• Science

    Invisibility Cloak Swirls Closer to Reality

    By Posted on 8.14.2008 11 Comments

    Ever wished you could have Harry Potter's invisibility cloak? Science, not magic, could make that a reality. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have created materials that have the potential to bend light and even redirect it around themselves, cloaking any object behind them. They are metamaterials, materials that gain unusual properties via their structures. While all materials found in nature have a positive refractive index, these man-made metamaterials have a negative one.

    10.6.2009 at 01:09am - Comment by zunigadragon

    Umm my response to the last phrase buckybulldog101 is "With great power come great Irisponibillity." besides since these are metaMETALS you are not compeatly invisible shure you are invisible to the human eye, so no human can see ya. but it doesn't cloak your body heat and radar wont be blinded by this new material. but still I think this technology will be awesome for both practical and millitary usage. not that it will be practical due to the fact that the Millitary will keep the exect recipie to themselves. more then likely if you want this thech anytime before the millitary does then gett a bunch of metametalist people and work together on developing this awesome tech. then send me the recipe so I can try it out. -Your Friend Zunigadragon

  • DIY

    How To Make Ferrofluid

    By Mikey Sklar Posted on 9.22.2009 14 Comments

    Ferrofluids are made up of tiny magnetic fragments of iron suspended in oil (often kerosene) with a surfactant to prevent clumping (usually oleic acid). The fluid is relatively easy to make at home yet extremely expensive to buy on-line. How does $165 a liter sound? Pretty bad, right? Read on to learn how to make ferrofluids on the cheap.

    10.6.2009 at 12:34am - Comment by zunigadragon

    I am just wondering what are all of the uses this stuff has? -Your Friend Zunigadragon

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    The Real Danger of Violent Video Games

    By Posted on 4.2.2009 22 Comments

    Everyone knows Halo gamers don't sleep. But now a group of scientists in Sweden have published new research linking violent video games to increased heart rate variability and sleep disruptions.

    9.30.2009 at 09:24pm - Comment by zunigadragon

    the only reason those soft gamers had [better] rest is because they fell asleep out of bordom. the hardcore gamers spent an extra hour gameing, BIG DEAL one more hour of gameing aday wont kill ya, Gameing is too popular, if you are ttrying to erradicate gameing you can coount on failing it aint gonna happen. -Your Friend Zunigadragon

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    Augmented Reality Toys Bring Interactive Data Layer to Playtime

    By Stuart Fox Posted on 8.6.2009 12 Comments

    Every little boy lives in a world that is as much fiction as reality. For a kid sitting in the back seat of a car during a long road trip, that Batman action figure isn't a plastic doll, it's actually the Dark Knight himself. And that arm rest with the drink holder? The towering precipice of a Gotham high rise. And its exactly that imaginary world that Frantz Lasorne looks to make a bit more concrete with his augmented reality toys.

    9.30.2009 at 08:45pm - Comment by zunigadragon

    The Next Generation of gamers [me inluded] shall rise with Virtual Reality and I bett the military would love to have this tech-toy -Your Friend Zunigadragon

  • Technology

    Unexpectedly, Cosmic Ray Intensity in Space Reaches Highest Level in 50 Years

    By Jeremy Hsu Posted on 10.6.2009 3 Comments

    Grab those tin foil hats, because NASA says that galactic cosmic rays have reached a record high for the space age.

    9.30.2009 at 05:49pm - Comment by zunigadragon

    Un-Holy SH*T!!!! this is bad. -Your Friend Zunigadragon

  • Science

    A Brief History of Exoskeletons

    By Posted on 4.11.2008 8 Comments

    5.14.2009 at 11:13am - Comment by zunigadragon

    We have the technology to make a bullet-proof ballistic millitary edition exoskelliton war armor, Halo-style. the millitary should put it all together so we could end wars and strike fear into the hearts of the enemys -Your Friend Zunigadragon



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