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 [...]
Tina Dam, senior director of international domain names at ICANN, called it “the biggest change in the Internet in 40 years”. What is he talking about? What would you expect? Maybe social networks? No, he his talking about the new multilingual domain names like adresses in arabic or cyrillic. One may think that this is [...]
The AMOS-WD06 is a biologically inspired six-legged walking machine that is able to adapt it’s behavior self-organized. The learning machanism is based on the chaos theory. 18 sensors drive 18 motors by means of a simple neural control circuit, thereby generating 11 basic behavioural patterns (for example, orienting, taxis, self-protection and various gaits) and their [...]
