Just a hint of creepiness don’t you think
Just outside of Tokyo, there’s a company called Little Island, run by Hiroaki Koike, that specializes in fashioning robotic dolls after the likenesses of real people.

DaVinci Style iPhone, very cool!
This is one funny yet artistic and very retro. A design that show you the DaVinci Tao of designing the iPhone. Complete with the old yellow (off white) paper/background with some hand writing DaVinci version.

 From Beetles To Aircraft, Nanoparticles Aid Microscope Views
University of Utah physicists and chemists developed a new method that uses a mirror of tiny silver “nanoparticles” so microscopes can reveal the internal structure of nearly opaque biological materials like bone, tumor cells and the iridescent green scales of the so-called “.”

Butterfly Wings Inspire More Powerful Solar Cells
The discovery that butterfly wings have scales that act as tiny solar collectors has led scientists in China and Japan to design a more efficient solar cell that could be used for powering homes, businesses, and other applications in the future.

 
Operating rooms now have a new tool to work with
A new minimally-invasive option for treating liver tumors, called microwave ablation, is now available at UC San Diego Medical Center and Moores UCSD Cancer Center, the only hospitals in the region to offer this technology to patients.

Measures Asteroids’ Sizes And Shapes
“Knowledge of the sizes and shapes of asteroids is crucial to understanding how, in the early days of our Solar System, dust and pebbles collected together to form larger bodies and how collisions and re-accumulation have since modified them,” says Marco Delbo from the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, France, who [...]

 
Fossil Find Reveals
Two newly described fossil whales—a pregnant female and a male of the same species–reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the transition from land to sea…

Poo Gas Powered Public Transportation
In some cities around the US they’ve had buses that run on natural gas for a while now …. BUT these ones that are cruising down the streets of Oslo run on a different type of ‘Natural Gas’, the taco-bell type!
Kinda gross but really cool way to power a vehicle, [...]

As sleek and sexy as an electric motorcycle gets these days.

Take a gander at the Mission One, the plug-in electric motorcycle from Mission Motors. With a 150-mile range and a top speed of 150 silent miles per hour, all wrapped up in a Yves Béhar design, the Mission One isn’t a crotch rocket-it’s a [...]

Say Cheese!

Australian scientists have determined that dolphins, already famous for their intelligence and depth of emotions, are also talented chefs of the sea!