We posted this one before and it is certainly very cool visually.

So it’s worth watching agian.

What is American Chemistry?

It’s the trade association representing U.S. chemical companies and including significant business groups like American Plastics Council and the Chlorine Chemistry Council.

I’m amazed this group has done such a nice spot.

Check it out and then go to the site: www.americanchemistry.com

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FutureWeapons is a great show that looks into what technology is being used to enhance our weapons to come. This is a long clip so wait a little, it will load up.

The host is Richard Machowicz (ex-Navy Seal) and in this episode he is showing a GPS Howitzer. You have to watch this clip to understand how cool and scary this really is.

You will see them point the Howitzer off target and let the GPS navigation pull it back within a few meters. Just astounding.

Other FutureWeapons clips we have posted:

Shoot Around Corners

Laser

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The Adeo from MotionLingo is the best gadget of the year so far, for me.

I love new and cool gadgets and I really love ones that work. This is one of them.

The Adeo is a GPS based exercise monitoring device that can get you all the statistics you could ever want from your workout, while listening to music thru a plug into the Adeo.

One of the coolest features for me is the elevation tracking. After you run, bike or whatever…you plug in the Adeo into your USB port and load your workout into the Motionlingo software that came with Adeo.

You can actually see your elevation changes, distance…and the list goes on.

If you want to accurately measure your workouts, go get one.  Lots more details and how to buy at www.motionlingo.com

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I swear this is from Real Genius.

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That’s right, you will soon be able to buy your very own invisibility cloak. Every girls locker room better be scared…The truth is that it a long ways off, if at all. So now worries about lurking pervs of the invisible kind.

It’s a scientific possibility and likely to be way thicker than fabric that can draped over your body. Have a read of the article found on , pretty cool idea that could make Harry Potter proud.

If you are interested, one of the things that could help make this possible are Metamaterial.

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Hyper Sonic Sound (HSS) is really amazing and you just don’t get the effect until you have used one. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a couple of them. About 2 years ago I got my hands on one of the first generation HSS. I have used various directional audio devices but the HSS shown in this video clip is by far the best. It’s a long clip but worth watching.

You really can feel it in your head. What really freaks people out is when you bounce the audio stream around the room. This really is amazing technology. Of course I was using it for something far more sinister than a non-lethal weapon, it was for advertising.

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What are Twitches, starts and other body oddities?

This article on MSN about Men’s Health is worth a read even if it is to understand typical things like:

Twitches, Ear wax, Funny bone, Toe cheese, Hiccups, Shivers and chatters, Brain freeze, Sleep starts, Jumping when startled, Hair standing on end, and Goose bumps

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I caught a show last night on The Travel Channel about Concept Cars.

It was a great show. I have several clips of different vehicles that I will post here on DHADM in the next couple of days. This one is about the desire and benefits of building hydrogen cars. You don’t have to “green” to enjoy the technical advances this proposition give us.

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Low energy particle physics is incredibly boring, even to a lot of physicists.  The high energy stuff at least has the excitement of harnessing an enormous amount of energy to tear apart the fundamental blocks of the universe in unbelievably short periods of time, and it makes neat gas chamber photos to boot.  But low energy particle physics consists mainly of building ever larger detectors that might count a couple of events a day, if you’re lucky.

Somehow, NOVA on PBS has managed to make this interesting in The Ghost Particle, a show about the search for cosmic neutrinos.  Neutrinos are byproducts of nuclear reactions like fusion in the sun.  To see what it took to detect them, look through the slideshows on NOVA’s website.  Cool stuff.

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This story really gives me the heeby jeebies.  I don’t like wasps in general, but one species in particular has a penchant for performing brain surgery on roaches.

When Ampulex compressa is ready to lay eggs, she finds a suitable roach and quickly paralyzes it with venom.  Then she inserts her stinger into the roach’s brain and injects venom at a specific site to alter the neurons there, draining the roach’s will to resist and lowering it’s metabolism so it can live for weeks without eating.  The wasp grasps the zombie roach’s antenna and leads it to her nest, then lays an egg on it’s belly.  The larvae hatches, chews it’s way through the roach’s exoskeleton and eats the roach alive until the larvae becomes a wasp.

Of course, the roach becomes a zombie in the voodoo sense rather than the horror movie sense, but it’s still creepy to know there are insects which have evolved to hijack another insect’s brain.

Scientists are trying to duplicate the wasp’s sting, presumably to build an army of militarized roach coaches with controllable, zombified drivers, but their unholy creations can only live for about six days.  They’re already running behind Japanese scientists who have developed a way to control roaches electronically.  To get a leg up, they should try priming the roaches for the zombie lifestyle by making them watch insect TV.

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