Archives August 2015

MIT has a team called Mediated Matter, which is led by the brilliant Architect and Professor, Neri Oxman. Her team recently unveiled a 3D printer they developed which uses a very old, but new in the 3D printing world, material. Glass!
She stated that this technology has potential for applications on a much larger scale ...

Solar power is clearly one of the ways to have unlimited energy till the end of our planet’s life, since “No sun, no party” is the general principal on Earth.
Many scientists are trying to find ways to harvest more and more solar power. Some of them, try to do it without using these ...

World’s dads where super happy last week, after the video Volkswagen released, presenting the prototype stroller the company developed.
The company’s engineers borrowed an adaptive cruise sensor from their Golf model, and made the stroller able to stop when facing an obstacle and also follow the parent from a safe distance.


Well, you ...

Scientists in the University of Pensilvania have produced a material containing opal-like polymer crystals that produce different colors according to how hard they are hit.
They hope in future the crystals will be incorporated into head gear that provides an immediate indication of trauma after a violent impact.
The new technology is aimed at making ...

These days California faces a very long drought , which makes people worry about their liquid future. The local government has to come up with solutions regarding the matter.
Apart from the lack of rain, they have to face Vaporization. One of the great enemies of mankind when it comes to drought.
Vaporization of an element ...

From oil pipes to Bag pipes, one thing is certain. Pipes are important for humanity!

A pipe is a tubular section or hollow cylinder, usually but not necessarily of circular cross-section, used mainly to convey substances which can flow — liquids and gases (fluids), slurries etc. It can also be used for structural applications.
The pipeline ...

The avocado is a tree native to Mexico and Central America, classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae along with cinnamon, camphor and bay laurel. Avocado or alligator pear also refers to the fruit, botanically a large berry that contains a single seed.
Avocados are commercially valuable and are cultivated in tropical and Mediterranean climates ...

In optics, particularly as it relates to film and photography, depth of field (DOF), also called focus range or effective focus range, is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image. Although a lens can precisely focus at only one distance at a time, the ...