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  • #batteries

    Making Powerful, Lightweight Batteries From Nothing But Nanotube Ink and Paper

    Reading the electronic-media narrative as it plays out in many popular tech and news blogs, one would think we are hurtling toward a future where paper is all but unnecessary. More »
    12/08/09
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    By Popular Science
  • #roundups

    Ecomodo - The Best of Treehugger

    This week on TreeHugger.com, bacteria that glows when it senses landmines, grass-covered computer mouses, a super sponge that absorbs anything but water, an awesome Garmin GPS add-on greens your driving, and more... More »
    11/18/09
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    By Jaymi Heimbuch
  • #designers

    This Woman Will Make Our Walls Breathe

    Every single day we oooh and aahhh over the latest design concepts, but right now, let's focus on one of the minds behind such designs and smile in awe of her motivations and inspirations. Meet MIT designer, Neri Oxman. More »
    11/17/09
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  • #nanotech

    The Sponge That Can Absorb 180 Times Its Own Weight (In Toxic Sludge)

    That tiny, plastic-looking black cube up there can absorb up to 180 times its own weight in toxic waste without absorbing any water. How? As with just about every amazing and/or inexplicable scientific breakthrough nowadays, the answer is spelled N-A-N-O. More »
    11/10/09
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  • #roundups

    EcoModo - The Best of TreeHugger

    This week on TreeHugger, a weird solar phone that'll get you to stop upgrading, green robots that will be our overlords, cool augmented reality for cyclists, digital ants that swarm your computer, and more! More »
    09/29/09
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    By Jaymi Heimbuch
  • #science

    OLED Displays Go Rubbery

    Researchers from the University of Tokyo have created OLED displays that have all the durability of a super ball. More »
    05/11/09
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  • #gizexplains

    Giz Explains: Speakers From the Future

    Last week, we explained the difference between $100 and $100,000 speakers. But in the name of clarity, we focused on traditional loudspeakers, around longer than Keith Richards. Here are the newer crazier types. More »
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    04/22/09
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  • #robots

    Soft Robotics Offer the Automatons Yet Another Way to Take Over the Earth

    Between this post about "soft robots," those nanotube muscles we talked about earlier this week, and the last scene of Battlestar Galactica, I have no doubt that our future is very robotic indeed. More »
    03/22/09
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  • #manvsmachine

    These Carbon Nanotube Muscles Are 30 Times Stronger Than Human Muscles

    These next gen carbon nanotube muscles have "diamond-like" stiffness side to side, but are as flexible as rubber when moved perpendicularly. When voltage is applied to the structures, they contract with a pulling force 30 times the force per unit of human muscles. More »
    03/19/09
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  • #spaceelevator

    New NASA Carbon Material Could Make Space Elevators Possible

    The idea of an elevator that could transport humans into space with ease has long been a fantasy of science fiction writers. However, a new form of carbon ribbon could actually make it possible. More »
    01/22/09
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