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and store energy from wind and the Sun. As designs improve oe and get cheaper oe the idea of a home on the ocean will become more affordable.

Wafer-thin artificial leaves separate with the rising sun as buildings wake up. They continue to follow the sunlight over the course of the day,

India's electricity grid is kind of like the sun, White explains. You get electricity every day,

A group led by British-born plant scientist Stephen Long is trying to improve the ability of plants to harness energy from the sun. Their aim is to turbocharge photosynthesis,

and ramp up the plant's ability to harness the sun. That is easier said than done.

However, this is not the only way of increasing photosynthesis. Scientists are also exploring the idea that genes from the ancestors of modern-day plants might boost the ability of crops to harness the sun. It is well known that primitive plants known as cyanobacteria have a talent

. and Intel Corp. are able to convert text into speech. oeyou now have the ability to make a book talk,

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#Shifting Trend in Luxury Purchases Buying Top Technology and Investing in a Lifestyle Experience The new luxury is about investing in a lifestyle experience that not only can help improve health

The four brands most admired by Americans with six-digit incomes in a recent survey by the marketing specialist Affluence Collaborative were Apple, Microsoft, Best Buy and Sony.

said the soft-spoken inventor. oetemperature from the sun does not go beyond this level in terms of heating

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#Future Ag Can Better Food Create Better People? Radical transformations are brewing in the worlds oldest industry Can better food create better people?

His talks on futurist topics have captivated people ranging from high level of government officials to executives in Fortune 500 companies including NASA, IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-packard

Tom spent 15 years at IBM as an engineer and designer where he received over 270 awards, more than any other IBM engineer.

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#The Sahara Forest Project A Renewable Energy Oasis The Sahara Forest Project The Sahara Forest Project is a unique combination of proven environmental technologies,

The system works by mimicking the natural hydrological cycle where seawater heated by the sun,

Like the Seawater Greenhouse, CSP works well in hot arid areas where the sun is at its most powerful.

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#Two months after Paypal opened its platform, 15,000 developers had used it to create new payment services The banks

Mitchell Wolfe, an ecommerce veteran who ran Compaqs Canadian Internet sales team before moving on to a series of startups,

Virtual currencies, from Microsoft Points to Linden Dollars, encourage oein-world trade, incurring credit card and banking fees only when their users buy in.

We are mesmerized by such extravagances as Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen s 414-foot yacht, the Octopus,

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HP will take its first step toward this goal in about two years, according to Pete Hartwell,

a senior researcher at HP Labs in Palo alto. The company is under contract with Royal dutch shell to install 1 million matchbook-size monitors to aid in oil exploration by measuring rock vibrations and movement.

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Hewlett-packard announced this week that it is exploring jettisoning its struggling PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software,

Hewlett-packard and Googles moves surprised the tech world. Marc Andreessen (board member at Hewlett-Parckard) explains why software is eating the world.

Meanwhile, traditional videogame powerhouses like Electronic arts and Nintendo have seen revenues stagnate and fall. The best new movie production company in many decades, Pixar, was a software company.

a software company that was bought just by Microsoft for $8. 5 billion. Centurylink, the third largest telecom company in the U s.,with a $20 billion market cap, had 15 million access lines at the end of June 30#eclining at an annual rate of about 7%.Excluding the revenue from its Qwest acquisition,

Great incumbent software companies like Oracle and Microsoft are threatened increasingly with irrelevance by new software offerings like Salesforce. com

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#â Wave and Payâ##Mobile phone Payment System Launched in the UK Samsungs new phone is the first to use Barclaycard and Oranges Quick Tap payment technology.

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#Adoption of Mobile Wallets Being slowed by Behind-the-Scenes Battle Among Corporate Giants Consumers would wave their phones instead of swiping credit cards at the checkout counter.

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#New Traceability Rule Represents Major Adjustment for U s. Food industry Where does your food come from?

Paul Chang, who leads the traceability initiative at IBM, said the company is basically taking the tracking system it uses for the pharmaceutical industry

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#Five technologies IBM predicts will be possible in the next 5 years What if a computer could let us feel#the texture of a fabric before we buy clothes online?

it s all within the realm of possibility in the next 5 years, according to IBM s list of technologies it thinks are on the cusp of adoption.

Every year IBM polls its R&d brain trust about what technologies that may have been at the hairy edge before

#IBM fellow and VP of innovation Bernie Meyerson told me recently. This year those closer-to-the-scalp#technologies converge around computers growing ability to handle richer,

So, without further ado, here s IBM s sixth annual 5 in 5 technology picks. 1. Computer with a sense of touch Even people who love shopping online say that it s hard to get a good read on the finished

IBM thinks they also need to hear total sounds#ambient noise, words, music, a lot of inputs to get the full story.

teething, or something more serious. 4. Digitized taste buds IBM s brainiacs think that machines will increasingly be able to taste things#like chocolate

So, how s IBM doing as a sooth sayer? Since I m still waiting for the jet packs we were promised decades ago, I m skeptical about technology predictions,

but IBM s list provides a good starting point to track tech progress and priorities. It s also fun to grade its prognostication skills.

IBM has 4 more years to make good. Taking the longer view, looking at IBM s inaugural list in 2006,

it does better. It was on the money with its call that people would be able to access healthcare remotely.

IBM also predicted real-time speech translation now exemplified by products like Samsung s Galaxy speech translation.

Meyerson admits to some less successful calls#especially one about hydrogen-powered vehicles#but he s pretty happy overall with IBM s effort.

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Four of the most valuable American companies#Apple, Google, Microsoft and I b m.#are rooted in technology.

Success Beyond Dreams Ethan Nicholas was a Sun microsystems programmer, a games enthusiast and a father of two very young boys,

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#Global manufacturing is changing with a new wave of robots At the new Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif,

This year, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee, economists at the Massachusetts institute of technology, made the case for a rapid transformation.

Mr. Mcafee argues. At what point does the chain saw replace Paul Bunyan?##asked Mike Dennison, an executive at Flextronics,

The robot uses a technology pioneered in Microsoft s Kinect motion sensing system for its Xbox video game system.

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#Apple s retail employees are long on loyalty but short on pay Apple employees During Jordan Golson s best three-month stretch last year, he sold bout

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#32 technological innovations that will change your tomorrow The electric light bulb was a failure. In the early 1800#s, The british chemist Humphry Davy invented the light bulb

The cart uses Microsoft s Kinect motion-sensor technology to track and follow you through the store,

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#Cow collar texts ranchers when animals are sick or in heat Even cows can benefit from having a mobile device.

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#Is there any hope for a non-genetically modified future in America, or Africa? It is really only a matter of time before our food crisis becomes crippling.

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, Michael Dell, Ted Turner, Paul Allen, Mark Zuckerberg, and virtually every famous actor, actress, and director in Hollywood,

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Microsoft and Japan s NTT Docomo to deliver the service in a non-intrusive and fashionably acceptable way soft contact lenses are evolved sleek,

Job posts by Microsoft Research in mid-2013 suggested that it was then#oedeveloping the hardware

#By 2050, The Human Media Lab at Queen s university in Kingston, Ontario in Canada has developed a life-sized hologram-like telepod that uses Microsoft s Kinect System and a cylindrical display for live

the cost of solar photovoltaics in sun belt countries would have dropped to just QAR0. 2-0. 39 per kilo watt hours clean electricity is already very affordable in 2050.

since the days of IBM s first contract in Qatar, because air pollution and congestion are no longer a problem,

Holograms have gone portable via personal, ipad-sized display pieces, including the Chinese-owned Facebook-Apple Corporation s iholo mobile device.

He gradually scraped together thirty thousand dollars from Raytheon, Advanced micro devices, and others. No motorcycle company was willing to put its name on the project.

It s part of a sprawling campus built by Silicon graphics in the early nineties and repurposed by Google, the conquering army, a decade later.

They say that representing Evolva s laboratory-grown flavoring as something similar to vanilla extract from an orchid plant is deceptive,

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#Google s quest to popularize self-driving cars How a self-driving car sees the world.

Wayne Gerdes, the father of#oehypermiling,#can nearly double the rated efficiency of cars using fuel-sipping techniques that could be incorporated into auto-driving software.

It will generate between 1-3 Gallons Water/day depending on the humidity conditions and sun conditions.

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He cites a human study showing less sun damage to the skin of those who were administered the active ingredient

which nuclear power plants produce energy) is much easier to control than nuclear fusion (the process by which the sun burns, and nuclear weapons work).

It will use a donut-shaped magnetic field to contain gases that will reach temperatures comparable to those at the core of the sun, in excess of 150 million degrees C (270 million F),

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#Who needs Hyperloop? ET3 will be global space travel On earth Daryl Oster, CEO for Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies.

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#Proposal to Eliminate Forest fires Completely Futurist Thomas Frey: Over the past few days I ve been listening to news reports about the devastating fires burning in Colorado.

I was an engineer working as part of an IBM team to build a mobile satellite command and control center for monitoring missile launches from space.

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#Precision agriculture moves farmers into the high tech age A variable rate irrigation system installed to water crops saves hundreds of thousands of gallons of water.

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#Transgenics next wave of genetically modified crops could ease concerns over Frankenfoods Transgenic canola When the first genetically modified (GM) organisms were being developed for the farm,

said Kevin Morishige, a former engineer at Cisco, Hewlett-packard and Palm. LCD s dominance is already under threat from lighter Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDS) that don t need backlighting,

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#Japanese scientists create 581 clones from the same mouse Scientists clone 581 mice from one mouse.

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#New protein discovery could change biotech forever The quest started with trying to make better yogurt.

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#Should We Revive Extinct Species? Futurist Thomas Frey: Like many others, I m a fan of TED Talks and a Feb 2013 talk by Stuart Brand titled#oethe dawn of de-extinction.

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in order to take advantage of the sun s energy, or grow indoors with the help of artificial lights.

So if you re getting too much sun on the beach, shining darkness on yourself becomes an easy solution.

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#Post college towns teem with college-educated young adults, jobs Young adults spend leisurely time at Marion Square in Charleston, SC.

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#The future of drones expected to transform agriculture 80%of the commercial market for drones will eventually be for agricultural uses.

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#162 Future Jobs: Preparing for Jobs that Don t Yet Exist Futurist Thomas Frey: Last week I was speaking at an event in Istanbul.

IBM even created a starter kit to help people get started. 66. Locationists People who specialize in adding the relevance ofplace to our global online communities. 67.

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The lotus leaf on the other hand maintains its squeaky clean reputation with a waxy surface structure that repels water a property called superhydrophobicity.

Combined with low adhesion this is known as the lotus effect. The September 2012 study published in the journal Soft Matter by Dr. Bhushan

and butterfly wings combine the low drag of shark skin with the superhydrophobicity of the lotus leaf putting these surfaces at the top of the list of nature-made self-cleaners.

and lotus leaves rice leaves and butterfly wings have special properties that make them particularly resistant to fouling.

They exhibited lotus-like properties including superhydrophobicity and low adhesion. This effect was magnified in coated samples

and lotus effects and was published online in the journal Soft Matter on September 11 2012. DOI:

#Precision farming Gains Global Foothold (Op-Ed) Lloyd Treinish leads the environmental science team in the Industry Solutions Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research center.

A co-developer of IBM's Deep Thunder precision agriculture system he contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:

At IBM we developed a precision agriculture weather-modeling service using Deep Thunder our Big data analytics technology for local customized high-resolution and rapid weather predictions.

Powered by two solar panels pointed toward the sun the lab would rotate at two revolutions per minute (rpm) simulating Mars's gravity.

and Android apps to researchers in the field or via Google earth to be viewed in more detail on a computer.

in order to take advantage of the sun s energy or grow indoors with the help of artificial lights.

In one, a single country unilaterally pumps aerosols into the stratosphere to block the Sun's rays

Granbio and Fulcrum Bioenergy are all hoping to start producing cellulosic ethanol in commercial amounts in the United states

I have also read that in the early days of the earth being formed it had smaller companion in orbit around the sun

Not just the Van allen belts the Van allen belts protects us from the sun . As soon as you leave the belts

But you have to realize that the heliosphere of our sun is gigantic. And in order for a solar wind to be deadly it requires whats called a coronal mass ejection

and while these happen quite frequently on the sun's surface the biggest ones that have the ability to do damage to us here as far away as we are On earth do not happen all the time.

Wayne Gerdes the father of hypermiling can nearly double the rated efficiency of cars using fuel-sipping techniques that could be incorporated into auto-driving software.

or 4 of the Microsoft Kinect devices put in various parts of the car to determine a 3d area?

The wisdom in human selection is the greatest risk factor here. tmarti69 As the Earth is currently in the beginnings of a magnetic polar flip with a ongoing to zero reduction of magnetic field more wild life will be subject to the the sun comsic radays

Terrill is beta-testing algorithms developed by Autodesk for the company's new cloud-based reality-capture software called Recap;

In 2000 bioengineer Thomas Boland the self-described grandfather of bioprinting eyed an old Lexmark printer in his lab at Clemson University.

Boland emptied the Lexmark's ink cartridge and filled it with collagen. He then glued a thin black silicon sheet onto blank paper and fed it into the printer.

and his team had reconfigured a Hewlett-packard Deskjet 550c to print with E coli bacteria. Then they graduated to larger mammalian cells farmed from Chinese hamsters and lab rats.

Sensing an opportunity Autodesk has teamed with Organovo to develop CAD programs that could be applied to bioprinting.

but they may have one in the coming years says Carlos Olguin head of Autodesk's Bio nano/Programmable Matter Group.

As a first step Autodesk plans to create a modern cloud-based CAD shell to help streamline the design process.

At least NASA acknowledges that specific conditions have to take place like the angle for viewing the sun's position your altitude

#If The Sun Went Out, How long Could Life On earth Survive? If you put a steamy cup of coffee in the refrigerator it wouldn't immediately turn cold.

Likewise if the sun simply turned off (which is actually physically impossible) the Earth would stay warm at least compared with the space surrounding it for a few million years.

Although some microorganisms living in the Earth's crust would survive the majority of life would enjoy only a brief post-sun existence.

Of course the sun doesn't merely heat the Earth; it also keeps the planet in orbit.

If the sun were to disappear as in*poof*-It's gone. It would take 8 minutes for the earth to go dark

No worries as most that atmosphere protected us from a sun that is no longer shining or at least will stop shining within 7 minutes 30 seconds...

Women and Minorities Hardest Hitif the suddenly the sun went out'poof'as this article suggest that thing which causes this event would surely have an effect at the same time On earth

since we do reside within the atomosphere distance of the Sun and that same thing

of which'great power causes the sun to go poof'surely would destroy the Earth as well. By the way the sun has a hot riotous atmosphere called the corona that reaches from the sun's surface past Earth all the way to Pluto and beyond.

The corona is seen seldom only during a total eclipse but it is there. To be more accurate the Earth wouldn't immediately fly out

if the sun lost its mass instantly; it would continue to orbit its current trajectory for about 8 minutes as not even the effects of gravity move faster than light.

Immediate death is not in the sun's future since it is a star. Currently scientists have deduced that our sun is 4. 5 billion years old

and is about at its midlife. Like all stars as the hydrogen fuel in the core is used up the outer parts of the Sun will begin to expand.

The Sun will turn from a yellow dwarf then into a red giant. By the time it is 10 billion years old it will have transitioned into a red giant

and its atmosphere will stretch out to near where the Earth is located and will almost engulf it in its orbit.

and the Sun will be at the center of a planetary nebula. The odds of humans creating a black hole On earth is more likely than the sun suddenly poof is off.

Do not fear the sun but fear humanity as our future killer. DCRANE:..as not even the effects of gravity move faster than light.

On the contrary: Gravity operates outside of space time. Its effect is instantaneous -otherwise you would have celestial objects orbiting each other based upon where they'used'to be.

and both are orbiting the Sun . If the Sun disappeared Earth's trajectory would immediately change.

Any object that is in the path of this new trajectory would suddenly fall into Earth's gravity

If the sun went poof the gravity goes poof and it's instantaneous as gravity is constrained not by the speed of light.

For example even though the Sun is 500 light seconds from the Earth newtonian gravity describes a force On earth directed towards the Sun's position now not its position 500 seconds ago.

In the case of a disappearing sun (whatever that even really means; it's hard to discuss physics problems

'but let's consider that'poof'=the sun flies away from the solar system at some absurd speed close to the speed of light) the sun's velocity is not constant anymore so you cannot continue to use the'basically instantaneous'argument.

but during that 8 minutes it would be orbiting as normal in that it wouldn't'lag'behind the sun.*Another way of looking at your discrepancy is to remind you all that relativity does away with an ABSOLUTE frame of reference.

To say the the Earth would fly off the exact moment the sun'poofed'is meaningless for no such objective moment exists.

I apologize for this gigantic comment but it really is a very difficult concept to wrap our heads around.

it's physically impossible for the sun to ever just go'poof'via some hypothetical evil Zeno and his magical death ray.

This does not mean Earth experiences a frame delay and orbits an 8-minute old sun position;

'Very high orbits (in the range of 100.000 of km) actually will become more'round'as the nonlinear effects of the sun's gravity field fall away.

-Of course according to science the sun would never just disappear into nothing so his disappearing act would violate most conservation laws

and faster than light is no more fantasious that supposing that the sun itself would disappear with no trace.

But if the sun just stopped existing and that were the only violation to science then:

and that earth actually rotates not around sun but nearly around the sun was 8 minutes in the past.

Gravity doesnã¢Â#Â#t operate outside space time but is distorted space time. 2-The Moon would continue rotating around Earth with little change.

Both the Earth and Moon are on free fall around the sun so the sun doesnã¢Â#Â#t affect much of the internal working of the system.

and a little slower around earth orbit depending on his distance to sun but the effect is small.

For that reason most satellites would not change his orbit near Earth except the ones linked to Earth-Sun lagrange points.

dissappearing sun is not impossible-imagine some unknown dimensional rift or alien tech that simply relocates sun in a blink of a eye.

While nature wont survive-humans will at least a portion of us. We are evolved enough to survive in freezing climate.

The article is about the heat from the sun hypothetically disappearing. The last paragraph about the mass of the sun being affected is really the cause of all the confusion.

It's a bit of an unnecessary tangent and might actually make for a good follow-up article.

I would have preferred that the author answered the original question Ã¢Â#Âoeif the sun went outã¢Â#Â

Assuming you stop eating at the point the sun stops shining Ã¢Â#Âwhich would be the case for some of us Ã¢Â#Âhow long would it take to starve

but then that would be gone say a few months after the sun stopped shining at which point the human death rate would quickly accelerate and at

So by the end of the second year after the sun stops shining (more or less) all humans will be dead

if the sun stops shining so the mere Ã¢Â#Âoeexistenceã¢Â#Â of that technology would not be our salvation other than to be useful to some

and light from the sun in near-instantaneous fashion it's not hard to visualize something highly improbable yet entirely consistent with the laws of physics.

(so that they aren't initially blocking any significant amount of heat/light from the Sun)

and then all rotated to have their major planar surfaces facing towards the center of the Sun. With a proper arrangement

and timing the net effect as seen from the Earth is that the Sun simply turns off in an incredibly short period of time (just long enough for each of the panels to rotate 90 degrees)

the Sun could be made to turn off in a few moments for all practical purposes as far as the Earth is concerned.

not that we could do anything about it anyway) Wouldn't that have some of the effects of the Sun going out?

despite no radiation from the Sun reaching the planet ever again. Tough but doable. The caveats in that previous paragraph are the much larger obstacles to overcome in my opinion.

Maybe we should devise a plan to turn off the sun would you suggest that? We need photosynthesis without it we all die.

If the sun stopped shining there would be widespread global panic and confusion it would NOT be business as usual.