‘Green’ urban centers pop up about the Earth
Posted on July 15th, 2008 at 7:11 pm by admin
SIEBEN Basswood, Germany Straw and mud are the edifice materials of choice for a few dozen ecologically minded citizenry in the easterly German small town of Sieben Basswood.
Cleverly isolated homes in part of Freiburg, Deutschland, use a fraction of the free energy consumed in average homes.
A continent away, the Chinese authorities plans to transubstantiate a rural area of 100,000 citizenry into a metropolis of 400,000 that would run mostly on renewable energy.
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Making hyperlinks in the real world
Posted on July 15th, 2008 at 12:47 pm by admin
By Steve Mollman For CNN
You in all likelihood arrived here via a hyperlink. We scarce think about it now, but the hyperlink is an orderly trick. It turns a tidings in a web browser into an object that leads to more information.
Appearing to the future: A vizor that gives you world, but with appended extras and information, and an ‘augmented world.
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Invisibleness cloaks: From magic to world?
Posted on July 15th, 2008 at 6:26 am by admin
By Elizabeth II Landau CNN
Wouldn’t it be great if you could get invisible whenever you cherished? Harry Potter can do it, and so could sure groups of futurist creatures on “Star Trek.”
Graeme John Milton and fellow workers have come up up with a possibility for how small objects could get invisible.
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Givers sign up to hold bodies exposed
Posted on July 15th, 2008 at 12:02 am by admin
By Emanuella Grinberg CNN
Toney Dixon’s captivation with dead bodies goes back to her puerility, when she would sneak about her uncle’s funeral home and watch him set bodies.
The organic structures on display are plastinatedded, a procedure that supervenes upon bodily fluids and fat with plastic.
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