The device has a roller covered by sticky paper that will never let fly escape from it. Corpses of the bugs will be dropped into the a microbial fuel cell, when then digested by bacteria inside and cause chemical reaction to produce power for the clock.

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Surely, at the early prototype stage of the device, it looks bulky, which makes you look little absurd, like a Robocop. Perhaps, it’ll make you a little bit clumsy with your movements, while having it strapped to your knee. The researchers are looking into the possibility of making a much smaller version that could be incorporated into clothing.

Dr Arthur Kuo of the University of Michigan is the inventor of this device. And he calls it “biomechanical energy harvester”. He said the device works similar the power-generating brakes found in hybrid cars.

Anyway, this device will be helpful for joggers to power up their iPods while running or commuters to charge their mobile phones while dashing for a train.

via [Buzz Corner], Source

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Truely speaking, I can hardly believe this piece of news. What the UK scientists have told us is that they’ve found a way to turn women’s bone marrow into sperm, which can take men completely out of the process of creating new life. Are the scientists trying to override what GOD has created for us – the normal process, which creation of new life must be from a man and a woman.

They claim it is good for lesbian couples which they can have children biologically owned by them. Hey, we don’t stop here, it’s also good news for the gay as egg cells can be made from the men’s bone marrow too.

Anyway, the method raised couple of critics as it’s not a natural process for creating new life. Definitely against the law of GOD!

“The research centers around stem cells – the body’s ‘mother’ cells which can turn into any other type of cell. According to New Scientist magazine, the scientists want to take stem cells from a woman donor’s bone marrow and transform them into sperm through the use of special chemicals and vitamins. Newcastle professor Karim Nayernia has applied for permission to carry out the work and is ready to start the experiments within two months.” OMG!

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The invasive BCI is a great invention that can replace the lost parts of your body, such as lost limbs and even lost memory! Of course, you’d argue that artificial limbs have been available for ages. But the invasive BCI is different from the conventional artificial limbs which are made simply plastic imitations of the originals and they’re so called dead, which don’t interact with your brain. The BCIs can be used to produce artificial limbs built with silicon chips that can respond with pulses from the brain, which works exactly like the real limbs.

Currently, there are two groups aggressively into the BCI research, which are the invasive group in North Amercia and the non-invasive group in Europe and Asia. Furthermore, the study seems to have shown that developing silicon chips to replace lost brain tissue is possible – the silicon chips implanted into the human brain would be capable of giving out and receiving electrical signals.

That’s what the researchers are working on, not only focused on developing computer systems for applications in developing humanoids and robotics, but also in biomedical application, which can help people in physical and mental distress.

Source [GizmoWatch]

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His extremely long journey will need 65,000 litres of biodiesel. So, he will need more volunteers to go for liposuction to get the fat out of their bodies for powering his boat. Besides human fat, he will also use vegetable oils and other animal fats during the 24,000-mile trip. This carbon/Kevlar-hulled speedboat sports two, 350kW Cummins engines that generate 1080hp.

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In one hand of the lady shown in the picture, is a glucose-operated battery, which was used to power an MP3 player in the other hand of hers. Sony has figured out how power can be generated out of carbohydrates by breaking down enzymes that release active energy. This glucose-generated energy although little but still sufficient to power small electronic device. Sony has got a demo video on their press release site.

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The three fishing buddies stumbled across this great finding while experimenting with carbon dioxide to help boost algae growth for fish farming. Over the two years with about 130 tests carried out, they managed to achieve a capture rate between 85 and 95 percent. And the three now has formed a company, called Maes Anturio Limited and they’ve approached several local agencies for support and also approached car-makers Toyota Motor Corp of Japan and General Motors Corp. But the car-makers still remain silent. If this “Greenbox” goes materialized, the car owners who’ve got a “Greenbox” would need to replace it when they fill up their cars and send the “Greenbox” to a bioreactor to be emptied there. At the bioreactor, the captured gas from the box would be fed to algae, which would then be crushed to produce bio-fuel.

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