Science & Technology – Week of 11.04.12


Hassine Labaied: A More Efficient Wind Energy

Youtube | 25 June 2012

This Prosthetic Hand Could’ve Been Ripped From a Terminator
Gizmodo | 08 November 2012
While we’re still a few years away from Ghost in the Shell-level cybernization, losing an appendage to illness or injury is no longer a liflong condemnation to hook-handedness.

Speaking His Mind, Beyond the Forecast
The New York Times | 05 November 2012
As Hurricane Sandy made its way up the coast, Bryan Norcross sat at his desk in the Weather Channel’s headquarters in Atlanta, waiting for the National Hurricane Center to issue a warning for the Northeast.

3D-Printed Adapter Rescues Threatened iPhone Dock
Wired | 06 November 2012
The Elevation Dock for the iPhone is a classic Kickstarter story.

9 ways 3D printing will disrupt the future
3Dprinter.net | 19 June 2012
3D printing is a fascinating form of manufacturing technology, which will without a doubt lead to a revolutionary new way of doing things.

Milan’s Vertical Forest
Green Muze | 12 October 2011
The Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) will be the greenest building in Milan when completed, which is one of Europe’s most polluted cities.

A Survey of Futuristic Floating Cities
Flavorwire | 02 November 2012
Peter Drucker, one of the greatest business thinkers of our time and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, predicted that “aquaculture, not the Internet, represents the most promising investment opportunity of the 21st century.”

The Imperative to Explore
MIT Technology Review | 24 October 2012
Following our first “small step for man” with the Apollo 11 landing on the moon on July 20, 1969, there was an expectation that mankind was embarking on our ultimate journey—the expansion of humanity into the cosmos.