(TrendHunter.com) Virgin Galactic founder, Sir Richard Branson, unveiled the new spaceflight system, composed of the WhiteKnightTwo carrier plane and the SpaceShipTwo spacecrafts.
“2008 really will be the year of the spaceship,” said Branson when he unveiled the 1/16th-scale model spacecraft at the American Museum …
(TrendHunter.com) Trev! What makes this little guy unique is that it was designed by the students at the University of South Australia.
After spending several years in development, out spawn Trev, a three-wheeled green machine.
Fully electric and fully loaded, the Trev uses a 5th of the energy a conventional car …
(TrendHunter.com) Here’s a cell phone with a fold-out display screen that disappears when not in use. Readius is the world’s first phone designed specifically to allow easier reading of news, blogs or email. Philips has a 25 per cent stake in the company.
“You get the large display of e-reading, the super battery l…
(TrendHunter.com) This is UNICAT’s TerraCross or “Home On Wheels”. This off-road home has an office, beds, bathroom, kitchen and storage space. Some of its features are a solar power system, stereo music system with CD player, microwave oven, outside shower, and water filtration system. It has built-in security featu…
(TrendHunter.com) A recent biotech breakthrough enables the creation of embryos from skin cells, which are genetic copies of the donor. This breakthrough by scientists at Stemagen Corp holds the promise of custom-made embryonic stem cell medical treatment. Medical researchers believe that stem cell therapy has the …
(TrendHunter.com) US Patent Office registered a new Patent to Apple. It refers to a docking station in which a laptop can be embedded into the monitor / desktop. The two are connected through wi-fi and Bluetooth.
According to the patent, this docking station shall hold one or more of the following: a camera, a spe…
(TrendHunter.com) It sounds horrifically toxic, but scientists have found that the secret to perfect ice cream may lie in a new type of antifreeze. The discovery comes from food scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Everyone knows that soft serve, ice cream bought at a cafe or the first serving from …
(TrendHunter.com) By using silicon nanowires as the anode, in rechargeable lithium ion batteries, instead of graphite the amount of lithium the anode can hold is extended tenfold and thus the battery’s life.
Needless to say, a tenfold increase in battery life is great news far beyond laptops. This is great for tr…
(TrendHunter.com) At $5.00 a bottle, Madonna is currently spending $10,000 USD per month drinking Chernobyle water, and according the British Government and the Department of Trade and Industry, she also believes this magical water can used to treat radioactive material. Madonna and Guy Ritchie are devote followers o…
(TrendHunter.com) Did you know that the color black has an official standard kept by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology? It’s sort of their thing. It seems that researchers at Rice University in Houston have developed a configuration of carbon nanotubes that produce a material 30 times blacker th…
(TrendHunter.com) The tallest wind turbine goes online with the completion of the Snyder Texas wind farm. EnelSpA reached new heights and has completed the wind farm between Abilene and Lubbock with 21 3.0 megawatt turbines towering 345 feet. This is the first of several wind farms to come online over the next year.
(TrendHunter.com) 7 years of development and MiN New York claims to have the answer to hair loss. A product designed to help men with receding hairlines and women who have increasingly thinning hair. MiN New York allege that their product contains an advance DHT Blocker that will stop continued hair loss, and have su…
(TrendHunter.com) In the land of Harajuku girls and sushi now the streets can sing. Well, kind of.
The members of the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute, which work with cryogenic science and research under microgravity environment amongst others, scraped markings along three roads in central and northern Japan …
(TrendHunter.com) Dig out your copy of Planet of the Apes or Netflix it, because monkeys are operating robots. A 12 pound monkey in North Carolina activated a 200 pound robot to walk on a treadmill using only brain activity. It was the first time this had occured. The Duke University lab team proved that monkeys cou…
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