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27 fantastic ideas
While science fiction writers are coming up with ideas, and British scientists are seeking ways to implement them, the true practice of simply carried out. 2012 proved to be quite rich in the implementation of the once purely speculative ideas about the future. As one wise man: "The current future is no longer what it used to." This list I propose today.
1. Paralyzed woman power of the mind is able to manage their roboprotezom
At the University of the US city of Pittsburgh Department of neurobiology employees within 13 months created a robotic arm for the 52-year-old paralyzed Jen Shoyermann (Jan Scheuermann). The woman was implanted in the cortex of the brain, two 96-channel microelectrode. On the second day Jen cope with the management of "hand", and after 13 months it had seemed to present a biological limb.
2. Military robot was able to recognize and overcome obstacles
Follow these steps to create a learning cybernetic organism.
3. Genetically modified silk proved stronger than steel
The University of Wyoming scientists changed brood moth larvae to yield silk, which is stronger than steel weight equivalent. The new material will be used in medical and military problems.
4. DNA could photograph the
Enzo di Fabrizio from the Technological Institute of Genoa (Italy) with an electron microscope was able to take a picture of the DNA helix.
5. Stealth technology was further developed
The Canadian company HyperStealth Biotechnology demonstrated a working prototype of the new material "Quantum invisible» (Quantum Stealth), which is able to cause the light rays bend around people and objects without batteries, mirrors and video cameras.
6. Spray for increasing skin
Avita Medical Company has developed technology ReCell to help burn victims. The patient takes a small piece of leather, is milled and mixed with the enzymes taken from swine and then made spray that is applied to the burn. Spray particles expand, covering the wound. Since the basis is taken from the patient, the risk of rejection of the new skin is minimal.
7. James Cameron has reached the deepest point of the ocean
The famous director has become the first person to single-handedly reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
8. Stem cells can prolong a person's life for 100 years
When the Institute for Regenerative Medicine elderly mice, whose life cycle is 21 days, a few days before the expected death was injected with stem cells of young mice, the results stunned scientists. Instead, the nature of the allotted period experimental mouse has lived for 71 days. Comparing with the person, it is as 80-year-old man to give the opportunity to live up to 200 years.
9. 3D-printer printed the house in one session
Created by Enrico Dini D-Shape printer is able to print a two-story structure with all rooms, staircases, pipes and baffles using only sand and an inorganic compound. Strength of the material obtained is comparable with reinforced concrete, and looks like a marble. The speed of execution of printing house takes time-only 25% of the normal period of construction of this type of structures.
10. machine without drivers allowed to drive through the streets of three US states
Google has begun testing their cars without a driver in the beginning of 2012. In May, regulators Nevada allowed uncontrolled driving these cars on the streets. Then undertaking joined Florida and California. Over 300,000 machine hours happened to them only 2 of the accident and only when driving them sat a man.
11. "Voyager 1" has left the solar system
Interplanetary station "Voyager 1" was launched in 1977 and became the first artificial object, flown away over the border of the solar system
12. Inserted first printed on 3D-printer artificial jaw
The artificial jaw made of titanium powder coated with bioceramic was created for 83-year-old patient. This achievement opens the way for the establishment in order to replace the bones to individual needs. Maybe soon the same way will be possible to print, and other organs.
13. Detected rogue planet
Until 2012, scientists had only known planets orbiting stars. Everything changed the discovery of a celestial body CFBDSIR2149. With a mass of Jupiter 4, this space education was officially recognized as a planet and not a brown dwarf, as previously thought.
14. From the embryos grew impossible in nature hybrids
Experiments on the connection of six separate embryos in three cubs monkeys monkeys resulted in success. These studies will help to better understand the role of individual genes in living organisms and gene mutations in humans.
15. Artificial leaves will produce electricity
Using a relatively inexpensive material, Daniel Nocera (Daniel G. Nocera) for the first time in the world has managed to create artificial leaves. Nocera cells imitate the process of photosynthesis of true leaves, but produce hydrogen instead of oxygen. This hydrogen can then accumulate in the fuel elements for electricity generation in any environment.
16. Points augmented reality Google made the Internet encompassing
Points displays augmented reality radically change a person's life.
17. It was finally experimentally detected Higgs boson
In summer, representatives of the international research center CERN have confirmed the discovery of the particle, which is the behavior coincides with the description of the Higgs boson. This means practical confirmation of the existence of the Higgs field, reminiscent of the properties of electromagnetic, but the interaction with the masses, and not by the magnetic field.
18. The advent of low-cost flexible solar panels
Developing startup Twin Creeks called "Hyperion" has a price two times lower than existing solar panels, and is able to compete with conventional energy. The cost per watt in this case is about 40 US cents.
19. Open diamond planet
An international team of researchers have discovered a diamond exoplanet. When the amount is five times the size of Earth, the mass of the planet is close to the mass of Jupiter. The specifics of the location of a celestial body in a binary star system suggest that it consists mainly of crystalline carbon.
20. The ocular implant restored sight to the blind
In Britain, two blind men in the course of an eight-hour operation implanted artificial eye. The results were promising. After years of blindness, both the patient a few weeks could discern the outlines of objects and began to see colorful dreams. Doctors hope that the brains of patients with time will get used to interact with an artificial eye.
21. In Wales, all kinds of plants in the programmed barcodes
The National Botanic Garden of Wales has made a database of 1,143 endemic species of plants, of which 5,700 have programmed barcodes. So now that any kind can be identified by pictures of seeds, roots, stems and pollen.
22. The first private spacecraft docked with the ISS
The private company SpaceX successfully launched into orbit its cargo ship Dragon, which docked with the international space station.
23. Highly flexible glass will create non-planar devices with screens
Company Corning, based in New York, shown at the exhibition in Boston prototype of its flexible glass with a thickness of 0, 05 mm.
24. Robotic exoskeletons began to practice
In NASA have adopted exoskeleton X1 Robotic Exoskeleton. Weighing 26 kg device has a 4 engine on the joints, in addition to 6 passive joints.
25. The human brain is "hacked»
The division Usenix Security Association of advanced computer systems, there is a group of researchers who are using available technology have decided to show the vulnerability of the human brain. With electroencephalograph and special software, they were able to consider the reaction of the excited neurons and how it affects the activity of the brain in the case of recognizing a person PIN credit card or a human face.
26. The discovery of the planet four suns
Amateur astronomers have discovered a planet the size of Neptune, rotating at close orbit around a binary star, which in turn revolves around a couple of other stars. Scientists are trying to figure out how the gravitational field is so easy the system is not thrown out of her planet.
27. Microsoft has patented Holodeck
According to documents filed in the patent, Microsoft wants to make the game experience beyond the single screen and make the screen all the playing room, including furniture. The system allows you to adjust the curves of objects in the room to simulate a smooth and complex surfaces.
1. Paralyzed woman power of the mind is able to manage their roboprotezom
At the University of the US city of Pittsburgh Department of neurobiology employees within 13 months created a robotic arm for the 52-year-old paralyzed Jen Shoyermann (Jan Scheuermann). The woman was implanted in the cortex of the brain, two 96-channel microelectrode. On the second day Jen cope with the management of "hand", and after 13 months it had seemed to present a biological limb.
2. Military robot was able to recognize and overcome obstacles
Follow these steps to create a learning cybernetic organism.
3. Genetically modified silk proved stronger than steel
The University of Wyoming scientists changed brood moth larvae to yield silk, which is stronger than steel weight equivalent. The new material will be used in medical and military problems.
4. DNA could photograph the
Enzo di Fabrizio from the Technological Institute of Genoa (Italy) with an electron microscope was able to take a picture of the DNA helix.
5. Stealth technology was further developed
The Canadian company HyperStealth Biotechnology demonstrated a working prototype of the new material "Quantum invisible» (Quantum Stealth), which is able to cause the light rays bend around people and objects without batteries, mirrors and video cameras.
6. Spray for increasing skin
Avita Medical Company has developed technology ReCell to help burn victims. The patient takes a small piece of leather, is milled and mixed with the enzymes taken from swine and then made spray that is applied to the burn. Spray particles expand, covering the wound. Since the basis is taken from the patient, the risk of rejection of the new skin is minimal.
7. James Cameron has reached the deepest point of the ocean
The famous director has become the first person to single-handedly reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
8. Stem cells can prolong a person's life for 100 years
When the Institute for Regenerative Medicine elderly mice, whose life cycle is 21 days, a few days before the expected death was injected with stem cells of young mice, the results stunned scientists. Instead, the nature of the allotted period experimental mouse has lived for 71 days. Comparing with the person, it is as 80-year-old man to give the opportunity to live up to 200 years.
9. 3D-printer printed the house in one session
Created by Enrico Dini D-Shape printer is able to print a two-story structure with all rooms, staircases, pipes and baffles using only sand and an inorganic compound. Strength of the material obtained is comparable with reinforced concrete, and looks like a marble. The speed of execution of printing house takes time-only 25% of the normal period of construction of this type of structures.
10. machine without drivers allowed to drive through the streets of three US states
Google has begun testing their cars without a driver in the beginning of 2012. In May, regulators Nevada allowed uncontrolled driving these cars on the streets. Then undertaking joined Florida and California. Over 300,000 machine hours happened to them only 2 of the accident and only when driving them sat a man.
11. "Voyager 1" has left the solar system
Interplanetary station "Voyager 1" was launched in 1977 and became the first artificial object, flown away over the border of the solar system
12. Inserted first printed on 3D-printer artificial jaw
The artificial jaw made of titanium powder coated with bioceramic was created for 83-year-old patient. This achievement opens the way for the establishment in order to replace the bones to individual needs. Maybe soon the same way will be possible to print, and other organs.
13. Detected rogue planet
Until 2012, scientists had only known planets orbiting stars. Everything changed the discovery of a celestial body CFBDSIR2149. With a mass of Jupiter 4, this space education was officially recognized as a planet and not a brown dwarf, as previously thought.
14. From the embryos grew impossible in nature hybrids
Experiments on the connection of six separate embryos in three cubs monkeys monkeys resulted in success. These studies will help to better understand the role of individual genes in living organisms and gene mutations in humans.
15. Artificial leaves will produce electricity
Using a relatively inexpensive material, Daniel Nocera (Daniel G. Nocera) for the first time in the world has managed to create artificial leaves. Nocera cells imitate the process of photosynthesis of true leaves, but produce hydrogen instead of oxygen. This hydrogen can then accumulate in the fuel elements for electricity generation in any environment.
16. Points augmented reality Google made the Internet encompassing
Points displays augmented reality radically change a person's life.
17. It was finally experimentally detected Higgs boson
In summer, representatives of the international research center CERN have confirmed the discovery of the particle, which is the behavior coincides with the description of the Higgs boson. This means practical confirmation of the existence of the Higgs field, reminiscent of the properties of electromagnetic, but the interaction with the masses, and not by the magnetic field.
18. The advent of low-cost flexible solar panels
Developing startup Twin Creeks called "Hyperion" has a price two times lower than existing solar panels, and is able to compete with conventional energy. The cost per watt in this case is about 40 US cents.
19. Open diamond planet
An international team of researchers have discovered a diamond exoplanet. When the amount is five times the size of Earth, the mass of the planet is close to the mass of Jupiter. The specifics of the location of a celestial body in a binary star system suggest that it consists mainly of crystalline carbon.
20. The ocular implant restored sight to the blind
In Britain, two blind men in the course of an eight-hour operation implanted artificial eye. The results were promising. After years of blindness, both the patient a few weeks could discern the outlines of objects and began to see colorful dreams. Doctors hope that the brains of patients with time will get used to interact with an artificial eye.
21. In Wales, all kinds of plants in the programmed barcodes
The National Botanic Garden of Wales has made a database of 1,143 endemic species of plants, of which 5,700 have programmed barcodes. So now that any kind can be identified by pictures of seeds, roots, stems and pollen.
22. The first private spacecraft docked with the ISS
The private company SpaceX successfully launched into orbit its cargo ship Dragon, which docked with the international space station.
23. Highly flexible glass will create non-planar devices with screens
Company Corning, based in New York, shown at the exhibition in Boston prototype of its flexible glass with a thickness of 0, 05 mm.
24. Robotic exoskeletons began to practice
In NASA have adopted exoskeleton X1 Robotic Exoskeleton. Weighing 26 kg device has a 4 engine on the joints, in addition to 6 passive joints.
25. The human brain is "hacked»
The division Usenix Security Association of advanced computer systems, there is a group of researchers who are using available technology have decided to show the vulnerability of the human brain. With electroencephalograph and special software, they were able to consider the reaction of the excited neurons and how it affects the activity of the brain in the case of recognizing a person PIN credit card or a human face.
26. The discovery of the planet four suns
Amateur astronomers have discovered a planet the size of Neptune, rotating at close orbit around a binary star, which in turn revolves around a couple of other stars. Scientists are trying to figure out how the gravitational field is so easy the system is not thrown out of her planet.
27. Microsoft has patented Holodeck
According to documents filed in the patent, Microsoft wants to make the game experience beyond the single screen and make the screen all the playing room, including furniture. The system allows you to adjust the curves of objects in the room to simulate a smooth and complex surfaces.
