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The engineers of the German firm Festo has developed a fully autonomous armed bionic: AquaPenguin. This little robot imitates to perfection the behavior of these birds supernumeraries. It measures 77 cm and weighs 9.6 pounds. It moves in water at a speed of 5 km / h, consumes very little energy and has an endurance of 6 to 7 hours.

Very handy, he sneaks in places very narrow ledge direction quickly. His bionic tripod it provides such ease of movement.

With a 3D radar system similar to that used by dolphins and bats, these small underwater vehicles can navigate band without interference.

Growing food in the city is no longer a preposterous idea! The engineers had the idea to develop huge towers to house crops.

The company Valcenter Texas (USA) has developed a strong agriculture or soil-less hydroponics where the plants grow in rows swing. This rotation of crops to provide light and nutrients. This system significantly reduces the piles of waste water in contrast to conventional farms. These towers could provide agricultural commodity without further use of new land. Good news for rainforests!

The use of an insect to vaccinate against malaria or malaria is like a joke! How Anopheles, insect responsible for transmitting the parasite Plasmodium, could prevent this disease? And although the Japanese have the answer.

By genetic manipulation, scientists have developed a carrier of Anopheles natural vaccine against malaria. His salivary glands produce a molecule effective against the development of disease in the body. This protein is inoculated in each patient to bite and it’s totally free!

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in partnership with scientists at Boston University have developed a bionic eye that could transform the lives of many blind.

A circuit is integrated titanium to the eyeball of the patient. It will carry a pair of glasses with a small camera. Who will transmit images directly to the integrated circuit which will then send to the brain.

This system does not allow people with blindness completely cover the eye, but they will recognize faces and to move alone.

British billionaire Richard Branson did not finish to One of the tabloids. After the maiden flight of the space plane, Virgin Galactic, here is his latest creation: Necker Nymph.

This aircraft submarine project to bring tourists to explore the beauty of marine and 10 000 meters deep. The prototype DeepFlight Merlin has been created by Graham Hawkes of Hawkes Ocean Technologies company. The submarine measures 4.6 meters long and can carry 3 persons on board. It offers a panoramic 360 °. The weekly rental of this gem will cost 25 000 dollars!

The Japanese company Zena System has developed a basic hexagonal tower capable of producing electricity: Wind Tour 360 °. Exit the huge wind turbines in the fields!

This tall tower of fifty meters captures the wind by opening its doors to the inside. The wind rushes and converges at the base of the building where there are huge turbines. Their rotation led to the production of electricity.

Kyushu Island is about to see one of these towers on its soil to produce nearly 5 mega watts of electricity.

Mark Moore, an engineer at NASA, rivals creativity. This scientist is to design a single-seat aircraft, Puffin, which takes off vertically and then goes into horizontal flight positron. This concept targets the military for surveillance operations or locating in any option.

This device consists in carbon weighs 180 kilograms and measure 3.7 m long (to 4.1 m wingspan). With two-rotor propellers connected to a 60 horsepower engine, the aircraft can reach a cruising speed of 225 km / h 9 000 meters. Its peak speed is 480 km / h.

After the huge towers and photovoltaic fields, the following floating solar islands. The company Nolar, the original concept, developed islands of about 80 m in diameter, perched on a cushion of air giving them a total buoyancy.

These islands are composed of solar panels that concentrate sunlight onto tubes of water-rich. The resulting steam then generates electricity by spinning turbines. The island follows the exact path of the sun by pivoting on itself.

A prototype is being built 100 km off Dubai, Ras al-Kkayma. It should produce 1.2 GWh per year.

The prostheses are improving more and larger every year, like this new artificial hand developed by a team of researchers from the Biomedical Campus of Rome. This prosthesis responds to stimuli generated by the nerves of the amputated limb.

The patient’s arm includes miniature electrodes the size of a hair. To make a simple gesture, the nerve impulses are picked up by these electrodes and then sent to the computer that describes the signals and then sends the orders in hand.

This prosthesis is still at the prototype stage and it weighs nearly 2 pounds. Unable to market until it is miniaturized.

Microbes écopent a very bad reputation and often rightly so. Yet some of us reserve a pleasant surprise as the bacterium Geobacter.

Professor Derek Lovely and his team at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (United States) have created a strain of Geobacter 8 times more effective than strain basis. This degrades the organic matter present in wastewater and sludge and transforms it into energy. It remains to develop a stack-based bacteria to produce clean electricity and profitable.