(TrendHunter.com) Leave it to the Japanese to save the planet by covering concrete buildings in fake plastic. In an effort to help keep Tokyo and other cities green and ease the so-called “heat-island” problem of rising temperatures in crowded metropolitans, Japanese brewer Suntory Ltd. has created an alternative to …
(TrendHunter.com) Although I lived at home, I attended an international boarding school, so I had a chance to meet people from a lot of different cultural backgrounds. One of the first things I think about when I think of Koreans is their love of Kimchi, a spicy, pickled, fermented cabbage. It’s one of those foods t…
(TrendHunter.com) Who is putting the “broad” in broadband? Japan is!
The Kizuna, which means “wind”, satellite was launched and it looks like it will be capable of making broadband obsolete. They have introduced the hyper-band 1.2 Gbps – Giga Bits Per Second (Billion bits per second.) That’s a tornado-like 150 time…
(TrendHunter.com) Japanese Telecom company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) is launching a commercial room-entry system that frees users from ID cards or keys by utilizing a technology that turns the surface of the human body itself into a means of data transmission. Anyone carrying a special card can unloc…
(TrendHunter.com) As people become more aware of their food sources, they increasingly demand “organicâ€, “naturalâ€, “hormone-freeâ€, and “drug-free†food products. In addition to market demand, it is also desirable to eliminate or limit the use of antibiotics because harmful organisms tend to become a…
(TrendHunter.com) I personally hate windshield wipers, so I am glad to report that, thanks to nanotechnology advances, Italian car designer Leonardo Fioravanti has developed a prototype concept car, Hidra, with a self-cleaning windshield that doesn’t need wipers. It can brush away water and dirt by itself. He claim…
(TrendHunter.com) Richard Branson is once again a step ahead of the competition and his company Virgin Atlantic has become the first world airlines to fly a 747 jumbo jet on renewable fuel. The flight from London to Amsterdam flew on biofuel composing of the environmentally and socially sustainable oils babassu and c…
(TrendHunter.com) You’ve heard laughter is good for soul, it’s the best medicine, and you’ve also heard it’s been proven to kill diseases, even able to fight off serious illnesses like cancer. A few Japanese researchers wanted to find a way to measure the strength of a laugh, so they invented a machine that does just…
(TrendHunter.com) Scientists have developed a new form of Elastic with life like properties. They fabric has been make into women’s tights in order to demonstrate its ability. If the tights become laddered, no need to throw them away, push the fabric back together and within about 15 minutes it can mend itself and lo…
(TrendHunter.com) A new aluminum rich alloy has been developed by Purdue University Engineers that could solve the main problem preventing the widespread use of hydrogen-powered vehicles. That is, hydrogen can be readily produced by a number of methods, but safely and efficiently transporting it, distributing it, and…
(TrendHunter.com) A breathtaking new medical innovation could see the possibility of testing for diseases to be as simple as doing a breath test thanks to a new laser analyzer. It’s called a cavity-enhanced direct optical frequency comb spectroscopy, a complicated name that surely makes up for its hypothetical ease o…
(TrendHunter.com) The coolness of touch pads that react to different finger movements is fascinating; just think of the iPhone.
Apple seems to really like this concept and want to stretch even further. The company has applied for a patent that would involve the use of “chords” to create different reactions. Much pl…
(TrendHunter.com) Are you ready to take feeling strangled by your work to the next level?
This PC design concept comes from Momenta who entered Microsoft’s Next-Gen PC Design Competition. It monitors the world around you to help you determine what sorts of events cause emotional or mental changes. It records your p…
(TrendHunter.com) Hopefully you are recycling your clothes by giving them to a younger sibling, goodwill or the like. But imagine a world where your clothes had an expiration date and started dissolving.
What a great way to punk that co-worker you hate. Loan her your expired dress. Helen Storey wants couture to be …
(TrendHunter.com) This Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST) concept is the A2 hypersonic plane designed by Reaction Engines of the U.K. It will carry 300 passengers and reach speeds of up to 4,000 mph. It will run on liquid hydrogen and could fly between England and Australia in less than 5 hours. A production model won…
(TrendHunter.com) The University of Michigan has developed a record-setting intense laser, HERCULES, that could help scientists develop better proton and electron beams for radiation treatment of cancer and explore new frontiers in science. This intensity is about two orders of magnitude higher than any other laser i…
(TrendHunter.com) Dead phone or MP3 player batteries may soon be a thing of the past as there is now a personal generator suit to ensure your gadgets are always charged.
Nature.com reports that “Zhong Lin Wang and his colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have made a yarn out of nanofibres th…
(TrendHunter.com) A collaboration of nine research groups from Europe, Israel, and the US have teamed up to build a robotic rat with a unique feature: it has functioning whiskers!
Traditionally, sensors used for robotics are usually non-contact based, such as vision sensors, laser range finders, and ultra-sonic tr…
(TrendHunter.com) As the fascinating field of Nanotechnology advances by leaps and bounds it seems sometimes, scientists are opening windows into the physical nature and appearance of subatomic structures. A British team of scientist last year, was able to capture, in real time, the nanoscale of an active virus with …
(TrendHunter.com) I’ve always held the opinion that food and beverage critics are nothing more than an ancient bloodline bent on protecting the family business at all costs. The sayings ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ and ‘a #### sandwich is good if you like it’ say it best.
That being said, Nestle researche…
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