WiTricity

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Imagine getting home after a long day and just throwing your coat down on a chair and putting your laptop case right down alongside it. Remarkable you might say.. what? No. That’s just something that happens. Why did I even say that?
Well, in the future I am thinking of, something remarkable would happen.
Imagine, a few [...]

Funny Examination Answers

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

MATHS & SCIENCE

Images: Infinity, Six, TMNT, Cats, Hung, Elephant, x, Boss and Graph

HISTORY

Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.

The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, [...]

Flame

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Back at primary school, when I was young, innocent and generally considered cute by all my cheek grabbing aunts, we were taught science. It was the basic things really: our solarsystem, photosynthesis and some wonderful messing around with lemons and electricity.
Anyway, one day. We were discussing the solid, liquid and gas metaphor which applies to [...]

Game By The Brain

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

“… a 14-year-old who suffers from epilepsy, is the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game, Space Invaders, using only the signals from his brain to make movements.”
A team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have created a way of controlling simplistic computer games via thought alone.
The teenager who [...]

2 Kilometre Wide Magnetic Ring to Launch Satellites

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

A new study, funded by the United States Air Force has concluded that a huge magnetic launch ring could be used to accelerate satellites to incredible velocities before ‘flinging them’ into space, at which point only minor adjustments would be needed to ensure the satellite stayed in orbit of Earth. The launch ring would be [...]