Yearly Archives: 2013

Gizmos & Gadgets: A Mouse You Wear Like a Ring

Kickstarter is a great place to see human inventiveness at work. It's also an opportunity for you to make an investment in something you...

Gizmos & Gadgets: Nano-tablet Purifies Water

MadiDrop is the name. Water purification is the game. What is it? Who invented it? How does it work? MadiDrop is a small ceramic disk (see...

Biomedicine Update: Progress on the AIDS/HIV Front

In the last two weeks cures for HIV (the virus depicted in the picture below) have made it into the news. The first documented...

U.S. President Proposes to Spend $2 Billion on Clean Energy Research

I have called for a Manhattan Project effort on the part of the leading economies of the world to tackle the issue of weaning...

Headlines at 21st Century Tech for March 15, 2013

It's the Ides of March and unless you are unaware of the auspiciousness of this Caesarian date, it is also the day for me...

Environment Update: Is Carbon Capture and Storage Viable?

Known as carbon capture and sequestration or CCS, it is the answer that "clean coal" patronizers seek. It is an answer for the carbon...

Energy Update: Japan First to Extract Natural Gas from Ice

If you are like my family, avid watchers of the new version of the nighttime soap opera, Dallas, you know that Christopher Ewing is...

Gizmos & Gadgets: Meet Urbee II the 3D-Printed Car

Urbee II seen in the image below, sounds like it is, a cuddly urban three-wheel automobile that is futuristic in its design. What makes...

Biomedicine Update: Bioengineering Missing Teeth

Imagine replacing a missing tooth, not with an implant or a bridge, but with a bioengineered one created from your gum cells. Sound like...

Energy Update: New Molten-Salt Reactor Company a Spinoff from MIT

Transatomic Power is the name of the company and its contribution to the energy sector is a newly designed nuclear reactor that will be...

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