Future Tech
Mini Space Shuttle Looks for Online Donors
April 03, 2012, InnovationNewsDaily Staff
An aerospace startup is looking for $20,000 to test fire a rocket for its miniature space shuttle.
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Wireless Power Delivers for Body's Tiny Medical Implants
April 03, 2012, InnovationNewsDaily Staff
A wireless power system could work for medical implants or tiny medical devices inside the human body.
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Solar Plane Set for New Record-Breaking Flight
April 02, 2012, InnovationNewsDaily Staff
A record-breaking airplane that flies without a drop of fuel aims to break yet another world record.
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Cop Cars Get Makeover for High-Speed Chases
March 28, 2012, Robert E. Calem, InnovationNewsDaily Contributor
The new police rides are packed with tech that restores the driving advantage to cops.
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'Accordion' Solar Towers Squeeze 20 Times the Power
March 27, 2012, InnovationNewsDaily Staff
Solar panels arranged as 3D towers can make as much as 20 times more power compared to a flat solar panel installation.
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Is Patent Protection a Thing of the Past?
March 22, 2012, David Mielach, BusinessNewsDaily Staff Writer
Are open source patents the thing of the future?
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Tobacco Plants Turn into Living Vaccine Factories
March 21, 2012, Jeremy Hsu, InnovationNewsDaily Senior Writer
Tobacco plants responsible for millions of smoking deaths each year could become a public savior by transforming into living factories for making vaccines.
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Military Wants to Implant Tiny 'Doctors' in Soldiers' Bodies
March 20, 2012, Jeremy Hsu, InnovationNewsDaily Senior Writer
Tiny sensors inside soldiers' bodies could diagnose and treat battlefield diseases that have historically caused more casualties than actual combat.
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Supersonic Biplane Design Stops Sonic Booms
March 15, 2012, InnovationNewsDaily Staff
A redesigned biplane could allow supersonic or hypersonic aircraft to fly beyond the sound barrier without causing sonic booms.
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Hydrogen Cars Take to the Road in U.S. and Switzerland
March 13, 2012, Francie Diep, InnovationNewsDaily Staff Writer
They're expensive, but working.
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Beyond the Touch Screen: The Future of Computer Control
March 13, 2012, by Francie Diep
Next-generation electronics may let you control them by waving your arms, touching a wall or sending a kiss.
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Cyborg Snail Turned Into Living Battery
March 13, 2012, Jeremy Hsu, InnovationNewsDaily Senior Writer
A snail that became a living battery capable of generating electricity for months could lead to tomorrow's tiny military spies.
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NASA's New Glasses Lets Pilots See Through Fog
March 12, 2012, Jeremy Hsu, InnovationNewsDaily Senior Writer
Airline pilots could avoid disaster with NASA's head-worn display that sees through foggy conditions on airport runways.
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'Nuclear Clock' Requires Adjusting Only Once Every 14 Billion Years
March 09, 2012, InnovationNewsDaily Staff
The super precise timekeeper could prove valuable in science experiments where chronological accuracy is important.
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'Meat' Factory Can Turn Out Vegetarian Substitute By the Mile
March 06, 2012, InnovationNewsDaily Staff
A meat substitute that rivals the taste and cost of real meat could represent the future beyond animal farming or lab-grown meats.
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5 Skyscrapers for a Greener Future
March 05, 2012, InnovationNewsDaily Staff
Would you live in a mobile wheel or a floating sphere in the ocean?
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179-Year-Old Italian Roads Hold Lessons for Future Cities
March 01, 2012, by Francie Diep
The most important streets in a city have probably been main roads for centuries, a new study finds.
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Supersonic Drone Set to Fly in 2013
February 29, 2012, InnovationNewsDaily Staff
Its developers want to break the speed record for drones of its weight.
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Idea Turns Old TV Tubes into X-Ray Shielding Tiles
February 28, 2012, InnovationNewsDaily Staff
Heavily leaded cathode ray tubes in old TVs threaten to contaminate landfills, but a couple new ideas repurpose the old glass.
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'Smart' Stadium Goes High-Tech to Track Fan Experience
February 28, 2012, Jeremy Hsu, InnovationNewsDaily Senior Writer
A stadium gets a high-tech makeover to compete with the home theater experience of watching the big game.
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Next Space Telescope Must Survive 'Big Science' Questions
February 27, 2012, Jeremy Hsu, InnovationNewsDaily Senior Writer
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has the funding to move forward, but faces a tougher road than past "big science" projects such as the Hubble Space Telescope.
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14 Crazy Patent Applications
February 24, 2012, Brooke Borel, InnovationNewsDaily Contributor
Keep in mind that each inventor had to pay hundreds of dollars in USPTO fees and slog through a series of complicated steps to get their patents.
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5 Innovation Challenges You Can Enter Now
February 24, 2012, InnovationNewsDaily Staff
Win prize money and support by solving problems for U.S. government agencies.
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'Power Felt' Transforms Heat Into Electricity
February 22, 2012, InnovationNewsDaily Staff
Power Felt uses temperature differences room temperature versus body temperature, for example to create a charge.
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INFOGRAPHIC: How Overcoming Friction Wastes Fuel
February 21, 2012, Ross Toro, InnovationNewsDaily Graphic Designer
A recent study looked at where fuel energy goes in passenger cars. It found that by improving friction technology, the world could save 30 billion gallons of fuel and 290 million tons of carbon emiss…
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