BBC News – Scientists make laboratory-grown kidney.

This is cool. Making progress. Maybe by the time I’m old enough that I might need something replaced they’ll be able to grow my own.

This is neat! It’s an old video that explains how a car’s differential works to keep tires on different radius turns spinning together.

How a differential gear works — a-ha generating video – Boing Boing.

Very interesting. NdGT’s thoughts on Nasa and space exploration set to various videos related to it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson – We Stopped Dreaming (Episode 1) – YouTube.

Raspberry Pi Dynamic Bike Headlight Prototype and Test – YouTube.

This is great! Semis get 5-6 mpg loaded, this one gets about 10mpg. If my 30mpg Acura was updated to get 40mpg I’d be thrilled, or if the Prius’s 50 mpg changed to 100mpg, that’d be great! A sidenote, Hummer H2’s are horrible and thus discontinued. They got 10 mpg and carried 4 people.

SuperTruck semi achieves 54-percent increase in fuel economy.

Amazing image taken today from space. Equinox, spring in the north, fall in the south.

Earth from Space on the Spring Equinox | Satellite Images | LiveScience.

Ok now this is the sort of technology that I like to hear about. An under skin sensor that can detect blood sugar level changes (diabetes), cholesterol levels, chemo therapy effectiveness and potentially warn of heart attacks BEFORE they happen by several hours.

Wireless ‘under the skin’ prototype implant beams instant blood test read-outs to your smartphone.

So this is a ram chip stacked on top of a processor. This means that instead of the processor being in one spot on the board and the ram being several inches away, they are effectively one chip. The article mentions that the data of a full bluray disc could be moved from the ram through the chip in 1/50th of a second. THAT is Fast! This is the future in general of chips, stacking and mixing layers of logic and memory. This means very good things for customers.

NVIDIA reveals Volta next-gen GPU platform.

Adventures after dark on Vimeo on Vimeo

Haven’t tried this yet but it looks like a good weekend project. I wonder if I can convince the old Tivo I have that I get both cable and antenna channels at the same time.

The Pietenna HD Antenna Looks Terrible but Gets Great Signal.

This would be welcome from phones to laptops to electric cars!

USC battery wields silicon nanowires to hold triple the energy, charge in 10 minutes.

Short video at the link here demoing an new coating that can be put on just about anything. You’ve maybe seen hydrophobic coatings that make water bead up on something and not be absorbed? This does that with water and oil, which are basically the two main solvents that get onto things and make them dirty. I could see this being put just about anywhere. Neat stuff! (More reasons I went into engineering, to be part of stuff like this at some point.)

Hydrophobic, dirt-shedding spray is indistinguishable from magic – Boing Boing.

2:32 of time well spent. A round up of some of the best science on the net. Good for you, good for sharing with someone you know (big or small) that is interested in the world around them.

The BEST Science Online (Henry’s List) – YouTube.

xkcd: Expedition.

You should watch this short Ted Talk on what is wrong with our modern medicine system and how you’re being lied to.

Ben Goldacre: What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe – YouTube.

We can now image the shadow of a single atom. That is amazing!

In the shadow of the atom – Boing Boing.

A few weeks ago when the Black Marble pictures came out I noticed this. I tried to zoom in on Google maps and see what it was but came up empty, so I left it. The answer us kind of disturbing.

A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR.

Wysips solar-cell display reaches 90% transparency milestone, we go eyes-on.

So this is cool. It appears that they are making a overlay film for your cellphone that converts light (I’m guessing not visible light) to electricity. 90% transparent right now looks quite nice. I’m thinking what if we put these in windows instead of cellphones. Put it between the two layers of glass in a double pane window. Conceivably these could provide all the electricity a house needs for night time lighting. That would go a long ways towards cleaning up our air and electrical grid.

“Unrelated” side note: I was at 24 Hour Fitness earlier today when they kicked us out of the gym due to the transformer across the street blowing up and knocking out power to the building. More reasons for solar power setups.

Robots are awesome!

Compressorhead Ace of Spades – YouTube.

So I want to know what happened. These were to be the cars of tomorrow! They were aiming for new designed, efficiency, and new features. Explain the cars of the 70s and 80s after seeing this: