The American Chemical Society assembled its grand hive mind of chemists for the 239th time in San Francisco last week. Among the 12,000 presentations delivered across a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines, a presentation by doctors Tongxiang Fan, Di Zhang, and Han Zhou of the State Key Lab of Matrix Composites at Shanghai Jiaotong University highlighted a rapidly growing trend in chemical engineering. The group presented efforts towards designing renewable energy systems with a synthetic leaf, where the prototype would capture photons and use them to change water into hydrogen fuel. (more…)
Geneva’s high energy physics juggernaut CERN shattered records and pushed scientists closer towards their quest to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang this morning. Reports indicate that the particle collider recorded nearly half a million events after three hours of operating at a mind boggling energy of 7 TeV. And that is just half of its proposed design energy.
This week’s app is called Chalkboard Stunts and it’s done by Manta Research. I’d sum this game up as excite bike on a chalk board with a truck. Except you can’t build your own courses. Aside from that it’s a fun little app from the company who’s also done other games like Cubes, Cubix, AppSniper, and Virus.
The objective of the game is to navigate your truck through various obstacles using the controls provided. Four onscreen buttons allow you to go forward or backward and also rotate your truck clockwise and counter clockwise in case you get flipped over.
What do you get when you mix biotechnology with your Inkjet printer?
A lot of awesome that’s what.
H+ Magazine recently featured a great article on bioprinting, but its just one aspect of fabrication that is likely going to be an emerging trend in the early 21st century. Gone are the days where you are stuck printing documents. Now you will have the ability to print 3D objects, and even living tissues if you desire. One day it might just fit on your desktop. (more…)
It’s been announced that this year’s BlizzCon will be held in Anaheim California on Friday October 22nd and Saturday October 23rd 2010. BlizzCon is not only a gaming convention, it’s a gaming convention held by the company that makes one of the top selling game series ever, Call of Duty.
Also, Activision/Blizzard of course make other landmark titles like Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo universe games. These three massivly multiplayer games have killed millions of hours of peoples time and BlizzConn is a time for all the gaming geeks like me to get together and have a blast IRL.
Some things to look forward to at BlizzCon are:
Hand on demos with upcoming games
A forum with Blizzard Developers
Both cut throat and friendly tournaments to show your skills
contests and prizes
special commemorative gear
and more that Blizzard will announce in the months to come
The last BlizzCon, featuring Ozzy Osbourne, sold out in minutes so keep your eye out here by subscribing to our gaming posts and on the Blizzard website (http://www.blizzard.com) for ticket info.
Nintendo is slated to discuss their attempt at a 3D DS at this summer’s E3. More ambitiously, they’ve set a release date for the platform in March 2011. (more…)
Sprint has announced that this summer it will be releasing the HTC Evo, a 4G Android phone. It seems like people have given up on an “iPhone killer” but this is quite a powerful phone. (more…)
Early 21st century convergence in cellular systems biology, bio-materials engineering, and regenerative medicine demonstrate exciting first steps in building functional organs. Ultimately, these advancements would potentially allow disabled people to replace their prosthetic or faulty organs with actual limbs and tissue. Visionary aspirations for this technology foresee an age of full blown bionics, where technology inspired by Neuromancer or Blade Runner becomes part of daily life, and helps cure currently untreatable diseases. (more…)
Yesterday Google announced that they’d be removing any form of censorship from searches in China. Since Google has been in the China they’ve always bowed to the will of the Chinese government and filtered search results. Censor no more. Chinese Googlers will now be redirected from Google.cn to Google.hk (more…)
Today Google announced that they’d be adding a feature in Google Calendar labs that searches for free time for meetings, automatically. This is a feature people in the enterprise are familiar with in big expensive calendar programs and now Google is giving it a shot using their ranking algorithms.
