360ski from yb.nl. 11 cheap gifts guaranteed to impress science geeks. Science comes up with a lot of awesome stuff, and you don't need a Ph.D, a secret lab, or government funding to get your hands on some of the coolest discoveries.
We've got a list of 11 mostly affordable gifts that are guaranteed to blow your mind, whether or not you're a science geek. Click on any image to see it enlarged. 1. Aerogel Also known as frozen smoke, Aerogel is the world's lowest density solid, clocking in at 96% air. Aerogel isn't just neat, it's useful. Price: $35 2. Inside these sealed glass balls live shrimp, algae, and bacteria, all swimming around in filtered seawater. EcoSpheres came out of research looking at ways to develop self-contained ecosystems for long duration space travel.
Price: $80. Into the abyss: The diving suit that turns men into fish - Science, News. The invention of scuba diving has allowed us to breathe underwater but only at very shallow depths.
Thanks to our inability to conquer the bends, diving below 70m still remains astonishingly dangerous to anyone but a handful of experts. Ultra-deep diving is so lethal that more people have walked on the moon than descended below 240m using scuba gear. Now an inventor in the United States believes he has solved the riddle of how to get humans down to serious depths – by getting us to breathe liquid like fish. Kinect hack creates world's greatest shadow puppet (video) N-Control Avenger gives your Xbox 360 controller hair triggers (video) Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop. CRAFT Video: Craft Meets Tech at MIT. Honda's U3-X Personal Mobility Prototype. Robots learning our pain threshold by punching humans and seeing if they cry. Neurosonics Live.
Sonic Boom Meets Sun Dog. Cardboard Mechanics Installation. A Robotic Snake Swimming in Water. CCT Map 1-Can computers have emotions? Scientists Can Now Decode 10 Words from Your Thoughts. Behold The Chipophone, The Amazing Chiptune Organ. Magnetic Thinking Putty: Bouncing Putty infused with magnetic properties. Thinking putty with mind-blowing magnetic properties Overview: Magnetic Thinking Putty takes regular "silly" putty and turns its awesomeness up to 11.
Like any other putty, it can be stretched, bounced, molded, popped, and torn. However, when this putty is in the presence of a magnetic field, it exhibits fascinating properties. Millions of tiny micron-sized magnets are embedded in each handful of Magnetic Thinking Putty. Ages 8+. Features & specs: Dimensions (metal container): 4" diameter x 1.375" tallPutty weight: 3.2 ouncesIncludes strong ceramic magnet Ages 8+Made in the USA. Graceful, Slim HRP-4 Humanoid Robot Unveiled; Destined for Menial Labor. Japan's newest RoboCop-looking humanoid robot practices yoga, tracks faces and objects and, in what seems to be a robo-requirement these days, pours drinks.
The industrial HRP-4 robot was designed to coexist with people, and its "thin athlete" frame is meant to be more appealing, according to Kawada Industries, which built the robot with Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. Spray-on clothing becomes a reality. A Spanish fashion designer has developed the world's first spray-on clothing that can be worn, washed and worn again.
Manel Torres joined forces with scientists at Imperial College London to invent the spray, which forms a seamless fabric on contact with the body. Torres took 15 minutes to spray a T-shirt onto a male model in a demonstration today, ahead of his spring/summer collection at the Science in Style fashion show in London next week. The spray consists of short fibres that are mixed into a solvent, allowing it to be sprayed from a can or high-pressure spray gun. The fibres are mixed with polymers that bind them together to form a fabric. The texture of the fabric can be varied by using wool, linen or acrylic fibres. The fabric, which dries when it meets the skin, is very cold when it is sprayed on, a limitation that may frustrate hopes for spray-on trousers and other garments.
Sony Ericsson FH Mobile Phone Concept by Du Jun. The Turning Point For A Phone I love covering concept phones that may not have substance to them (tech-backing), but nevertheless are fun to read about. Featured here is a concept Sony Ericsson FH Mobile Phone that has a pivotal point to it. It flips vertical on a pivot to mimic a phone and rotates sideways to become a viewing screen for the media functions and web browsing. The phone even becomes an intercom of sorts when split into two, allowing easy communication between the two parties holding each end. Jurassic Park in real life?! Peter Molyneux demos Milo, the virtual boy. Google Goggles - Visual Search: Google Real Time Search Without Typing.
Home » News, Tech/Gadget » Google Goggles – Visual Search: Google Real Time Search Without Typing Today Google demoed a brand new product set to launch in Google Labs: Google Goggles.
Google Goggles is now live in Labs. It will be Android-only for now, and it’s available in the Android market. The example that Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra showed on stage involved taking a picture of a particular bottle of wine. Spatial Interaction: technical prototype. Columbia Engineers Prove Graphene is Strongest Material. July 21, 2008 Columbia Engineers Prove Graphene is the Strongest Material Research scientists at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science have achieved a breakthrough by proving that the carbon material graphene is the strongest material ever measured.
Science News: Nanoguitar. Photo by D.
Carr and H. Craighead, Cornell. The world's smallest guitar is 10 micrometers long -- about the size of a single cell -- with six strings each about 50 nanometers, or 100 atoms, wide. High-Speed Robot Hand. Token multitouch screen shows us the future of DJing, today (video)