Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything

The liquid glass spray (technically termed “SiO₂ ultra-thin layering”) consists of almost pure silicon dioxide (silica, the normal compound in glass) extracted from quartz sand. Water or ethanol is added, depending on the type of surface to be coated. There are no additives, and the nano-scale glass coating bonds to the surface because of the quantum forces involved. According to the manufacturers, liquid glass has a long-lasting antibacterial effect because microbes landing on the surface cannot divide or replicate easily.

Gadget Show: 3D TV

One of the highlight displays at this years recent 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas would have to be from Mitsubishi. Paying tribute to recent blockbusters like Avatar,  3D movies are gaining more popularity in the theatres this year. Mitsubishi flexed it’s muscles showing off it’s current range of  Home Theater TVs which are 3D ready. Screen sizes  range from 60 inches to 73.

Amazing cloud roll captured on camera

This post may be a little of topic but I found it so interesting that I had to share the experience. This amazing picture shows a rare phenomenon called a roll cloud which tend to form ahead of a cold front and can stretch for miles.

They are most common when an advancing storm front causes moist air to rise, then cool to the point where it becomes a cloud known as the dew point.

Search for new Earth: five new planets found

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered five new planets beyond the solar system, the US space agency says, just 10 months after Kepler launched into space to find Earth-like planets.

The discovery of the five exoplanets “contributes to our understanding of how planetary systems form and evolve from the gas and dust disks that give rise to both the stars and their planets,” NASA’s William Borucki, principal science investigator for the Kepler mission, said in a statement.

Nuclear Power

While researching how Nuclear power has influenced our lives I came across an interesting article that I thought was an interesting read. most of us today have heard of the Manhattan Project but if you had suggested it existed in those times then you would have been labelled a nut-job, conspiracy theorist. Amusingly justified under the banner of war and risk to National security.

Airport Scanners attack DNA

Research has indicated that body scanners at Airports are attacking our DNA. Read the following link.

A new model of the way the THz waves interact with DNA explains how the damage is done and why evidence has been so hard to gather

Great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. Terahertz waves pass through non-conducting materials such as clothes , paper, wood and brick and so cameras sensitive to them can peer inside envelopes, into living rooms and “frisk” people at distance.

What is or almost obsolete?

Tape deck car stereos. After a brief driving experience in my Dads car I recognised what I thought was a relic of the past and it still worked. I haven’t seen a Tape deck/Car stereo sold in the shops for years and I started to wonder what else has gone to the technology cemetery or is hanging on for dear life. Unlike fashion, once your superseded, you have flatlined.

#1-Phone Booths-Parents hand out mobile phones to their 6 year olds under the guise of ‘safety’. Usually trends start with one child showing off his new toy at show and tell and then every child wants one until it becomes the norm. Besides, they were always dirty or vandalized and sometimes had to walk for kilometers to find one.

Are You a Videogame-Aholic?

Last night I found myself in a familiar predicament but only experienced in a time long, long ago era. Playing a video game with my younger Brother in co-op mode (your two characters working as a team as opposed to annihilating each other) with no food or drink break, square eyes all the way into the wee hours of the morning. This was a common occurrence in our younger no responsibility days where it wasn’t a problem, but today is a different story. 

Have you ever succumbed to temptation and had “just one more level?” Do you find yourself playing games and then later realising you had other more important things you should have been doing? Like in my Brothers case, sleeping because work was only 3 hours away. Do you miss showering for days on end, or find yourself suffering from headaches because you haven’t stopped for a drink and have been staring at a screen for the past 24hours. Are we just big kids?

Do I really need Two Subwoofers?

Certainly and it’s not over the top or a ploy to sell an add on. Any serious audio/videophile would not been seen dead without two subwoofers. Why?

NASA’s confirmed 2012 prediction

Deterioration of Earth’s Magnetosphere during Sun’s Polar shift in 2012

Scientists have now accepted that the intersection of 2 problems – the deterioration of Earth’s Magnetosphere during the Sun’s Polar shift in 2012 (as recently discussed) will be the real concern as we approach 2012 :

Now here’s the reason why: