2007 is approaching its finish line, bringing us one step closer to the future. This was a year packed with new technologies, new applications, important (and not-so-important, but certainly nonetheless interesting) discoveries and inventions. Here we present some of the ...
Printing Cheap Chips
The San Francisco based Company Kovio has recently announced the development of a new process for printing transistors for memory and logic chips, as well as analog devices for radio transmitters. Since the technology uses commercial printing equipment such as ...
sQuba – Who Said Cars Can’t Dive?
The Swiss Company Rinspeed has developed a new concept car called “sQuba”, which is the world’s first ‘green’ diving car. This innovative car is capable of driving on roads just like a normal car, yet it can also be turned ...
SkySails – Towing Kites For Ships
SkySails is a new alternative propulsion system for ships. This innovative system consists of a large automated towing kite designed to significantly decrease ships’ operation costs. The kite has a nominal power of up to 5,000 kW (about 6,800 HP), ...
Power Through Movement Technology
The Idaho based Company Motion 2 Energy has recently developed a system capable of channeling the energy created by movement into electric energy. The motion required for generating the energy can be either human or vehicular, and the electric energy ...
PathFindIR – Car Thermal Imaging
Developed by the U.S. Company FLIR Systems, PathFindIR is a compact thermal imaging camera for cars, designed to ensure safe driving even on the darkest nights or stormiest days. The device is based on the same technology used by the ...
T-Ray Scanner to Protect Airports, Detect Cancer
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues in Turkey and Japan, have created a compact device that may serve as a basis for developing a portable, battery-operated source of terahertz radiation, known as ...
360-Degrees Panoramic System for the ‘Big Boys’
The Israeli company ODF Optronics has developed a new system for armored vehicles, which provides users inside the vehicle with full panoramic view of the outside environment. The “Omni-Directional Reconnaissance” (ODR) device makes the hazardous task of sweeping the surroundings ...
POV.1 – Video Camera with a Twist
The Michigan based company V.I.O has developed a durable, waterproof, dustproof and shock resistant video camera, called POV. 1. The camera head can be attached almost anywhere and in addition to DVD-quality recording enables on-the-go editing and on-line sharing of ...
Strong, Light, Transparent Plastic
Researchers from the University of Michigan (UM) have developed a composite plastic, which they say is strong as steel, but much lighter and transparent. The material’s molecular structure mimics that of the iridescent material that lines mussel and oyster shells ...