Computing Update

Self-programming hybrid "memristor" circuit--having the electrical properties of more than a dozen transistors and possibly capable of learning how to perform a task rather than have to be programmed to do it--could continue Moore's Law:

http://www.physorg.com/news154865950.html

Alternative Energies Update

The "traveling wave reactor" could make nuclear power cheaper and safer, by processing its fissile material only as it needs it:

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=tr10&id=22114

Alternative Energies Update

New "liquid" battery promises to be durable, cheap, long-lasting and store vast amounts of energy (such as may be generated by solar collectors during the day):

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=tr10&id=22116

Computing Update

New 3D "racetrack memory" could soon replace both flash memory and hard drives--faster, denser, more reliable, no moving parts:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22115/

Alternative Energies Update

New solar concentrator combines low cost with high efficiency:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22204/?a=f

Alternative Energies Update

Solar power beamed down from collectors in space could provide huge amounts of continuous power. A company claims it can have a space-based solar power station in place within the decade:

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/02/18/new-company-looks-to-produce-space-based-solar-power-within-a-decade/

Alternative Energies Update

Sun-powered device converts carbon dioxide and water vapour into natural gas 20x faster than before (although still not enough to be commercially viable):

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16621-sunpowered-device-converts-co2-into-fuel.html

Computing Update

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to read a person's mind (well, sort of...):

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22201/?a=f

Nanotechnology Update

The success of mature nanotechnology hinges on mass-producing structures at the nano scale. Researchers have discovered how to use magnets to direct the consistent assembly of nano-structures:

http://www.physorg.com/news154190856.html

Alternative Energies Update

Don't forget the effectiveness of non-photovoltaic solar water heaters. They're cheap, effective, proven technology.

An Irish company claims to have drastically improved on the efficiency of these devices:

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2544/83/

Alternative Energies Update

Harnassing bacteria to produce biofuels and clean up the environment:

http://www.physorg.com/news154107803.html

Cybernetics Update

A "thought-controlled" wheelchair gives mobility and manipulation to the disabled:

http://singularityhub.com/2009/02/11/researchers-develop-brain-controlled-wheelchair-robotic-arm/

Cybernetics Update

New artificial arm is controlled by the wearer's thoughts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/health/research/11arm.html?_r=2&ref=science

Robotics Update

Engineers give robots human brain-inspired software to help them navigate around obstacles in a manner similar to humans:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16557-video-robot-uses-human-mind-tricks-to-navigate.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Watch the video.

Computing Update

"Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that
turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon
virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when
they're done."

http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/ted-digital-six.html

This is like giving everyday objects the same Web-accessibility computer applications have--fascinating!

Computing Update

A new "probabilistic computing" chip can make calculations seven times faster than conventional chips with 1/30th the electricity...by embracing imprecision:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6252697.html

Robotics Update

These new robots are capable of fine motor skills, voice recognition, and the ability to do several common household tasks:

http://www.physorg.com/news153079697.html

Be sure to play the videos.

This is state of the art 2009. Want to guess what we'll have in ten years?

Robotics Update

Engineers use biological adaptive learning techniques to give robots the ability to learn efficient motion:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126946.600-unnatural-selection-robots-start-to-evolve.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Robotics Update

Here's another prediction that we'll have sex and marriage with robots in the near future:

http://www.livescience.com/technology/071012-robot-marriage.html

I think the disruptions will be more drastic than implied in the article, though--why have both a human and a robot sex partner, when a robot partner could much more easily fulfill all your fantasies, be ready and willing at all times, have an appearance to your exacting specifications, share your interests more closely, and come with none of the baggage of a human sex partner? I also think the same drastic change will come to friendships.

Materials Update

Functional invisibility comes one step closer:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16527-video-revealing-the-technology-of-invisibility.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Artificial Intelligence Update

Speech prediction technology comes of age, capable of filling in what you can't remember:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16528-innovation-speech-prediction-software.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Computing Update

Scientists teleport the state of an atom across a lab:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126936.500-teleporter-sends-ions-on-longdistance-journey.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

"The promise of this new process is that it could form the basis of a "quantum repeater" that will enable quantum communication over almost any distance: ion teleporters placed at regular intervals along a fibre could briefly store quantum states before sending them on their way, so no single photon has to travel too far."

Computing Update

New quantum dot technology should lead to computers that use 1,000 times less power and are 1,000 times smaller than current transistors:

http://www.physorg.com/news152271696.html

Alternative Energies Update

Jatropha, whose seeds produce a highly efficient biofuel, grows like weeds in bad soil and won't displace food farmland:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1874835,00.html

Alternative Energies Update

New anti-reflective coating breakthrough creates nearly 100% absorption of sunlight (instead of the usual 66%) for solar panels:

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2512/83/

Internet Update

South Korea will install a nationwide 1 Gbps super-broadband infrastructure by 2013 that will enable downloading a feature film in one to two seconds!

http://www.physorg.com/news152856783.html

Computing Update

"IBM and the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have signed a new contract to build the next generation of IBM’s BlueGene supercomputers at the famed DOE facility. The first IBM BlueGene supercomputer, called “Dawn,” will have a top processing speed of 500 teraflops." (Due out at the end of this year.) "The second IBM system, dubbed “Sequoia,” will offer 20 petaflops of performance and surpass the records Big Blue set when it installed the massive Roadrunner system for the DOE in 2008." (Due out in 2012.) Sequoia will be nearly 20 times faster than the current fastest supercomputer:

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/IBM-Building-Next-Generation-of-BlueGene-Supercomputers/

Singularity Update

And now here's the new Singularity University, supported by NASA, Google and others. The NASA Research Park campus has a "nine-week graduate-level interdisciplinary curriculum designed to facilitate understanding, collaboration, and innovation across a broad range of carefully chosen scientific and technological disciplines whose developments are exponentially accelerating":

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id%3D10073

Robotics Update

Ethics report on autonomous military robots released:

http://ethics.calpoly.edu/pr_020209.html

"The public is generally surprised when they hear how great a role robots are playing in the military," explained Dr. Patrick Lin, director of the research group and co-author of the report. "But there hasn’t been much dialogue about the risks posed by these machines, especially as they are expected to be given more autonomy or a greater ability to make choices on their own, such as attack decisions."

Alternative Energies Update

Ethanol-powered portable fuel cells could be far more efficient than ethanol-powered engines and more practical than hydrogen-powered fuel cells:

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/22041/

Robotics Update

These robots use hive mind programming to drastically increase warehouse organizational and functional efficiency:

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/retailrobots.html

Computing Update

More indication of the Law of Accelerating Returns, in the form of India's $10 laptop:

http://www.physorg.com/news152541176.html

That price seems impossible...but even double that price seems impossible. Yet it would be vastly more powerful than my old Macintosh I bought in 1984 for over $3000....

Update 2/7/09: It turns out the price seems impossible because the device is actually just a "digital storage hub/net access point for educational media."

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/02/04/indias-10-laptop-too-good-be-true

Cybernetics Update

The creation of a remote-controlled cyborg beetle opens the door for creating ultra-small remote-controlled flying surveillance platforms:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22039/?a=f

Alternative Energies Update

LEDs last 10x as long as fluorescent bulbs (using 1/3 the energy) and 130x as long as incandescent bulbs. Now they may finally be ready for prime time:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16496-cheap-superefficient-led-lights-on-the-horizon.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Transportation Update

The technology to produce cars with incredible performance while using completely green technologies for fuel is here:

http://www.livescience.com/technology/090129-fastest-electric-car.html

So now it's just a matter of the batteries and solar collectors to come of age and we're set.

Computing Update

With the recession, Moore's Law is becoming more about minimizing cost for a certain level of performance rather than maximizing performance for a certain cost:

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12932356

Artificial Intelligence Update

AI is finally coming of age. This article describes some of the latest advances in machine learning, and how AI is finally beginning to live up to the hype:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=332273

(I think the final sentence is way off base, though!)

Computing Update

The limit of a bit of information was thought to be no more than one bit of information per atom or electron. But now, researchers at Stanford University have managed to pack information into subatomic spaces, creating a holographic drawing that contained 35 bits per electron:

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090124/full/news.2009.54.html

Predictions Update

Here's a list of ten items researchers are working on now that may change our lives over the next couple of decades:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921.800-ten-scifi-devices-that-could-soon-be-in-your-hands.html?full=true&print=true

Transportation Update

Long, stretchy nanotubes appear set to make a space elevator possible:

http://www.physorg.com/news151938445.html

Artificial Intelligence Update

"A dual-layer Blu-ray disc can store an impressive 50 gigabytes, but discs which can hold 20 times as much data have just taken a step closer, thanks to new materials that make reading and writing 3D holograms more reliable."

This isn't directly related to the title of this post, but...close enough, since AI will require the means to store massive amounts of data.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16464-holographic-discs-set-to-smash-storage-records.html

Robotics Update

The gap is closing between what looks and acts like a machine vs. what looks and acts like a human:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16461-tests-that-show-machines-closing-in-on-human-abilities.html?full=true

Nanotechnology Update

"After announcing last April a method for growing exceptionally long, straight, numerous and well-aligned carbon cylinders only a few atoms thick, a Duke University-led team of chemists has now modified that process to create exclusively semiconducting versions of these single-walled carbon nanotubes."

"The achievement paves the way for manufacturing reliable electronic nanocircuits at the ultra-small billionths of a meter scale."

http://www.physorg.com/news151762245.html

Alternative Energies Update

New thermal photovoltaics solar panel technology generates electricity from waste heat, and could prove far more efficient than current conventional solar technology:

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21981/?a=f

Robotics Update

Researchers are developing robots that use piezoelectricity to power microscopic robots to traverse the human circulatory system with less risk than catheters:

http://www.physorg.com/news151649983.html

Nanotechnology Update

Researcher discovers how to use nanotubes to create molecular-level plumbing for filtering water and air, which should lead to cheap desalination systems, batteries and air-scrubbers (potentially removing excess C02 from the atmosphere):

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.500-nanoplumbing-more-than-just-a-pipe-dream.html?full=true

Nanotechnology Update

A new breakthrough allows a metamaterials-based invisibility cloak to work across a broad spectrum (as wide as the visible light spectrum, although only in the microwave range):

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/21971/?a=f

Virtual Reality Update

There's the theory that we all live in a virtual universe. Now it appears there's evidence we live in a giant hologram. I don't know whether or how the two relate, but the latter is mindblowing nevertheless:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Robotics Update

The year's most impressive robots--a collection of fascinating videos:

http://singularityhub.com/2009/01/12/a-review-of-the-best-robots-of-2008/

Cybernetics Update

New game devices give players psychokinesis-like powers to move objects with their minds:

http://www.physorg.com/news150781868.html

Robotics Update

Japan develops a robot suit to help aging farmers perform arduous work:

http://www.physorg.com/news150697278.html

Artificial Intelligence Update

New call center program promises to be much smarter than current AI programs:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id%3D9980

"In essence, the system replaces a (hypothetical) intelligent live operator who happens to have an amazing memory. The system remembers each caller's preferences, previous calls and other details, so callers don't have to answer the same questions every time they call. If a call is interrupted, the system can call the customer back and pick up the conversation where it left off. Try getting all that on your next 800 number call!"

Robotics Update

"Fantastic Voyage" miniature robots perform surgical operations:

http://www.physorg.com/news151005939.html

Robotics Update

"Fantastic Voyage" miniature robots perform operations inside patients:

http://www.physorg.com/news151005939.html

Robotics Update

"Fantastic Voyage" miniature robots perform operations inside patients:

http://www.physorg.com/news151005939.html

Alternative Energies Update

Breakthrough catalyst allows artificial photosynthesis even more efficiently than plants:

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2448/70/

Alternative Energies Update

Carbon nanotubes show promise in creating high-energy superbatteries:

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21938/?a=f

Genetic Engineering Update

A bit of a deviation from the point of this blog, but interesting nevertheless, this article discusses the prospects for resurrecting a number of species that have gone extinct over the past 100,000 years:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126905.000-ten-extinct-beasts-that-could-walk-the-earth-again.html?full=true

Robotics Update

Robots will rapidly replace human soldiers over the next decade:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR2009010202191_pf.html

"Armed robots will all be snipers. Stone-cold killers, every one of them. They will aim with inhuman precision and fire without human hesitation. They will not need bonuses to enlist or housing for their families or expensive training ranges or retirement payments. Commanders will order them onto battlefields that would mean certain death for humans, knowing that the worst to come is a trip to the shop for repairs."

Could this mean the end of genocide and conventional warfare? A new Pax Americana? Or bring fictional Skynet to reality.

Computing Update

Computers can now read and interpret the results of an MRI scan in what is, essentially, mind-reading:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/31/60minutes/main4694713.shtml

Be sure to play the video on the page to see the 60 Minutes interview demonstrating the technology. The researcher involved in the project predicts we'll have the ability to read complex thoughts within three to five years.

Alternative Energies Update

This nano-scale antenna captures light like a radio antenna to then provide:

• Passive, energy-neutral cooling by converting infrared radiation into radiation that we don't feel as heat (like radio waves)
• Passive heating by turning radiation we don't feel as heat into infrared radiation
• Extremely efficient lighting by basically broadcasting photons from the nantennas
• Passive heating or cooling within clothing
• Electricitiy production in clothing by harnessing our bodies' radiation

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1357/83/

Nanotechnology Update

More nanotechnology developments in 2008:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/21900/?a=f

Alternative Energies Update

An effective biofuel developed for jet engines:

http://news.aol.com/article/airline-uses-vegetable-oil-to-fuel-jet/289514

Computing Update

Researchers working on atomic-scale computing have managed to design a simple logic gate with 30 atoms that perform the same task as 14 transistors:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081222113532.htm

Nanotechnology Update

Nanotechnology's biggest stories of 2008:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16340-nanotechnologys-biggest-stories-of-2008.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Transportation Update

FINALLY, scientists have developed a turbo encabulator to solve the problem of inverse reactive current per use in unilateral phase detractors and synchronizing cardinal grammeters in vehicle transmissions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDgQg6bq7o

(C'mon, gotta have a little levity now and then....)

Alternative Energies Update

Solar energy finally reaches "grid parity" (equal or cheaper cost than coal-based energy)...depending on how you calculate it:

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2400/83/

Nanotechnology Update

Researchers design and build a fully functional nanocar, which is four nanometers across and includes a chassis with an engine, a pivoting suspension and rotating axles attached to rolling buckyball wheels:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Storage&articleId=9123959&taxonomyId=19&pageNumber=1

Predictions Update

Here's a long, old but well-written article on the path to the singularity, using references to science fiction throughout the ages:

http://www.grg.org/charter/Krell2.htm

Notable quote:

"If we assume that self-programming ability follows processing power, very soon after the point that computers of human brainpower are mass-production items, we may expect that computers will attain the total information processing power of all human minds on the planet. They will have long since become the experts in the design of more complex computers, just as they are today the reigning experts at chess strategy. At some point not long after that, computers will recapitulate human history, human culture, and human thought. They will then teach each other everything we humans know in a matter of years (months? days? hours?), and then move on. The whole thing will happen in a flash, and if it happens at all, will certainly happen long before we’re really ready for it. The "flash" seems inevitable before the end of this century, and seems quite probable (given even modest extrapolation) before the middle of it. And, of course, we’ll be unable to stop it, anymore than we can stop anything on the Internet. Before we know it, it will be done."

Computing Update

Researchers create graphene-based memory that can potentially store many times the memory of current flash memory, and is far more resistant to heat:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9123838

Genetic Engineering Update

Researchers engineer bacteria beyond the limits of nature to create higher-density biofuels:

http://www.physorg.com/news148833955.html

Artificial Intelligence Update

Researchers are working to build a machine that can learn from experience:

http://www.physorg.com/news148754667.html

Predictions Update

A list of upcoming inventions, from HUD contact lenses to bionic limbs. Also mentioned is uploading human minds to computers, allowing us to become truly immortal:

http://www.aolhealth.com/health/bionic-human-scientific-advancements?icid=200100397x1215240606x1201026834

Transportation Update

And now electric vehicle technology has extended to the airplane. Here is a modified glider that not only can go 70 mph for 90 minutes for a total recharge cost of 70 CENTS, but when parked the propeller acts as a windmill to recharge the battery!

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2353/69/

Transportation Update

For electric vehicle fans, here's a race between the Tango and the Tesla Roadster:

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2355/69/

Electric vehicles and their immediate full torque can give them performance to put IC engines to shame.

Robotics Update

Medical robot likely to see battlefield use within a year:

http://www.physorg.com/news148069187.html

It's more like telepresence than it is a robot, but it's a significant step.

Alternative Energies Update

New thin film solar cells are 15% more efficient and use hundreds of times less material than conventional solar cells:

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21755/?a=f

Computing Update

First superconducting transistor promises PC revolution:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026856.600-first-superconducting-transistor-promises-pc-revolution.html

Alternative Energies Update

Nanoporous silicon allows the creation of lithium batteries that can hold at least double the charge:

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21750/?a=f

Alternative Energies Update

Nanoporous silicon allows the creation of lithium batteries that can hold at least double

Alternative Energies Update

New wind power system borrows technology from jet engines to potentially decrease the cost of wind power by half:

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21737/?a=f

Cybernetics Update

The world's first cybernetic leaf uses plant photosynthesis to generate electricity:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16132-cyborg-leaf-makes-new-solar-power-plant.html

Artificial Intelligence Update

Combat robots may be built with AI able to behave more ethically than human beings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/science/25robots.html?_r=1

Genetic Engineering Update

Bacteria may be turned into microscopic bio-robot slaves to print nanoscale patterns:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16119-invention-microscopic-biorobot-slaves.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Alternative Energies Update

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion is designed to exploit the difference in temperature between seawater near the surface and deep down, and has the potential to become the biggest source of renewable energy in the world:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026836.000-plumbing-the-oceans-could-bring-limitless-clean-energy.html?full=true

Cybernetics Update

Scientists develop a machine-brain interface that can detect neural activity and predict the movement of fingers, as well as which of several sounds the patient is imagining. This may lead to robotic limbs that move as easily as real ones, or a computer interface that detects imagined words:

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/21699/

Artificial Intelligence Update

DARPA funding "cognitive computing" intended to "engineer the mind by reverse-engineering the brain":

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/hunting-for-a-brainy-computer/

Robotics Update

Six ways to build robots that do humans no harm:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16068-six-ways-to-build-robots-that-do-humans-no-harm.html

Computing Update

Within the next couple of years, high-bandwidth wireless Internet signals will soon blanket the US, as frequencies previously used for television are freed up:

http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/21671/?a=f

Alternative Energies Update

New windmill with variable pitch blades to optimize power generation from variable winds, increasing overall output by 50-100%:

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21666/?a=f

Computing Update

System on a chip developed with transmission speeds 100 times faster than WiFi and 350 times faster than 3.5G cell phones, at about 1/10th the size and cost of existing chips:

http://www.physorg.com/news145636894.html

Alternative Energies Update

Soon to be available for sale: shed-sized, safe, relatively cheap, no-maintenance nuclear power stations with no moving parts and no weapons-grade material, each capable of powering 20,000 homes and requiring refills every decade:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/09/miniature-nuclear-reactors-los-alamos#history-byline

Cybernetics Update

Honda develops a unique leg exoskeleton that is easy to strap on and assists with walking, crouching, etc.:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212001311&subSection=Management

Genetic Engineering Update

I think mastery of genetics is only a stepping stone or even a temporary side-step to converting human intelligence to non-biological information technology, but it still does have some interesting potential.

For example: MIT and Caltech students are studying how to convert bacteria into food to fight cavities, produce vitamins, and treat lactose intolerance:

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/21654/

Computing Update

Effective 3D holographic-like display developed:

http://www.physorg.com/news145514544.html

Watch the video.

Predictions Update

Here's a list of the top ten forecasts for 2009 and beyond by The Futurist magazine:

http://www.wfs.org/Sept-Oct08/Nov-Dec%20FUTURIST/topTen.htm

An example: "Everything you say and do will be recorded by 2030. By the late 2010s, ubiquitous, unseen nanodevices will provide seamless communication and surveillance among all people everywhere."

Technology Funding Update

Bill Joy is alarmed by the potential risks of advanced nanotech and the Singularity, so I'm not sure he's the best choice for being the US's chief technology officer (or maybe he's ideal because of that worry), but it's great to see that Obama is already seeking out the best minds in the field for his administration:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/john-doerrs-advice-for-barack-obama-hire-bill-joy/

Technology Funding Update

Good news: Barak Obama plans to greatly increase federal funding for scientific research, technological development and science education, as well as lift the ban on federally funded embryonic stem cell research:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/dn15130-obama-promises-new-era-of-scientific-innovation.html (see the attached PDF file for more specific details)

And more from Obama on scientific development, in his own words:

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn15134-obama-on-science-in-his-own-words.html

Finally!

Virtual Reality Update

The US Army plans to use virtual worlds to make virtual humans indistinguishable from real humans:

http://gizmodo.com/5077240/us-army-to-push-x+files-tech-development-invade-world-of-warcraft

This article also lists several other projects of interest.

Alternative Energies Update

New technique for splitting water to get hydrogen using solar power:

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2241/83/

The inventor claims it will change the world.