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Here is the shoe that recharges the smartphone

March 4 2016

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The future is already here. If it is true that the latest generation smartphones require more and more energy and longer charging cycles, it is also true that science and technology are making giant strides in seeking new alternative sources of energy. An example are these shoes that allow you to recharge your smartphone while walking. It's called Vibram Hero, and it's a shoe that allows, through a special technological innovation, to accumulate electrical energy every time its sole... Read more

Superlight solar cells arrive

March 3 2016

The future will be made of solar cells, yes, but super light and very small. In fact, MIT researchers announced to the world that they had created the lightest and thinnest solar cell ever, which could easily be placed on any material and surface, such as t-shirts, smartphones and sheets of paper. To always have a clean energy source. To show everyone that the cells are really very light, scientists placed the solar cell on a soap bubble, without ... Read more

Here's how knowledge will be implanted in the future

March 2 2016

It's everyone's dream: to go to sleep and wake up with some more knowledge, perhaps having learned four or five languages and having become expert economists. Since the dawn of time, studying and learning has been the result of effort and sacrifice, but perhaps in the future it will no longer be the case. In fact, researchers at HRL Laboratories, based in California, claimed in recent days that they had found a way to amplify learning by feeding the brain. Just like in the movie… Read more

3D printing of human organs and tissues is reality

February 25 2016

We have all asked ourselves at least once: but what is 3D printing for? To many things, including the faithful reproduction of human organs and tissues. Will organ donation become a distant memory? Reading the latest news, it seems so. The news was broken by the team at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, whose researchers have found a way to print "living" tissues and organs that can function properly when implanted in the body of ... Read more

Seeds to purify water

February 24 2016

Drinking water is a precious commodity, which is completely lacking in many countries around the world. To win the battle against malnutrition and lack of drinking water, scientists are looking to the past, to be precise to ancient Egypt, when at the time of the pharaohs water was made good and drinkable thanks to the use of some seeds. Among the many research on the subject, the one carried out by Pennsylvania State University stands out, which was responsible for examining this topic in depth to find methods that ... Read more

Science against Google

February 24 2016

Problems ahead for the most famous and used search engine in the world, as the scientific community has lashed out against the US giant, accusing it of not being neutral in the propagation of search results and of offering only commercial ones in the scale of results, which often they do not rhyme with quality results. There are many problems that Big G has to face these days, from the complaint of abuse of a dominant position by the European Community, ... Read more

Cyclee: a device projects the cyclist's intentions onto the shirt

February 23 2016

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Science is often at the service of common life and, above all in this case, the aim is to improve safety and everyday gestures by making them simpler and more functional. It happens with Cyclee, a project developed by designer Elnur Babayev which is about to be released on a global scale. How does this system work? Everything is very simple, as it is a luminous dispenser that is positioned on the back of the bicycle seat, a sort of drain… Read more

The drone eye is copied from insects

February 18 2016

Mini drones, or drones that have the shape of an insect, are very particular robotic devices, as they manage to enter places inaccessible to humans, photographing what they see and therefore offering a real-time report of the situation. This is a sector in which science is investing a lot, and which is therefore becoming increasingly sophisticated. But how can insect drones see in low light? To give life to… Read more

The world's smallest bulb has been created

February 17 2016

Research increasingly looks at the creation of powerful but environmentally friendly light sources, which are able to ensure high performance with a long life. Here researchers at Columbia University in New York have created the smallest light bulb in the world, strong and powerful but as large as an atom. The secret of creation is to be found in the presence of graphene, a flexible and transparent material which was used as the basis for the light source. Graphene… Read more

In the sky, a satellite that monitors the health of the earth

February 16 2016

On June 23 last year, the Sentinel 2A satellite flew among the stars, a device that will monitor the health of our planet using colors. That's right, as the satellite is equipped with a special camera connected to the Sentinel 1A radar, which can scrutinize large swathes of territory using reduced frequencies and which can therefore monitor the changes that have occurred in global agricultural crops, offering an accuracy of unprecedented images. It's about… Read more

A device produces clean energy through evaporation

February 15 2016

At first glance it may seem like a nice colorful toy, but in reality it is a refined device designed to produce electricity. It is a device developed by researchers at Columbia University, who used very special materials to create an instrument that exploits the humidity present in the air to generate 'clean' electrical energy. The device was made with colored Lego bricks, a sheet of rubber coated with spores, a coil and … Read more

Goodbye to air conditioners: 3D bricks that cool the air are arriving

February 12 2016

Modern science is increasingly concerned with finding solutions for domestic well-being. During the summer seasons the heat can be unbearable, especially in the hottest locations and in the central hours of the day. Many people are therefore led to purchase an air conditioner, i.e. a device that conveys hot air and cools it by reintroducing it into the cold environment and therefore lowering the overall temperature of the environment. From today these systems could be replaced by a very special invention, namely climate bricks made of ... Read more

Unexplained area discovered on the surface of Mars

February 11 2016

Stars and planets are fascinating universes, which every day reveal dark and difficult to explain areas. It happened recently with the discoveries involving the planet Pluto, where a mountain chain was discovered that overturns every scientific thought carried out so far and it also happens today with Mars, a planet that seemed to have been studied in every single portion of it. The Curiosity probe has in fact detected the presence of a very special area in the crater area... Read more

A smartwatch that reads the veins

February 10 2016

Will Samsung's new smartwatches be able to do everything, even read our biometric data with extreme precision and our veins? Apparently, yes. And so after fingerprints, facial features, voice and iris, in the future wearable electronic devices such as smartwatches could recognize the owner by his veins. The idea is part of a Samsung patent published by the US patent and trademark office. … Read more

The cockroach robot that saves our lives

February 9 2016

The cockroach robot that could save the lives of many people is called CRAM. It is a robot designed by Berkeley University, definitely inspired by the structure of one of the most hated insects in the world - the cockroach. Cram is defined as a "compressible robot with articulated mechanisms", which could be used in the event of natural disasters to search for and rescue any survivors. The last frontier of robots is precisely that of using them in rescue missions, which often prove impossible... Read more

Google is the virtual reality viewer

February 8 2016

Will 2016 be the year of virtual reality, or augmented reality? Many analysts believe so. And Google doesn't want to miss the opportunity. Already in mid-January the company announced the launch of a new division, which will focus exclusively on the development of projects related to virtual reality. In fact, the strong competition from Facebook and its Oculus should not be forgotten. Google CEO Sundar Pichai has named Clay Bavor to head the division, which previously ran Gmail and Drive. Being… Read more

EasyJet, the hydrogen hybrid plane arrives

February 7 2016

Not just electric and hybrid cars: the airline sector also wants to renew itself, and EasyJet wants to lead the way with the project of a hydrogen hybrid plane. In fact, air pollution also comes from airplanes, and the EasyJet company has been trying for many years to reduce CO2 emissions and become more "green." The company recently presented the concept of an aircraft that uses fuel cells to power the engines during hovering. … Read more

The app against Parkinson's disease is born

February 5 2016

Precisely today that Parkinson's disease has taken away Maurice White, founder and leader of Earth, Wind & Fire, we talk about how technology can help those suffering from this pathology. A team of British researchers is in fact experimenting with the use of an app to monitor the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, helping those who suffer from it in many ways. If at the beginning we thought that wearable devices were almost useless or just nice to look at, the introduction of parameter analysis… Read more

With HoloLens sport becomes 3D

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What will it be like to watch the sport of the future? With Hololens, futuristic Black Mirror-style scenarios, with each of us equipped with a microcomputer and recorder in our eyes, is not that far away. If we no longer hear about Google Glass, in fact, Microsoft's HoloLens project is more alive than ever, and shows us today what it will be like to watch the sport of the future. The first models of HoloLens will be given to developers only in March this year (at a cost… Read more

First results of DARPA brain implants: improve memory

February 3 2016November 27, 2015

According to DARPA statements, the group of volunteers who underwent brain implants are experiencing improvements in memory. The project, Restoring Active Memory (curiously the acronym is RAM, just like the memory of a computer) can promote the mnemonic and cognitive recovery of all subjects affected by brain trauma. The group of volunteers, subjected to surgery for the positioning of brain implants through electrodes close to the regions of the brain responsible for the development of declarative memory, obtained better results... Read more

Alphabet starts to move: in the Google Loon test phase, the web goes on a hot air balloon

February 3 2016November 26, 2015

Alphabet, the Google super-holding founded in August which unites innovative companies in the field of new technologies and medicine, is about to enter the testing phase with its first project, Google Loon. It is a series of sounding balloons that travel at high altitudes creating a global internet transmission network. The web giant has asked the Federal Communications Commission for a license to test experimental radio mechanisms in 50 states of American soil and in Puerto Rico, attaching a ... Read more

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