A Fuel Cell That Runs on Fire
Berkeley Labs spin-off Points Source Power develops fuel-cell charger for Kenya powered by cookstove fires.
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Simple Trick Turns Commercial Polymer Into World's Toughest Fiber
A materials scientist has created the world's toughest fiber using a mechanism based on a slip knot.
Other Interesting arXiv Papers This Week
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint server
Internet Everywhere--But on Your Terms
I hate feeling tethered to the internet. So why do I love FreedomPop?
The Incompleteness of the Harm Principle
A response to Jason Pontin’s essay on free speech by the author of Principles for a Free Society.
A New Computer Screen Reaches Out to Touch You
An experimental new touch screen, the Obake, has a stretchable surface that to reacts user interaction in new ways.
Yahoo's Weather App Has No "Cool" Interactions--and That's Amazing
It's pretty, yes. But more importantly, it doesn't force you to interact with it.
Think Gestural Interactions Suck? Design Your Own
Creating your own gestural patterns could make these interactions easier to remember, researchers say.
Another Thin-Film Solar Casualty?
Niche provider SoloPower, which received state aid, is seeking an investor to keep operating.
Two Ways to Fix the Typing-on-Touch-Screens Problem
One solution to the typing-on-a-screen problem asks us to change our behavior; the other changes its behavior to fit us.
