Sepp Hasslberger: New ‘terahertz’ scanner lets mobile phones see through walls

This opens up vast possibilities of consumer-accessible imaging technologies that are less damaging than x-rays. Imagine your tricorder decked out with a terahertz chip… New ‘terahertz’ scanner lets mobile phones see through walls “A hi-tech chip allows a phone to ‘see through’ walls, wood and plastics – and (although the researchers are coy about this) …

Sepp Hasslberger: Cyclone Power Adds A Modern Twist to the Steam Engine

Cyclone Power Adds A Modern Twist to the Steam Engine Cyclone Power Technologies, a Pompano Beach, Florida company, focuses on solving our dependence on fossil fuels with its heat regenerative external combustion engines. “This engine works when steam enters the top of each of the six radially arranged cylinders (20) and pushs the pistons (54) downward …

Sepp Hasslberger: Scientists, Citizens, & Real-Time Pervasive Science

Scientists and citizens Sam Geall February 24, 2012 Could a new wave of networked, amateur scientific endeavour speed the discovery of solutions to pressing environmental problems? Sam Geall reports. What connects a group of Bayaka pygmy hunters in the Congo Basin, opposed to illegal loggers encroaching on their land; residents of Deptford, in south London, …

Sepp Hasslberger: Mark Boyer on Scientist Develops Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor That Produces Clean Hydrogen Fuel

Mark Boyer Scientist Develops Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor That Produces Clean Hydrogen Fuel Hydrogen is a fuel that has seemingly limitless potential, but scientists have only been able to produce it from fossil fuels, like natural gas. That is, until now. A doctoral student in mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware has designed a new …

Sepp Hasslberger: Putting Ground Transport Deep Underground

Evacuated tube travel to replace trains, planes and automobiles? “Some people spend their life watching the tube, but Daryl Oster is spending his trying to get people to travel in one.” “To be fair, Evacuated Tube Travel might be even bigger — Oster is proposing uisng magnetic levitation to send car-sized capsules through giant long …