Is bamboo the next carbon fibre?

Credit: Instructables

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20140523-car-industrys-miracle-material

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1092320_could-renewable-bamboo-be-as-strong-as-carbon-fiber-for-lightweight-cars

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Suspended animation trials to begin on humans (video)

Not for space travel, but for life saving here on Earth. And they don't use the term "suspended animation", because it, "sounds too much like science fiction."

Somehow, "emergency preservation & resuscitation", doesn't have quite the same ring.

http://www.cnet.com/au/news/suspended-animation-trials-to-begin-on-humans/ / world first attempts placing humans in suspended animation UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania not for space travel save lives technique patient patients wounds lethal surgery surgeons science fiction cooling the body applying external temperature change team of surgeons remove all of the patient's blood replacing it with a cold saline solution cool the body slowing its functions halt oxygen accidents Swede Sweden Swedish Anna Bågenholm survived trapped under a layer of ice in freezing water for 80 minutes skiing accident Japan Japanese Mitsutaka Uchikoshi survived 24 days without food or water hypothermic hibernation suspending life science fiction Doctor Samuel Tisherman surgeon trial New Scientist technique developed Doctor Peter Rhee test pigs fatal wounds arteries scalpels pigs' blood saline lower lowered body temperature 10 degrees Celsius control pigs warmed back up hearts jump start survival rate no physical or cognitive impairment emergency measure patients cardiac arrest severe traumatic injury chest cavity open lost at least half their blood already survival rate patients control group survival rate massive step forward Acute Care Research website /

Hardware hacker solves a big smartwatch problem: your fat fingers (video)

Touch screen interface is pushed beyond its limits on a tiny smartwatch screen. Cue Carnegie Mellon University's Future Interfaces Group to turn the entire body of the smartwatch into a joystick.

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/hardware-hacker-solves-a-big-smartwatch-problem-your-fat-fingers/ / smartwatch smart watch Samsung Apple product false start makers’ maker chubby fingers dumber smaller version of your smartphone screen based screen-based device multi touch multi-touch interaction zoom zooming pinching pinch tap tapping swipe swiping screen tablet 5 inch display iPod Nano shrink user experience Chris Harrison professor Future Interfaces Group Carnegie Mellon University PhD students Gierad Laput Robert Xiao design designed new smartwatch concept unlock real potential increasingly tiny devices recent conference team  presented a prototype of a smartwatch control controlled tilting twisting clicking click bezel watch mini joystick used in conjunction touchscreen radical departure pinches and zoom swipe small gadgets new interaction language interactive problem smart phone smartphone killer app buzz buzzes vibrate text watch posted on twitter user experience on small devices interesting utility interactions designed into them space of interactive possibilities interaction vocabulary legacy thing pinch and zoom pinching and zooming pan left and right prototype proof of concept electronic components industrial design improvements sensors bulky /

What Microsoft gets wrong about the tablet-laptop redundancy

Surprise: almost all iPad owners have laptops. Can't their portable computing needs be satisfied with just one or the other? Microsoft's answer is the Surface tablet/laptop.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/05/what-microsoft-gets-wrong-about-the-tablet-laptop-redundancy/ / Surface Pro 3 event Microsoft vice president Surface creator Panos Panay surprising statistic 96 percent iPad owners own laptop tablet laptop ownership relationships studied constantly own owning both argument tablets laptops unify them presentation Microsoft's perspective tablet computer same device tablet separate laptop Surface Pro 3 tablet replace your laptop Jordan Guthmann PR representative Microsoft Windows 8 tablet/laptop hybrids hardware manufacturers hybrid form factor tablets laptops redundant redundancy hardware manufacturers justify the cost popular market luxury item specifically defined use case where pared-down computer experience used in tandem cloud data everywhere cost /

What the Tesla Model S will cost in Australia — updated

Credit: Tesla Motors

Update: Tesla has released prices:

http://hhg2tech.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/tesla-modle-s-pricing-in-australia.html

$A95,000 for the stock 60kWh. Fully-optioned, high performance 85kWh Tesla Model S, up to $A200,000.

And yes, there will be a Supercharger network in Australia. Construction will begin in 2015. Free for owners to charge, too.

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/05/heres-what-the-tesla-model-s-will-cost-in-australia/ / battery lithium ion LiIon charge recharge Supercharger network super charger Model S Tesla Motors price official release date variants pricing with pricing register registered interest Signature Reservation slots stock 60kWh Tesla Model S charge comes Australia Tax per Australian taxes 10 per cent Goods and Services tax GST Luxury Car Tax Stamp Duty price compared BMW M5 total-cost-of-ownership Supercharger network 2015 Model S charge their cars for free /

Solar Roadways (video)

Problems:

● cost of electricity
● pollution from electricity generation
● cost of road building
● cost of road maintenance
● potholes
● stormwater
● pollution carried by stormwater
● cost of parking
● space taken by roads
● space taken by parking lots
● space taken by solar power generation
● range of electric vehicles (EVs)
● charging EVs
● cost of EVs
● ice & snow on roads in winter
● etc.

Solution:

● Solar Roadways

Over $919,088USD raised of a $1,000,000USD target raised on Indiegogo as of this writing.





https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways

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World's biggest dinosaur? Let's keep a sense of proportion here

Credit: SVPow

http://svpow.com/2014/05/19/the-new-argentine-titanosaur-was-about-the-same-size-as-the-biggest-argentinosaurus/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/19/scientists-claim-worlds-largest-dinosaur-find/?tid=pm_pop / Argentine titanosaur size big biggest Argentinosaurus Sauropod vertebra vertabrae whale herbivore carnivore scale photograph skeleton dinosaur dinosaur in the world Tyranosaurus T. Rex newfound P. Rex Pinocchio rex dinosaur scientist scientists biggest bones dinosaur length head to tail 130 feet long 65 feet seven-story building central Argentine town El Sombrero local farmer weighed 80 tons Argentinosaurus sauropod subgroup Titanosaur 100 million years ago long serpentine neck vegetation Patagonia 200 bones animals died drought African elephants weight José Luis Carballido team of researchers Argentina’s Museum of Palaeontology paleontological treasure Argentinosaurus excavation Paul Barrett London’s Natural History Museum fragmentary specimens complete skeleton proportions overall shape conjectural discovery new Argentine titanosaur same size biggest Argentinosaurus Sauropod vertebra Picture of the Week /