The crafty chemist

thisfuturemd:

jetgreguar:

fwiffo:

discoverynews:

teamepiphany:

Virtual supermarkets are popping up in subway stations in South Korea, where commuters can virtually shop for items while waiting for the train to come. Customers simply scan an item’s QR code using the free “Homeplus” app and can have it delivered to their doorstep before they even get home. Ranked as the 2nd most hard-working country in the world to Japan, South Korea is rewarding its workers with this timesaving gem.

Wow! I kinda love this idea.

literally the future

this is some total recall shit i fuckin love it

FIle this under, “Things We Cannot Handle in the US.” 

Woolies was briefly experimenting with this idea, although I doubt it would get to your home before you in this country…

wet-chrome:

PROSTHETIC ARM by Kaylene Kau

Tentacle arm? Yes, please.

livinginchaosbeauty:

This has been a planetary gearbox appreciation post! c:

(Thank you Dad for introducing me to this while I helped fix stuff)

Sources: 1. Northwestern U. mechatronics design wiki  2. http://yantrix.wordpress.com/  3. NKE Bearings

science-junkie:

Beautiful ‘flowers’ self-assemble in a beaker

With the hand of nature trained on a beaker of chemical fluid, the most delicate flower structures have been formed in a Harvard laboratory—and not at the scale of inches, but microns.

These minuscule sculptures, curved and delicate, don’t resemble the cubic or jagged forms normally associated with crystals, though that’s what they are. Rather, fields of carnations and marigolds seem to bloom from the surface of a submerged glass slide, assembling themselves a molecule at a time.

By simply manipulating chemical gradients in a beaker of fluid, Wim L. Noorduin, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and lead author of a paper appearing on the cover of the May 17 issue of Science, has found that he can control the growth behavior of these crystals to create precisely tailored structures.

“For at least 200 years, people have been intrigued by how complex shapes could have evolved in nature. This work helps to demonstrate what’s possible just through environmental, chemical changes,” says Noorduin.

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