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Pictures that you can touch, feel and play around....
Now you can not only see the picture, but you can touch it and play with it as well. A group of researchers at the University of Tokyo has managed to come up with a holographic system that incorporates touch sensations. You can also use your hands to manipulate the picture. This could be the new way to entertainment, and there is no telling what other features can be incorporated as well. The system uses ultrasonic waves to impart the touching sensation. By focusing various beams of sound waves, it is able to impart the sensation on the hands. An additional feature is the use of feedbacks to manipulate the picture according to the hand’s movement.
These bacteria will self destruct by itself.
The creation of Biofuels looks like the answer to a constant source of renewable source of energy, what more with its ingredients replenished by sunlight and water. But although biofuels have become the rage for our insatiable hunger for fuel, it does have its problems. Chief among its many woes is the high amount of energy required to produce it. With more complicated technologies come with more energy inputs. One of the most promising ways is to harness the blue-green algae for the generation of fats that can be turned into fuels. But thus far there has been a problem with this group of photosynthetic microbes, called “cyanobacteria” because they have a cell that is difficult to remove. In order to get at the fats that are produced in the algae, the cells have to be broken and filtered off.
Now, with research from a group of Arizona State University, a method of tough cell breaking and removal has been pioneered. The idea is to implant into the algae membranes a mortal bacterial enemy, called a bacteriaphage, which will eventually kill the algae by bursting the algae membranes. After a certain period of growth, the algae will burst its membrane cells and make the fats available for harvest. It is an ingenious method, one of the first of its kind, but certainly will open up to more of such methods on other production methods. Further research will be conducted to streamline the method and will be financed by a US$5.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
December 16, 2009.