The swiss association GWWK has built the first hydropower plant with water swirl technology. This way of energy generation is especially desinged for small constructions with drop heights starting from 0.7 meters. The originator of the technology called “gravitation water vortex power plant” is from Austria: Zotlöterer credit: GWWK How does it work? According to [...]
On computerscienceschools.net you can find an interesting list if the 10 tech milestones in the past 130 years. I largely share this view – except the iPod. To my mind this device is just a consitent enhancement of Sony’s good old cassette-based Walkman based on today’s technology – although I have to admit that the [...]
Imagine there were input devices which could allow text to know if and how it is being read – how would this change the reading experience? The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence is working on devices and systems to recognize the reading flow of your eyes and respond to it. With “Text 2.0” pictures [...]
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There are only few things that are faster than bacteria growth. So why do not benefit from this potential? US researchers programmed bacteria with a genetic circuit so that it is capable of solving the Hamiltonian Path Problem. credit: biojobblog Imagine you want to tour the 10 biggest cities in the UK – one route [...]
