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Science
Badass Asteroid Destroys Earth in High Definition
2:00PM Jesus Diaz | A hundred years ago a large meteor exploded ten kilometers above the Earth’s surface in Tunguska, obliterating 830 square miles of woods. It was the largest impact in recent history, but nothing compared to this. More »
Design
What Beautiful Future Gadgets Will Be Made Of
2:00AM Brian Lam | Wood paneling and silver-painted plastic used to be cool; so I wonder when our current metal and glass gadgets will go out of style, and if so, what will future gadgets be made from? More »
Science
Amazing Hydrogen Fuel Tank Being Made Of Buckyballs And Graphene
10:14PM Kit Eaton | We’ve talked a lot about hydrogen and fuel cells here on Giz, mainly because it’s the wonder fuel of the near future, but storing dangerous H2 is tricky: something a team at the University of Crete thinks it’s solved. The US Department of Energy reckons a tank should store 6% H2 by mass, and current tech can only do about 2%. The Greek team’s tank is amazing: it’s constructed of two wondermaterials. Carbon Buckytubes connect layers of graphene to make a huge matrix—so far they’ve built a tank with Buckyballs instead of tubes, but they’ll have that finished by Christmas. And theoretically it can store 6.1% H2. [NewScientist] More »
Home
Panasonic’s Living Room Concept Will Keep Your Family Fit
1:45PM Gizmodo US Edition | Apparently a fan of Jetsons-like living spaces, Panasonic is showing off a living room/kitchen area at CEATEC that puts all home gadgets and appliances on an interconnected network. Though we’ve seen numerous integrated home living concepts before, Panasonic’s added a “Family Wellness Solution” that’s kind of like a really advanced version of Wii Fit. More »
Vehicles
Mitsubishi Plans Ferocious MMR25 Rally Racer for Year 2025
12:30PM Wilson Rothman | In the year 2025, a scant 17 years from now, all cars will be electric. But according to Mitsubishi’s entry into the LA Auto Show’s latest design challenge, some will even tear up the Salt Flats, looking like bionic insects with the cruelest of intentions. Each wheel of the proposed MMR25 Rally Racer gets eight little wheels for omnidirectional movement, and there’s no such thing as windshields in the future, replaced—naturally—by Star Trek tech. Here’s the run down, plus the sickest rendering of a non-existent product I have ever seen: More »
Science
MIT Developing a Battery Half the Size of a Human Cell
6:15AM Adrian Covert | MIT Researchers are working on virus-based microbatteries that are about half the size of a human cell. Using a combination of virus cultivation (which assembles itself) an soft lithography, Paula Hammond and team were able manufacture the battery, which consists of a cathode, anode and electrolyte. They hope the breakthrough will allow for applications like implantable medical sensors and labs that fit on a computer chip. [MIT via Good Clean Tech via PC World] More »
Gadgets
The Stadium of the FUTURE…Future…future
9:00AM Sean Fallon | Where will we be going to enjoy our sporting events in the future? What kind of amenities and features will the stadiums have to cater to our needs as fans? PopSci has investigated some of the up-and-coming technologies that we can expect to find in the stadium of tomorrow and compiled all of these innovations into a composite that includes the best design and technology features from a dozen cutting-edge stadium plans. More »
Computers
Scientist Predicts Flexible Computers As Shape Of Things to Come
2:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | We’ve been talking about next-gen display technology like e-paper for ages, but professor Roel Vertegaal thinks we’re not thinking about future computing flexibly enough. He’s convinced that “non-planar” computing devices with screens in almost any shape will one day be ubiquitous, and is busy building prototypes in his lab. More »
Networks
Telstra Uses Hologram To Pray For Obi-Wan Kenobi To Save Them
9:30AM Nick Broughall | The very first thing we noticed about this story is that Dr Hugh Bradlow (Telstra’s Chief Technology Officer) looks absolutely nothing like Princess Leia. The second thing was that he was wearing the wrong coloured suit to be an evil Sith Lord controlling the Empire through lies, deceit and just a little bit of conniving brilliance. So why would anybody who wasn’t a Sith Lord or a Alderanian Princess want to become a hologram? Especially a hologram in Adelaide? Well, the reason was to witness the power of this fully armed and operational battle station show off the blistering speeds of Telstra’s Next IP system. The technology, which at the moment isn’t commercially available, has potential applications in both business and education. It involves a HD camcorder recording the subject, and then a special projector to beam a 3D hologram in real time. The subject can see what’s happening where his hologram is thanks to a flat panel display streaming a (2D) video of the room. According to Telstra, the hologram technology is about 4-5 years away for businesses because of the significant cost. It’s an exciting technology. I just hope that the next Telstra AGM doesn’t involve SOl being beamed in wearing a black hoodie. [Telstra] More »
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