So-called “air batteries,” in which one of the reacting chemical species is atmospheric oxygen, are already widely employed, for instance, in hearing-aid batteries, which are commonly zinc-air cells with a piece of adhesive film that must be removed before use to allow atmospheric oxygen onto the cathode.
The “Skin Gun”. A simple idea backed by stem cell research. It’s a spray gun that sprays skin. It uses your own cells, and the new skin is sprayed on – within a few *days* it’s completely healed. Still experimental, very promising. So first up, medical advances and within 10 years graffiti artists will be […]
Enchanting on every level – bike mods, great cinematography, and a rainbow at the end. Robo-rainbow by mudlevel [via Adafruit]
Smart contact lenses for health and head-up displays at New Scientist: The next time you gaze deep into someone’s eyes, you might be shocked at what you see: tiny circuits ringing their irises, their pupils dancing with pinpricks of light. These smart contact lenses aren’t intended to improve vision. Instead, they will monitor blood sugar […]
Check out the groovy art bikes of Todd Kundla–many of which have appeared on Tour de Fat.
In this intermediate soft circuit tutorial, I show you how to make a light-up patch (mine is from http://fffff.at) that can be used on your backpack for fun and bike safety. Get the code and details at http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/04/craft_video_lilypad_arduino_bi.html
This crazy story is making the rounds, it appears a virus was specifically designed to spin nuclear centrifuges. In order to do this, the virus writers most likely needed to reproduce this with the actual (duplicate) equipment… The worm itself now appears to have included two major components. One was designed to send Iran’s nuclear […]
