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Humanoid invented in 2005
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Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery |
...A new type of battery invented in Japan, in the University of Waseda. This is a flexible rechargeable battery, based on polymers. The development of this type of battery was conditioned by the permanently developing industry of portable devices, which become smaller and smaller each year.
Researches on this device have been conducted for several years, but the scientists, working on this battery are Drs. Hiroyuki Nishide... |
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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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The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity |
... the list;
- ninth position was taken by the discovery of diffraction of Roentgen rays in 1912 by Max von Laue;
- the last, but not the least, was named Henry Bessemer's iron processing technology, invented in 1856.
It should be mentioned that the entire list contained about 50 most important discoveries, among which the most important were the Gutenberg's alloy of plumb tin and stibium (used for printing-press), rub... |
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Biofuel Vehicles to Put Our Health at Risk |
...als that biofuels used in vehicles may be more harmful for human health than the petrol used today. By 2020, 10% of all transport means should run on biofuels as agreed by the EU.
The researchers invented a special computer model to determine air quality in 2020. The model showed that ozone level in some regions would grow if bioethanol was used for all cars. It would cause more ailments and asthma attacks. There nat... |
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Robots to Become Our Closest Friends Soon |
...A humanoid baby robot able to pick up language skills and interact with humans will be released next year.
Scientists at the University of Hertfordshire’s School of Computer Science in collaboration with an international consortium led by the University of Plymouth on ITALK (Integration and Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in Robots) start the experiment on March, 1.
The iCub, a small robot that is one... |
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BBC Fined for Cheating Over TV Phone-ins |
...mic Relief show. The same way members proceeded during another phone-in on Sport Relief in July 2006. In 2005, during the show called Children in Need, the production team decided to read the name of invented winner out on air.
In May, the media watchdog made ITV pay ₤5.68 million for abusing top rate phone services in viewer competitions. Ofcom said that severe editorial issues were spotted on: Ant and Dec's Satu... |
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Hollywood Producer to Write a Film About the Rise of Facebook |
...ame extremely popular in the last couple of years, to find out "how this works.
On his page Sorkin wrote: "I've just agreed to write a movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin about how Facebook was invented. I figured a good first step in my preparation would be finding out what Facebook is, so I've started this page. (Actually it was started by my researcher, Ian Reichbach, because my grandmother has more Internet savv... |
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