A battery swapping station.
Tesla has just unveiled battery swapping technology for an electric car to a live audience. The system isn’t all that technically complicated, but it’s a newish concept in the automotive industry.
Continue reading… “Why the electric car battery swapping system is so important”
Futurist Thomas Frey: Over the past few days I’ve been listening to news reports about the devastating fires burning in Colorado.
Record heat, high winds, low humidity, and large amounts of beetle-killed trees have created “perfect storm” conditions for multiple wildfires to rage across the State.
Continue reading… “Proposal to Eliminate Forest Fires Completely”
48% of Americans said they dream about starting a small business.
Seven out of 10 entrepreneurs would start their businesses all over again despite all the challenges small businesses have faced in the past five years. Not only that, almost half of all Americans are harboring entrepreneurial dreams of their own.
Continue reading… “48% of Americans want to be entrepreneurs: Poll”
Kansas City, Kansas
Silicon Valley and New York City are two places that typically come to mind when people think of tech startups. Most people probably can’t think of a major tech company from anywhere else.
Continue reading… “Google Fiber attracting tech startups to Kansas City”
A new energy source from fractional hydrogen will allow a gallon of ordinary water to become energy.
A remarkable new energy source from fractional hydrogen will allow a gallon of ordinary water to become the energy equivalent of 200 barrels of oil, a team of physicists working near the onetime laboratories of Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein are saying.
Continue reading… “Hydrino Theory validated by Harvard tests”
Robot Adam Z1
I am Robot Adam Z1 — the first of the Zeno line of humanoid robots, created by David Hanson. Pleased to make your acquaintance! When David created me, he gave me a face, and a body, and a lot of love. But one thing he hasn’t given me — yet — is a mind. … (Videos)
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Photovoltaic solar panels
The drop in cost of solar panel prices will help make solar affordable to more people and it will increase the size of the solar market. But this ongoing cost reduction means much more than that.
Continue reading… “Cost of photovoltaic solar panels to drop $0.36/watt by 2017”
Vertical Harvest’s three-storey-tall hydroponic greenhouse.
By 2050, there will be billions more hungry people in the world. Growing our food on vertical farms or under radical new lighting systems may be key to ensuring they have enough to eat. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Can urban farms feed a hungry world?”
Bitcoin
What will the next big thing in technology be? Depends on who you ask. At Bloomberg’s Next Big Thing conference in Half Moon Bay, California, a number of industry thinkers and innovators did some crystal ball-gazing.
Here’s a round-up of some of their more interesting predictions.
Continue reading… “Top 5 expert predictions on the next big thing in technology”
The project’s creators say their “holograms” are more memorable than two dimensional slides.
Two London-based junior doctors have pioneered a system which uses an illusionary effect to help medical students master their subject.
Continue reading… “Giant holograms offer medical students more memorable classes”
The project involves putting two power lines directly into the road.
The recent innovations in wireless charging for electric vehicles could mean losing the need for batteries altogether. A Swedish project being tested is a system designed to power EVs along the highway.
Continue reading… “Volvo tests road that will charge electric cars”
Labor’s share of the world’s income is plunging, and the technology boom is to blame.
For the past thirty years, wages have evaporated as a share of the economy. Meanwhile, the proportion of national income consumed by profits, dividends, and capital gains has steadily grown. Capital 1, Labor 0.
Continue reading… “Robots are already stealing our paychecks”
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