The Innovation Consortium- The What, The When, The Where, The How

Inflating Steel

2010-10-25T08:47:00.000-07:00

Called Architonic Concept Space III, the installation is made using FIDU technology, whereby welded sheet metal sleeves are pressure-inflated “like rubber toys” to create 3D forms. FIDU means inflating steel just like rubber toys! With one exception - objects created this way are not necessarily toys.Inflated steel sheets have a very high weight-capacity, so these funny looking shapes are indeed

Bee Sniffing Technology Detects Dangerous Vapours

2010-10-25T08:44:00.000-07:00

As far back as 1999, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Controlled Biological Systems Program funded a bee-training program to detect buried landmines, so that many thousands of acres of the world's land could be productively farmed without encountering landmines the ugly way.A bee's natural instinct is to extend its proboscis when it encounters a desirable odour, anticipating

Passenger-Propelled Rickshaw

2010-10-25T08:42:00.000-07:00

Passenger-Propelled Rickshaw Takes to the Roads of Delhi Art team Sylvia Winkler and Stephan Koeperl took advantage of a cycling event last Sunday to test out their in-process project for the residency– a passenger propelled cycle rickshaw!!! They joined a cycling group for a 5.5 km trip down the BRT from Ambetkar Nagar T-Point to Moolchand Flyover. Sylvia Winkler and Stephan Koeperl have

Cell phones that protect against deadly chemicals

2010-10-25T08:40:00.000-07:00

Cell-All: Super Smartphones Sniff Out Suspicious Substances What if, in the future, new functions on our cell phones could also protect us from toxic chemicals? Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (S&T)'s Cell-All is such an initiative. Cell-All aims to equip cell phones with a sensor capable of detecting deadly chemicals. The technology is ingenious. A chip costing less

Balloon Shaped Solar Collector

2010-10-25T08:38:00.000-07:00

Balloon Is Solar Collector: Solar Technology to Power the Planet Cool Earth Solar has developed a breakthrough solar technology that can ultimately produce enough clean energy to address the global energy crisis. This technology dramatically reduces the cost and time to develop power plants capable of generating massive amounts of clean, inexpensive energy. They’ve designed a breakthrough solar

Augmented reality puts the squeeze into virtual hugs

2010-10-25T08:34:00.000-07:00

Now you really can reach out and touch someone through the Internet, with the help of a wearable robot designed by a husband-and-wife team of scientists based in Japan. Five years in the making, the device aims to inject a little physicality into online chatter, boosting the emotional quotient of virtual exchanges between flesh-and-blood people. Forget emoticons, those annoying little smiley :

The 4th Dimension of gaming

2010-10-25T08:31:00.000-07:00

Tactile Gaming Vests: The Fourth Dimension In Gaming Reaches New Level Of Pain Graduate robotics students at the University of Pennsylvania, motivated by realism trends in movies and gaming, decided to take a step into a new dimension - the fourth dimension of haptic reality, the tactile simulation of forces that impact characters in a virtual world or on the big screen. Unimpressed by 4-D

World’s First Separable Mobile Phone

2010-10-25T08:29:00.000-07:00

NTT docomo Separable Phone The Separable Phone is a device from NTT docomo billed as the 'world's first handset that separates into two functional units'. The detachable keypad can be put to multiple uses, such as a game controller, or as a remote control for the phone's camera or on-board projector. You can even use it to tap out your notes while chatting on the phone, for those '

Scientist Says Blowing Bubbles Could Cool the Earth

2010-10-25T08:27:00.001-07:00

Earth Cooling Bubbles As anyone who has ever left an open can of soda out too long knows, some things are just better with a little fizz, and the world's oceans may be no exception. One physicist from Harvard University thinks that he's found a solution that may help curb the rate of global warming--and it comes in the form of tiny bubbles pumped into our planets water sources. Such microscopic

Contact Lenses Loaded With Vitamin E May Treat Glaucoma

2010-10-25T08:25:00.000-07:00

Contact Lenses Loaded With Vitamin E May Treat Glaucoma The popular dietary supplement vitamin E, loaded into special medicated contact lenses, can keep glaucoma medicine near the eye -- where it can treat that common disease -- almost 100 times longer than possible with current commercial lenses, scientists report. Anuj Chauhan, Ph.D., who headed the research team, explained that glaucoma is

HEMTT A3

2010-10-25T08:22:00.000-07:00

HEMTT A3: Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck: The HEMTT A3 (Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck) is according an Oshkosh press release the first production-ready, tactical military truck powered by an energy efficient diesel-electric drive system, called ProPulse®, that can increase fuel efficiency by 20 percent or more, depending on mission profile. And the onboard generator can deliver

Bicycle with No Pedals

2010-10-25T08:20:00.000-07:00