Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP)- A $30 MILLION COMPETITION TO LAND A PRIVATELY FUNDED ROBOT ON THE MOON   The Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP) sometimes referred to as Moon 2.0  is an inducement prize space competition organized by the X Prize Foundation, and sponsored by Google. The challenge calls for privately-funded spaceflight teams to compete to successfully launch a robotic spacecraft that can land and travel across the surface of the Moon while sending back to Earth specified images and ...

Mining the Moon - Get Moon rock Mining the Moon - LIGHTWEIGHT ROBOTIC EXCAVATION Imagine being able to order Moon rock and get it delivered. Astrobotics is building light weight robot to that. Astrobotic Technology is an American privately held company that delivers space robotics and planetary missions. It was founded in 2008 by Carnegie Mellon professor Red Whittaker and his associates, the company is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has reserved a launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 laun...

Think About if you need to choose up a pencil and draw an ideal circle the first time you tried. That’s the promise of Oujiband, an digital counterweight strapped to your wrist that makes use of a gyroscope and a gimbal to sense your advantageous motor actions and, when necessary, smooth them out just a little. (Think About a finely balanced Segway in your hand.) Possible implications? Surgeons could reduce straighter when the band sensed their palms shaking. A New tennis player may study to ...

Frugal Digital developed Clock Sense, a monitor converted from an old alarm clock which can easily assess temperature, pressure, pulse, oxygen saturation, respiration rate, blood sugar. It is cheap to produce and can be assembled from components which are easy to find across India. The indicator provides simple information: red means the patient should be taken to the hospital immediately, yellow indicates that an appointment with a doctor should be made, green indicates good health. Frugal D...

Five year old from Inverness received a 3D printed prosthetic hand from E-nable, a network of volunteers who design and make prosthetics for children.     For more details please visit : http://enablingthefuture.org/2014/10/18/5-year-old-kindergarten-boy-gets-3d-printed-e-nable-hand/    

Harvard stem cell researchers announced that they have made a giant leap forward in the quest to find a truly effective treatment for type 1 diabetes, a condition that affects an estimated 3 million Americans at a cost of about $15 billion annually: With human embryonic stem cells as a starting point, the scientists are for the first time able to produce, in the kind of massive quantities needed for cell transplantation and pharmaceutical purposes, human insulin-producing beta cells equivalen...

For people who suffer from migraines, cluster headaches, and other causes of chronic, excruciating head or facial pain, the "take two aspirins and call me in the morning" method is useless. Doctors have long associated the most severe, chronic forms of headache with the sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG), a facial nerve bundle, but haven't yet found a treatment that works on the SPG long-term. A technology under clinical investigation at Autonomic Technologies, Inc., (Redwood City, CA) is a patien...

Former Baltimore City Cop Builds Full-Size Robot Mark Haygood, an ex-cop build a four foot, three-inch tall humanoid robot with hi-fi  home speakers, an old radio, a couple of DVD players and other household appliances.     For details, check out his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HexHumanoidRoboticPlatformToy

WiTricity builds a "Source Resonator," a coil of electrical wire that generates a magnetic field when power is attached. If another coil is brought close, an electrical charge can be generated in it. No wires required. "When you bring a device into that magnetic field, it induces a current in the device, and by that you're able to transfer power," Don't worry about getting zapped, the magnetic fields used to transfer energy are "perfectly safe" -- in fact, they are the same kind of fields...

GE Healthcare’s innovative pocket-sized ultrasound features the first of its kind dual probe that houses two transducers in one probe. The Vscan with Dual Probe transforms physical exams that helps enable efficient triage, fast workflow, and helps deepen patient connection. This intuitive device provides a non-invasive look inside the body, with both shallow and deep views, that helps speed diagnostic decisions for a wide range of clinical applications. For more details visit: ht...

A fridge for the common man that does not require electricity and keeps food fresh too. With this basic parameter in mind 'Mitticool', a fridge made of clay was developed for rural areas.   It works on the principle of evaporation.  Water from the upper chambers drips down the side, and gets evaporated taking away heat from the inside , leaving the chambers cool. The top upper chamber is used to store water. A small lid made from clay is provided on top. A small faucet tap is also...

Researchers from Caltech have developed a solar-powered, self-cleaning toilet able to convert human waste into hydrogen and fertilizer. Caltech’s toilet system uses the sun to power an electrochemical reactor. The reactor breaks down water and human waste into fertilizer and hydrogen, which can be stored in hydrogen fuel cells as energy. The treated water can then be reused to flush the toilet or for irrigation. The system can function off-grid and without any subsurface infrastructure. ...

British team on Friday said it was preparing to launch the world's first ever 3D printed human-sized rocket. It's highly complex shapes that simply weren't practical to do any other way  then to leverage 3d printer to build it. EXASOL AG, the provider of EXASolution the world’s most powerful engine for analytic and data warehousing is today announced as the lead sponsor of the Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) Mission; an audacious plan to launch a 3D printed rocket-powered spacepla...

At MIT Media lab study to explores the possibility of embedding sensors in Google Glass to robustly measure physiological signals of the wearer.     BioGlass: What if you could see what calms you down or increases your stress as you go through your day? What if you could see clearly what is causing these changes for your child or another loved one? People could become better at accurately interpreting and communicating their feelings, and better at understanding the...

Buoyant Wind Turbine (BAT) is a new innovation to generate energy in sky as it works at a thousand feet above the ground. The energy-creating innovation has been in development for a couple of years by the Altaeros Energies Company in the US and testing of the latest incarnation is currently underway. If successful, the idea could prove to be an invaluable way of generating electricity in areas of dire need, such as locations affected natural disasters where power lines might have been destro...

The self-balancing electric skateboard is an eye-catching innovation that embraces the spirit of a hoverboard, but delivers it in a device that you can buy now and could become the next must-have means of getting around. Onewheel electric skateboard can speeds at 12 miles per hour and uses EMS gyros and accelerometers, which are the similar to those that allow you to play games and suchlike on your handset or tablet computer. The Onewheel can be controlled using body movements, much like a...

The 3D printer that can build a house in 24 hours The University of Southern California is testing a giant 3D printer that could be used to build a whole house in under 24 hours. Contour Crafting could slash the cost of home-owning, making it possible for millions of displaced people to get on the property ladder. It could even be used in disaster relief areas to build emergency and replacement housing. The Contour Crafting system is a robot that by automates age-old tools normally used...

This year’s Nobel Laureates are rewarded for having invented a new energy-efficient and environment-friendly light source – the blue light-emitting diode (LED). In the spirit of Alfred Nobel the Prize rewards an invention of greatest benefit to mankind; using blue LEDs, white light can be created in a new way. With the advent of LED lamps we now have more long-lasting and more efficient alternatives to older light sources. When Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura produced bright blu...

Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner won the Nobel Prize in chemistry this year for their work on optical microscopy that has opened up our understanding of molecules by allowing us to see how they work close up. Back in 1873, science believed it had reached a limit in how much more of a detailed picture a microscope could provide. At the time, microscopist Ernst Abbe said the maximum resolution had been attained. This year's winners proved that contention wrong. "Due to their a...

According to a new study released by PLoS, a group of scientists have successfully sent a message between two brains, without actually implanting anything in either person. Yes, this was all achieved across a normal skull without any wires being inserted. Simply put, one person was shown an image, which was picked up by an external set of sensors which measure brain activity (known as an electroencephalogram or EEG), and then this activity was sent over the internet to a robot-assisted, image-g...

An 18-year-old from Canada has invented a way to clean up the toxic waste produced from extracting oil from tar sands. Hayley Todesco used knowledge gained from fifth grade science to come up with a filtration system using sand and bacteria to quickly break down the waste. This waste is usually stored in tailings ponds, where it will take centuries to break down. In 2010, tailings ponds took up about 68 square miles (176 square kilometers), but by 2020 that area is expected to grow to 96.5 sq...

3D printers have been used to make everything from human stem cells to food to full-size cars, and now researchers are using the technology to build models of rocks to study how fluid seeps underground. Geologists are reproducing the microscopic, intricate porenetworks of rocks in scaled up3D-printed models. Franek Hasiuk, a professor of geological and atmospheric sciences at Iowa State University in Ames, is printing replicas of the tiny holes at huge magnifications to get a better look at h...

A biologically inspired smart suit that fits under clothing and could help soldiers walk farther, tire less easily, and carry heavy loads more safely is being designed by engineers at Harvard . The lightweight Soft Exosuit overcomes the drawbacks of traditional, heavier exoskeleton systems, such as power-hungry battery packs and rigid components that can interfere with natural joint movement. It is made of soft, functional textiles woven into a piece of smart clothing that is pulled on like a...

Real life is getting closer to being like a comic book, as U.S. researchers are working on an implant that could give people the same healing powers possessed by some of the world's most popular superheroes. The device is being designed to keep track of organs in the body and heal them whenever they become infected or injured, according to The Financial Express. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will develop the device under a program called Electrical Prescriptions (Elect...

Scientists at Princeton and Tufts are working on a superthin tooth sensor (a kind of temporary tattoo) that sends an alert when it detects bacteria associated with plaque buildup, cavities or infection. It could also notify your dentist, adding an extra layer of social pressure to make an appointment. The sensor may have wide-ranging use: the researchers have already used it to identify bacteria in saliva associated with stomach ulcers and cancers. While the sensor won’t last long on the surface...

Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have developed a new display technology that automatically corrects for vision defects — no glasses (or contact lenses) required. The technique could lead to dashboard-mounted GPS displays that farsighted drivers can consult without putting their glasses on, or electronic readers that eliminate the need for reading glasses, among other applications. “The first spectacles were invented in the 13th century,”...

Mitochondria, often called the powerhouse of the cell, have been harnessed in a new battery-like device that could one day power small portable devices like mobile phones or laptops. Mitochondria convert fatty acids and pyruvate, formed from the digestion of sugars and fats, to adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the cell's energy supply. Along the way a tiny electrical current is generated, and Shelley Minteer and coworkers from Saint Louis University in Missouri, US, have now harnessed those flow...

  Stanford scientists develop water splitter that runs on ordinary AAA battery   Hongjie Dai and colleagues have developed a cheap, emissions-free device that uses a 1.5-volt battery to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen gas could be used to power fuel cells in zero-emissions vehicles. BY MARK SHWARTZ Mark Shwartz/Precourt Institute for EnergyStanford University Professor Hongjie Dai has developed an emissions-free electrolytic device that splits ...

Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) is a hot area of research. In the past year alone we’ve looked at a system to allow people to control a robotic arm and another that enables users to control an ASIMO robot with nothing but the power of thought. Such systems rely on the use of an electroencephalograph (EEG) to capture brain waves and translate them into commands to control a machine. Now researchers at the University of Southampton have used a similar technique to show it is possible to transmit ...

NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program   The supersonic bi-directional flying wing (SBiDir-FW) aircraft in high-speed configuration (Image: University of Miami)   Looking ahead to an exciting future, NASA is continuing to invest in concepts that may one day revolutionize how we live and work in space with the selection of five technology proposals for continued study under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program. NASA's Space Technology Mission Directo...