Smart Guns: Biometric Grip Pattern Recognition

There is a growing interest in the use of personalized applications that use biometrics as an access key. Providing access to homes, cars, companies, safes, and even guns can now be controlled by limiting access…

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Self Sufficient Sea City of the Future

Currently approximately 71% of the earth’s surface is ocean and if global warming projections are accurate, and so far they have been, more of the earth’s surface will be submerged. With the threat of rising…

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Next Generation Construct Platform, Makeblock

Makeblock has just made creativity even simpler. The extrusion based construct platform allows for creative designs of machines, robots and artware, and anything else in between. Using mostly aluminium, Makeblock’s key is its simplicity, requiring…

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WiTricity Charges Forward with Wireless Electricity

The world disposes of 40 billion batteries each year; many lay corroding in dumps, polluting ground water. And take one look under your desk and you might get an idea of how entangled the world…

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Egypt’s $90 Billion South Valley Project

While civilization blossomed in a narrow strip of land in the valley and delta of the Nile River in early times, today, 83 million Egyptians are now densely packed into just 3 percent of the…

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Stealth Bomber Electric Bikes Ready to Go

Stealth Bomber Electric Bikes (SBEBs) with a maximum speed of 45 mph and a range of 30 miles, meet motocross and mountain biking in the middle. Without time to load a pickup with a motocross…

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Wind Lens: Fluid Dynamics Concentrated Wind Energy

Yuji Ohya, a professor of renewable energy dynamics and applied mechanics, and his team at Kyushu University have impressed a Japanese consortium enough to attract an investment of $1.5 billion in an offshore wind power…

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We will all be in Driverless Cars by 2020?

The driverless car was the brainchild of the Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-inventor of Google Street View, Sebastian Thrun. Thrun was deeply affected by the death of a childhood friend in…

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How many squares do you see? (Answer)

There are a total of 49 squares in this image. See where they are below. First you start with your small squares: That gives you 16 small squares. The you find your medium squares: Each blue…

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