https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnzBq3htsgE
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Things That are Irritating: Invention Oppurtunity
41 Inventions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e5XVxktqrk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e5XVxktqrk
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Solar Rail System - Interstate Traveler - ITC
Interstate Traveler Train Track System: (from 33:30m)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYOmZlTjsQ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYOmZlTjsQ0
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Thursday, July 10, 2014
How to fix an iPhone 5 Charging Cable Plug
Fix a iPhone 5 Charging Cable Using Heat Shrink:
Fix / Strengthen iPhone Charging Cable Connection: (wide diameter heat shrink)
Buy Heat Shrink at Radio Shack, Amazon and Ebay:
http://www.radioshack.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=2032316
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
LED energy efficiency booster
http://www.polyu.edu.hk/ife/corp/en/publications/tech_front.php?tfid=6801
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Robot helpers: helping in plain English
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73ofcHex92E&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Sent from my iPad
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Iraq Nuclear Industry Sales link with the West- a realistic history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCvygCYVUFo
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Air Hockey Robotic Player with Logic Programming...cool
Cool Air Hockey Robot:
http://www.dvice.com/2014-2-7/air-hockey-robot-offers-tabletop-battle-man-vs-machine
http://www.dvice.com/2014-2-7/air-hockey-robot-offers-tabletop-battle-man-vs-machine
Robot Ping Pong Duel-pretty cool
http://www.dvice.com/2014-2-17/ultimate-man-vs-machine-battle-hits-table-tennis-arena
Wave Energy Harvesting Ship- great idea...very cheap too
http://www.dvice.com/archives/2011/07/cheapest_wave_p.php
Light and Power from rainwater: piezo-electric generator
Awesome tech with alot of potential.
Imagine what a group of these cerlls in a rainstorm could do....power a whole house in rainy areas of the world!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvUMCip-r4A
Imagine what a group of these cerlls in a rainstorm could do....power a whole house in rainy areas of the world!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvUMCip-r4A
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Wireless Electricity - New Invention
(CNN) -- Katie Hall was shocked the second she saw it: a light-bulb glowing in middle of a room with no wires attached.
Looking back, it was a crude experiment, she remembers: a tiny room filled with gigantic cooper refrigerator coils -- the kind you'd see if you cracked open the back of your freezer.
She walked in and out between the coils and the bulb -- and still the bulb glowed.
"I said: 'Let's work on this. This is the future.'"
What's the trick?
"We're going to transfer power without any kind of wires," says Dr Hall, now Chief Technology Officer at WiTricity -- a start-up developing wireless "resonance" technology.
"But, we're not actually putting electricity in the air. What we're doing is putting a magnetic field in the air."
It works like this: WiTricity build a "Source Resonator" -- a coil of electrical wire that generates a magnetic field when power is attached.
If another coil is brought close, an electrical charge can be generated in it. No wires required.
"When you bring a device into that magnetic field, it induces a current in the device, and by that you're able to transfer power," explains Dr Hall.
And like that, the bulb lights up.
Wireless homes
Don't worry about getting zapped: Hall assures that the magnetic fields used to transfer energy are "perfectly safe" -- in fact, they are the same kind of fields used in Wi-Fi routers.
In the house of the future, wire-free energy transfer could be as easy as wireless internet.
If all goes to WiTricity's plans, smartphones will charge in your pocket as you wander around, televisions will flicker with no wires attached, and electric cars will refuel while sitting on the driveway.
WiTricity have already demonstrated their ability to power laptops, cell-phones, and TVs by attaching resonator coils to batteries -- and an electric car refueller is reportedly in the works.
Hall sees a bright future for the family without wires:
"We just don't think about it anymore: I'm going to drive my car home and I'm never going to have to go to the gas station and I'm never going to have to plug it in.
"I can't even imagine how things will change when we live like that."
World outside
Beyond these effort-saving applications, Hall sees more revolutionary steps.
When Hall first saw the wireless bulb, she immediately thought of medical technology -- seeing that devices transplanted beneath the skin could be charged non-intrusively.
WiTricity is now working with a medical company to recharge a left-ventricular assist device -- "a heart-pump essentially."
The technology opens the door to any number of mobile electronic devices which have so far been held back by limited battery lives.
"The idea of eliminating cables would allow us to re-design things in ways that we haven't yet thought of, that's just going to make our devices and everything that we interact with, that much more efficient, more practical and maybe even give brand new functionality."
What's next?
The challenge now is increasing the distance that power can be transferred efficiently. This distance -- Hall explains -- is linked to the size of the coil, and WiTricity wants to perfect the same long-distance transfers to today's small-scale devices.
For this reason, the team have high hopes for their new creation: AA-sized wirelessly rechargeable batteries.
For Hall, the applications are endless: "I always say kids will say: 'Why is it called wireless?'"
"The kids that are growing up in a couple of years will never have to plug anything in again to charge it."
Friday, March 14, 2014
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Friday, February 28, 2014
TEC Vest - Batrety Powered Travel Vest with Large Pockets
http://www.scottevest.com/v3_store/Travel_Vest.shtml
Monday, February 24, 2014
Gem of a Gem....a big deal
The tiny zircon crystal fragment found in the Jack Hills region of Western Australia helps to determine the earth's age, says University of Wisconsin geology professor John Valley.
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Washington: To put it mildly, this is one gem of a gem.
Scientists using two different age-determining techniques have shown that a tiny zircon crystal found on a sheep ranch in Western Australia is the oldest known piece of our planet, dating to 4.4 billion years ago.
Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience on Sunday, the researchers said the discovery indicates that Earth's crust formed relatively soon after the planet formed and that the little gem was a remnant of it.
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John Valley, a University of Wisconsin geoscience professor who led the research, said the findings suggest that the early Earth was not as harsh a place as many scientists have thought.
To determine the age of the zircon fragment, the scientists first used a widely accepted dating technique based on determining the radioactive decay of uranium to lead in a mineral sample.
But because some scientists hypothesised that this technique might give a false date due to possible movement of lead atoms within the crystal over time, the researchers turned to a second sophisticated method to verify the finding.
They used a technique known as atom-probe tomography that was able to identify individual atoms of lead in the crystal and determine their mass, and confirmed that the zircon was indeed 4.4 billion years old.
To put that age in perspective, the Earth itself formed 4.5 billion years ago as a ball of molten rock, meaning that its crust formed relatively soon thereafter, 100 million years later. The age of the crystal also means that the crust appeared just 160 million years after the very formation of the solar system.
The finding supports the notion of a "cool early Earth" where temperatures were low enough to sustain oceans, and perhaps life, earlier than previously thought, Professor Valley said.
This period of Earth history is known as the Hadean eon, named for ancient Greek god of the underworld Hades because of hellish conditions including meteorite bombardment and an initially molten surface.
"One of the things that we're really interested in is: when did the Earth first become habitable for life? When did it cool off enough that life might have emerged?" Professor Valley said.
The discovery that the zircon crystal, and thereby the formation of the crust, dates from 4.4 billion years ago suggests that the planet was perhaps capable of sustaining microbial life 4.3 billion years ago, Valley said.
"We have no evidence that life existed then. We have no evidence that it didn't. But there is no reason why life could not have existed on Earth 4.3 billion years ago," he added.
The oldest fossil records of life are stromatolites produced by an archaic form of bacteria from about 3.4 billion years ago.
The zircon was extracted in 2001 from a rock outcrop in Australia's Jack Hills region, about 800 kilometres north of Perth. For a rock of such importance, it is rather small. It measures only about 200 by 400 microns, about twice the diameter of a human hair.
"Zircons can be large and very pretty. But the ones we work on are small and not especially attractive except to a geologist," Professor Valley said. "If you held it in the palm of your hand, if you have good eyesight you could see it without a magnifying glass."
Thursday, January 2, 2014
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