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    Quote Posted by Mad Hatter (here)
    some form of imaging scanner is parked at the front end of one of these thus producing almost instant replication of any shape or object required a la' photocopying style.

    I have also ordered from the Universe spiritually aware entrepreneurial types who will figure out a way to use hemp as the input product as I'd dearly love a replica of Henry Fords car not only made of hemp, so stronger and lighter than steel, but actually running on hemp oil...

    Watch this space.
    or, even better... a Laser external scan with an MRI component for complex objects (you get the inside, and out, and appropriate material density)


    Quantum phisics is starting to reach actual devises, first the quantum computer, now a microscope that uses entangled photons for more accurate images.

    http://www.technologyreview.com/view...ed-microscope/

    it seems like we are on a steep curve for technology right now, I expect some major jumps at the consumer level in the next year or two.
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    This is pretty awesome, now actually useful parts can be created, things as strong as aluminum, but lighter; very good step in the direction of distributed manufacturing.
    Quote New 3D printer can print in carbon fiber


    The MarkForged Mark One will be available for pre-order starting in February. You can sign up for notifications at the company's website. Units will start shipping in the second half of 2014.
    http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...lick=pm_latest

    Just an FYI, I'm not sure if most people are familiar with how powerful Carbon fiber is, I found this video today; an excelent comparison from Carbon Fiber to Steel, and a reason why I think this 3d printer is a step in an Awesome direction.

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    Great thread TargeT, thank you for this! While I was aware of some of these technologies, I was not aware of the state of their development in some cases. We are indeed on the cusp of another great technological revolution. 3D printing will take manufacturing in an entirely new direction with heretofore unheard of capabilities. New battery technology will finally enable us to displace fossil fuels for both transportation and energy generation and enable the distributed electrical grid. Computing power will soon have an exponential jump. While it's a little disturbing to realize that most of what I learned in engineering school is now obsolete (if it wasn't already) that is more than made up for by the excitement of the possibilities of what is to come!

    Bring it on I say!

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    Quote A research collaboration consisting of IHP-Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics in Germany and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated the world's fastest silicon-based device to date. The investigators operated a silicon-germanium (SiGe) transistor at 798 gigahertz (GHz) fMAX, exceeding the previous speed record for silicon-germanium chips by about 200 GHz.
    Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-02-silicon...chip.html#jCpx
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    Quote This Gigantic 3-D Printer Can Create an Entire Table

    Growing up under communist rule in East Germany, Lukas Oehmigen didn’t have much in the way of worldly possessions, but he did develop an intense interest in DIY. When art school beckoned he turned his attention to the world of 3-D printing and developed a giant-sized fabricator that can print objects larger than a La-Z-Boy recliner.

    Its aluminum frame is just over five feet in every dimension and the build area is a robust 45x39x47 inches. Oehmigen named the original prototype “Le Big Rep” in honor of Pulp Fiction, though his new 440-pound, $39,000 printer has been anglicized to the simpler BigRep.
    Technically, it compares favorably to more modestly sized fused filament fabrication (FFF) printers like the MakerBot. This prodigious 3-D printer features a 100 micron layer thickness, the ability to print PLA, ABS, and other experimental plastics, and a dual-extruder print head which allows the system to print in multiple colors or create more advanced geometries using a removable support material.

    It takes approximately two spools of material, about $150 worth of plastic, and five days of print time to create a full-sized end table. Ikea won’t face competition on the cost front just yet, but before long it may be possible to print a stylish, inexpensive living room set without having to brave the crowds at the Swedish furniture superstore.



    For those concerned about sitting on a 3-D printed chair, have no fear. Oehmigen regularly stands atop the parts he’s fabricated to demonstrate their strength. “You can print usable structurally strong parts, which you can bend like a strongbow, at the same time being as hard as a bone,” he says.
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    Quote Contact lens-based Google Glass competitor unveiled at CES 2014, iOptik

    A high-tech contact lens is set to run Facebook or Twitter right in front of your eyes - in floating virtual screens dotted with information.

    Washington-based startup Innovega is coming up with a natural eyewear-based platform - called iOptik - that promises to transform how we share social media. The company demonstrated the new technology at the ongoing CES 2014 tradeshow.
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    Quote The rechargeable revolution: A better battery


    Chemists are reinventing rechargeable cells to drive down costs and boost capacity

    The mobile world depends on lithium-ion batteries — today's ultimate rechargeable energy store. Last year, consumers bought five billion Li-ion cells to supply power-hungry laptops, cameras, mobile phones and electric cars. “It is the best battery technology anyone has ever seen,” says George Crabtree, director of the US Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), which is based at the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, Illinois. But Crabtree wants to do much, much better.



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    Modern Li-ion batteries hold more than twice as much energy by weight as the first commercial versions sold by Sony in 1991 — and are ten times cheaper. But they are nearing their limit. Most researchers think that improvements to Li-ion cells can squeeze in at most 30% more energy by weight (see 'Powering up'). That means that Li-ion cells will never give electric cars the 800-kilometre range of a petrol tank, or supply power-hungry smartphones with many days of juice.

    In 2012, the JCESR hub won US$120 million from the US Department of Energy to take a leap beyond Li-ion technology. Its stated goal was to make cells that, when scaled up to the sort of commercial battery packs used in electric cars, would be five times more energy dense than the standard of the day, and five times cheaper, in just five years. That means hitting a target of 400 watt-hours per kilogram (Wh kg−1) by 2017.

    Crabtree calls the goal “very aggressive”; veteran battery researcher Jeff Dahn at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, calls it “impossible”. The energy density of rechargeable batteries has risen only sixfold since the early lead–nickel rechargeables of the 1900s. But, says Dahn, the JCESR's target focuses attention on technologies that will be crucial in helping the world to switch to renewable energy sources — storing up solar energy for night-time or a rainy day, for example. And the US hub is far from alone. Many research teams and companies in Asia, the Americas and Europe are looking beyond Li-ion, and are pursuing strategies that may topple it from its throne.

    http://www.nature.com/news/the-recha...TWT_NatureNews




    Quote Engineering team increases power efficiency for future computer processors

    The UCLA researchers were able to demonstrate that using this multiferroic material to generate spin waves could reduce wasted heat and therefore increase power efficiency for processing by up to 1,000 times. Their research is published in the journal Applied Physics Letters.
    Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-03-team-po...ssors.html#jCp
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    The more we delve into magnetics and magnetic fields the more amazing things we find.... this may not be the best timing with the current nuclear fear zeitgeist.

    Quote Magnetic behavior discovery could advance nuclear fusion
    ANN ARBOR—Inspired by the space physics behind solar flares and the aurora, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Princeton has uncovered a new kind of magnetic behavior that could help make nuclear fusion reactions easier to start.

    Fusion is widely considered the ultimate goal of nuclear energy. While fission leaves behind radioactive waste that must be stored safely, fusion generates helium, a harmless element that is becoming scarce. Just 250 kilograms of fusion fuel can match the energy production of 2.7 million tons of coal.

    Unfortunately, it is very difficult to get a fusion reaction going.

    "We have to compress the fuel to a temperature and density similar to the core of a star," said Alexander Thomas, assistant professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences.

    Once those conditions are reached, the hydrogen fuel begins to fuse into helium. This is how young stars burn, compressed by their own gravity.

    On Earth, it takes so much power to push the fuel atoms together that researchers end up putting in more energy than they get out. But by understanding a newly discovered magnetic phenomenon, the team suggests that the ignition of nuclear fusion could be made more efficient.

    Two methods dominate for confining the fuel, made of hydrogen atoms with extra neutrons, so that fusion can begin. Magnetic confinement fusion uses magnetic fields to trap the fuel in a magnetic 'bottle,' and inertial confinement fusion heats the surface of the fuel pellet until it blows off in a way that causes the remaining pellet to implode. The team explored an aspect of the latter method through computer simulations.

    "One of the concerns with nuclear fusion is to squeeze this very spherical fuel pellet perfectly into a very small spherical pellet," said Archis Joglekar, a doctoral student in nuclear engineering and radiological sciences.

    To avoid pushing the ball of fuel into an irregular shape that won't ignite, the fuel must be exposed to uniform heat that will cause its surface layer to evaporate all at once. As this layer pushes off at high speed, it applies equal pressure to all sides of the pellet and causes it to shrink to one thousandth of its original volume. When that happens, the fuel begins to fuse.

    Joglekar calls even heating "the biggest concern in terms of achieving inertial confinement fusion."

    The heat comes from about 200 laser beams hitting the inside of a hollow metal cylinder with the fuel pellet sitting at its heart. The trouble is that the light energy from the laser is converted to heat in the metal by way of electrons, and the electrons can get trapped in magnetic fields created by the laser spots.

    When the laser light hits the metal, it turns some of the surface metal into plasma, or a soup of electrons and free atomic nuclei. The laser and the heat drive the electrons to move in a way that sets up a magnetic field circling the laser spot.

    The magnetic field acts as a boundary for the electrons—they can't cross it. But until now, researchers didn't know that the hot electrons, in an effort to get to cooler areas, are able to push the magnetic fence outward.

    The team showed that the flow of hot electrons could drive the magnetic fields around neighboring laser spots together, causing them to join up. Instead of forming a barrier between the laser spots, the joined fields open a channel between them.

    "Now there's a clear path for the electrons to move into what would otherwise be the cold region," Joglekar said.

    Designers of inertial fusion ignition systems may be able to use this newly discovered feature to place the laser spots so that they heat the cylinder more quickly and efficiently.

    "Essentially, what we found is a completely new magnetic reconnection mechanism," Thomas said. "Though we're studying it in an inertial confinement fusion process, it might be relevant to the surface of the sun and magnetic confinement fusion."

    For instance, knowing that the flow of hot, charged particles on the sun can push magnetic fields around could inspire new theories about how solar flares occur.

    A paper on this work, titled "Magnetic reconnection in plasma under inertial confinement fusion conditions driven by heat flux effects in Ohm's law," is published in Physical Review Letters. It was carried out in collaboration with Amativa Bhattacharjee and William Fox of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
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    The Germans Have Figured Out How to 3-D Print Cars



    Quote The assembly line isn’t going away, but 3-D printing is going to reshape how we make cars. The EDAG Genesis points the way, with an beautifully crafted frame made from a range of materials and inspired by a turtle’s skeleton.

    The German engineering firm showed off the Genesis design concept at the Geneva Motor Show as proof that additive manufacturing–EDAG’s fancy term for 3-D printing–can be used to make full-size car components. It’s on an entirely different scale than the tiny, 3-D printed creations coming out of a desktop Makerbot, but it’s also just a frame–a stylized chassis that’s more art than reality.

    Before settling on 3-D printing, EDAG tried a few different acronym-heavy options, including selective laser sintering (SLS), selective laser melting (SLM), and stereolithography (SLA). But after extensive tinkering, the final process they used was a modified version of fused-deposition modeling, or FDM.

    EDAG’s robot built the Genesis concept by creating a thermoplastic model of the complex interior, although the company says they could use carbon fiber to make the structure both stronger and lighter. EDAG envisions the Genesis as being surrounded by an exterior frame–likely steel or aluminum–to provide a tough exterior to protect the lattice-like monocoque.
    We’ve seen 3-D printing applied to cars before, but EDAG’s design is unique because it shows that with the right equipment you can produce a structure at a massively larger scale. Rather than printing out tiny parts and assembling them together to create a whole, the Genesis proposes that future cars could be produced in fewer steps by assembling large, exceptionally strong unibody parts.

    Printing of this size is still years from reality due to both cost and scale, but the design is the opening salvo in an arms race for creating large objects with a single process.

    “As for the target of using additive manufacturing to produce complete vehicle bodies, there is still a long way to go before this becomes an industrial application,” EDAG says in its announcement. “So for the time being, it remains a vision.”
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    So all the "graphene" buzz has been highly interesting, but ultimately useless for the "end consumer" (you and me) due to the lack of a viable manufacturing proccess.

    It appears Samsung has made a breakthrough, battery 2.0 might be right around the corner; and this is the major shift that will change consumer electronics to an almost unrecognizable state.

    Quote Graphene battery research by Samsung experiences breakthrough in manufacturing process

    Battery innovation has been stuck in the lithium ion age over the past few decades, and progress towards a better battery has hardly moved at all when compared to exponential jumps in storage space, memory capacity and processor computing speeds. However, in the recent past, graphene (similar to a pencil’s graphite) has enjoyed success in solving some of the roadblocks of lithium ion technology. In fact, the potential output of the material far outlasts and exceeds the capacity of traditional lithium ion in terms of volume and weight. On top of that, the material is flexible and can be adapted in new flexible displays. However, the reason we haven’t seen devices using graphene yet is due to difficulties in the implementation of the delicate processes involved in building graphene layers on a large manufacturing scale.

    According to the post on Samsung’s blog, it seems Samsung has finally grasped the manufacturing process, and stated that in partnership with Sungkyunkwan University, SAIT (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology) has become the first group of researchers to harness the benefits of graphene on a large scale manufacturing platform. The process is designed to overcome previous problems which included deteriorating electric properties. The breakthrough was accomplished by synthesizing “large area graphene onto a single crystal on a semiconductor, maintaining its electrical and mechanical properties.”

    Samsung and Sungkyunkwan University have been working on graphene and other nano research since 2006, and the partnership has yielded the most awaited leap in efficient energy management. We will see the technology decrease the size of our phones and tablets further, as well as power smart watches and even allow tiny devices to achieve incredible battery life. As processors make the switch to 14 nanometer processes, and flexible devices are becoming popular, the world is finally ready for a revolutionary change in how often we charge our devices, and what types of efficiency we will expect from them in the future.
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    Quote A closer look at Samsung’s new graphene breakthrough: The holy grail of commercial graphene production?

    Quote Samsung appears to have stumbled across the holy grail of commercial graphene production: A new technique that can grow high-quality single-crystal graphene on silicon wafers – graphene that is suitable for the production of graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) – and afterward, once the graphene has been peeled off, the silicon wafers can even be reused!

    Samsung is dressing this up as a breakthrough for flexible, wearable computers – which is fair enough, given the company's recent focus on curved smartphones and watches.

    This work, carried out by the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) and Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, is rather advanced – so stick with me while I try to explain it.

    Basically, they start with a normal silicon wafer. They coat the wafer in a layer of germanium (Ge), and then dip the wafer in dilute hydrofluoric (HF) acid, which strips off the native (naturally forming) germanium oxide groups, leaving a "sea" of hydrogen atoms that are bonded to the germanium underneath (H-terminated germanium, in chemistry speak).

    The wafer is then placed into furnace, where fairly normal chemical vapour deposition (CVD) is used to deposit a layer of graphene on top of the H-terminated Ge. Finally, after a bit more baking, and cooling under vacuum, the graphene is ready to be peeled off and used in the fabrication of graphene transistors and other such devices.



    (The above image shows graphene growing on H-terminated germanium. The orange circles are germanium, the little blue dots are hydrogen, and the black dots are carbon (graphene)).



    Importantly, the graphene monolayer monocrystals (yes, I enjoyed writing that) grown in this way are wrinkle-free – and because the graphene is removed from the germanium using a dry process, it is high quality and low in defects, too. [Research paper: DOI: 10.1126/science.1252268]. Also significant is the fact that the silicon wafers and germanium substrate can be reused and recycled (currently, the most popular method of producing graphene is on a copper substrate, which is then wastefully burnt away with acid).

    So far, it seems Samsung has used this new process of growing graphene to create some field-effect transistors (GFETs), which performed quite well, but that's about it. Still, in a press release, Samsung pulls no punches: "This is one of the most significant breakthroughs in graphene research in history," said the SAIT researchers. This being Samsung, of course, the press release also talks about how graphene is "the perfect material for use in flexible displays, wearables and other next generation electronic devices."

    These claims might sound hyperbolic, but to be fair this is probably the most exciting graphene breakthrough that I've written about in the last three years. This process gets us very close to commercial, large-scale production of high-quality, electronics-grade graphene. This doesn't mean that we'll suddenly see computer chips made out of graphene instead of silicon, though – we still haven't found a way of giving graphene a bandgap, which means it's actually fairly useless as far as digital computing goes. We might see some graphene-based wireless modems capable of ludicrous performance, though.

    Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/2014/04/0...#ixzz2yCmhS5Kt
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    Wireless Electricity is Happening

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    Quote IBM discovers new class of ultra-tough, self-healing, recyclable plastics that could redefine almost every industry
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    one of my favorite topics:
    Quote New battery tech may lead to inexpensive, safer electric cars

    Power Japan Plus announced its dual carbon battery technology, which promises longer-lasting and less expensive batteries for electric cars.

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    You guys do some amazing research, thank you for putting it all in one place.
    We are indeed in revolutionary times... but, personally, I get goose bumps reading about where technology will be taking the human race.
    I truly fear with each technological advance, we become further removed from the uniqueness of our "humanity".....
    Now music is digitized, and rarely do we sing in the garden, or sitting on a hill sing to the sky..
    We NEVER tell stories to each other, sharing deeper truths in that intimate way, heart to heart.
    Heck, we cannot even talk to each other eye to eye, preferring texts even over voice to voice.
    We no longer are able to "read" each other simply by being next to each other.
    This is the cost of technology, and it is irretrievable and precious beyond rubies...
    This is truly how I feel.

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    Quote World's Smallest And Fastest Nanomotor Built By University of Texas Engineers Runs The Longest
    A team of engineers from the University of Texas at Austin has developed a new machine called 'The Nanomotor' that is the smallest (1/500th times the size of a grain of salt) synthetic motor built to date, and surprisingly enough, it is the fastest (ultra-high-speed) and is able to run the longest. What is now being called a significant step in the direction of manufacturing 'miniature machines', the Nanomotor's development has paved the way for coming up with a first-of-its-kind devices that can be used in applications that require unprecedented precision such as controlled biochemical drug delivery to live cells & cell-to-cell communication. For example - Treatment of cancer cells without affecting the good cells or Administering insulin in a diabetic patient's body as and when needed. All this could be possible because the 3-part nanomotor is capable of mixing and pumping biochemicals and moving through liquids.

    Developed by a team of engineering researchers including graduate students - Kwanoh Kim, Xiaobin Xu and Jianhe Guo, led by Donglei “Emma” Fan, an assistant professor at the Mechanical Engineering department from the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University, the nanomotor is capable of converting electrical energy into mechanical motion. The team is responsible for the custom design and assembly as well as testing of this unique nanomotor that features large driving power (delivers 15 continuous hours of rotating speed at 18,000 RPMs, which equals the speed of a motor in a jet airplane engine). It is important to note here that, the other nanomotors in existence today run at the speed of just 14 to 500 RPMs and can last only for a few minutes.
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    Plus

    Quote Wireless energy powers pacemaker in live rabbit
    There's electricity in the air. A rabbit's beating heart has been regulated using a tiny pacemaker that beams in energy from outside its body. It is the first time this kind of wireless energy transfer has been demonstrated in a living animal. If such wirelessly powered medical implants can work in people too, it would reduce the seriousness of the procedures required to get them fitted.

    "Our device is small, so it will be much easier to deliver into the body," says Ada Poon of Stanford University in California, who led the team that implanted the tiny pacemaker.
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    Quote New Wireless Power Set Up Charges 40 Smartphones from Across the Room
    Wouldn't it be wonderful if you never had to plug in your phone? Well, a team of Korean scientists say that they're one step closer to making that fantasy a reality with new wireless power transfer technology that works from over 15 feet away. And it works pretty damn well, too.

    This new system isn't entirely new. It improves upon the basic idea for so-called Coupled Magnetic Resonance System (CMRS) developed by MIT scientists back in 2007. A team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, however, just announced a new option that both simplifies and improves the earlier design, extending the reach of the wireless power transfer from a little over five feet to over 15 feet. It does so with two 10-foot-long boxes made of up compact ferrite core rods with coils of wire in the middle. One of the boxes generates a magnetic field, while the other induces the voltage. They call the set up a Dipole Coil Resonant System (DCRS).

    In plain English, anything between the two boxes can tap into the system's power. It effectively generates wireless electricity.
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    so, nano-motors and wireless power.... ****'s about to get real wierd.
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    already has 2 million views... in 6 days?!
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    Now THAT'S exciting! Hope big oil interests, politics and corruption don't stop it!
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    A new way to make laser-like beams using 250x less power
    With precarious particles called polaritons that straddle the worlds of light and matter, University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated a new, practical and potentially more efficient way to make a coherent laser-like beam.

    They have made what's believed to be the first polariton laser that is fueled by electrical current as opposed to light, and also works at room temperature, rather than way below zero.

    Those attributes make the device the most real-world ready of the handful of polariton lasers ever developed. It represents a milestone like none the field has seen since the invention of the most common type of laser – the semiconductor diode – in the early 1960s, the researchers say. While the first lasers were made in the 1950s, it wasn't until the semiconductor version, fueled by electricity rather than light, that the technology took off.

    This work could advance efforts to put lasers on computer circuits to replace wire connections, leading to smaller and more powerful electronics. It may also have applications in medical devices and treatments and more.[/B]

    http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/222...ower?print=yes

    Good post on this laser tech here

    This applies to the following thread, the two could make for a very interesting mix.

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ghlight=fusion
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    Quote Focus Fusion: Has cheap, clean Earth-saving fusion power been right under our noses all along?

    While the world’s only major fusion power effort — ITER — continues to trundle along, with an eventual first-fusion date of 2027 at a cost of more than $20 billion to taxpayers, there’s a small lab in New Jersey that says it can produce fusion power within a year, with a total spend of just a few million dollars. This lab uses a much cheaper and easier method to reach nuclear fusion — called Focus Fusion — with the massive added benefit that its fusion reactors are small enough and safe enough to deploy domestically. To be honest it sounds too good to be true — but rest assured that Focus Fusion, at least to my eyes, is the real deal. This isn’t some kind of magical, inexplicable witchcraft like cold fusion: Focus Fusion appears to be based on cold, hard science. This could actually be it.

    The key to Focus Fusion is a dense plasma focus device and a form of fusion called aneutronic fusion. These are both completely unlike current controlled fusion systems — such as the American NIF, European JET, or international ITER — which use massive magnets or lasers to create magnetic and inertial confinement fusion. Both inertial and magnetic confinement fusion require massive, billion-dollar setups that are hard to build and tough to fund.

    The following video neatly explains what a dense plasma focus device is.
    see the video here:
    http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1...oses-all-along
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    This is a very interesting product, I hope the sensors and software go open source.. something like this is very valuable for the average consumer.. Imagine these at bars.. no more worrying about items slipped into your drink, your drink glass/container can tell you when it's been altered!

    Quote This Smart Cup Knows What’s Inside of It



    Vessyl, whose pre-sale began on Thursday, looks like most portable cups: plastic, handy and durable. But it’s far smarter than your average container.

    Created by startup Mark One over seven years, Vessyl is sensor-equipped and immediately reports your drink’s nutrition facts, according to the product’s promotional video.

    Once a liquid is poured into the Vessyl, a small digital display will tell you the caffeine, fat and calorie content, among other information. It also identifies the drink—it can tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi, for example, by calculating differences in sugar content. It even works for alcoholic drinks and thicker fluids like milkshakes and yogurt.

    Charged wirelessly, the Vessyl is linked via Bluetooth to your smartphone, where you can manually enter drinks you’ve consumed elsewhere on the Vessyl app. The app then collects data on your hydration level and chemical intake to facilitate a healthy lifestyle.
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    Welcome to the beggining stages of the "next big thing" that will change TVs, Phones, Ad displays, anything that is visually displayed......






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    This is very possibly the first step into space "for real" no longer just a government monopoly.

    This will be very interesting, and could open a lot of doors (due to the afordability of reusable systems like this).

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    Last week, when SpaceX successfully launched six Orbcomm satellites on top of its Falcon 9 rocket, the company also tested out its system to attempt a “soft landing” of the first stage of the rocket. This was part of a series of tests that the company is doing in hopes of making the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket reusable. If it’s successful at this, SpaceX could potentially cut tens of millions of dollars of the cost of its launches.

    Yesterday, the company announced that its test of the the Falcon 9′s first stage had been successful. This marks the second time that it has successfully “soft landed” a reusable Falcon 9 stage in the ocean. The first was in April of this year.

    So what constitutes a successful test? according to SpaceX, the reusable rocket stage was able to “reenter from space at hypersonic velocity, restart main engines twice, deploy landing legs and touch down at near zero velocity.”

    As it was over the surface of the water, the rocket tipped itself horizontally in the hopes that it might survive intact to be recovered. However, the water breached the rocket hull, eliminating the recovery possibility. Despite this, SpaceX insists that it has enough data for further tests.

    “At this point,” the company said in a statement. “we are highly confident of being able to land successfully on a floating launch pad or back at the launch site and refly the rocket with no required refurbishment.”

    SpaceX’s next several launches will require too much fuel to test the reusable stage again, but after that, it intends three launches to test the system. The first will be another water landing. The next two will involve landing the reusable first stage on a solid surface.




    You can watch the footage of Falcon 9′s soft landing below:
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    Quote Thermal power: Use your body heat to power wearable technology
    There’ll soon be no need to ever take off wearable technology as your body heat will be able to run a generator to keep it powered-up.

    Thanks to a new invention by scientists in Korea heat that escapes the body can be converted into energy using the generator that can be curved along with the shape of the body.

    The researchers developed the glass fabric-based thermoelectric generator to be light and flexible which could help to further commercialise wearable technology.

    Byung Kin Cho, who led the team in creating the generator, said that with more development the technology could be used on a large-scale to stop heat energy not being used.

    At present wearable technology, such as the activity tracking Fitbit Flex wrist band, is developed with long-lasting battery life – the Flex has a battery life which can last up to five days.

    However the latest technology would remove the need to ever take wearable technology off, which can cause some users to stop using their gadgets.

    It also comes with the benefit that using thermal energy to power and recharge wearables would not need to use any energy created by non-renewable forms.

    The small generator was created and tested on small bracelet and it is said it can be able to provide power in a stable and reliable way.

    Cho further described how the generator could be used, he said: “Our technology presents an easy and simple way of fabricating an extremely flexible, light, and high-performance TE generator.

    “We expect that this technology will find further applications in scale-up systems such as automobiles, factories, aircrafts, and vessels where we see abundant thermal energy being wasted.”


    So far only two types of thermal energy generators have been developed, these have been based on either organic or inorganic materials.

    Until now the organic generators have been able to work with human skin but have not been able to generate enough power to be put to practical use.

    While those made of inorganic materials have been able to generate enough power but have been too bulky to be able to be used with wearable technology.

    Cho came up with the a concept and design technique to build a flexible TE generator that minimizes thermal energy loss but maximizes power output.

    The new concept uses liquid like pastes of thermal electronic materials printed on to a glass fabric.

    When using the generator, with a size of 10cm by 10cm, for a wearable wristband device, it will produce around 40 mW electric power based on the temperature difference of 31 °F between human skin and the surrounding air.
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