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This Metal Is So Light It Can Sit On A Dandelion

How is this even possible? It is actually made by Boeing and it has many potential applications.  The structure is made of 99.99% air even though it is metal.  Researcher Sophia Yang is in the video explaining some of the details.  A microlattice is basically a 3D polymer structure which enabled them to configure the tungsten

New Camera Can See Around Corners…Seriously

How did they do this? Hint: They used a very clever process to achieve this.  At first glance or notion, one might think of something like a periscope that peeks around the corner.  That could potentially work in a literal sense but it wouldn’t be very effective.  Here is a bit more background on how

Diamonds Can Now Be Made At Room Temperature

Wait..what? Diamonds are extremely rare although this breakthrough may make them more common.  That can be a bit of a stretch but there is a special state of carbon called Q-carbon that makes this possible.  It has ferromagnetic properties, which if you have seen videos of ferrofluid, that may be a crude way of understanding

Quantum Computers Are Insanely Fast

these things will blow you away… Quantum computers don’t compute in 0s and 1s they use qubits. Say what? In simple terms it is almost in a state of reacting to multiple factors at once instead of being broken down into mini yes or no commands. What does this mean? Well, some are saying it

Li-Fi May Be 10,000% Faster Than Wi-Fi

Whoa.. The advent of wi-fi has changed computing as we know it, enabling high speed wireless connections from just about anywhere.  Now there is a new game in town “Li-Fi” and it might be up to 100 times faster than wi-fi.  That seems like quite an accomplishment and would reduce slower upload and download speeds,

3D Hologram You Can Actually Touch

Awesome.. Scientists in Japan have made an incredible hologram that may surprise you. To get into very technical terminology, they rendered the graphics using a focused femtosecond laser mixed with computational holographic fields. Aside from the cool factor, think of all the potential applications for this down the line. Gaming, medical technology and other arenas

4D Printing…What The Heck Is That?

The 3D printing revolution has changed things fast.  The most wide spread application is likely for figurines and it has quickly spread to metal parts and other industrial applications.  Now there are talks about 4D printing?  Yes and the scientist who discusses it in this article is named Skylar Tibbits.  He is hoping it won’t be too far

Invisibility Jacket Makes It Look Like You Are See Through

Some of us may remember the movie Predator from the 1980s where the bad alien could become virtually invisible in the jungle. Now scientists have made a similar technology in their labs…seriously.  It actually uses nanotechnology to make it appear like the scenery behind you is actually in front of you.  This creates the illusion

There Futuristic Transportation Methods Will Amaze

Would you take any of these? Transporation has evolved over the millenia and centuries from the wheel to the steam engine and the use of fossil fuel based engines. However, we are at somewhat of a crossroads in the sense that a lot of methods may not be sustainable. So what is the solution? Is

It Flashes 90 Billion Time Per Second

Is this possible? Apparently some researchers have had an initial win in a light source used in quantum computing.  Companies like Intel and D-Wave Systems have poured a ton of money and resources into this area.  Most microprocessors compute on a series of states of 0 or 1.  Quantum computing uses something called q-bits which

WiFi That Can See Through Walls In This Video

Have they gone too far? WiFi has become ubiquitous with the internet and now researchers are taking it to a new level: A team of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has long believed that wireless signals like WiFi can be used to see things that are invisible to the naked

Is Nanotechnology The Future Of Solar Power?

There have been some great strides in the world of efficient energy, particularly within the solar power area.  And now, scientists think the next step may be smaller not bigger: Technology is getting smaller and smaller — but NOTHING compares to nanotechnology. As we learn more about how materials behave on the nanoscale, we have

They Made A Tractor Beam That Works With Sound

Science fiction is fast becoming science reality.  Now Star Wars and other movies about tractor beams may not be so far off: A team of researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex in collaboration with Ultrahaptics have built the world’s first sonic tractor beam that can lift and move objects using sound waves. Tractor

They’re 3D Printing Palm Trees In Dubai

Will these catch on?  Apparently this country in the middle east which has lots of natural palm trees is now 3D printing some? The municipality of mega-rich Dubai is to cross the city’s palm with silver once again, as it plans to deploy another of its successful “Smart Palm” technology hubs. The structures, of which

They 3D Printed A Jet Engine

Seriously.. This inventor made a 3D printed jet engine.  This is pretty impressive and here is a diagram that he generously shared.  (Note:  Do not try this without the supervision of a professional): White blades are “Intake” Blue blades are “Compression” Pink blade is “Power” Green blades are “Exhaust” Intake, Compression, Combustion/Power, Exhaust Air is

The Lightest Metal Ever…

Light and strong metals have incredible technological and medical applications.  Tungsten for example has gotten a lot of press lately for these reasons.  And apparently they have made a metal now that is lighter than all other metals: Microlattice is the lightest metal ever made. At 99.99% air, it’s light enough to balance on top

This New Sensor Can Actually See Through Walls

This is for real.  Science fiction is quickly becoming science reality.  This new sensor can actually see through walls. (Hint no James Bond stuff yet with spying capabilities but awesome none the less).  Here is the company that made it: The Walabot is a new 3D imaging sensor that can detect movement and speed, see

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