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Robots are a major part of the cultural fabric of Japan; they’re performing weddings, buying groceries and keeping people company - pb:

http://senseable.mit.edu/copenha... ..... The Copenhagen Wheel isn’t a bike itself but rather wheel built around a smooth disk containing a three-speed internal hub, a battery, a GPS receiver, and a variety of sensors to monitor ambient conditions such as temperature and pollution levels... NO cabling! .... Wheel owners mount their iPhone (or other smart phone) on the handlebars and use it as a controller via a Bluetooth connection to the hub. Use the phone to lock and unlock the Wheel, to change gears, and to collect and view data, such as miles traveled, noise and weather, etc. Because smart phones are also internet devices, this information can be loaded onto the web and shared via social networking applications or compiled with information from other Wheel owners to create a real-time data map of the urban environment.... The Copenhagen Wheel also captures energy from the brakes to recharge the batteries, a feature that seems to have excited a lot of the gadget press. - pb: from Bookmarklet

http://gizmodo.com/5427252... ... just exchange your wheel ! ... how easy is that :] ......... http://web.mit.edu/press... - pb:

http://pedegoelectricbikes.com - pb:

suggests that failure occurred high above the atomsphere. , 12-09-09 - pb: from Bookmarklet

Starfish, salamanders, and planarian flatworms share a seemingly magical trait: the ability to regenerate body parts they've lost. While humans may never boast quite the same ability, scientists are perfecting ways to create different types of replacement tissue using stem cells or techniques that kick-start regrowth and development. ... - pb: from Bookmarklet

In theory, embryonic stem cells can turn into hundreds of different types of tissue, but coaxing them to become one precise type isn't always easy. .. success in turning human stem cells into lung epithelial tissue. Their secret? They grew the stem cells in an air–liquid culture that replicated conditions in the human trachea, which encouraged the cells to differentiate into the kind of tissue appropriate for the environment. - pb:

The humble zebra fish can regrow damaged fins and other body parts with aplomb, but for many years, no one knew exactly what gave the fish that ability. Now researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have zeroed in on a crucial developmental sequence that allows the fish to go back in biological time. Scott Stewart and his team discovered that after a fin is amputated,... more... - pb:

"Scientists in Israel have developed tiny robots to crawl through blood vessels attacking cancers, and labs in the United States are working on similar technology. These robots will grow smaller and more capable. One day, intelligent nanorobots may be integrated into our bodies to clear arteries and rebuild failing organs, communicating with each other and the outside world via a “cloud” network. Tiny bots might attach themselves to neurons in the brain and add their processing power—and that of other computers in the cloud—to ours, giving us mental resources that would dwarf anything available now. By stimulating the optic, auditory or tactile nerves, such nanobots might be able to simulate vision, hearing or touch, providing “augmented reality” overlays identifying street names, helping with face recognition or telling us how to repair things we’ve never seen before. Scientists in Japan are already producing rudimentary nanobot “brains.”" - pb: from Bookmarklet

"Engineers working on San Francisco's ill-starred Bay Bridge have fingered a culprit in the repair job that went awry Tuesday evening, forcing the bridge's closure: metal fatigue caused by harmonic resonance. The phenomenon, in which small vibrations at key frequencies gradually build up until they are large enough to damage a structure, is the scourge of bridge architects everywhere. At first, many experts had fingered wind as the culprit in the accident. Heavy winds lashed the Bay Area late Tuesday afternoon. At 5 pm that day, several massive pieces of metal crashed 100 feet down from the bridge superstructure onto the roadway, striking a truck and damaging a car." - pb: from Bookmarklet

10 most brilliant products of 2009 - pb: from Bookmarklet

Scientists turned the skin cells into IPS cells (induced pluripotent stem cells), the skin-derived stem cells that have emerged as an alternative to embryonic stem cells. .... Bathed with a cocktail of chemicals, the IPS cells were then morphed into a variety of retinal cells, including the all-important photoreceptors that translate light signals into electrical signals for our brains to parse as vision. .... The cells might also serve as a treatment themselves, whether grown from IPS cells or embryonic stem cells. Previous studies have improved vision in mice by treating their retinas with stem cells, and this development might help extend that research to humans. - pb: from Bookmarklet

it used to be, or it should be, a small 1 liter engine is constantly recharging the battery pack. - pb: from Bookmarklet

http://www.gizmag.com/acceleg... - pb:

Us!, the last years of us, original, biological, unmodified human beings!........ "Neuroscientists are already able to read some basic thoughts, like whether an individual test subject is looking at a picture of a cat or an image with a specific left or right orientation ... They can even read pictures that you're simply imagining in your mind's eye. Even leaders in the field are shocked by how far we've come in our ability to peer into people's mind" - pb: from Bookmarklet

my Goodness! .. by golly ! .... are we finished .... how's your nanomachines inside you doing? machine the size of an atom !! ..... soon we be living 1000 years ... to start with ..... we are becoming one giant brain, all connected network of processors, with processes being executed both by unmodified and hybrid brains, connected to enhanced hybrid postbiological bodies .... where is... more... - pb:

so far, the record is 9 days in the air for any airplane ... 492 feet wide, cruise at 140 mph at 70k feet, weight under 7k lb - pb: from Bookmarklet