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Archive for January, 2009

Beam me up!

Posted in Technology on 01, 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Another one for the “kinda cool” category. A joint team from the University of Maryland and University of Michigan have declared the ability to generate “long-distance” (1-meter) teleportation. They apparently managed to teleport the quantum state of two atoms a meter apart. It reminds me of compact disks coming from Einstein’s work on photons and [...]

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Cars as trolleys?

Posted in Cleantech on 01, 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

File this under the “Just kinda cool” category. The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is working on piezoelectric roads that generate electricity as cars drive over them. Using crystals the experimental road generates 400 kilowatts of power per hour. Not a lot but… I like the outside the box/herd thinking. Combine this with the MIT City [...]

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