Invisibility cloaks for soldiers

In the Harry Potter exists a known cloak of invisibility used several times by the protagonists to ... well, to become invisible obviously. The fact is that a company called Hyperstealth Biotech Corp says it has a camouflage material that is able to give these same capabilities to the soldiers.

Known as Quantum Stealth, this mantle, it seems, is able to "bend" or "bend" light around to those who look at him not to realize that there is actually someone there. Hyperstealth Unfortunately no details on how this technology .

The CEO of the company says that the mantle has already been tested by American and Canadian military and they know it works without cameras , no batteries, no mirrors and nothing similar. It is a lightweight and inexpensive material which is also effective against thermal IR sensors and glasses.

The image, to clarify, not directly related to the Quantum Stealth, which certainly hope to meet someday.

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Mini iPad 2 will focus more on the screen resolution

Improvements Mini iPad 2, or whatever it will be called the next version of the iPad Mini, will focus primarily on what is the screen resolution of the device, which many leaves something to be desired with its first generation. It is unclear whether the display means improving advance directly to the level of a Retina Display or take things further, but it is likely that this is the first since many iOS devices are in use Retina display. As noted above, much people complain about poor resolution of small iPad, which is even less than the Nexus 7 Google .

On the other hand, it is also said that Apple could reduce the weight of the iPad, and we refer to the large iPad. It seems that Apple is looking for an effective way to reduce weight by removing a LED bar. While the iPad 4 is clearly lighter than the original, for many a tablet is still a little heavy.

We hope to have more details soon.

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Cheese manufactured prehistoric men 9000 years ago

Theoretically, thousands of years ago prehistoric man basically confined to living in caves, hunting and gathering fruit he found here and there, but strangely whenever archeology steps forward our vision of the past changes. Now it has been found that around 7,000 BC men of the time also devoted their time, among other things, to make cheese from cow's milk. That's 9,000 years.

This is what archaeologists say working in Poland after discovering pottery belonging to that era. The pottery was sent to the University of Bristol to be analyzed and what they found there were waste fats derived from milk, ie sometime pottery belonged to the container where there was cheese. Discovery is not enough, because away the idea that 9000 years ago the man was little more than a modern man asalvajada version. At the end of the cheese manufactured in this way requires a degree of technology, language and social skills.

This seemingly simple invention maybe had to do with the progress of humanity, on the one hand these men could be stored and transported without being soured milk and cheese also contains less lactose than whole milk with which everyone could benefit from its nutritional without suffering the side effects of lactose intolerance.

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Woman tries to buy 3 iPhones, police electrocuted with a taser

It is not the plot of a science fiction film futuristic but the real world, and also more drama happened in these dates near Christmas. A woman went to an Apple Store in the British city of New Hampshire in the U.S. Northeast and there was a discharge of Tasers by a couple of policemen. The reason: after buying two iPhones tried to buy some more, but two that is the purchase limit per customer in one store per day.

The woman in question is a 44-year-old Chinese did not master English well and this is where, in part, means a situation. For one woman may not understand what he meant, or perhaps his mind could not assimilate. At the end of the day what country in the world forbid you buy a lot at a store? Only in the strange western in which we live.

At first they tried to convince the woman politely that he should leave the store with his two iPhones, but eventually ignore calling the police. The woman turned to ignore until finally a policeman drew his taser and gave a shock.

The daughter of the woman who was present tells the story: "Then the police took the phone to my mother and tried to snatch her ​​purse. My mother tried to ask them why and they just threw it to the ground '. At minute 0:16 you can see two burly policemen knocking this dangerous criminal mobile compulsive shopper.

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They piezoelectric coolers, goodbye to the fans inside your computer

One of the problems is that the home computing some internal components such as the processor greatly heated to the point that if the enfrías could melt literally.
To prevent this warming has always used an invention that seems anachronistic if you compare the high technology found inside the box of a computer: the typical fans, those same casting an annoying buzz around turning your computer.

The news is that a new invention called 'SynJet' fans could change them for something more modern classics from several points of view. On the one hand there is no turning blades so that the noise emitted is negligible. On the other hand are based on piezo technology, much more 'cool' from the point of view that have geek there a piece of plastic floating around inside a modern computer. But its virtues are many and striking.

The invention in question is based on two metal plates that work very rapidly expanding and contracting each time they receive an electrical charge. As a result absorb hot air and cold air expelled in small quantities, but to repeat the process many times per second, by the cooling effect.


The size of the current prototype has dimensions similar to those of any cooling fan find a computer processor today, however is much flatter so it takes up much less space.

According tested the air is able to move this little device is the same as a small fan but uses half the electricity in the process

In the video below you can see it in operation but is all in English. At minute 2:00 you can see how to prove it on a laptop successfully, but can not see how long your computer turned on.

Although currently only a prototype fans may end up being computer thing of the past in no time by being more efficient, using less energy, using less space and, above all, without a sound!

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This is a house 'Hobbit' in real life

What if you're a fan of The Lord of the Rings and you have enough money? Obviously, seize land in the field to build your own home Hobbit including all details. A Peter Archer likes two things, one of which is the architecture and everything else related to the work of JRR Tolkien, to the point where he has spent 30 years collecting objects related to Middle Earth.

You now have a place to expose them as a small museum, a home built in Pennsylvania, USA that faithfully mimics the characteristics that would have a Hobbit house in real life, a home with entrance formed by a stone path, round wooden door and a fireplace. Obviously, what has not been observed is the size that these houses would in real life since Peter is larger regulatory and twenty meter for Hobbits.

 

 

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Scientists get to act as old cells young again

 

It seems that the formula for eternal youth is getting closer, if recently talked about a breakthrough in this regard related to hydras , now at the University of Michigan have discovered another technique that would potentially stop rejuvenate the cells of your body indefinitely.

The discovery in question is not related to the cells of your body directly, but with the surrounding material called extracellular matrix or ECM . Increasing the filling space around the cells that succeeded in older cells act as back to back young cells. It's that simple.

Scientists at the Department of Dermatology at the University of Michigan tested the technique on animals and the good news is that, to be successful, also found that it worked in humans and no known side effects at this time.

Specifically, proved to inject a substance that enhances the MEC in 21 volunteers octogenarians with the result that the skin becomes thickened and began to generate collagen and blood vessels spontaneously. Possibly the invention is not the fountain of youth by itself, but it seems that combining several techniques are appearing recently could start finding enough people with youthful age.

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YotaPhone, a smartphone with an LCD screen and an electronic ink display

The design of some smartphones seems to be a product of science fiction, but the truth is that not, are part of our reality. From Russia comes a new smartphone called unusual YotaPhone.
What makes this small be so particular? Your technology obviously it is equipped with two screens: one LCD and electronic ink, both of 4.3 inch. Notifications and messages can be viewed on the screen of ink, so no need to resort to the LCD every time we get a notification or a new message. Obviously the HD resolution LCD is located on the front and the other in the back.
If you ask for the rest of your hardware , the CPU keeps YotaPhone Snapdragon S4 dual-core at 1.5GHz, has 2GB of RAM, LTE connectivity features, the main camera is 12 megapixels, is also a front for video calls and has 32GB of internal memory.
The YotaPhone be released, as estimated, between July and September 2013.

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