Gilo Cardozo, a self-taught aviation engineer, inventor and founder of British-based Parajet has created a two-seat flying car.The Skycar is powered by a modified 1000cc, four cylinder, 140hp, ethanol burning, Yamaha R1 superbike engine with a lightweight automatic CVT(continuously variable transmission) gear-box.
It has independent four wheel suspension and rear wheel drive. Road acceleration is 0-60 mph in 4.5 seconds with a top speed of 110 mph.To convert to flight mode, the driver unfolds a parafoil wing from the trunk (boot) and attaches it to the rear of the car. He then flips a switch to change the transmission from road mode, which powers the wheels, to flight mode, which powers the rear fan.Converting from “road mode” to “fly mode” and visa-versa takes about three minutes thanks to the flexible wing technology invented by Mike Campbell Jones, of Paramania Powergliders.The fan’s thrust propels the car forward, providing lift for the wing as the car reaches a takeoff speed of 35 mph. Once airborne, foot pedals move cables attached to the parafoil to direct the flight path. Top air speed is 100 mphat altitudes of 2000 to 3000 feet. Maximum altitude is 15,000 ft. with a range of 180 miles. The Skycar is also equipped with an roof-mounted ballastic parachute for emergencies.In January 2009, an Expedition Team plans to drive/fly the Skycar from London, England to Timbuktu located in the African country of Mali. A total distance of 3700 miles."It’s going to be quite a treacherous trip,” predicts Cardozo. “But that’s all part of a good adventure.”The Skycar will take a 22-mile flight across the English Channel, before landing in France and continuing by road.Then, after a high-altitude flight over the Pyrenees, the Skycar flys across the Strait of Gibraltar to Africa, then through Morocco and across the Sahara desert to Timbuktu.“If the Skycar goes down over water, we risk losing it” says Cardozo. “We’re looking into flotation devices like they use on lifeboats. You attach them to the car and throw them out to stop it from sinking.” The Sahara is also a dangerous environment, not only for it's intense heat and dust - but for criminals.Upon completion of this maiden voyage, Cardozo plans to make a limited production of the Skycar. Potential buyers require a powered parachute license rather than a pilots license and the British government has approved the vehicle as street legal.

Creating instant prints from a digital camera is the latest technology invention in printing. The Polaroid PoGo™ is a small portable printer that weighs only a few ounces.

latest-technology-invention The printer produces full color 2" x 3" prints using an "inkless" technology. The images are created from heat activated crystals in the photo paper. The photos are water proof, tear proof and smear proof.

The device connects to a digital camera using a USB cable, or to a mobile phone through wireless Bluetooth. It uses rechargeable batteries or an AC adapter.

Inventor and former Swiss Air Force fighter pilot, Yves Rossy, jumped from a plane over Calais, France and flew 200 mph crossing the English Channel in 13 minutes before landing in Dover, England.Earlier this year he unfolded the wings on his back and flew 186 mph (300 kilometers) above the Swiss Alps.new-invention Using four small jet engines attached to his carbon wings, he climbed at 200 ft per minute before executing a series of stunts for a crowd of reporters watching from a mountain top.The spectacular demonstration was the first public revelation of his latest invention, which he spent five years developing.Airplane-invention"It is absolute freedom" says Rossy.
The inventor says his 120 lb Jetman suit will eventually be available to the public but it's still a few years away.The flight over the English Channel was his second public demonstration. He is planning his next flight through the Grand Canyon.

A company from Tucson looks forward to develop a high-speed train that would run on solar energy. Currently the project is in idea stage. According to preliminary estimations, the first phase of the project might require $27 billion.

For the first phase the developers have the idea of creating a train system that would link Tucson and Phoenix. As soon as the idea is brought to life, it is planned to expand the system north to Grand Canyon and south to Nogales. The developers expect to activate the train system in 2018.

The idea to build a solar bullet train came to the founders of Tucson-based Solar Bullet LLC, Bill Gaither, retired civil engineer, and his business partner Raymond Wright. They look forward to develop a sun-powered train that would achieve a speed of 220 mph and would run on 4 tracks.

According to Gaither, the inner 2 tracks are going to be used for nonstop journey from Tucson to Phoenix. The remaining tracks are going to serve 6 intermediate stations that will be located in Chandler, Maricopa, Casa Grande, Eloy, Red Rock and Marana.

The solar bullet train will need 110 megawatts of electricity. The power will be produced by solar panels installed overhead. For more information visit: AzStarBiz

Taking advantage of the solar-energy, a new futuristic-looking stadium in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, can generate its own electricity.It is worth mentioning that the stadium has been constructed for the World Games, which are going to take place this July.

This is world's first stadium to use exclusively solar power technology to produce all of its electricity, having 8,844 solar panels installed on its roof.The solar panels will be able to produce the amount of electricity that could power 3,300 lights along with two giant monitors on the stadium.Having the shape of a horse shoe, the huge structure can boast a seating capacity of 55,000. Its developers say that the stadium will be used for athletics and rugby events.After the 2009 World Games, the Taiwanese national football team is going to play its home matches there, reports Daily Mail.The design of the gigantic construction is attributed to Japanese architect Toyo Ito.The somewhat unusual semi-spiral shape was designed with the goal of imitating a dragon and offering a "cordial welcome and a cheerful greeting" to all athletes and viewers with its open-ended structure.

According to a Taiwanese official, the solar panels will be able to produce up to 1.14 million kWh of electricity per year, which means a reduction on annual carbon dioxide emissions by 660 tons.

One of the latest inventions created by scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA) are lip-reading computers that are able to identify different languages.
Scientists managed to come up with lip-reading computers some time earlier but now they created the first computer that can really distinguish different languages. This latest invention could prove to be very useful for people with hearing problems, as well as for law enforcement agencies, and in noisy environments.

The revolutionary research is currently led by Stephen Cox and Jake Newman of UEA's School of Computing Sciences. They will present their latest invention at a major conference that will take place in Taiwan on April 22.

It is worth mentioning that the technology was built up by statistical modeling of the lip movements developed by a team of 23 bilingual and trilingual speakers. The system could distinguish any language with extremely high accuracy. It could identify English, French, German, Arabic, Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian, Polish and Russian, reports the UEA website.

"This is the first scientific confirmation that when people speak different languages, they use different mouth shapes in different sequences," outlined Prof Cox.

"For example, we found frequent 'lip-rounding' among French speakers and more prominent tongue movements among Arabic speakers," he added.

The study was funded by the EPSRC and is a part of a larger project of the University of East Anglia that focuses on automatic lip-reading. Soon scientists will start working on the system closer to an individual's physiology and their way of speaking.

This wild new motorcycle, invented by 19-year-old Ben J. Poss Gulak, is among the latest inventions to capture attention.

Debuting at the National Motorcycle Show in Toronto, the "Uno" uses gyro technology for balance and acceleration.

It is a battery charged machine that accelerates by leaning forward and slowing down by leaning backwards. It weighs approximately 129 pounds (58 kg.) and has a top speed of 25 mph (40 klms).

This rechargeable battery is one of the latest inventions to help solve the problems associated with disposable batteries.Battery-invention Getting rid of batteries has become a major concern for landfills because of the volume of toxins.There are rechargeable batteries on the market but they are expensive and require special adapters.
The USB Rechargeable Battery is an affordable alternative that can be charged by plugging it into the USB port of a computer.A cap on the battery opens to a dongle for connection. A blue LED light indicates when the battery is fully charged.

After years in development, wireless devices contained in swallowable capsules are now reaching the market.
Companies such as SmartPill based in Buffalo, New York and Israel-based Given Imaging (PillCam) market capsules the size of vitamin tablets that contain sensors or tiny cameras that collect information as they travel through the gastrointestinal tract before being excreted from the body a day or two later.

The devices transmit information such as acidity, pressure and temperature levels or images of the esophagus and intestine to your doctor's computer for analysis.

Doctors often use invasive methods such as catheters, endoscopic instruments or radioisotopes for collecting information about the digestive tract. So device companies have been developing easier, less intrusive ways, to gather information.
Digestive diseases and disorders can include symptoms such as acid reflux, bloating, heartburn, abdominal pain, constipation, difficulty swallowing or loss of appetite.

gadgets and new inventions "One of the main challenges is determining just what is happening in the stomach and intestines." says Dr. Anish A. Sheth, Director of the Gastrointestinal Motility Program at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Doctors can inspect the colon and peer into the stomach using endoscopic instruments. But some areas cannot be easily viewed, and finding out how muscles are working can be difficult.

Electronic pills are being used to measure muscle contraction, ease of passage and other factors to reveal information unavailable in the past.

This project is entitled the Water Building Resort and is expected to be world's first building to convert air into water using solar power. The construction has a symbolic shape of a drop of water, but besides being architecturally inspiring the building represents an ingenious combination of nature and high-tech.
Here's how the technology of the building will work: the facade, facing south, features photovoltaic glass that will harness the energy from the sun, allowing the sunlight to pass through. The facade that faces north has a latticed design developed for ventilation. It also includes unique Teex Micron equipment, which is the one to convert humid air along with condensation into clean drinking water.

The Water Building Resort was designed to be built in warm and humid areas. It will also feature a water treatment facility that will be located on the bottom floor and used to filter salty sea and rain water. In order to monitor and certify water quality, the building will include a special center of technological analysis.

The upper floors of the structure will include several restaurants, gyms, conference rooms, spa services, as well as exhibition halls. All spaces will be based on theme of water, environment and renewable energy. The final touch is the wonderful underwater aquarium of the building.

Swine flu spreads all over the world.it is important to know the symptoms of the disease so you can recognise it in yourself and others at an early stage.Please read this page.

So far, most swine flu cases have been mild, with symptoms similar to those of seasonal flu. Only a small number of people have had more serious symptoms.
If you or a member of your family has any of the following symptoms and a temperature of 38°C or above, you may have swine flu.

The typical symptoms are:

* a sudden fever (a high body temperature of 38°C/100.4°F or above), and
* a sudden cough.

Other symptoms may include:

* headache,
* tiredness,
* chills,
* aching muscles,
* limb or joint pain,
* diarrhoea or stomach upset,
* sore throat,
* runny nose,
* sneezing, or
* loss of appetite.

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Parents in Germany are welcoming a very rare set of twins, the first baby was born is called Ryan, and he has light skin and blue eyes like his father. His brother, Leo, has dark skin with brown eyes like his mother.

“None of us could believe it,” the maternity ward’s head doctor, Birgit Weber, told one news source. “Both kids have definitely the same father.”

Stephan Gerth is German and white. His wife, Florence Addo-Gerth, is from Ghana and has dark skin.
It was “a real surprise,” Gerth told the German newspaper Die Welt, adding that the most important thing to him isn’t color, but that everyone is healthy.

Doctors say that the odds are one in a million to get twins with different skin color, but they have also said it can happen due to genetic soup in our backgrounds.

The twins are in a good health condition and live in Berlin, Germany.

A new tiny small telescope implanted in patient’s eye to improve their vision dramatically. The new device was designed specifically for people who have sever damaged retinas or “macular degeneration“. The telescope magnifies images on the retina, extending them so they fall on healthy cells outside the damaged macula, said Allen W. Hill, chief executive of VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies in Saratoga, Calif., the implant’s maker.

Magnifying images make patient unbalanced during walking or driving, so once the patients does the surgery he/she requires to practice before facing the new world.

Patients say “that’s fine we will practice, but we want to be able to see again”. This invention would allow people to see relatives that never recognized clearly before, or restore their physical activities such as hiking and biking etc..

According to the inventor, the tiny telescope doesn’t cure people from blindness, but it improves their vision in a way that makes them see better by eliminating blurry images. Not everyone is qualified for the outpatient procedure; maybe only 20 out of 100 candidates will be qualified for it. Also, the price range is not yet revealed, but we know that it will be available in the United States after the FDA approval by the end of this year 2009.

Our 40 inch TV at the living room is hooked up with tons of entertainment gadgets, our PS2, WII, DVD player, and the VHS are connected to it. You can images how they look behind the TV, not so good.

But an electric company called Witricity based in the United States developed a new line of technology that will allow us in the future to power up our TVs without any wires.

“Welcome to the world of wireless electricity” said the company chief executive Eric Giler, who also indicated that the new technology could one day replace batteries as well as conventional power sources.

The company demonstrated the wireless electricity on T-Mobile G1 phone, running Google’s Android operating system, and the iPhone. Wireless electricity is achieved through “electromagnetic resonance” which is physical phenomenon were objects with the same resonance frequencies can transfer energy between each other. “Resonant Magnetic Coupling: Magnetic coupling occurs when two objects exchange energy through their varying or oscillating magnetic fields. Resonant coupling occurs when the natural frequencies of the two objects are approximately the same.”



WiTricity power sources and capture devices are specially designed magnetic resonators that efficiently transfer power over large distances via the magnetic near-field. These proprietary source and device designs and the electronic systems that control them support efficient energy transfer over distances that are many times the size of the sources/devices themselves.

Morgellons disease: or Morgellons syndrome. This name was given in 2002 by Mary Leitao. Morgellons is a skin disease with several symptoms such as crawling, biting, and stinging sensations; persistent skin lesions (e.g., rashes or sores); and descriptions of finding fibers on or under the skin. Mary found all these symptoms in her son, and no one was able to give her a diagnose of the disease until the federal government took Morgellons seriously because of pressure from sufferers and the Morgellons Research Foundation, which she founded in 2002. The history of the disease began when her son who graduated with a Bachelor degree in Biology started feeling pain under his lip and complained of bugs. She took him to over 10 doctors and they were not able to give her a diagnosis. Every one told her that they are not finding any disease that is known to them, no allergies, or even skin disease. Only after around three years the disease draws the intention to several TV stations such as CNN, ABC’s Good Morning America, and NBC’s The Today Show.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome “CFS”: This unknown disease usually occurs in women more than men, in age ranges between 40s and 60s. It manifests with widespread myalgia “muscle pain” and arthralgia “joint pain”, cognitive difficulties, chronic mental and physical exhaustion, often severe, and other characteristic symptoms in a previously healthy and active person. According to physicians, CFS occurs suddenly without any previous illness, usually accompanied with flu-like illness. Unfortunately, most CFS patients don’t completely recover from the disease completely even with regular treatment and attention. CFS was discovered in 1934 at Los Angeles County Hospital when it infected most of its doctors and nurses. It was referred to as Atypical Poliomyelitis, and was generally believed to be a form of polio.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease “CJD”: This is a brain disorder that is ultimately fatal. What cause the disease is something called prion which is theoretical infectious agent that is composed only of a protein (and has no genetic material). Don’t get scared, this disease occurs only one case per one million people every year in the world. CJD develop mostly in younger people, rather in older people as the CFS disease. These are the most common symptoms of CJD, memory loss, personality change and finally hallucinations. Again, there is no a specific treatment for the disease until now, but some experiments were done by several researchers and came up with a medication called pentosan polysulphate, it slowed down the effects or the memory loss but it didn’t stop it.

Schizophrenia: This disease is associated with mental illness, involves a psychotic phase with delusions, hallucinations, or grossly bizarre or disorganized speech and behaviors. People who have this disease develop significant loss of interest or pleasure others might develop mood abnormalities such as inappropriate smiling, laughing, or silly facial expressions, depression and anger. Usually it takes years before individuals can accept that thy have Schizophrenia and need medication. Most doctors suggest Antipsychotic medication as treatment, but as they say it shortens the duration of psychosis in Schizophrenia, and prevents recurrences. But psychotic relapses can still occur under stress. Moreover, Experts consider this the most puzzling of mental disorders, one which robs the sufferer of the ability to logically distinguish between reality and fantasy.

Autoimmune Disorders: The immune system in your body protects you against microorganisms and other foreign substances. I don’t want to give you all the details about the immune system, but its good to know that, it consists of two major parts. One component is called lymphocytes which produces antibodies, proteins that attack foreign substances or microorganisms and cause them to be removed form the body. The second component is called T lymphocytes, which can attack “foreign” substances directly; this is sometimes called the cellular immune system. Now, you are asking so what is the autoimmune disorder? It’s a disease caused by the body producing an inappropriate immune response against its own tissues. Sometimes the immune system will cease to recognize one or more of the body’s normal constituents as self and will create autoantibody, antibodies that attack its own cells, tissues and unfortunately the organs. According to several sources the cause of the autoimmune disorder is unknown.

Pica: This puzzling disease has been around and described since ancient times. Moreover, it can occur in individuals of any background, it is associated mostly pregnancy, developmental delay and metal retardation, early childhood, poor nutrition or low blood levels or iron and other minerals, certain cultural or religious traditions and psychiatric disease and autism. You may ask religious traditions? How? I thought of that to and I was able to find some useful information. “Cultural and religious traditions may also play a role in pica behavior. In some cultures, nonfood substances are believed to have positive health or spiritual effects. Among some African Americans in the south, ingesting a particular kind of white clay is believed to promote health and reduce morning sickness during pregnancy. Other cultures practice pica out of belief that eating a particular substance may promote fertility or bring good luck.” Healthatoz.com. So, what causes Pica? Evidence suggested that there are many or several causes, one which the widely accepted theory is the Iron deficiency. Because the cause of the disease is not obvious or in other words “Unknown”, treatment of Pica starts with counseling, education, and nutritional management.

Avian Influenza (Bird Flu): Avian influenza is an infection caused by avian (bird) influenza (flu) viruses. These influenza viruses occur naturally among birds. Wild birds worldwide carry the viruses in their intestines, but usually do not get sick from them. However, avian influenza is very contagious among birds and can make some domesticated birds, including chickens, ducks, and turkeys, very sick and kill them. There are many different subtypes of type A influenza viruses. These subtypes differ because of changes in certain proteins on the surface of the influenza A virus (hemagglutinin [HA] and neuraminidase [NA] proteins). There are 16 known HA subtypes and 9 known NA subtypes of influenza A viruses. Many different combinations of HA and NA proteins are possible. Each combination represents a different subtype. All known subtypes of influenza A viruses can be found in birds. Humans have no immunity to the powerful flu virus carried by birds, which health official fear could mutate into a strain that can be transmitted between humans. Death rates for human infected are around 50 percent but, so far, humans have been infected mostly by direct handling with infected birds. A recent cluster of cases, however, appeared to involve its spread between people. Livescience.com

AIDS: Its also known as ” Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome” I am sure you heart of this disease before, twenty five years since it was first identified, researchers and scientists still didn’t find a cure it. This disease is a KILLER especially in the developing countries. AIDS is a set of infections resulting from the damage to the human immune system and leaves people susceptible to opportunistic infections and tumors. There are different ways people get and transmit the disease, first its transmitted manly through direct contact of the blood stream with a bodily fluid containing HIV such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid and breast milk. In 2007, over 33.2 million people lived with the disease worldwide and killed apporximatly around 2.1 million including 330,000 children.

May God protect all us form such diseases and keep our world healthy and safe.

When the first time human set the first foot on the moon, people from all over the world had doubts about the claimed landing. NASA has provided us with many pictures taken when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon 40 years ago.Many scientists said that Apollo 11 landing was total fake, because you can tell from the pictures that there are some obvious evidences shows that the landing was all made up and created on Earth no the moon. The people behind these images missed to apply a lot of scientific information, that allowed us to bust them down.In this image you can see that the American flag is flapping right? well, the flag shouldn’t be flapping because the image was taken in an airless lunar surface. There are few Youtube Apollo 11 video landing show the flag flapping and other astronaut acting on the surface of the moon. Watch it at the end of this article.