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CandyLipz – innovative instant lip plumper technology

October 3, 2014

CandyLipz – Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase

The CandyLipz Xtreme Lip-Shaper® System is the world’s first home-use cosmetic lip enhancement beauty tool- clinically proven to increase lip volume and safe for intended use.

CandyLipz is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place November 14-15, 2014 at the Denver Mart. This is your chance to experience CandyLipz and many other amazing innovations.

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Analysis, Animals, Business, Food, Science & Technology News

Why is lab-grown beef better than ranchers raising cows?

October 3, 2014

If they can grow muscle, can they make meat?

Modern Meadow is a startup based in Brooklyn, New York. They are aiming to commercialize leather and meat products that are not made from slaughtered animals but brewed in cell-culture vats. If it works, and if the market embraces the resulting products, it would lead to vast savings in water, land, and energy use associated with livestock production.

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Analysis, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News, Space

Researcher proves mathematically that black holes do not exist

October 3, 2014

Black holes have long been the subject of popular culture, from Star Trek to Hollywood. They are the ultimate unknown. They are the blackest and most dense objects in the universe that do not even let light escape. And as if they weren’t bizarre enough to begin with, now add this to the mix: they don’t exist.

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Alternative Transportation, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

The car of the future doesn’t fly, it fixes your flat

October 3, 2014

Back to the Future flying Delorean

Back to the Future has filled our heads with visions of soaring Deloreans, but in reality, the automobile industry has some pretty glaring flaws it needs to address before we can attempt flight. It seems like everything in our daily lives is becoming connected. But very often the car is left out of this conversation, and it would benefit greatly from a healthy dose of mobile connectivity.

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Business, facebook, Globalism, Internet, Science & Technology News

Facebook’s solar-powered internet delivering drones could be in use by 2018

October 1, 2014

Facebook internet delivery drone.

Facebook is pushing toward thousands of solar-powered internet delivering drones. They will have the wingspan of a jumbo jet and fly at 17 mile height. The semi-autonomous drones will be the size of jumbo jets which will fly 17 miles above the Earth to provide wireless internet access to the four billion people currently unable to get online. They want to fly them for months and years at a time. The drones will need to rise above the weather, flying at between 60,000 and 90,000 feet – around 17 miles above the ground.

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Analysis, government, Science & Technology News, Space

Asteroid Act could unlock billion dollar in asteroid mining business

October 1, 2014

Private companies want to mine asteroids for fuel, and build filling stations in space. A bill now in front of the US Congress would help by allowing them to own what they discover – but it might, if passed, meet stiff international opposition.

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Analysis, Brain, Latest Trend, Robots, Science & Technology News

Top 5 ways the superintelligence revolution could happen

October 1, 2014

There is a 50% probability that human-level machine intelligence will have been attained by 2050.

Machines already have superhuman strength, speed and stamina. One day machines will have superhuman intelligence. Assuming that scientific and technological progress continues, human-level machine intelligence is very likely to be developed. And shortly thereafter, superintelligence.

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Business, Energy, Great Videos, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News, Solar Power

Airlight Energy and IBM’s new sunflower-shaped solar concentrators produce energy and fresh water

October 1, 2014

High Concentration PhotoVoltaic Thermal (HCPVT)

A cutting-edge solar system that resembles a 10-meter-high sunflower has just been unveiled by IBM Research and Swiss solar technology company Airlight Energy. The High Concentration PhotoVoltaic Thermal (HCPVT) system can concentrate the sun’s radiation 2,000 times and convert 80 percent of it into useful energy, generating up to 12 kilowatts of electrical power and 20 kilowatts of heat on a sunny day—enough to power several average homes. It can also produce clean, fresh water as a result of the process used to cool the solar cells. (Video)

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Business, Energy, Science & Technology News, Solar Power

Elon Musk’s SolarCity to build a Gigafactory for producing solar panels

October 1, 2014

Tesla/SpaceX chief and sustainable energy champion, Elon Musk, has finalized plans to build a 1.2 million square-foot megafactory in Buffalo, NY through his company SolarCity. The factory targets to create enough solar panels a year to harness a gigawatt of the sun’s energy.

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Analysis, facebook, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, Social Media

Ello – a wakeup call for social media marketing

September 30, 2014

Ello

Ello, a new upstart social network burst into the spotlight last week. It has grown from just 90 members in August to a reported 30,000 new users per hour, To understand the social network let’s start with its manifesto:

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Analysis, Energy, Great New Product, Science & Technology News

New fuel cell system will heat and power homes using natural gas

September 30, 2014

The fuel cell system is based on the solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology.

Those interested in off-the-grid heating and power sources for the home might soon be getting a new option. The Germany-based Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS) has joined forces with the heater manufacturer Vaillant and together they have come up with a domestic fuel cell system, which uses natural gas to produce both heat and electricity.

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Alternative Transportation, Business, Science & Technology News

iPhone manufacturer Foxconn invests $811M in building electric cars in China

September 30, 2014

Foxconn wants to make an electric car priced less than $15,000.

Foxconn, Apple’s manufacturing partner, is notorious for its empire of iPhone-assembling employees and robots, but the electronics manufacturer is looking to shift gears, by building a dirt cheap electric car and it’s already investing $811 million to speed up the process.

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