Yearly Archives: 2012

Climate Change Update: Where We Are Today with Carbon Capture Technology

With the Rio conference seeking a common set of policies and actions for global sustainability, climate change and global warming are among the important...

Robotics and Biomedicine Update: Revolutionary Tactile Sensor Gives Robots a Human Sense of Touch and More

If you thought I was finished talking about robots with my last two blog postings - think again. A new breakthrough in tactile sensor technology...

Gizmos and Gadgets: Joggobot Flies Along with Joggers

No sooner than I ask readers to tell me about applications they would like personal robots to engage in, Joggobot shows up. What is...

Robotics Update: Investment Fund Established for Rapid Commercialization of Human Helpers

Grishin Robotics has launched a $25 million capital fund to promote the robotics industry, helping businesses to get their new robot inventions to mass...

Transportation and Energy Update: Some Big Numbers to Ponder and a New Fuel Source

The Newspaper Problem The manufacture of paper takes a huge environmental toll on our planet. Paper manufacturing is ranked third among industries on the planet...

Headlines at 21st Century Tech for June 15, 2012

Bio-medicine Update: Eat an Apple to Power Your Pacemaker That is the future of medical implants powered by fuel cells that use glucose (sugar). No...

Energy Update: Technology and the Oil Sands

In 2011 Canada exported on average over 2.3 million barrels of oil every day to the United States. 1.6 million of those barrels came...

Energy Update: Fusion Fusion Everywhere but No Reactor in Sight

When will we have a commercial fusion reactor?  Are we forever to be told sometime in the next 30 years? It would seem as we...

Climate Science and Energy Update: 13 Actions Our Governments Must Take

I always have liked the number 13, call me crazy. I know many of you are superstitious about some numbers. My mom was about...

Our Space Future in the 21st Century – Part 1: Where Will We Be in Space in 2100?

At this blog site we look at technology in the past and present and try to peer into the future in oracular fashion. Predicting...

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