Phinergy's metal-air battery could eliminate EV range anxiety

Welcome to the newsletter for Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine. These are the headlines for April the 4th, 2013. Phinergy's metal-air battery could eliminate EV range anxiety Israel-based company Phinergy claims to have developed metal-air battery technology that promises to end the range anxiety associated with electric vehicles. The company's battery currently consists of 50 aluminum plates, each providing energy for around 20 miles (32 km) of driving. This adds up to a total potential range of 1,000 miles (1,609 km), with stops required only every couple of hundred miles to refill the system with water. Read on Desktop or Read on Mobile New cancer radiation therapy treatment with no harmful side effects Shortly after the discovery of the neutron in 1932, some scientists recognized the potential of boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) as a cancer treatment. But despite decades of research, the problem of finding a delivery agent that would more effectively target the tumor without harming surrounding tissue persisted. Researchers at the University of Missouri (MU) may finally have found a solution. Read on Desktop or Read on Mobile Austria sends manned mission to Mars ... in Morocco Of all the nations who might get to Mars first, Austria doesn't loom large. Yet the Austrian Space Forum (OEWF) has sent a manned mission to the Red Planet – or at least, to an Earth-bound version of "Mars" located in the northern Sahara near Erfoud, Morocco. During February OEWF conducted a series of experiments and simulation tests with the aim of gaining a better understanding of how to execute a manned mars mission and develop technology for making it a reality. Read on Desktop or Read on Mobile Bubba Watson's hovercraft golf cart Want to be the envy of everyone on the golf course without actually improving your golfing skills? Then you just need to ride out onto the green in the BW1, the world's first hovercraft golf cart. Read on Desktop or Read on Mobile NOHrD WaterGrinder cranks-up the art of exercise Unless you have a dedicated home fitness room in a far, dark corner of your house, there's a good chance that your exercise equipment is going to impose its will on your personal space. Treadmills and stationary bikes just aren't all that small or pretty. For folks that want to stay in shape without ruining their interior design, German manufacturer NOHrD offers home exercise equipment that's as pleasing to the eye as handcarved wooden sculptures. The WaterGrinder is one of its latest offerings. Read on Desktop or Read on Mobile OLS house provides views from the gaping jaws of a dinosaur At Gizmag, we're suckers for interesting looking houses. We've covered the world's narrowest house, houses made from a shipping containers, and so many other interesting abodes. One thing we've not seen before is a house with a profile that mimics the shape of a dinosaur's head, that is until we encountered the OLS House. Read on Desktop or Read on Mobile Second-generation Nexus 7 reportedly coming "around July" Two years ago, the iPad was untouchable at the top of the tablet market. Apple still sells the most tablets, but several rival slates have made serious inroads. One of those is the Google and Asus lovechild that we know as the Nexus 7. Though a sequel to the budget tablet is unconfirmed, it's inevitable. And today we have some new details on the second-generation Nexus 7. Read on Desktop or Read on Mobile Helical Robotics announces new wind turbine inspection robots Currently, wind turbines are inspected for damage in two main ways: someone stands on the ground below them and uses a telescope, or people use rigging systems to actually climb across them. Now, Oregon, Wisconsin-based Helical Robotics is offering an alternative – camera-equipped turbine-climbing robots. Read on Desktop or Read on Mobile Subaru introduces its first production hybrid Most auto companies have at least a hybrid or two within their line-ups, but through the 2013 model year, Subaru remains the exception. That will change come 2014, when the automaker adds the all-new XV Crosstrek Hybrid to its line. The new crossover gets some extra electricity to add efficiency, but maintains Subaru's well-established utility and all-conditions versatility. Read on Desktop or Read on Mobile Printed thermoelectric generators could capture energy from waste heat Thermoelectric materials, putting it simply, are able to generate electricity via differences in temperature. If thermoelectric felt were used to make a jacket, for instance, it could generate a current using the temperature gradient between the warm interior and cold exterior of the garment. Like many such promising technologies, however, the cost of thermoelectrics is something of an issue ... although thanks to a new process developed at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology, that might not be the case for much longer. Read on Desktop or Read on Mobile If IKEA made a bike, it might look like the Sawyer There was a time when wooden-framed bicycles were quite the oddity. While you still don't see them much in stores, it's now not that unusual to come across models such as the Lagomorph or Renovo's duo bikes on the internet. The Sawyer, however, is a little different – it's a lowrider cruiser bike, that's quite obviously built from flat sheets of beech plywood. Read on Desktop or Read on Mobile EHX splices together three stomps to create Epitome New York's Electro Harmonix (EHX) has taken three of its most popular stomps and merged them into one compact Epitome unit. A player can choose to operate the Micro POG, Stereo Electric Mistress and Holy Grail Plus independently, or blend them all together for some seriously powerful sonic madness. In addition to catering for even more tonal experimentation by mixing up the signal chain, the intriguing Shimmer button can also turn one of the four reverbs into a delay, generate an infinite drone or a wild swirling leslie-type sound. Read on Desktop or Read on Mobile Review: ShaveTech USB travel razor I like to pack light when I travel. If possible, I even try to only bring a carry-on bag on flights. Therefore, I welcome anything that allows me to carry less stuff. The ShaveTech USB-powered razor is just such an item – it has most of the functionality of a full-sized electric razor, yet it's about the size of a smartphone. Over the past several days, I've had the chance to try the thing out. Read on Desktop or Read on Mobile Philips 22-W LED is first Energy Star 100-W equivalent bulb ... but why? Philips has announced that its 22-watt LED lightbulb is the first 100-watt tungsten equivalent bulb to have been awarded Energy Star certification. Often referred to as the A21, which is actually just one of several standard forms for light bulbs that this bulb happens to conform to, Philips' 22-W bulb puts out "nearly" 1,800 lumens for an efficacy of about 82 lumens/watt (lm/W). It's a fine spec, but not too dissimilar to the competition, which raises the question of why Philips' product has been singled out. Read on Desktop or Read on Mobile Keyboard and violin spawn O-Bow offspring Have you ever yearned to play a violin like Leila Josefowicz or Paul Zukofsky but can't get beyond annoying scratchy squeals? Dr Dylan Menzies of the De Montfort University in Leicester, U.K., says that his O-Bow musical bow controller is much easier to master. A player selects notes from a bank of recorded violin sounds using a keyboard while the bowing hand strokes a traditional violin bow over an optical sensor. The result is pleasantly realistic. Read on Desktop or Read on Mobile Hennessey Venom GT claims fastest production car run of 265.7 mph After the pomp and civility of the New York Auto Show, it's nice for automotive manufacturers to take a break, get some air, break 265 mph, hit the spa, etc. And so it would be that on a bleak Californian airstrip, that some brave individual in a very much modified machine would hurtle himself down an airforce grade runway to a speed of 265.7 mph (426.7 km/h), making the Hennessey Venom GT the fastest production car on the planet. Read on Desktop or Read on Mobile Special promotion for Gizmag readers Windows 8 Security (Free eBook offer expires on 4/5) As an IT professional, you are quite possibly being asked to review Windows 8 and determine if it is a good fit for your organization. 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