State-of-the-art fruit and vegetable lab unveiled › Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion. TOKYO — A state-of-the-art laboratory to grow vegetables and fruit using advanced technologies was shown to the press Tuesday in a lobby of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Ministry officials said people can harvest lettuce and tomatoes throughout the year [...]
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DailyTech – New Procedure Uses Stem Cells for Breast Augmentation. Stem cell breast augmentation to be available in six month says researcher Scientists in the UK are working on a new process for treating women with breast deformities caused from cancer treatment that uses stem cells taken from their own bodies. The process takes stem [...]
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | How to fit 300 DVDs on one disc. A new optical recording method could pave the way for data discs with 300 times the storage capacity of standard DVDs, Nature journal reports. The researchers say this could see a whopping 1.6 terabytes of information fit on a DVD-sized [...]
ROUND-THE-JAPAN TRIP. This is cool, check it out. These guys build their own house in a truck and went all around Japan with it. Lots of pics in their site (click above)
DailyTech – Former Astronaut Says Aliens Exist; Accuses Government of Conspiracy. One of the few men to ever walk on the moon, Edgar Mitchell, believes humans are not alone Former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell — who was involved in Apollo 14 moon mission in 1971 — has come forward and again stated his belief that [...]
DailyTech – Tiny Invisibility Cloak Constructed. The journal Nature Materials reported on the development, which was constructed based on a carpet-like design theory first described by Professor John Pendry, from Imperial College London, in 2008. Teams involved in its current production included Michal Lipson and her team at Cornell University and Xiang Zhang, along with his team [...]
DailyTech – NTT DoCoMo Unveils Japan’s First Google Android Phone. The HT-03A which comes in white or black, features a 3.2 inch touchscreen, 3.2 megapixel camera, microSD card slot, and weighs 123 grams. The phone will be able to download applications from the Android Market service using its wireless capabilities which include 802.11 b/g. Other [...]
Breakthrough device represents major improvement over past efforts via DailyTech – Scientists Simplify Cloaking Tech, Can Cloak Bigger Objects. Cloaking science or “transformation optics” as its more formally called has until now relied on exotic “metamaterials” to redirect light. However, a breakthrough from Purdue University has created a “tapered optical waveguide” that accomplishes the same [...]
DailyTech – Researchers Using Ionic Wind to Cool Notebooks. Ionic cooling technology expected to be commercialized next year
