The Star Trek-style device, unveiled by scientists yesterday, can be programmed to deliver a range of doses to varying skin depths. 
"These beams are not very likely to pull a human or a car, as this would require a huge laser intensity that may damage the object," says Wang. "However, they could manipulate biological cells because the force needed for these doesn't have to be large." A fascinating clip on the planet Mars.spacettf: Planet Mars will take your breath away (by MrAndersohn)... Via Lee Robinson Petzer 
(Sen) - SpaceX's Dragon came a step closer to berthing with the International Space Station yesterday as two other commercial companies celebrated advances in their own high-flying ambitions.
Aerospace giant Boeing - a direct rival to SpaceX - announced the successful development of software that will operate its Crew Space Transportation (CST) vehicle intended to ferry NASA astronauts to and from the ISS.
And XCOR Aerospace, based in Mojave, California, said it had achieved a key technical milestone in developing its Lynx suborbital rocket plane that will carry tourists and science experiments, including micro satellites, to the edge of the atmosphere. Via Stratocumulus We're entering a very interesting stage of human history right now where we can start importing technology to enhance our natural senses or perception of the world, says neuroscientist David Eagleman. Via Sakis Koukouvis 
The rise of Internet-connected smartphones and advances in display-projection technology are accelerating the development of devices that overlay digital images atop a person's view of the physical world.
via http://www.scoop.it/u/lelapin Via Sakis Koukouvis 
south koreans can grocery shop while waiting for the subway at a virtual supermarket opened by tesco homeplus, that lets users scan the QR codes of desired products, which are then delivered to their home within the day. Roger Tagholm at Publishing Perspectives just published a nice review of the World eReading Congress in London, on Tuesday, where I had the pleasure of doing the opening keynote. 
Will “the self” survive because it can provide people with a greater sense of happiness? Or is it - perhaps along with the constructs “Free Will” and “Determinism” - doomed to the dustbin of history? Via Mariusz Leś 
Ericsson aims to turn our anatomy into a USB key -- a bridge between gadgets with its 'Connected Me' technology. Via brianlmerritt, Sakis Koukouvis, ABroaderView ![Awakening: Synthetic Biology on the Verge of Revolutionizing the Evolution of Life [Videos] | Technoscience and the Future | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/dOEoIHb-K4D6cqmsTlO4LTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
"Synthetic biology" is the next stage in the evolution of biology as a science. In its purest form, and indeed for purists, it emerged as the idea of applying engineering principles to life science: characterising and cataloguing bits of DNA so they can be assembled into unnatural genetic circuits.
More on... SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=synthetic%20biology
Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald, Sakis Koukouvis 
All buildings today have something in common: They are made using Victorian technologies. This involves blueprints, industrial manufacturing and construction using teams of workers. [...] This is not sustainable. [...] I believe that the only possible way for us to construct genuinely sustainable homes and cities is by placing them in a constant conversation with their surroundings. In order to do this, we need to find the right language. Metabolic materials are a technology that acts as a chemical interface or language through which artificial structures such as, architecture, can connect with natural systems. I am developing this technology in collaboration with scientists working in the field of synthetic biology and origins of life sciences whose model systems of investigation are materials that belong to a new group of technologies being described as ‘living technology’ (Bedau, 2009), which possess some of the properties of living systems but are not considered ‘alive’. [...] Via Mariusz Leś 
Sprawling from Grace is a documentary feature film about the unintended consequences of suburban sprawl. It illustrates the importance of altering the course of how we develop our nation’s ci... Via Flora Moon |
how to start a solar energy business http://t.co/nUS051Sj Nanotechnology for solar energy conversion systems... Via Muditha Senarath Yapa 
Israel's Robotic Butterfly Drone Flies Indoors re: Raymond Z. 
Recent advances in nanotechnology and engineering are allowing scientists to design microscopic devices with nearly atomic precision. Via Muditha Senarath Yapa 
The XOS 2 exoskeleton allows users to do hundreds of push-ups easily. The hydraulic limbs were developed to give soldiers extra lifting power. Via Mariusz Leś 
The universe is a marvelously complex place, filled with galaxies and larger-scale structures that have evolved over its 13.7-billion-year history. Those began as small perturbations of matter that grew over time, like ripples in a pond, as the universe expanded. By observing the large-scale cosmic wrinkles now, we can learn about the initial conditions of the universe. But is now really the best time to look, or would we get better information billions of years into the future - or the past? Via Sakis Koukouvis The SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon capsule lift off May 22, 2012, from Cape Canaveral Air Force station in Florida to begin a demonstration mission to the Intern... 
Consumers in China are increasingly modern in their tastes, but they are not becoming 'Western.' How the selling of coffee, cars and pizza sheds light on a nation racing toward superpower status. Via Greg C Viloria, ABroaderView Futurist Gerd Leonhard discusses the future of media, content and entertainment at Media Future Week 2011 in Almere see http://www.mediafutureweek.nl/ More v... 
To be sure, the U.S. clean energy industry has been in a period of rapid growth, largely due to historic federal investments in the research, development, deployment, and manufacture of clean technologies. From 2009 through 2014, the federal government will invest a total of $150 billion, or the equivalent in magnitude to government support for past national challenges like putting a human on the moon (~$170 billion in 2005 dollars over 10 years, pg. 25).
Yet clean energy continues to face a fundamental problem: it’s not cost and performance competitive with fossil fuels without government support outside of niche markets. In the short-term clean tech projects are propped up by government support (or regulatory requirements) and in the mid-term the industry requires significant innovations to become subsidy independent and competitive. As such two distinct policy issues are set to thwart industry growth: the looming decline in overall federal support for clean tech after 2014 and the continuing deficit in government support for clean energy R&D and innovation. Letting both policy issues linger unresolved could very well be the death knell for clean energy...
[Click post title to read full article] Via J. Campbell 
Researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology took their quadruped robot HyQ for a test run outside the lab for the first time to test new tricks... Via Wildcat2030 
Imagine a world far, far into the future. A world very different than our own where people have been wiped out by massive climatic and geological changes, nearly destroying the Earth. What would the world be like, and what kinds of creatures could survive? ... The Future is Wild | Watch Free Documentary Film Online 
The history of the entire observable universe, and all of the matter that ever was, has been modeled on a French supercomputer over a two-week span. Scientists are gearing up to repeat it again, twice. Via Artur Coelho |
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