The hospital of the future just got a lot more flashy. Creative technology agency Obscura Digital is known for its impressive visual displays--the YouTube symphony orchestra , a 26-story high projection on Coca-Cola's headquarters, and the Cuelight interactive pool table are just some of the agency's many feats
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Yesterday we heard about the Open Compute Project. Facebook's director of hardware design, Frank Frankovsky, tells us about part two of the social network’s plan to spur suppliers to build the products it needs.
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Looking for a way to angle into the burgeoning electric vehicle business? Forget cars--investing in the charging infrastructure is the way to go
Read More »Wildcat Discovery Technologies May Have Just Pumped 65% More Life Into Batteries
Wildcat Discovery Technologies , a San Diego-based startup, thinks it has made a discovery that could, in one fell swoop, make your laptop battery, cell phone battery, and electric vehicle batteries all last between 25% and 65% longer. The key: a pair of new materials---a high-voltage electrolyte material and a high voltage cathode material--that provide vastly improved energy density compared to today's technologies (in technical terms, they have an energy density of over 675 Wh/kg while operating in fuel cells at five volts).
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