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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 185
Carnival of Nuclear Energy 185 is up at Atomic Power Review.James Conca reviews the uranium enrichment deal made with Iran. It is no wonder that Iran wants this deal as badly as it seems. It is a way...
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In 2014 a $300 Google Glass Competitor
A combination of the Wikitude's augmented reality software technology and Optinvent's ORA-S AR glasses hardware offers a truly hands free augmented reality experience. The ORA-S provides a dual display...
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Pre-order a $235 heads up display glasses that connects to your smartphone
Icis is a line of smartspecks that look like a conventional pair of eyewear. They relay notifications from your social networks and turn-by-turn directions from your smartphone’s maps app and overlay...
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Kepler Space Telescope could start planet hunting again by using the Sun as...
You may have thought that NASA's Kepler spacecraft was finished. Well, think again. A repurposed Kepler Space telescope may soon start searching the sky again.A new mission concept, dubbed K2, would...
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2014 Foresight Conference Early Registration for a couple more days
2014 Foresight Technical Conference: IntegrationFebruary 7 – 9, 2014Crowne Plaza Hotel, Palo Alto, CaliforniaRegistrationFor $100 discount, use code WANGNBF2014NANO when you registerKeynote:Paolo...
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Overlapping Air zones in Asia
The new air defense zone declared by China appears to have been approved by President Xi Jinping, the culmination of more than a year of pressure by Beijing to weaken Japan’s grip on disputed islands...
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Singularity University is a Startup Incubator Variation for Disruptive...
Singularity University is funded by firms including Google, Autodesk and the X Prize Foundation, runs a series of graduate and corporate programs, as well as conferences. Its ten week summer course is...
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China opens more high speed rail
China started a new high-speed railway that connects the two northern port cities of Tianjin and Qinhuangdao. It was put into operation on Sunday, Dec 1, 2013. The railway line extends 287 km and runs...
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Blue Origin Debuts the American-made BE-3 Liquid Hydrogen Rocket Engine
Blue Origin reached a key milestone in the development of the liquid-fueled BE-3 engine by successfully demonstrating deep throttle, full power, long-duration and reliable restart all in a single-test...
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Spacex has 100% success on geostationary satellite launch
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) successfully completed its first geostationary transfer mission, delivering the SES-8 satellite to its targeted 295 x 80,000 km orbit. Falcon 9 executed a...
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At the edges Stanene is like a room temperature superconductor
A team of researchers led by Stanford University professor Shoucheng Zhang now have high hopes that a new material they call stanene will conduct electricity on next-generation microchips with "100...
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Spacex will begin testing highly usable stage combustion raptor rocket engine...
SpaceX plans to begin testing components of a methane-fueled engine called Raptor at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi early 2014. SpaceX will perform these tests at Stennis’ E-2 test facility,...
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China RMB passed the Euro to be the second most used currency for trade...
Recent SWIFT data shows that RMB usage in traditional trade finance - Letters of Credit and Collections - grew from an activity share of 1.89% in January 2012 to 8.66% in October 2013, propelling the...
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Electricity and clean cooking for South Asia and Sub-saharan Africa in two...
In 2010, some 2.8 billion people relied on traditional fuels such as wood, charcoal and animal and crop waste to cook and heat their homes; three-quarters of them lived in just 20 countries in Asia...
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Low cost plastic with light absorbing dye concentrates solar power by ten...
A thin sheet of dyed plastic could cut the cost of solar power, particularly for applications that require solar cells to be highly efficient and flexible.Researchers at the University of Illinois at...
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Google planning a moonshot in robotics - a potential gamechanger with a new...
Andy Rubin, the engineer who spearheaded the development of Android at Google, is leading a new robotics effort at the company. Rubin is personally interested in robots, and now he wants Google to have...
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Google is everywhere in technology with game changing potential
Google or the Google Founders are making well funded attempts to conquer big technological challenges. Success in these major endeavors will alter the trajectory of the future of humanity.Google just...
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Hitachi makes shipping container size 1 MW battery for grid energy storage
Hitachi has developed an all-in one, container-type energy storage system as a core energy product for ensuring the stable use of distributed renewable energy such as wind and solar power, while...
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The World is better than it has ever been because of innovations like...
Bill Gates spends a lot of time trying to advance innovation that improves people’s lives in the same way that fertilizer did. A full 40 percent of Earth’s population is alive today because, in 1909, a...
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Ten thousand entangled modes
Australia National University PhD student Seiji Armstrong has made a quantum leap towards next-generation computing.Working with a team in Tokyo, Seiji has created the largest cluster of quantum...
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