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Jun 3, 2016
Gravitational diode could lead to futuristic Star Trek technologies — From teleportation to highly efficient energy generation
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, futurism
A very interesting press release appeared yesterday morning that was brought to our attention. A startup company, Gravitomagnetism, LLC, was granted a patent that enables it a multitude of applications ranging from energy generation to teleportation.
Jun 3, 2016
Google Voice Search Stores Everything It Overhears
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Jun 2, 2016
This Incredible ‘Star Trek’ Visor Could Help The Blind See Again
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
This ‘Star Trek’ Visor Could Help The Blind ‘See’ Again.
UK trials are set to begin this year.
Jun 2, 2016
Why people who believe in God ‘are more likely to have a lower IQ’
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Stupid people are more likely than eggheads to believe in God, a controversial new study claims.
In a move that is bound to offend millions of churchgoers, a British psychologist says he has found a link between having a high IQ and being an atheist.
The discovery helps explain why university academics are less likely to be religious than almost anyone else, he says.
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Jun 1, 2016
Watch a chick develop and hatch outside of the egg
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Cracking an egg into a glass bowl and then watching the chick develop, grow, and hatch sounds like the most terrible idea ever. But this adorable and super-enthusiastic video from Japan shows that it can be done — and lets us watch the entire fascinating process first-hand.
If you’re anything like us, your first reaction to this is probably “What the eff is going on here?” and your second is, “Why the hell would anyone do this?”
The video doesn’t come with subtitles, so it unfortunately doesn’t give us many clues. But with the help of Sarah Caroline Bell over at The Huffington Post, we’ve done some digging, and it turns out the experiment is demonstration of technique developed in Japan a few years ago.
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