In nanomachine towards the future

It's not the first and it won't be the last. Scientists from the University of Groningen (Holland) and the Empa research center (Switzerland) have created a nanometric transport system equipped with four motor units (translation: a “namomachine”). It's electric, four nanometers long and every half turn of the wheels has to fill up... It works thanks to a scanning tunneling microscope positioned above it, which transmits a tiny electric charge that causes reversible structural changes in the wheels (translation: … Read more

Jobs of the near future: 26 jobs of tomorrow

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In the days that mark the fall of the Berlusconi government and the Italian economic crisis (remember? we predicted it on the old site) I am as disheartened as all of you. The moment is difficult: we can only get out of it if all levels of our country change by looking to the future more than to the past. Some jobs will still survive in the future, let's be clear: but there is a whole series of jobs that don't exist today and which could be useful in the near future. Let's go with common sense: 60%... Read more

Bang & Olufsen hits Encore

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(sponsored article) Multipurpose environments and intelligent spaces await us in the near future to pamper us and meet the needs of a presumably more stressed population: the 'show down' will travel in the opposite direction to disorder: it seems classic but one can expect rooms increasingly essential, elegant, capable of calming the soul and transmitting serenity and harmony. Speaking of harmony: what will happen to music? A factor that has been important to humans for thousands of years will not be overlooked tomorrow either: ... Read more

5×1000 to the WWF: give a gift to the future.

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Our planet needs a small overhaul: with an economy increasingly in crisis and an epochal transition from an energy system based on fossil fuels to another (hopefully ever closer) that focuses entirely on renewables, our presence activity is increasingly important to guarantee new generations greater freedom, greater variety of species and less pollution. We can do a lot: an important principle that will be able to keep our ecosystem standing is to... Read more

Met, the electric family with dual batteries does not convince us.

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One of the biggest difficulties that people have in approaching the next electric car revolution is the fear of not knowing where to go when recharging the battery: the number of electric refueling points is inevitably almost zero, and this situation still affects on purchasing choices. This concept would completely eliminate the problem: sure, the idea of ​​swapping batteries is not new, but this is absolutely the first that allows you to carry out this operation at home. … Read more

Will Playstation Tablet be the rival of iPad?

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The rumors in the IT world make it almost certain: Sony is working on a tablet with a strong vocation for games, capable of countering the primacy of the iPad in the sector. There is no doubt that the growth of Apple's product is creating quite a few problems for the Japanese company: a versatile system, capable of running games with complex graphics and equipped with its own built-in distribution and sales system: there It's like banging your head against the wall. The… Read more