4:44 PM
The UK plans to have an army of "invisible" tanks ready for the battlefield in 5 years. The special armored vehicles will use a new technology called "e-camouflage" which deploys a form "electronic ink" to make a tank "invisible"--sensors attached to the tank will project images of the surrounding environment back onto the outside of the tank, enabling it to merge into the landscape kind of like a chameleon. BAE scientists hope to have an experimental operational capacity for this tank in 2 years:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/8247967/Invisible-tanks-could-be-on-battlefield-within-five-years.html
Casinos in Ontario (Canada) are implementing facial recognition technology--in testing, the system has had a 91% success rate in identifying problematic gamblers. All gamblers have to have their faces digitally scanned and run through a database before entering the casino. The system checks with a list of 15,000 people with gambling problems that *voluntarily* put themselves on a banned list:
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/920299--facial-recognition-a-system-problem-gamblers-can-t-beat?bn=1
Japanese researchers have created a model that helps clarify the origins of leukemia that may be a key breakthrough in the search for a cure for leukemia:
http://www.rikenresearch.riken.jp/eng/frontline/6513
The Woolly Mammoth has been extinct for thousands of years, but a breakthrough in cloning technology could bring them back to life in 4 years:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8257223/Mammoth-could-be-reborn-in-four-years.html
Physicists found a new type of entanglement that allows for teleportation in *time*:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26270/?ref=rss
Toyota is developing a new type of electric motor to cut its dependence on rare earth metals and lower costs:
http://www.rdmag.com/News/2011/01/Manufacturing-Toyota-developing-alternative-electric-motor/
Researchers found that the way the fruit fly's nervous system works provides a method to improve wireless networking, routing, and other network protocols:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/26266/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/8247967/Invisible-tanks-could-be-on-battlefield-within-five-years.html
Casinos in Ontario (Canada) are implementing facial recognition technology--in testing, the system has had a 91% success rate in identifying problematic gamblers. All gamblers have to have their faces digitally scanned and run through a database before entering the casino. The system checks with a list of 15,000 people with gambling problems that *voluntarily* put themselves on a banned list:
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/920299--facial-recognition-a-system-problem-gamblers-can-t-beat?bn=1
Japanese researchers have created a model that helps clarify the origins of leukemia that may be a key breakthrough in the search for a cure for leukemia:
http://www.rikenresearch.riken.jp/eng/frontline/6513
The Woolly Mammoth has been extinct for thousands of years, but a breakthrough in cloning technology could bring them back to life in 4 years:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8257223/Mammoth-could-be-reborn-in-four-years.html
Physicists found a new type of entanglement that allows for teleportation in *time*:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26270/?ref=rss
Toyota is developing a new type of electric motor to cut its dependence on rare earth metals and lower costs:
http://www.rdmag.com/News/2011/01/Manufacturing-Toyota-developing-alternative-electric-motor/
Researchers found that the way the fruit fly's nervous system works provides a method to improve wireless networking, routing, and other network protocols:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/26266/