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May 27, 2017
Nitinol – an alloy that remembers its shape
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: chemistry
When I saw this for the first time, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Well, I still kind of don’t…
Nitinol is a metal alloy of nickel and titanium, where the two elements are present in roughly equal atomic percentages.
Shape memory is the ability of nitinol to undergo deformation at one temperature, then recover its original, undeformed shape upon heating above its “transformation temperature”.
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May 27, 2017
Underwater treadmills look like a lot of fun
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
May 27, 2017
Apple has opened the most expensive office building in the world
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
May 27, 2017
Hololens ultrasound
Posted by Nancie Hunter in categories: augmented reality, biotech/medical
May 27, 2017
Robot Lifts And Parks Your Car
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
May 27, 2017
Radicals — Outsiders changing the world
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: geopolitics, life extension, transhumanism
Jamie Bartlett’s new book Radicals features #transhumanism in his opening chapter. He’s on a book tour and discusses his time on the Immortality Bus for about 10 minutes in this video below:
Society is badly served by the limited set of ideas which occupy our cultural mainstream. To cope with the increasing pace of change, we need big new ideas. Where might these ideas come from?
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May 27, 2017
NASA seeks proposals for a Fab Lab in space to take humans beyond the moon
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, computing, space travel
Equipped with 3D printers, CNC machines, computers, digital tools and other equipment, a fabrication laboratory, otherwise known as a Fab Lab, is a facility set up to enable people to ‘make anything’. In a bid to provide these capabilities to missions for deep-space exploration, NASA are accepting FabLab proposals from corporate, institutional and charitable teams in the private-sector, due to be reviewed late 2017.
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May 27, 2017
Pensions time-bomb for world’s biggest economies could explode to $400 trillion, says WEF
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: economics, life extension
Future generations are on course to become enveloped in the biggest pension crisis in history, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF), unless policymakers from the world’s leading economies take urgent action.
The Geneva-based organization predicted the challenges of an ageing population could result in the world’s largest economies being forced to tackle a pension time-bomb.
Analysis from WEF showed six countries with the biggest pensions, including the U.S., Canada, U.K., Netherlands, Japan and Australia, as well as the two most densely populated countries in the world – China and India – would face a retirement savings gap in excess of $400 trillion in 2050, up from around $70 trillion in 2015.
