Inventarium na FIL

A Inventarium Science, que dá no duro pelos Inventores Portugueses, esteve presente no Festival IN - Inovação e Criatividade.

Na foto, da esquerda para a direita, a adorável, e incansável, Drª Cristina, esposa e braço direito do Presidente, a seguir, o Eng. Francisco Banha, da Gesbanha, o Eng. Fernando Lopes, o tal Presidente da Inventarium Science, o Eng. Cordovil, Vice-presidente da Inventarium, e o Inventor Francisco Pinto.

Várias personalidades ligadas à Inovação receberam este galardão, a Medalha de Mérito Científico e Criativo:

Tais como o Presidente Honorário da Inventarium Science, o grande Vitorino Moreira Fernandes, co-fundador da extinta APC a antiga Associação de Inventores, 

 
o Eng. João Marcelino do INPI, e autor de vários livros sobre Patentes.

 , e vinda da Hungria, Roxandra Pamukova, representante da Federação de inventores da Bulgária.

Estiveram expostas as Medalhas e Invenções de vários Inventores, dos quais espero material para aqui postar, e as minhas!

Da esquerda para a direita, da mais recente para a mais antiga: Medalhas de:
Ouro, para o meu Invento triosk, o Veículo quiosk para paraplégicos;
Prata para o BusStopper, aparelho para a paragem de números específicos de Transportes Públicos, para Cegos;
E outra de Prata, de Genebra, e de Bronze de Nuremberga, ambas para o meu primeiro Invento, o Desenhador de Elipses.
E também mais abaixo, a medalha de Homenagem Esportiva de São Paulo.

Duas Invenções, 

A Besta Nerf:

E o Canhão Gauss de Repetição:

Foi apenas um Primeiro Passo...

PARA O ANO, É QUE VAI SER!

 

Portugal! Portugal! Catarina Mota!

A nossa Catarina Mota, vai falar nesta importante Conferência!

MAKE magazine hosts an inspired conversation and curated tour of the unique culture, enabling technologies, and innovations of the maker movement.

Catarina Mota, Co-Founder of openMaterials Catarina is a maker of things, a research scholar, and an open source advocate. She co-founded openMaterials.org, a collaborative project dedicated to do-it-yourself experimentation with smart materials, and altLab, Lisbon's hackerspace. She has taught numerous hands-on workshops on hi-tech materials and simple circuitry with the goal of encouraging people with little to no science background to take a proactive interest in science, technology and knowledge-sharing. Catarina is wrapping up her PhD dissertation on the social impact of open and collaborative practices for the development of technologies. She is a fellow of the National Science and Technology Foundation of Portugal, co-chair of the Open Hardware Summit, TEDGlobal 2012 fellow, and member of NYC Resistor.

 http://makezine.com/hardware-innovation-workshop/keynotes.html#llf

Novidades

Um Purificador de àgua, que se carrrega pela Porta USB!

SteriPEN Freedom offers USB-powered water purification

By Pawel Piejko

Water purifier manufacturer SteriPEN has updated its lineup of portable products, with a UV-based unit called the SteriPEN Freedom. Billed as the smallest, lightest and first rechargeable UV water purifier on the market, it disinfects up to 16 oz (0.5 L) of water in 48 seconds.

We've previously covered numerous water purification solutions for the developing world, with LifeStraw, Moringa tree seeds, or even banana peels being notable examples. The new SteriPEN device, however, is defined as hiking and camping equipment by its manufacturer, rather than as a life-saving tool.

The Freedom features a germicidal UV light which destroys 99.9 percent of bacteria, viruses and protozoa. Forty-eight seconds is enough for the Freedom to deal with half a liter of water, while a liter simply requires repeating this operation. A green light gauge indicates when it's safe to drink the water.

http://www.gizmag.com/steripen-freedom-uv-water-purifier/20239/

Uma pergunta:

Se este carro segue uma luz Laser, se tiverem gatos em casa, eles seguirão o Carro ou o Laser? Ou ambos?

Lazer Stunt Chasers pursue a spot of light across your floor


By Ben Coxworth

If you have both a laser pointer and either a cat or a dog in your home, you probably know how much fun it can be to watch your critter chasing after the laser light point on the floor. If you don't have any pets, however, now there's something else that will chase a laser for you - a toy car. Thinkway Toys' Lazer Stunt Chaser is a remote-control vehicle that goes wherever its user shines its laser light controller. Oh yeah, and its wheels light up, too.

http://www.gizmag.com/lazer-stunt-chasers/20243/

Uma engenhoca que transforma qualquer par de òculos de Ciiclista, num Display com dados sobre a Performance do Atleta Amador, ou Profissional...

Sportiiiis turns ordinary sunglasses into heads up display eyewear for cyclists

By Paul Ridden

Canada's 4iiii Innovations has developed a Head Up Display for athletes that can be mounted on virtually all glasses thanks to included universal attachment points, so there's no need to stop wearing your favorite pair of sport sunglasses. Sportiiiis - pronounced "sport-eyes" - receives crucial performance data from any paired monitoring device via ANT+ wireless technology, compares actual performance with desired workout zone parameters and then feeds real-time indicators back to the user via colored LED lights and audio updates.

http://www.gizmag.com/sportiiiis-hud-for-athletes/20248/

E apesar do fim do Space Shuttle (grrrr!), poderão haver outros Space Shuttles, e até melhores, baseados neste Projecto já com boas provas da Força Aérea Americana!

Manned version of X-37 space plane in the works?

By David Szondy

When the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down for the final time on July 21, 2011, it looked as if the notion of a manned spacecraft capable of going into orbit and then landing like a conventional airplane had been abandoned. The US government appears to be in favor of returning to Apollo-style space capsules with anything like the Shuttles being relegated to the private sector. But at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' (AIAA) recent Space 2011 conference, Arthur Grantz, chief engineer of Space and Intelligence Systems' Experimental Systems Group at Boeing, delivered a paper indicating that the U.S. Air Force and Boeing are already on the way toward developing a manned Shuttle replacement based on the X-37B robot space plane.

http://www.gizmag.com/x37b-manned-spaceplane/20175/

"Inventores por Conta Própria" é a Grande Reportagem SIC

Até há Inventores portugueses que inventam a pedido de Fabricantes,  como diz o Povo, oxalá a moda pegue...

Todo o Vídeo, aqui:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/GRANDE-REPORTAGEM-SIC/108154918250

Novidades

...Se não fosse a notícia, punha esta imagem aqui, à mesma, mas como também a notícia é boa, vai tudo...
Atenção, os Nano-Giroscópios, NÃO são estes!

Nano-Gyroscopes Will Let Cell Phones Navigate Indoors, Underground

By Julie Beck Posted 10.07.2010 at 12:16 pm

Israeli researchers have created the tiniest-ever optical gyroscopes, as small as a grain of sand, but still maintaining the keen accuracy of their counterparts hundreds of times larger. Optical gyroscopes are generally used for navigation in airplanes, ships and satellites, in which they track movement without reference to external navigation points, by measuring the vehicle’s rotation rate and linear acceleration. This is called inertial navigation. It’s extremely accurate but, up until now, only possible in gyroscopes and weighing two to three pounds.

http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2010-10/nano-gyroscopes-can-navigate-indoors-underground

A NASA vai mandar Aviões para explorar Marte...

NASA Moves Ahead With Robotic Plane to Take Mars Exploration to the Skies

By Clay Dillow Posted 10.07.2010 at 4:15 pm

As a general rule, when NASA flies a scientific mission all the way to Mars, we expect that mission to last for a while. For instance, the Spirit and Opportunity rovers were slated to run for three months and are still operating 6 years later. But one NASA engineer wants to send a mission all the way to the Red Planet that would last just two hours once deployed: a rocket-powered, robotic airplane that screams over the Martian landscape at more than 450 miles per hour.

ARES (Aerial Regional-Scale Environmental Surveyor) has been on the back burner for a while now, and while it's not the first Mars plane dreamed up by NASA it is the first one that very well might see some flight time over the Martian frontier. Flying at about a mile above the surface, it would sample the environment over a large swath of area and collect measurements over rough, mountainous parts of the Martian landscape that are inaccessible by ground-based rovers and also hard to observe from orbiters.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-10/nasas-robotic-mars-plane-would-take-mars-exploration-skies

...E futuros Metamateriais que vão mudar as propriedades ópticas dos Painéis Solares, conforme o tempo que está a fazer:

Tunable, Stretchable Optical Materials
Active metamaterials might be used in solar cells that change properties with the weather.

By Katherine Bourzac

The field of metamaterials has yielded devices that seem to come from science fiction--invisibility cloaks, highly absorbent coatings for solar cells and ultra-high-resolution microscope lenses. Metamaterials are precisely tailored to manipulate electromagnetic waves--including visible light, microwaves, and other parts of the spectrum--in ways that no natural materials can.

With few exceptions, however, these materials work in a very limited range of wavelengths of light, making them impractical--an invisibility cloak isn't very useful if it only redirects light of one color but can be readily seen under others. Now researchers at Caltech have shown that by mechanically stretching an optical filter made from a metamaterial, they can dynamically change which wavelength of infrared light it responds to.

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/26482/?p1=A5

Uma Estação Espacial de encher?

 The key to Bigelow’s space station designs is inflatable habitats, which allow structures to be tightly packed for launching and then fill up in space. Two full-size mockups sit on the warehouse floor at the company’s Las Vegas factory. At left is the smaller Sundancer habitat, with room for three occupants. At right is the larger BA330 habitat for six people. (BA stands for Bigelow Aerospace; the 330 refers to the interior size – 330 cubic meters, or 11,700 cubic feet.)

Vejam uma data de Slideshows, no New York Times:


http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/06/07/science/space/20100608-space-1.html

Imagens espectaculares!

sImagens espectaculares!

Saturno e as suas Luas, vistas de perto pela Sonda Espacial do tamanho dum Autocarro, Cassini:

São 28 imagens incríveis, vão lá ver, no link embaixo!

 http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/checking_in_on_saturn.html

Ciência Made in Portugal!

Investigadores da FCTUC integram Consórcio Europeu para criar Mão Robótica Inteligente 

Objectivo é que seja capaz de identificar e manipular todo tipo de objectos, como se de uma mão humana se tratasse.

Criar uma mão robótica inteligente com características antropomórficas - capaz de identificar e manipular todo tipo de objectos, como se de uma mão humana se tratasse -  é o objectivo final do ambicioso projecto europeu em curso,  HANDLE, que integra uma equipa de investigadores do Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica (ISR) da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra (FCTUC).

Leiam tudo, aqui:
Investigadores da FCTUC integram Consórcio Europeu para criar Mão Robótica Inteligente



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Coisas do Mundo...

Um novo Porshe, Híbrido:

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20100302-25605.html

Uma cabeça duma estátua gigantesca, do Faraó Amenhotep III, descoberta recentemente:

CAIRO – Archaeologists have unearthed a massive red granite head of one of Egypt’s most famous pharaohs who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago, the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities announced Sunday.

The head of Amenhotep III, which alone is about the height of a person, was dug out of the ruins of the pharaoh’s mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor.

The leader of the expedition that discovered the head described it as the best preserved sculpture of Amenhotep III’s face found to date.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/mar/01/massive-pharaoh-head-unearthed-in-egypt/


...E uma forma de remover os "cookies" do vosso Browser:

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Éramos Marinheiros antes de sermos Homo Sapiens

Early humans, possibly even prehuman ancestors, appear to have been going to sea much longer than anyone had ever suspected.

O que dá um novo significado à frase que de os Portugas têem as Viagens e a Aventura no sangue...

E dá ainda mais valor aos Descobrimentos, porque anda a Humanidade nisto, mesmo ANTES de ser Humanidade, mas foi preciso um Infante Dom Henrique, para fazer uma série sistemática de Descobertas.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/science/16archeo.html?partner=rss&emc=rss#