Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension - life - 21 October 2009 - New Scientist

Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension - life - 21 October 2009 - New Scientist

"THE MAN dangles on a cable hanging from an eight-storey-high tower. Suspended in a harness with his back to the ground, he sees only the face of the man above, who controls the winch that is lifting him to the top of the tower like a bundle of cargo. And then it happens. The cable suddenly unclips and he plummets towards the concrete below."

This describes an experiment in which someone is thrown off a building to safely fall in a net. It was to measure how time slows..You know, like when you are in a car crash and everything g..o..e..s..so S>>L>>>O>>W!

The Wireless Future of Energy Tranfer | Singularity Hub

The Wireless Future of Energy Tranfer | Singularity Hub: "The Wireless Future of Energy Tranfer
"June 30th, 2009 by Drew Halley
Filed under computing.

The electronic revolution of the past century has been a tangled affair. Remember when phones were always wired into the wall? When the internet required one more cord from the back of your computer? Wireless is the future, which is all well and good for information transfer. But what about energy itself?"


Remember Nikolai Tesla? He invented alternating current, transmitted energy through the air (not too successfully), and first detected cosmic background radiation? Wireless battery charging is on the horizon. Read the blog referenced above as well as MIT Technology Review and the Patent for such a device.

Radio Australia - Innovations - Solar Prints

Radio Australia - Innovations - Solar Prints: "DESLEY BLANCH : In a country as sunny as Australia, you would think that every rooftop should have a solar panel on it. But the uptake of solar has been quite slow, mainly because of cost. Well, a consortium of Australian scientists may have an answer that is right on the money.

For ABC TV's science and technology program Catalyst, Mark Horstman investigates."

I heard this a few months ago an an Australian Broadcasting Company podcast. A company specializing in printing currency is on the verge of a breakthrough. See Also:

Australia's Printable Solar Cells : Renewable Energy News

Printable solar cells on the way | COSMOS magazine.

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