http://techhead21.today.com Just another Today.com weblog Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:21:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sadly there are still many people in the world that lack clean drinking water.  They have to drink water contaminated with toxic chemicals and waste and finding a more affordable way then traditional done (i.e. Polymer membrane water filters) is making it hard to change this.  But IBM researchers have made a new membrane material that resists ... http://techhead21.today.com/2009/06/07/clean-water/ Yeah so there's this article about a dog that was made to be fluorescent...I want one!  This one glows red under ultraviolet light and I wonder if you can program certain colors.  Maybe you can make it the color of the rainbow under fluorescent light?  I know there's going to be animal ... http://techhead21.today.com/2009/04/23/fluorescent-puppy/ I don't know about any of you but I think it's about time we got off this planet.  It could only be the moon and that would be good enough.  I'm sure you've heard that saying about all your eggs in one basket...it's just not a good idea if you ... http://techhead21.today.com/2009/04/11/time-to-go-to-space/ Well it seems like were finally becoming cyborgs!  They've now built cartilage that performs better then the real thing.  That's so cool...I don't know about you but I'm all for being a cyborg!  If they made a artificial arm and leg that is just as good as or better then what I've ... http://techhead21.today.com/2009/03/27/artificial-cartilage-performs-better-than-the-real-thing/ The British company Reaction Engines Limited (REL) was awarded 1 million euros to develop an air breathing engine that could power the Skylon spaceplane.  The engine would run on hydrogen as the fuel and use liquid oxygen as a coolant instead.  It would also have a redesigned exhaust nozzle to get more force from the fuel ... http://techhead21.today.com/2009/03/11/british-space-plane/ The Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC) is designed to help soldiers carry large amounts of equipment with little effort.  A soldier can carry 200 pounds without trouble as the HULC transfers the weight to the ground from battery powered titanium legs.  The HULC also gives all the mobility the soldier would need ... http://techhead21.today.com/2009/03/09/lockheed-martin-shows-off-exoskeleton/ A skeleton dug up from a grave in Venice is supposedly the first example of a "vampire". During the time period that the women died most people believed that the plague was spread by "vampires" which spread disease by chewing on their shrouds after dying. Grave-diggers put bricks in the mouths of people ... http://techhead21.today.com/2009/03/08/vampire-discovered-in-mass-grave/ Well planetary scientist Pascal Lee is leading a NASA funded expedition out into the Haughton Crater in the Canadian Arctic which resembles mars... minus the no oxygen and it being on earth.  It's training for the mars expedition that won't happen for another fifty or so years but hey it's better to find out ... http://techhead21.today.com/2009/03/08/what-is-it-like-to-live-in-isolation-for-months-on-end/ Yes!  The Kepler Telescope has finally been launched!  For those of you who have no idea what that is or what it's supposed to do here's the basic idea.  It's designed for detecting planets the size of earth and will be pointed at and observe a group of 100,000 stars.  Telescopes that ... http://techhead21.today.com/2009/03/08/kepler-telescope-has-finally-launched/ Yes, scientists have now found a drug to erase bad memories that could possibly help withpost traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  They have found that when fearful memories arechanged they are in a process called reconsolidation, which is vulnerable to the bloodpressure drug called beta-adrenergic receptor blockers.  The drug works becausewhenever a fearful memory is ... http://techhead21.today.com/2009/02/17/erasing-your-bad-memories-with-a-pill/