21 century inventions

Fans of the 21 century inventions have probably already heard the news that MIT researchers are working on the development of a robot wheelchair that finds its way around a building 'listening' to voice commands. First of all, the innovative autonomous wheelchair learns as much as possible about the locations in a particular building, then taking the sitting person to the necessary location after receiving a verbal command.

All the passenger has to do is to give a simple command to the wheelchair, such as "take me to the reception hall" or "go to my room," without any need for controlling every turn of the route. The smart wheelchair is really comfortable as it allows its passenger to sit back and relax, moving from one location to another according to a map stored in its memory.

	The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
...and colleagues in 1948); - fourth invention was declared the glass processing (circa 2200 B.C in South-Western Iran); - fifth discovery was named the invention of the optical microscope in the 17th century; - invention of concrete by John Smeaton was placed on the sixth place among the inventions; - the seventh invention in the list was given to the steel processing, found about year 300 B.C. in India; - brass proces...
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	Humanoids continue invading
...The 21st century is not the time, when people can be easily impressed, this can be refered to another, whether weird or wise, invention of the Japanese, that is a humanoid robot. On the other hand the most impressive thing is that people are still striving to create somebody, or something, to resemble themselves. This game has ended up in a demonstration of bots to help the aging population of Japan in their everyda...
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	Chemical Found in Cosmetics, Soaps and Lubricants is Hazardous for Men
...ries. Stahlhut stated that phthalates should definitely be in the list of chemicals that require a careful study. It is worth mentioning that phthalates have been actively used for more than half a century. However, only now did scientist start thinking about the possible health problems to which the chemical might lead. Studies made on animals showed that phthalates consistently depress the levels of testosterone. Rece...
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	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...One of the latest inventions in the field of light emitting devices might change the way people light their homes and design clothes. The device represents a thin film of plastic able to conduct electricity and create solar power. Scientists working on the international project are looking forward to bring the organic light emitting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of ...
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	Worms and Humans Are One Family
...object for research for almost any area of science, be it genetics, or be it paleontology. As for genetics, it has found that the human brain is in a continuous process of evolution and people in the 21st century are more developed than their ancestors. Two years ago paleontologists made a sensational discovery: they dug out a petrified brain. And here we are today with the molecular biologists saying that we are direct r...
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	Public Phone Booths to Become Internet Access Points in Sweden
...rnet access. This equipment will enable Swedish to access Internet wirelessly virtually from anywhere near a phone booth within 500 feet. This way TeliaSonera intends to find a place in the wireless 21st century for the old telephone booths, which were prophesied to extinguish within a few decades. News agencies report that a user will need a laptop and a mobile phone, to retrieve a unique password for Internet access. ...
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	A Better Office Working Schedule Suggested by British Researchers
...tion of their work. Professor Thomas Redmond from the Durham University, JBA (a British consulting company) and Regus (an international company) have conducted a research called "Efficient work in 21st century", where over 1000 office workers from private and social organizations took part. According to this study, the 'classic' scheme of office work, i.e. sitting in front of the monitor entire week, surrounded by f...
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	The World Says Rest in Peace to Luciano Pavarotti
...cized for these alliances of classic and pop cultures, but the Maestro said he would do anything to bring classic music to a wider public. Today we say "Rest in peace, the Golden Voice of the 20th century"... The Secretary General of UN Ban Ki-Mun has also reminded everyone that Luciano Pavarotti was ambassador of peace of the UN, thus leaving a bright trail not only in music and world culture, but also in building ...
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	The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think
... 4. The Ig Nobel Prizes that are parodies of the real Nobel Prizes, are awarded annually to celebrate unusual, creative and improbable achievements in science, medicine and technology. Some of these inventions may seem weird and hilarious nevertheless they are truly breakthroughs in science. Medicine Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, USA, was awarded for the in-depth report that a...
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	Cheney and Obama are distant relatives, Mrs. Cheney says
...ite while researching family history for her new book "Blue Skies, No Fences," on her life in Wyoming where she grew up. She said that her husband and Barack Obama have a common ancestor - a 17th century immigrant from France. Mrs. Cheney reported that it was "an amazing American story that one ancestor ... could be responsible down the family line for lives that have taken such different and varied paths. The...
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	Blondes Make Men Act More Silly, Study Says
...eotypes. In earlier studies it was discovered that people tend to walk slower in front of the elderly people. Experts say that blondes became a subject of numerous stereotypes and jokes over the past century. From the psychological point of view, many people associate blonde hair with childhood as babies are often blond at birth, thus people looking at fair-haired women may take them not too seriously. The study, was p...
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	Prizes $27,000 Worth For the Best Undergraduate Inventor
...n event meant to encourage young inventors will be held on Monday and Tuesday, February 11th and 12th in the University of Wisconsin Madison. The UW-Madison Invention Days competitions will house 14 inventions designed and built by 49 UW-Madison undergraduate students. Among the presented inventions there will be solutions for ice fishermen, for tailgaters, for potato farmers, for modern laptops and even for airlines. T...
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	Message from Aliens to Arrive in 2015
... the message is expected to arrive in 2015 from live forms from the Altair solar system. They say that the message will be the response to a radio-wave signal, which had been sent to Altair a quarter century ago by Hisashi Hirabayashi, a Japanese astronomer. According to Mr. Hirabayashi the response is likely to arrive in 2015. This is in case the intelligent beings received the message decoded it and sent an instant ...
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	A Huge Telescope Allows to See from London to New York
...n artist Paul St George. He was inspired by the idea of his great-grandfather Alexander Stanhope St George, who built a trans-Atlantic tunnel connecting London and New York. The artist found the 19th century plans and finished what his grandfather once started. St. George studied Victorian chronophotography but had no idea where to find the right equipment for the trans-Atlantic tunnel. He asked for help Artichoke, t...
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