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Oscar Pistorius, the South African paralympic runner, has won a major victory with the Court of Arbitration for the Olympic Games. Pistorius' name may not be familiar to you, but his nicknames might be. Sometimes called the "Blade Runner" or "The Fastest Man on No Legs," Pistorius arrived on this planet with a birth defect that necessitated the amputation of
It's been a very busy octane fueled week for me with a motor show and the F1 circus just winding up here in Melbourne (I hope I never have to choose between gadgets and cars!) One of the things that had me thinking this week was the number of "green" cars that were on show and the varieties of methods
A group of eminent natural sciantists from some of the worlds best know instituations (like Harvard, the Smithsonian and the Natural History Museum) have gotten together to launch an ambitious project to build a catalog of the 1.8 Million known species on earth. The Encyclopedia of Life wants to build a dedicated web site for each species within the encyclopedia,
I put out a challenge to my podcast listeners to try and guess what Robert Scoble cried over when he saw it, and today he revealed it is the WorldWide Telescope.
University of Michigan has created a laser that produces 300 TerraWatts of power (which is a large number). It only produces it for a millionth of a billionth of a second in an area 100th of the diameter of a human hair. The laser takes 10 minutes to charge which is quicker than any of Hercules' predecessors. There are multiple
The frustration with the attitude we have taken in addressing global climate change concerns is some of the cool technologies that could be already but have not been able to get funding. Now that the general public opinion, and therefore government concern, is directed towards the potential detrimental effects of fossil fuel use there is money available to get research
The problem solar panels have had to date is that they are more expensive than coal power ($3/W to $1/W). This is only really a problem of scale and funding though as is proven by the Nanosolar Powersheet which won the Popular Science Green Tech Grand Award for 2007. While they are no more efficient than the current solar cells,