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Student figures out how to charge your mobile phone in less than 30 seconds

30 second cellphone charger

Having your phone die mid-conversation or worse, mid a high scoring sprint in Temple Run, is annoying. The wait for it to be fully charged seems ages. Not anymore as an 18 year old student has invented the speediest of phone chargers. Eesha Khare has invented a cellphone charger that is capable of charging a…

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Student figures out how to charge your mobile phone in less than 30 seconds

Having your phone die mid-conversation or worse, mid a high scoring sprint in Temple Run, is annoying. The wait for it to be fully charged seems ages. Not anymore as an 18 year old student has invented the speediest of phone chargers. Eesha Khare has invented a cellphone charger that is capable of charging a... [more]

World’s first website back at its original address

When you mention CERN these days, most people will think “large hadron collider” but the clever folks over at CERN were also responsible for devising the fundamental web standards. As part of celebrating the World Wide Web’s 20th birthday they’re bringing back the first ever website to its original URL. Officially, the first website was... [more]

Medi-Gel becomes reality with blood stopping Veti-gel [video]

Chances are that you’ve seen a multipurpose healing gel in games or a sci-fi flick. Thanks to a New York University student, it has become a reality. Veti-Gel, the name given to the healing goo by NYU student Joe Landolina, uses plant polymers that rapidly solidify when applied to open wounds. Unsurprisingly, the clever gel... [more]

Defense Distributed are ready to test 3D printed downloadable guns

A firm looks to be setting up production of 3D printed weapons. Defense Distributed is a cooperative, non-profit organisation, designed to help create a blueprint for a 3D gun which they say will be ready to test before the end of the year. Cody Wilson, spokesperson for the company which plans to create the ‘Wiki... [more]

SpaceX is up, up and Away! A Giant Leap for Privatised Space Travel

SpaceX hasn’t had the most straight forward journey thus far but in the early hours of this morning everything was “G for Go”. Today’s SpaceX flight aims to get a bit of cargo into orbit and delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) and it all appears to be going according to plan -so far... [more]

NASA and GM Develop Iron Man Style Robotic K-Gloves for Workers

I’ve just written about Real Steel inspiring a motion controlled boxing robot and now here’s Iron Man’s suit being created by NASA, well, the gloves anyhow. NASA and GM’s have teamed up in order to develop a robotic glove which will make working with heavy tools much easier. The Human Grasp Assist device, or K-glove,... [more]