Ideas implemented in 2012

1. Paralyzed woman power of the mind is able to manage their roboprotezom
The University of the American city of Pittsburgh Department of Neurobiology employees within 13 months created a robotic arm for the 52-year-old paralyzed Jen Shoyermann (Jan Scheuermann). woman implanted in the cortex, two 96-channel microelectrode. On the second day Jen could cope with the management of "hand", and after 13 months it had seemed real biological endpoints.

2. Military robot was able to recognize and overcome obstacles
Take the next steps to create a learning cybernetic organism.

3. Genetically modified silk proved stronger than steel
At the University of Wyoming scientists changed the silkworm larvae and brood to obtain silk, which is stronger than steel weight equivalent. The new material will be used in medicine and military objectives.

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. invisibility technology was further developed
The Canadian company HyperStealth Biotechnology showed a working prototype of the new material "Quantum Invisible» (Quantum Stealth), which is able to make the light rays bend around people and objects without batteries, mirrors and video cameras.

6. Spray for increasing skin
Avita Medical Company has developed a technology ReCell for victims of burns. The patient takes a small piece of skin is crushed and mixed with the enzymes taken from swine and then spray is produced which is applied to the burn. Spray particles are expanding, covering the wound. Since the foundation 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 was the first person alone reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

8. Stem cells can prolong life for 100 years
When the Institute for Regenerative Medicine elderly mice, whose life cycle is 21 days, a few days before the alleged death had been injected with stem cells from young mice, the results stunned scientists. Instead of the allotted term nature of experimental mouse has lived for 71 days. Comparing with the person, it's like 80-year-old man enable 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-storey building with all rooms, stairs, pipes and baffles using only sand and an inorganic compound. Fortress of the material obtained is comparable with reinforced concrete, and looks like a marble. Speed ​​performance printing house takes time only 25% of the normal period of construction of such facilities.

10. The cars without drivers allowed to drive through the streets of three US states
Google has begun testing their cars without a driver in early 2012. In May, the State of Nevada regulators allowed uncontrolled driving these cars on the streets. Then undertaking joined Florida and California. Over 300,000 machine hours with them occurred only 2 accidents and only when driving them sat a man.

11. "Voyager 1" left the solar system
Interplanetary station "Voyager 1" was launched in 1977 and became the first artificial object, flown away abroad solar system

12. Inserted first printed on 3D-printer artificial jaw
Artificial jaw of titanium powder coated with bioceramic was created for 83-year-old patient. This achievement opens the way for the establishment to replace bones to individual needs. Maybe soon the same way can be printed and other organs.

13. detected rogue planet
Until 2012, scientists were only known planets orbiting stars. Changed everything discovery of a celestial body CFBDSIR2149. With a mass of Jupiter 4, this space education was officially recognized by the planet and not a brown dwarf, as previously thought.

14. Of the embryos grown impossible in nature hybrids
Experiments on six separate connection embryos in three cubs monkeys monkeys were successful. These studies will allow a better understanding of the role of individual genes in living organisms and gene mutations in humans.

15. Artificial leaves will generate electricity
Using relatively inexpensive starting materials, Daniel Nocera (Daniel G. Nocera) for the first time in the world has managed to create artificial leaves. Nocera cells mimic photosynthesis true leaves, but produce hydrogen instead of oxygen. This hydrogen can then accumulate in the fuel elements for the production of electricity in all conditions.

16. Points augmented reality Google will make the Internet an all-encompassing
Points displays augmented reality radically change a person's life.

17. It was finally discovered experimentally Higgs boson
In the summer of 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 emergence of low-cost flexible solar panels
Development of a 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 discovered exoplanet diamond. At a rate of five times the size of Earth, the mass of the planet close to the mass of Jupiter. The specificity of the location of a celestial body in a binary star system suggest that it consists mainly of crystalline carbon.

20. 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 patient for a few weeks could discern the outlines of objects and began to see colorful dreams. Doctors hope that the brains of patients eventually get used to interact with an artificial eye.

21. In Wales, all plant species in programmed barcodes
The National Botanic Garden of Wales was a database of 1,143 endemic species of plants, of which 5,700 have programmed barcodes. So now any kind can be identified by photographs of seeds, roots, stems and pollen.

22. The first private spacecraft docked with the ISS
Private company SpaceX successfully launched its cargo ship Dragon, which docked with the International Space Station.

23. Highly flexible glass will create a device with a non-planar screens
Company Corning, based in New York, demonstrated at the exhibition in Boston prototype of its flexible glass with a thickness of 0, 05 mm.

24. The robotic exoskeletons began to apply in practice
In NASA have adopted exoskeleton X1 Robotic Exoskeleton. With a weight of 26 kg per unit has 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 have a group of researchers who are using available technologies decided to show how vulnerable the human brain. With electroencephalograph and special software they could find the reaction of excited neurons and how it affects the activity of the brain in the case of recognition of human 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 rotates 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 of such a complex system is not kicked out of her planet.

27. Microsoft has patented Holodeck
According to documents filed with the patent, Microsoft wants to take the gaming experience beyond the single display screen and do 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.