One cubic millimeter computer for patients with glaucoma

This mini computer has been designed for pressure measurement and being implanted in eye of patients suffering from glaucoma. The computer is equipped with a pressure sensor, a lithium battery, a 4086-bit memory, a solar cell of 400 millivolts, a radio antenna (wireless) and a small 100 kilohert ...

Israel will create a medical drone to evacuate the wounded

Israeli defense companies along with some respected scientists are developing a drone that will be capable of flying over the battlefield at about 10 000 feet altitude only with 1 medic on board, retrieve the injured soldiers and then fly away with 150 knots to safety. The UAV (unmanned aerial v ...

Engineers have designed the self-repairing aircraft

A 3 years research project regarding early damage detection and reparation on aircraft's has finished on April 2008. At the end of the study aerospace engineers at Bristol University, with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) came up with an idea which will mak ...

76 teraflops supercomputer predicts weather

Power 575 Hydro-Cluster is the name of the supercomputer NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) is using to do its research on severe climate and climate change trough the country and even around the world. Also called Bluefire the supercomputer has a capacity of 76 teraflops, meaning 76 ...

Moving towards a virtual world

In an interview for the New Scientist magazine, Michael McGuigan from Brookhaven National Laboratory said that in just a few years we will get the chance to experience a world similar to Matrix, where you could not tell reality from virtual reality. Michael McGuigan statement is based on the fact t ...

Adobe trying to take over multimedia mobile software

You probably have experienced the ordeal of trying to do a simple task such as transferring a video from your PC to your mobile phone and have failed due to the software incompatibility. Adobe hopes to solve this problem by launching a next generation media player to replace Flash Lite, the curre ...

Themes for mobile phones

Mobile phones had been evolved very much along time, using personalization modalities more and more complex and nice for every user and every age. Next we present a few websites where you can download themes, ringtones, wallpapers, clips, logo operators, games, etc. In case that you'll want to cre ...

Testing Out-Of-Body

With just a few instruments can be tested a phenomena like this one. You don't need more than a virtual reality and a stick. Through the virtual reality, if we are pushed with a stick we have the feeling that we left our human body. This sensation is given by some sensors that we posses (vision, ...

Invisibility may be used already by soldiers

The Nanotechnology speaks again. Now we can create a device that can make objects or humans invisible. This principle is old already but it couldn't be created until now. The background image is taken from the object that we want to hide and it is shown in front, and so we cannot see the object, thi ...