in search for a cure for cancer, a retired tv station owner discovered instead a potential free energy source, saltwater. using radio waves he heats saltwater and ‘burns’ it into flames at 300 degrees fahrenheit. his invention could run a small engine and he hopes that one day it could fuel cars.

this is great news for the world, but i bet my ass the oil companies will hit him up with all they got. so i hope the government would fund his further research and ‘protect’ him because free energy could be the end to one of the world’s biggest problems today.

Here’s the latest breakthrough in modern optical technology.

When light passes through material such as glass, a portion of its energy is lost as it reflects off the material’s surface. Researchers at Japan’s Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Riken) have come up with a theoretical design for preventing this phenomenon from occurring.

The researchers have designed a prism of engineered material — metamaterial comprised of an arrangement of nano-coils of precious metals such as gold or silver — embedded in a solid glass-like material. The prism structure has a negative refractive index, which makes it truly transparent to light, allowing it to pass freely through with no reflection.

In the future, this type of metamaterial prism could lead to improvements in low-loss fiber optic communications, the development of telescopes and cameras well-suited for dark subjects, and the emergence of optical equipment we have never seen before.

What does that all mean? Let me dumb it down for my kind readers:

You know those hot promotional girls you find at motor shows and marketing events? Like these girls at the IAA Frankfurt Motor Show 2005 or the Betelnut Beauties in Taiwan? Well it could get a little unsafe having a job like that because the nature of the male population visiting those events are sometimes questionable. Now get this, with this new invention product vendors and business owners can protect their stunningly beautiful ass-ets in totally transparent booths or kiosks. These would be arm-length cubical kiosks with dime-sized holes for air and audio where the girls can move freely and attract visitors. The unsuspecting crowd would think that these girls are accessible when in fact they’re safely caged in transparent cubes. They would be able to move freely and communicate with everyone around them through the breathing holes. Of course this would kill physical interaction but with some imagination you could replace it with something even better. Daring companies could market their products in total bareness at shopping malls and street corners and the cops and gang-bangers won’t be able to touch their precious ass-ets. Quite a technology eh? Well folks, first they need to figure out how to make this transparent metamaterial bullet-proof and shatter-proof. Otherwise there goes my idea straight down the drain.

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I don’t video chat cuz my connection is crap but this makes me wanna move to a foreign country where the pipes are wider and people can see each other’s facial expression from miles apart.

Here’s a recent breakthrough in CSI. A scientist at SUNY Binghamton claims that he can tell which camera took any given photo by matching the photo’s unique “weak noise-like pattern of pixel-to-pixel non-uniformity.”

Like actual fingerprints, the digital “noise” in original images is stochastic in nature – that is, it contains random variables – which are inevitably created during the manufacturing process of the camera and its sensors. This virtually ensures that the noise imposed on the digital images from any particular camera will be consistent from one image to the next, even while it is distinctly different.

In preliminary tests, Fridrich’s lab analyzed 2,700 pictures taken by nine digital cameras and with 100 percent accuracy linked individual images with the camera that took them.

100 percent accuracy? That’s just freaky. Does that mean I can’t snap pictures of my bathing neighbors and get away with it anymore? Not that I do!

Following the invention of Repliee Q1 the Japs are on it again with a new toy for those lonely dudes out there.

Introducing Actroid, a female, life-like robot that doesn’t quite move - yet. There’s nothing really special about her except the fact that she’s actually cute, and they wrapped her with more sex this time. So guys if you’re an utter failure in relationships, you might want to learn from the Japs.

From Akihabara News via Gizmodo.