Tech Talk #2: News & More
Posted by silverfox1967 on August 6, 2012
Fancy a day up in the City? Then check out Designing 007: 50 years of Bond Style at Barbican, London which has all the gadgets, motors and weapons from that guy in a tux who threw the Queen out of a helicopter at the Olympics; from July 6 to September 5.Sci-fi Tech coming your way?
DR WHO’S SONIC SCREWDRIVER - Boffins at Dundee Uni has developed “sono tweezers” which used ultrasound waves to lift and rotate a rubber disk in water. Dalek stun setting still work-in-progress…
STAR TREK’S TRICORDER – Roddenberry’s technological prophecies continue to unfold as the Cognitive Science Lab at McMaster University has developed a tricorder device that takes atmospheric, temperature and humidity readings and can analyse magnetic fields.
ARMAGEDDON’S ASTEROID MINING - Planetary Resources’ plan to harvest stellar resources worth “trillions of dollars”; rumours are that they are strongly supported by ex-NASA staff and director James Cameron, who presumably will want the 3D film rights!
Reporter: SilverFox
