2011 Solar-powered toilet Michael Hoffman,California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Caltech‘s solar-powered toilet won the Reinventing the Toilet Challenge issued by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. According to the World Health Organization, 2.5… Continue reading
07/02/2012 Invisible material/cloak, Calcite optical crystal Professor Baile Zhang/Nanyang Technological University in Singapore Professor Baile Zhang from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has recently proved that invisibility cloak will soon become a reality.… Continue reading
07/02/2012 Spray-on rechargeable batteries Rice University in Texas A team of mechanical engineers at Rice University in Texas has invented spray-on rechargeable batteries that could be combined with solar cells to create self-sufficient,… Continue reading
2010 Electric Skin Zhenan Bao (Stanford), Ali Javey, Matei Ciocarlie (California)/ Stanford University & University of California, Berkeley, Willow Garage, California Flexible sensors could give prosthetics and robots a more sensitive sense of… Continue reading
October 10 09.22.2011 How information is represented and processed in the human brain Jack Gallant, Shinji Nishimoto etc./ University of California, Berkeley Scientists are a step closer to constructing a digital version of… Continue reading
