It was sometime around 1752 that Johann Georg Sulzer decided (for reasons best known to himself) to put the tip of his tongue between two plates of (different) metal whose edges were in contact. The results were, quite literally, shocking. He’d not only inadvertently stumbled across one of the world’s first electrolytic batteries, but it […]
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Roi’s brain numbers improvement zapper machine
Roi Cohen Radosh of Oxford has applied for a patent for his method of zapping (so to speak) the brain with electricity. “APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING AND/OR MAINTAINING NUMERICAL ABILITY” is the title of international patent #WO 2011/098789 Al, published on August 18, 2011. Here’s a detail from the document: The patent document itself demonstrates a comfort […]
Renewable power source search: Lobsters
Moving on to lobsters, the team that is systematically exploring different varieties (see detail in text, below) of renewable power sources: “From ‘cyborg’ lobsters to a pacemaker powered by implantable biofuel cells,” Kevin MacVittie, Jan Halamek, Lenka Halamkov, Mark Southcott, William D. Jemison, Robert Lobel and Evgeny Katz, Energy and Environmental Science, vol. 6, 2013. The authors, […]
The powerful lack of power in Redding
This chart, created by The United Illuminating Company, shows how Connecticut cities and towns are still affected by the recent hurricane. It says that 110.34% of the electricity customers in the town of Redding are still without power. The United Illuminating Company’s web site says, in big letters, “WE ARE IN STORM MODE“. (Thanks to […]