Its nice every now and then to see modern technology realling improving someones life, as is the case hear. An indian grocer used to get up at 3am to purchase fruit that he would sell for the remainder of the day, sometimes buying too much , having it go to waste, sometimes not enough, never knowing exactly when his regulars would show up on any given day. Now he only has to check his cell phone messages for the majority of his orders. Maybe its a little sappy, but it sure shows how some modern tech can change the world.
I borrowed the headline from the linked site
http://www.thecellfreak.com/cellphone-turns-indian-grocer-into-successful-entrepreneur/
Yes…here is another one. Different though. This one is for flying. hehe
It uses microwaves, apparently, as propulsion. It uses a cavity that directs microwaves to bounce around without loosing energy (or less of it) and this increases energy pressure which apparently can push the cavity in one direction. Now, lets see, its being pushed by microwaves.
Microwaves are photons. They have no mass. But! they have momentum. Thus, they actually CAN push things with force. They have very very very^10 small momentum though, so it is his cavity shape that hopefully can magnify the force. I don’t even think to be able to understand this, although the basic idea is easy. Oh, and some chinese company has already tried to buy this. lol
Now, apparently, he also wants to use this for cars. I dont know how well thats going to go, but, check it out here
I gotta say though, the sheer number of promising methods for transporation is just mind bloggling. I can’t believe there are so many of these that arent even getting the attention and funding they deserve.
So, in addition to the air car, we have the ceramic electric car. Yes, its batter powered. No, it doesnt have 5 tons of acid. It uses ceramics to store electricity, similar to a capacitor. Translated: Charges in seconds, doesn’t blow up, and has theoretically infinite number of charge cycles. Its also cheap and holds more power. Their estimate of their car is 500 miles/9 bucks of electricity. Charged in about 5 minutes. Their declaring that it can drive like a Ferrari, I’m going to hold out on that, but seriously, either of these cars actually become reality, we are going to be 
Read it here
Yes, 1000 pages per minute.
Sadly, it has not been built. :’( slight problem there eh?
But, its an interesting printer head that looks plain wierd. Its just plain wierd. Seriously. I dont know how to describe this. Just read it. here. 
Now, lets see:
Car runs on plain air. Check
Car works. Check
Car exists. Check
Car to be sold next year. Check
Car can drive from CA to NY on one tank. Check
Car has awesome milage. Check
Car costs ~15,000 bucks. CHECK!
Go Go Go!
Although, I really think their idea of using aluminum as the chassis, is just slightly stupid, as aluminium is flammable. Provided, there is less gasoline in the engine now, but still, its “bloodly flammable.”
The plan uses compressed air as the force to drive the pistons up and down. For higher mileage and speed, it will use a bit of gasoline or biofuel to help the air. Takes a few min to compress all the tanks, which are made of carbon fiber ( )
It has an onboard compressor that will do its work in 4 hours when plugged in at home. This sounds more and more like the next revolution in transportation.
Now, lets get this thing into the market shall we?
Check out the video here
Okay, these aren’t just old phones. The closest thing to a flip phone amongst these dinosaurs is the briefcase phone where the lid flips up to actually get to the headset, about 2x the size of our current cordless phone in the kitchen.
More pictures here
http://www.ezprezzo.com/crazypics/portable_phones.html
Ok, I have to get this straight with everyone who reads flashladybug.
Now, yesterday, CERN’s new neutrino laser came “online.” It was officially commissioned into use.
This is a neutrino laser, mind you. Billions of neutrinos pass through the earth every day, and guess what, we dont feel it, see it, hear it, or anything else it.
Neutrinos have such little effect on matter that their one of the hardest types of particles to detect.
What do you think a neutrino laser would do? It’ll GO THROUGH YOU. Nothing…maybe one random molecular damage hit, 1 in a billion. There are people running around with signs and shrilly screaming that the world is going to end. With all due respect, if one of you is reading this blog right now, I would like to smack you. Hard.
First of all, what you people are frothing at the mouth about is the CERN lasers and particle accelerators creating either mini black holes or stranglets. Now, why in gods name would you protest against the neutrino laser? Its seriously not able to interact with ordinary matter much. Particle acclerators, sure, theres a minute chance that it could happen. Stranglets are theoretical objects, and high speed impacts could perhaps create quark matter. This is not strangelets. Black holes. Lets see, steven hawking first theorized about these things. Tiny black holes that have a fraction of the suns mass. Their properties are similar to normal black holes, only they vaporize in microseconds. Their size and matter within itself expells in its emissions. There wouldnt be any black hole.
Again, its absolutely nonsensical to protest the neutrino laser, and second of all what are they going to do about it?
Yes, the United States Government is going to ban all mini black holes or stranglets. All such objects are hereby illegal and will be considered contraband. Creation or transportation of such objects will be punishable with a fine no less than 2 trillion dollars and lifetime prison sentence.
*Provided the world still exists
It just aint going to happen. Honestly, think about it. Then, email me if you still think this way. I’m bored.
U of Arizona physicists have created a new transistor type. Called “QuIET” Its materials? One molecule.
What molecule? Benzene. Right now, we have 65 nm transistors. Theoretical limit of current technology is 25 nm, at which point it would eat electricty worse than a manhatten sized city. And vaporize while doing it too! More bang for your buck.
Nah, we dont really like vaporized laptops or pcs, so, why not use molecules themselves? Using a benzene ring, attach three leads from the ring. Two would have electric potential. Normally, the two currents would add, but we’re in the quantum physics domain, where electrons are waves. And waves can cancel! Thats the “off” state. Add a third lead, and you can change the phase of the waves. If their not exact opposites, they dont cancel, and you get current on the third lead. Voila! transistor. Very hard to accomplish, since this is quantum mechanics. predicting electron flow and phases is pretty difficult eh?
If they can figure out how to practically use this tech, Stafford states that we could have computer cpus the size of an e coli bacteria pack the current high end punch. yay!
Get to it.
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Really?….apparently, it also codes for location of organelles and objects within the cell, aka (nucleosome placements) Quite a discovery…this may provide larger control over genes and gene activation. Breaking the code that contains the locations of the organelles, scientists have reached 50% accuracy, quite high for such an achievement.
A comment on this article was:
Scientists, upon interpreting the second code in our DNA were astonished to find it spelled, “God, Inc. - Patent Pending”
by pbaehr
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Well, it’s been 50 years since the first kidney transplant between two live, identitcal twins (the only people at first who could accept foreign organs without problems, because of similar DNA.)
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=000DC
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