“Nano-Tex Resist spills fabric is used as the surface of this incredibly striking display. Liquids just bead and roll off this regular fabric.”
My only beef… the commentary’s in Japanese… T.T
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Nanomachines are supposed to be the holy grail of materials. After all, these smaller-than-molecule sized machines could assemble any structure by “atomic-scale "pick and place": a set of nanoscale pincers would pick individual atoms from their environment and place them where they should go.”
And when we say any structure, we mean any structure – from planes to bread to virus-zapping cells. That’s the beauty of Nanomachines and Nanotechnology.
Instead of repeating what’s out there, we’ve put together a digest on Nanomachines and how they can be used in the future:
We’re enamoured by nano materials and rightly so. But here’s a guy who’s exhorting us to look back to ceramics (e.g. porcelain, glazes) for the future. What say you?
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If you’ve been following us from the start, you’d realise that we love these bamboo bicycles. They are cheap, just as sturdy as your aluminium frame bicycles, and greener too! Have a look at this 30 sec clip on building bamboo bikes.
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A look back at wearable inventions through the years – from the surveillance dress (2003) to the air-conditioned shirt (2007). These kooky things were invented for a purpose; be it disguise, protection or comfort.
But really, would you wear them?
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Pop rocks are candy that generate alot of gas. Add coke to that, and it’d be a huge gas-a-thon, yeah? Apparently an urban legend has it that mixing pop rocks with coke will blow up your stomach. True or false? The Mythbusters put it to the test!
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Coke + Mentos = massive jets of sugared water! But do you know why it happens? The Mythbusters think it’s due to nucleation. What is it? Press play to find out!
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What happened on UCreateChange.com (19-25 Apr 2010)
Women are as inventive as men.
The Spelbots is a great example. The all-woman engineering team built robots to play soccer. The efforts of these girls paid off as they came in second at the RoboCup 2009 (Osaka). That achievement’s nothing to be sneezed at.
In fact they’ve torn apart notions that engineering is a “guy” thing. Naturally there are differences. When guys compete to showcase their ideas, women tend to be more accepting.
According to their mentor professor Andrew Williams, “There tends to be more of a social side [to it]…Teamwork basically. There’s an emphasis on collaboration, creativity, social aspects of computer science.”
In fact the social part of engineering (or related disciplines) is important for women engineers.
What happened on UCreateChange.com (12-18 Apr 2010)
The TV tells us that climate change is bad. It’s true. Sadly, most of us might know it but we won’t feel it.
That’s frightening because it’ll amount to just lip service on our part – all talk, no action. And climate change is getting worse… just step outside, ain’t it hot? Eventually, we’d live on our own wastes and making homes in wastelands.
Thankfully we’ve got a small group of people who are doing something about it.
Like these architects who turn their buildings into eco-friendly paradises. Or hydrogels that might just replace plastics. Or a safer way to dispose of Evian water bottles with hungry fungus.
These Indonesian students took the cake. They might have just solved Indonesia’s landfill problem by inventing a method that uses oranges to dissolve styrofoam. That’s Nobel prize worthy!
And if you’ve a unwanted phone. Why not recycle it into gold?
This is just the tip of the iceberg (or what’s left of them in the Artic circle), there are many more inventions that can save our world. And if technology got us here, perhaps it’s technology that will get us out of this mess.
If you know of any save-the-world type inventions, tell us about it in the comments!
What happened on UCreateChange.com (15-22 Mar 2010)
Things to do (don’t forget, E!):
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