Notes'The "biothermal battery" under development by Biophan Technologies of West Henrietta, will generate electricity using arrays of thousands of thermoelectric generators built into an implantable chip.'Unfurl
Notes"The system constantly buffers the last 30 seconds of whatever you're looking at, and can save the buffer to permanent storage at the press of a button."Unfurl
Notes"For the first time in humans, a team headed by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has placed an electronic grid atop patients' brains to gather motor signals that enable patients to play a computer game using only the signals from their brUnfurl
Notes"The authors explain why self-replication, contrary to previous understanding, is unnecessary for building an efficient and effective molecular manufacturing system."Unfurl
Notes"Motivated by free music and video, millions of people have learned that it isn't really that hard to do, especially if there is a 12 year-old available to help." The Singularity will be ushered in by ages 8-12.Unfurl
Notes"The Tongue Display Unit (TDU) can activate areas that are normally reserved for visual information and are unused when someone suffers from congenital blindness. "Unfurl
Notes"Geoscientists are cringing as news reports dredge up what they have long considered a preposterous assertion about the origin of oil: That none of the fossil fuels found on this planet come from fossils."Unfurl
Notes"A patented implantable power system could provide as much as a 30-year power source to “trickle charge� batteries for implantable devices by converting thermal energy produced naturally by the human body into electrical energy"Unfurl
Notes"Texas Instruments has successfully demonstrated running PCI Express over cabling reserved for Gigabit Ethernet, the first step toward a modular desktop PC." Next, make it wireless!Unfurl
Notes"If successful, the probe would be used for the early diagnosis of cancers and pre-cancers of the gastrointestinal system." My uncle died from colon cancer. It runs in the family. This tech would be a good thing.Unfurl
Notes"While the new studies provide an initial proof of principle that human application of brain-machine interfaces is possible, the researchers emphasize that many years of development and clinical testing will be required before such neuroprosthetic devicesUnfurl
Notes"In essence, your body would just be burning additional calories." As long as it didn't cause any adverse side-effects, this sounds like a cool solution to powering personal gadgets and using up excess calories all at once.Unfurl
Notes"It takes instructions directly from an architect's computerised drawings and then squirts successive layers of concrete on top of one other to build up vertical walls and domed roofs."Unfurl
Notes"A gel that's poured into joint damage and solidifies in light has shown promise for regrowing cartilage, providing support to cells as they regenerate tissue."Unfurl
Notes"Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the University of Rome have found a way to mobilize stem cells to achieve a major regeneration of damaged tissue."Unfurl
Notes"Petroleum reserves are limited. Petroleum is not a renewable resource and production cannot continue to increase indefinitely. A day of reckoning will come sometime in the future."Unfurl
Notes"The conclusion is clear: if we do not immediately plan to make the switch to renewable energy ... then civilisation faces the sharpest and perhaps most violent dislocation in recent history."Unfurl
Notes"the most rapid innovation in American history occurred not in the booming 1990s ... but in the period between the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 - the period we still call the Great Depression."Unfurl
Notes"Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England have devised a way to grow vertical forests of carbon nanotubes on flexible plastic."Unfurl
Notes"A new method has been developed for cheaply making molecules to block the activity of genes in cells, promising to accelerate the discovery of what specific genes do—including genes associated with diseases."Unfurl