platform for creating custom electric string instruments and effects invented by Ziv bar ilan in Isreal. The basic Zoybar kits enable people to assemble a variety of electric string instruments that can be mounted with different sound effects. Second video after the jump.
