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Levitating car announced in China

Dr. Michio Kaku: “The World in 2030″

This video is a little over an hour long but very interesting. It may answer some of your questions of when!

Apple’s New iPad is a 3.1-Megapixel Party

The rumor mill that anticipates every Apple announcement is getting pretty good these days. As the gaggle of Cupertino-watchers predicted, Apple CEO Tim Cook got up onstage today and rolled out a new iPad with a Retina display and optional 4G LTE. Oh yeah, there was also a hardware and software upgrade to the Apple TV, giving it a very iOS-like interface and 1080p output. (But no Apple-branded TVs, though, which I’ve always believed would be a terrible idea anyway.)

The iPad (which is not officially named iPad 3, for whatever reason) is obviously the bigger news of the two. Cook certainly thinks so, since he dedicated the lion’s share of the announcement to it. Physically, the new iPad is actually a step backward: At 0.37 inches thick and 1.46 pounds, it’s actually thicker and heavier than the iPad 2, which is 0.34 inches thick and 1.35 pounds. But I think that the dimensions of the iPad 2 had already gotten thin and light enough to allow for a bit of backslide.

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Mercedes-Benz Creates “Invisible Car”

The body viewed by modern science

This you need to view in higher definition than normal viewing so I made the link take you to the TED presentation.

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WTHR_The Risk inside your credit card

TEDxIowaCity – Dr. Terry Wahls – Minding Your Mitochondria

WORLD’S SMALLEST HARD DRIVE BUILT OF ATOMS

Just 96 atoms make up one byte of magnetic storage space.

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THE GIST
Scientists have built a magnetic storage device made of 96 atoms.
The advance could lead to tiny hard drives able to store 200 to 300 times more information than they can today.

The tip of a scanning tunneling microscope precisely assembles atoms onto a surface to make the world’s smallest hard drive. Click to enlarge this image. Sebastian Loth/CFEL
Hard drives could one day be the size of rice grains, powering music players so small they would fit inside your ear.

Scientists at IBM and the German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science have built the world’s smallest unit of magnetic storage, using just 96 atoms to create one byte of data. Conventional drives require a half a billion atoms for each byte.

The advance could lead to tiny hard drives able to store 200 to 300 times more information than they can today. Just imagine an iPod Touch that held 12.8 terabytes of music.

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LG’s 55-inch OLED TV packed with 3D bells, smart TV whistles

Television manufacturer LG says that by 2016, its organic light-emitting diode, or OLED, televisions will cost the same as an LCD television.
This year, the company is working toward reaching that goal with the release of its first OLED TV in the American market, the 55-inch 55EM9600.
LG announced the TV in the week before CES 2012, but it might not be the only big OLED screen announced at the show; reports mention a similar TV from Samsung. While the public may remember Sony’s XEL-1 from a couple of years ago and be familiar with the AMOLED screens of various Samsung phones, LG’s EM9600 features a unique spin on the technology. While other OLEDs feature RGB (red, green, and blue) pixels, the LG adds a fourth, white pixel in a move LG says cuts costs and produces a brighter picture.

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The latest version of the LittleDog Robot