Emerging Technologies....They Might Have Cured Cancer

[LD0506]

https://m.phys.org/news/2019-03-acoustic-metamaterial-cancels.html?fbclid=IwAR2jauuIeGZi5dcn5uj12C-9BPIRLEQwU4VArmTyB2rxzmy92n3aBxYN-Bs#nRlv

 

 

[China]

45 minutes ago, LD0506 said:

https://m.phys.org/news/2019-03-acoustic-metamaterial-cancels.html?fbclid=IwAR2jauuIeGZi5dcn5uj12C-9BPIRLEQwU4VArmTyB2rxzmy92n3aBxYN-Bs#nRlv

 

 

 

Interesting.  There are a lot of potential uses for that.

[China]

Most people can't handle driving.  Now you want to add a third dimension?  I guess it will require a pilot's license.

 

A California company says it’s building a flying motorcycle powered by jet engines

 

 

They have been a staple of science-fiction films for decades, from the iconic speeder bikes in “Return of the Jedi” to the jet bike from “Looper.”

 

Now a California company says it’s taking orders for a real-life flying motorcycle powered by five modified jet engines on the base of the aircraft.

 

The $380,000 vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft, called the “Speeder,” will be able to reach at least 150 mph, have a 45-mile range and fly as high as 15,000 feet when it debuts next year, according to David Mayman, chief executive of JetPack Aviation, a company that creates and sells personal jet packs.

 

The speeds and heights may sound far-fetched, but company officials say they’re already testing a one-third scale prototype. The plan, they say, is to roll out 20 full-size Speeders ready for customers next year.

 

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[FanboyOf91]

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[China]

‘Google brain’ implants could mean end of school as anyone will be able to learn anything instantly

 

“GOOGLE brain” implants could mean the end of school – as anyone will be able to learn anything instantly, says an artificial intelligence expert.

 

Nikolas Kairinos, founder and CEO of Fountech.ai, says that technology could improve our lives, and completely change how we learn.

 

In an interview with the Daily Star, he explained that he has been working on a revolutionary AI to “personalise education” to enable “anyone can learn almost anything, using AI”.

 

And he believes that within the next two decades, our heads will be boosted with special implants, so “you won’t need to memorise anything”.

 

He told the Daily Star that people won't have to bother typing any questions, as any queries will be answered immediately from "an AI implant", which will result in the end of "parrot fashion" learning at schools.

 

The expert, who has racked up more than 20 years of working with start-ups, adds: "Google will be in your head, and that's not far-fetched. It'll be like having a really smart assistant that will almost think like you."

 

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[PleaseBlitz]

 

[Cooked Crack]

 

[China]

Piëch’s New All-Electric Sports Car Is Claimed To Charge To 80% Capacity In Under Five Minutes

 

An all-electric sports car from the latest start-up brand was revealed at the Geneva Motor Show in March, amid much promise and rave reviews. And the brand’s name was familiar: Piëch. Anton Piëch heads up the new Swiss-based Piëch Automotive, and all things to do with high-level automotive performance clearly run in his blood, as the son of former head of Volkswagen Ferdinand Piëch as well as the great-grandson of Ferdinand Porsche. And this is the Piëch company’s first car, the Piëch Mark Zero.

 

 

Piëch is aiming high right off the bat. While there was no shortage of budding electric brands in Geneva, Piëch aims to take sports car handling into the electric age, and since the launch the Mark Zero’s testing and development work has been at full throttle. Battery charge times are often cited as a drawback of electric vehicles, and this car looks like it’s got it sorted. It charges in record time—four minutes and 40 seconds to get to 80% capacity. This is down to the revolutionary lithium-ion batteries and their innovative cells, which hardly heat up during charging or discharging phases and allow a high recuperation rate.

 

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On 7/21/2017 at 2:06 PM, PleaseBlitz said:

Use this thread to talk about the cool **** we'll have in the future.

 

First up, and I thought we had a thread on this already (if so, please merge), the Hyperloop.

 

Elon Musk just announced that he is planning to build one between DC and NYC.  Skepticism is warranted, but this would be just ****ing awesome.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/musk-says-he-has-verbal-approval-for-dc-to-new-york-hyperloop/2017/07/20/0754628e-6d62-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html?utm_term=.cddf80f52a96&wpisrc=nl_buzz&wpmm=1

 

 

If you are not aware of the Hyperloop concept, see here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop

 

Elon Musk Says ‘Hyperloop’ Tunnel Is Now Just a Normal Car Tunnel Because ‘This Is Simple and Just Works’

 

Back in 2017, Elon Musk had grand visions for the test track built by The Boring Company, his tunneling firm, in Los Angeles. The Boring Company’s tunneling work was closely linked to Musk’s Hyperloop idea, which would require hundreds of miles of tunneling to be viable, although the actual test track in California bore none of the traits of an air vacuum-based transportation system. It would have proprietary vehicles with varying capacities for private travel, public transport, or freight. They would travel along electrified skates for frictionless movement. It would be fast and efficient, but more importantly, it would be different, because he’s a genius. 

 

Six months ago, the first demonstration of that track didn’t quite match that vision: it was a Tesla Model X on a sled going down a very bumpy tunnel at roughly 50 mph.

 

At the time, Musk said the bumpiness was only temporary: “That bumpiness will definitely not be there down the road—it will be smooth as glass.”

 

Credit where credit’s due: it does appear to be smooth as glass now, according to a video The Boring Company released of a car going 127 mph down the tunnel. How did it achieve such miraculous speed and comfort improvements in a mere six months?

 

They paved it.

 

Yes, for those keeping score, in a mere two years we’ve gone from a futuristic vision of electric skates zooming around a variety of vehicles in a network of underground tunnels to—and I cannot stress this enough—a very small, paved tunnel that can fit one (1) car.

 

The video’s marketing conceit is that the car in the tunnel beats a car trying to go the same distance on roads. You’ll never believe this, but the car that has a dedicated right of way wins. Congratulations to The Boring Company for proving dedicated rights of way are important for speedy transportation, something transportation planners figured out roughly two centuries ago. I’m afraid for how many tunnels they’ll have to dig before they likewise acknowledge the validity of induced demand.

 

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[China]

Meanwhile...

 

China unveils 600km/h maglev train prototype

 

(CNN) — A new floating bullet train capable of hitting speeds of 600 kilometers per hour (about 372 miles/hour) is one step closer to reality in China.

On Thursday, the body prototype for the country's latest high-speed magnetic-levitation (maglev) train project rolled off the assembly line in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao.

Developed by the state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) -- the world's largest supplier of rail transit equipment -- the sleek-looking train is scheduled to go into commercial production in 2021 following extensive tests.

 

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[No Excuses]

The boring company is making the subway system, but with cars. It's maybe the dumbest idea conceived in the history of transportation but seems appropriate for our day and age.

 

Pretty much every expert on the environment and transportation suggests that we move away from cars towards revamped local and state-level mass transit systems. And Musk's genius idea is to build subway tunnels for cars.

 

God help this planet.

[PleaseBlitz]

WTF happened to Elon Musk?  He’s about six months away from halting all human contact and storing his urine. 

[China]

1 hour ago, PleaseBlitz said:

WTF happened to Elon Musk?  He’s about six months away from halting all human contact and storing his urine. 

 

Why It Was Always Dumb To Worship Elon Musk As A Savior

 

America is currently held in the grip of a ruthless megalomaniac who insists he's making the world better. Every little thing he does dominates the news cycle, and his horde of fans ceaselessly attack anyone who dares criticize him, even as his ideas become increasingly outlandish. I am talking, of course, about Elon Musk. His embrace of green energy and space travel has earned him the title of The Good Billionaire Who Will Save Us All among a legion of adoring fans who bitterly defend his every move.

 

Right now, Musk is taking a beating over a bizarre episode in which he came up with an impractical plan to rescue some Thai children trapped in a cave, and then when criticized by one of the rescue divers, responded by calling him a pedophile on Twitter. But, as with some other notable figures in America today, Musk's bizarre Twitter outbursts are just a symptom, not the problem ...

 

5.  It Starts With A Carefully Crafted Image

If I asked you to sum up Elon Musk in one word, you'd probably say "nerd." Or at least, you would if you work for the media:

 

 

You know what that means. Instead of another stuffy billionaire, he's just like us!

 

Of course, the image he projects serves a purpose, just like how I project an image of stunning yet approachable sexuality. To understand how it helps him, we need to look at what I call the Walmart-Amazon Neural Kontradiction, or WANK. Walmart has long been reviled for driving local mom and pop stores out of business with low prices made possible by their terrible treatment of workers (a survey ranked Walmart 69th out of 100 major corporations in public reputation). Amazon is also driving locals out of business thanks in part to treating its workers like s**t, but that same survey found they're the most respected brand in America, presumably because half the people reading this have an Amazon parcel en route to their house right now.

 

They're both behemoths offering the exact same tradeoff of convenience at the cost of other people's well-being. So what's the difference? Well, Walmart is considered a white trash store (remember People of Walmart?) that you shouldn't be caught dead in. Amazon is billed as a hip, customer-first service for busy, tech-savvy people. (Did you hear they're going to start delivering with drones?) Amazon is new and high-tech and forward-thinking. You know, like Elon Musk! He is to other billionaires what Amazon is to Walmart.

 

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[dfitzo53]

10 hours ago, PleaseBlitz said:

WTF happened to Elon Musk?  He’s about six months away from halting all human contact and storing his urine. 

To be fair, aren't we all?

[Riggo-toni]

[LD0506]

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As a flat sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a lattice, graphene is pretty simple, and yet it keeps surprising scientists with new properties. For the latest in a long line of breakthroughs, a team from Stanford has shown that graphene arranged in a specific way can generate a magnetic field. That's surprising enough, but it turns out this particular form of magnetism has previously only been theorized.

 

 

https://newatlas.com/graphene-new-form-magnetism/60770/?fbclid=IwAR1_SS8or55BGdwTaPf3zckDZZrB5omtE3SyydNOUkQB4EKVDQSNwQunUBE

[Sacks 'n' Stuff]

On 5/26/2019 at 10:24 PM, dfitzo53 said:

To be fair, aren't we all?

Waaaaaaay ahead of the curve over here.

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It's not unusual to find rust around salt water, but now the pairing might actually be useful. Researchers at Caltech and Northwestern University have found that electricity can be produced when salt water flows over the top of thin films of rust. The process was previously seen in – what else – graphene, but rust is far easier to scale up.

 

https://newatlas.com/salt-water-rust-generate-electricity/60812/?fbclid=IwAR1u3WDhBNPcaT0ulDtS-n4b6i0Yq9mrfTwEFgrGJXBWC4kfKQsOTCJeZCY

 

Lots of interesting new effects being found, hard to say when some smart researcher is going to turn one of them into a world changing technology..........

[Renegade7]

On 5/26/2019 at 12:58 PM, PleaseBlitz said:

WTF happened to Elon Musk?  He’s about six months away from halting all human contact and storing his urine. 

I believe he finally broke when he went to Obama on the dangers of AI and his response was "that sounds really really bad, but I dont understand wtf you are talking about".

 

Ever since then hes been talking about merging AI and humans together since theres no way to actually beat AI and ensure our existence in the future.  This may the same time trying to triple his efforts and get to Mars to start his own civilization in his own image, complete with with single lane car tunnels from pole to pole.  Hes already in "we all gonna die and I'm out of here" mode, with the money and brains to actually pull it off.

 

That's still my dude, we need crazy people like that that pushing society forward even if not every idea is the best one.  He comes across as bored sometimes, honestly, too much time on his hands.  

Edited August 3, 2019 by Renegade7

[Destino]

5 hours ago, Renegade7 said:

Ever since then hes been talking about merging AI and humans together since theres no way to actually beat AI and ensure our existence in the future. 

That's the overly ambitious dream of a company he's started that aims to create a viable brain to computer interface.  What he imagines might one day come to pass, but none of us alive today will live to see it.  Merging what we still don't understand terribly well with a AI technology that still doesn't really exist, is still far away science fiction. 

 

The post human future is coming, however, and with a bit of luck we might catch a glimpse of it's start.  One day someone will figure out how to replace human organs or limbs with man made parts that are at least as good as the real thing.  Perhaps someone will figure out how to fully interface computers with our minds so that sensory information can be fed directly in, thus eliminating the need to look at a screen or listen to a speaker.  Once humanity can start altering and upgrading the physical body, things are going to get interesting (and really weird).

 

 

[Renegade7]

12 hours ago, Destino said:

That's the overly ambitious dream of a company he's started that aims to create a viable brain to computer interface.  What he imagines might one day come to pass, but none of us alive today will live to see it.  Merging what we still don't understand terribly well with a AI technology that telepathically doesn't really exist, is still far away science fiction. 

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Yes, that is where that came from.  However, Musk plans testing human implants for lower level tech like amputees around middle of next year, so I wouldn't bet against Musk getting it so people can talk to each other telepathically with each other via bluetooth in our lifetime.

 

12 hours ago, Destino said:

The post human future is coming, however, and with a bit of luck we might catch a glimpse of it's start.  One day someone will figure out how to replace human organs or limbs with man made parts that are at least as good as the real thing.  Perhaps someone will figure out how to fully interface computers with our minds so that sensory information can be fed directly in, thus eliminating the need to look at a screen or listen to a speaker.  Once humanity can start altering and upgrading the physical body, things are going to get interesting (and really weird).

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Like a lot of technology related to health, it will start as available from a price standpoint to those that can afford it, then those who need it, followed those who want it.  As long as it stays a choice, there will be a long period of time of those who do and those who don't do this.  My fear is that people will start getting it only to keep up with people that do, like competing for jobs, while at the same time it being an interface that can now be accessed wirelessly whether the person wants to or not.  The first brain hack will happen in our lifetime, too, big reason I'll never take that risk.

[Corcaigh]

Clothing made from graphene ...

 

https://www.fastcompany.com/90205090/the-first-graphene-jacket-is-here-and-its-magical

[PleaseBlitz]

5 hours ago, Corcaigh said:

Clothing made from graphene ...

 

https://www.fastcompany.com/90205090/the-first-graphene-jacket-is-here-and-its-magical

 

This is ****ing wild.

 

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The hope is that once people get their hands on the jacket, they’ll start experimenting with it–like beta testers for the product and researchers for new applications. “[W]e’re looking to harness the collective power of early adopters as a test group to do it,” Tidball says. “[We] believe that between them they’re likely to discover things that we simply don’t know. It brings massive scale to our ability to experiment with the material to see what it can do.”

 

For example, someone could hack the conductive material to make the jacket capable of charging a phone simply by putting it in the pocket. Other new features could take advantage of the materials’ properties, too. The company hopes to learn more about its new material potential through the experimentation of its users–and then go back to the drawing table to release a new version, more akin to a hackathon than a fashion design process.

 

“Our view is that wearable technology will become increasingly invisible over the next 10 to 20 years,” Tidball explains. “Instead of wearing it over your eyes or on your wrist, it will be embedded as clothing and tech simply merge. We think graphene’s ability to conduct heat and power and withstand insane forces, while adding zero mass, should make it central to the story. And when clothing can start conducting heat and electricity all sorts of cool things can start happening. It means that over the next decade your clothing can start to become a platform for other innovations. And that’s really what we’re interested in.”

 

[Corcaigh]

1 hour ago, PleaseBlitz said:

 

This is ****ing wild.

 

 

 

Here's a description without the journalist filtering the content.

 

https://www.vollebak.com/product/graphene-jacket-1/

 

Edited August 4, 2019 by Corcaigh

[PleaseBlitz]

25 minutes ago, Corcaigh said:

 

Here's a description without the journalist filtering the content.

 

https://www.vollebak.com/product/graphene-jacket-1/

 

 

All kinds of wild **** on that site.  Too bad I can't justify spending $1200 on a jacket.