Entries from September 2007
Mercedes-Benz will produce a compact bicycle
The management of automobile company Mercedes-Benz has declared that since April, 2008 is going to begin sale of the new development - a new compact bicycle which when folded can be laid in a standard boot of the automobile.
In the company assure that the new bicycle can be put not only in big sedans of […]
Categories: Inventions
The portable device for DNA analysis is created
Experts of company NEC have created portable system for DNA analysis which first of all will facilitate the life to law enforcement bodies as it is able to analyze completely DNA for only 25 minutes right a crime site, informs Pink Tentacle.
Employees of the company name the system which has very small sizes - all […]
Categories: Inventions
Infra-red cameras have found entrances to Martian caves
Owing to the photos received with the help of infra-red cameras of Mars Odyssey spacecraft, scientists have managed to distinguish entrances in mysterious Martian caves from a surrounding surface of the planet.
It appeared that temperatures inside caves are more constant, than on a surface due to what in photos in the noon caves seem a […]
Categories: Space
Americans have created three-legged robot
Engineer Dennis Hun together with colleagues from Virginia Polytechnic Institute have created three-legged robot STriDER which shows rather strange way of movement.
The unique robot to the maximum uses gravitation to do each step, spending minimum electricity and demanding minimum of “brains� to control the movement.
Developers inform, that the robot cannot go precisely on a […]
Categories: Inventions
Created the most powerful microscope in the world
Within the framework of American-European project TEAM the group of the American scientists have created surprising device Titan which can make images with the record resolution in 0,05 nano-meters.
Titan has been developed in the American Electronic Microscopy National Center in Berkeley laboratory with direct participation of experts from the American National Laboratory in Oak […]
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Chemical compounds of sulfur and arsenic are fixed near the crater of Peruvian meteorite
The employee of the Peruvian institute of nuclear energy Renan Ramirez informed that the commission of experts, having studied the crater of meteorite, has found instead of a radiation only compounds of sulfur and arsenic.
Experts mark that absence of radiation in the area of falling of a prospective meteorite excludes the earlier hypothesis about the […]
Swedes have invented free-of-charge mobile communication
Swedish firm TerraNet tests new technology which allows to call from one mobile phone to another directly without use of a base station and free-of-charge.
Inventors hope that this technology will allow to improve considerably communication system in less developed countries, especially in the remote rural areas and deserts.
At the moment this system is […]
Categories: Inventions
Americans have created the boy-robot
The group of experts from Texas Company Hanson Robotics has finished works on creation of the boy-robot which, as developers assure, will be an ideal interactive partner for the child.
Experts mark, that this one is not the usual robot. It will be ideal comrade as is able to remember names and faces of people, is […]
Categories: Inventions
An engineer has created device which transforms salt water into fuel
Chemists from Pennsylvania State University (USA) have confirmed the information that engineer John Kanzius has managed to create the device which allows to burn salt water, transforming it in fuel, informs Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The invention of engineer Kanzius has already been named the most significant opening in water science for last hundred years.
In the invented […]
Categories: Chemistry · Inventions
NASA has created microchip which can work at temperature of 600 C
American space agency NASA has developed essentially new computer chips which can work at a high pressure and temperature.
NASA representatives declare, their computer chips can now work even at temperature of 1 112,00 F. Chips have been created on a basis of silicon carbide (SiC), that has made them more steady in comparison with […]
Categories: Inventions