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Eminent Technology has announced the Model Twenty Two – the "world's first flat panel active guitar speaker." Super-lightweight and about the size of a chunky picture frame, this 120-decibel oddity can now be your guitar amp, cab and FRFR speaker.
Category: Music, Technology
Scientists have demonstrated an intriguing new technique to treat cancer – “molecular jackhammers” that latch onto cancer cells, then vibrate vigorously to kill them when activated by infrared light.
Tags: Cancer, Melanoma, vibration, Texas A&M Universty, Molecules, Rice University
Researchers have identified 317 million unique gene clusters belonging to oceanic microbes. Creating the world’s largest open-source catalog representing only the ‘tip of the iceberg’ in marine metagenomics, the library offers a tool for exploring how these genetic resources could be used in medicine, energy, food and other industries.
Category: Science
When you think of resources we’re running out of, sand might not be high on your list, but it’s up there thanks to our high demand for concrete. Scientists at Rice University have now shown that substituting graphene can not only save sand, but makes concrete lighter, stronger and tougher.
Tags: Graphene, Concrete, Sand, Rice University, Building, Building and Construction, Construction
Things can get ugly and inefficient when a ground effect vehicle accidentally skims the water, adding significant drag that can drastically slow it down, wrench it sideways or just cost energy. One inventor is solving this problem with paddle wheels.
Tags: Ground Effect Vehicle, Radio Control, Electric Aircraft, Electric Boats
A breakthrough clinical trial using gene therapy has restored hearing to five children born deaf. After six months, the children were able to recognize speech and hold conversations, raising hopes for wider use in the near future.
Tags: Deaf, Hearing, Hearing Impaired, ear, gene therapy, Genetics, Harvard, Fudan University
Improving on what users loved about its predecessor and then adding extra features, the Phantom 2.0 folding utility knife is claimed to now be even more perfectly suited to hiking, hunting, camping, wilderness survival, or regular everyday use around the home.
Tags: Utility vehicles, Knife, Titanium, Everyday Carry
