Java monitoring control thru technology.
Two doctors at Penn State University have developed Caffeine Zone, a free iOS app that tells you the perfect time to take a coffee break to maintain an optimal amount of caffeine in your blood — and, perhaps more importantly, it also tells you when to stop drinking tea and coffee, so that caffeine doesn’t interrupt your sleep.
Continue reading… “How to optimize your caffeine intake: there’s an app for that”
A row of classic Worksman hot dog carts on the factory floor.
The oldest bike manufacturer in the U.S., Worksman Cycles, also happens to be the home of two American food vending icons: the Good Humor ice cream tricycle and the New York City hot dog cart. What’s more, if you live in New York city, chances are that your last delivery pizza or egg roll traveled to your door in the front basket of a Worksman bike, and if, instead, you live in the Connecticut suburbs, you may well have enjoyed a cold Bud purchased from a Worksman-made drinks trolley during your evening Metro-North commute…
A controllable transistor engineered from a single phosphorus atom shown here in the center of an image from a computer model, sits in a channel in a silicon crystal.
The smallest transistor ever built — in fact, the smallest transistor that can be built — has been created using a single phosphorus atom by an international team of researchers at the University of New South Wales, Purdue University and the University of Melbourne.
The single-atom device was described Sunday (Feb. 19) in a paper in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
Michelle Simmons, group leader and director of the ARC Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication at the University of New South Wales, says the development is less about improving current technology than building future tech…
Continue reading… “Single-atom transistor is end of Moore’s Law”
Boston Lobster Feast Car
One of America’s favorite advertising tools since the 1930’s has been outfitting vehicles to look like something else , and drivers and bystanders have been treated to cars that look like everything from animals to candy – even shoes. In fact, carrying on in the tradition of Oscar Mayer, there is a whole bevy of food-shaped vehicles that deserve their moment of glory. (Pics)
Understanding the chemistry of phytoplankton is key to controlling Earth’s climate.
Tiny ‘phytoplankton’ in the oceans have a huge impact on Earth’s climate – and understanding them could be key to the planet’s future health.
Continue reading… “Ocean plankton the key ingredient that decides the future of Earth’s climate”
Airport terminal of the future.
Welcome to the airport terminal of the future. There are self-service bag drops but no check-in desks. Your passage is seamless, punctuated behind the scenes only by discrete Near Field Communication (NFC) sensors.
Continue reading… “What will the airport of the future look like?”
Social networks have grown beyond what Facebook offers.
With the pending public offering of Facebook anticipated to be the largest tech IPO in history, it’s an interesting time to think about where we go from here. Some say “social is done,” Facebook is all the social media anyone would ever want or need. Unquestionably, as it nears one billion accounts, in the solar system of social media, Facebook is the Sun — the gravitational center around which everything social revolves.
But while some may pronounce that Facebook is all the social we’d ever need, users clearly haven’t gotten the memo. Instead, users are rapidly adopting new interest-based social networks such as Pinterest, Instagram, Thumb, Foodspotting, and even the very new Fitocracy…
Continue reading… “Beyond Facebook: The rise of interest-based social networks”
An intestinal cell monolayer after exposure to nanoparticles, shown in green.
Billions of engineered nanoparticles in foods and pharmaceuticals are ingested by humans daily, and new Cornell research warns they may be more harmful to health than previously thought.
A research collaboration led by Michael Shuler, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Chemical Engineering and the James and Marsha McCormick Chair of Biomedical Engineering, studied how large doses of polystyrene nanoparticles — a common, FDA-approved material found in substances from food additives to vitamins — affected how well chickens absorbed iron, an essential nutrient, into their cells…
Continue reading… “Nanoparticles in food, vitamins could harm human health”
Thomas Edison on his 77th birthday in his laboratory.
When Thomas Edison hired new employees, he presented them with a 150-question quiz, containing different questions depending on the position. But often, the questions had nothing to do with the job; Edison just wanted to know how educated the applicant was. And sometimes there were other reasons behind the interrogation…
“If I Die”
Updating your Facebook status or sending a Tweet should be the last thing on your mind in your final moments. A morbid new service promises to take care of that for you so you can focus on the more important things when death catches up with you. (Video)
Continue reading… “‘If I Die’ Facebook app updates your final status”
Motherhood without marriage has settled deeply into middle America.
Birth to unmarried women used to be called illegitimacy, now it is the new normal. The share of children born to unmarried women has crossed a threshold after steadily rising for five decades: more than half of births to American women under 30 occur outside marriage.
Continue reading… “Majority of births among under 30 are to unmarried women”
Scientists are analyzing the molecular pathways that plants use for photosynthesis.
For decades, researchers have been trying to improve upon Mother Nature’s favorite solar-power trick — photosynthesis — but now they finally think they see the sunlight at the end of the tunnel.
Continue reading… “Scientists working on building a better leaf”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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