Year: 2014

Impact Lab > 2014
Alternative Transportation, Business, Science & Technology News, Solar Power

Solar Forest provides a charging station for electric cars

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Solar Forest

We aren’t out of the woods yet when it comes to providing a steady supply of clean energy for electric vehicles. So, designer Neville Mars has conceived of an incredible EV charging station that takes the form of an evergreen glade of solar trees. His photovoltaic grove serves a dual function, acting as a go-to source for clean renewable energy while providing a shady spot for cars to park as they charge.

 

 

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, New Discoveries, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

Brave new world of biotech: Push one to create life; push two to create alien life

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“We’re considering the possibility that you can write software for living things with bio-code (aka DNA).”

May was a good month for miracles.  During these first weeks in May, two separate teams working at two separate institutions announced that when it comes to creating life from scratch, well, there are a couple of new gods in town.

 

 

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Analysis, Animals, Food, Latest Trend

Why pet owners are skipping the pet food aisle in favor of homemade pet food

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Veterinarians say these pet food home chefs do it for different reasons.

We not only obsess over what we eat. We also obsess over what our pets eat. While the pet food industry has started adding salmon, vegetables and other ingredients humans favor to its products, the store-bought stuff just doesn’t make the cut anymore for some owners. They’re skipping the pet food aisle altogether in favor of cooking up big batches of Fido’s meals.

 

 

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Medical Breakthrough, New Discoveries, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

Researchers discover new treatment for diabetes

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Researchers discovered a small molecule that inhibits an enzyme that degrades insulin.

Harvard researchers may have finally identified a chemical compound that could be used to study and treat diabetes after decades of searching. They have discovered a whole different method for maintaining insulin in the blood: by blocking the enzyme that breaks it down.

 

 

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

Scientists discover way to regenerate teeth with lasers

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Scientists use low powered laser to grow teeth.

Scientists have used a low powered laser to activate and direct stem cells to grow teeth.  It looks as if they did it right in the mouth (of a couple of species)!  That’s a disruptive innovation compared to the way stem cells are typically grown and developed outside the body.

 

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Alternative Transportation, Great New Product, New Inventions, Science & Technology News

The scooter that doubles as a suitcase

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He Liangcai rides his home-made suitcase scooter.

A Chinese private entrepreneur, He Liangcai, recently obtained a patent for a product that turns a regular suitcase into a rechargeable scooter. According to patent documents China Real Time viewed, accessed via China’s intellectual property database, the suitcase is also equipped with a GPS navigator, a burglar alarm and a horn.

 

 

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Great New Product, Great Videos, New Inventions, Science & Technology News

Binaudios – giant binocular-turned-headphones let you hear all of the city’s sounds

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Binaudios

As part of the Thinking Digital Conference, artist Dominic Wilcox and creative technologist James Rutherford dreamt up Binaudios, an oversized public listening device which lets visitors experience the sounds of Newcastle, UK in a completely new way. (Video)

 

 

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