http://entertainment.xin.msn.com/en/radio/938live/calocalnews.aspx?cp-documentid=3955877

http://sggreendrinks.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/the-biology-of-food-in-singapore/

http://www.globalissues.org/article/196/a-huge-wave-of-public-concern
http://www.globalissues.org/article/197/ge-food-links
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/188/genetically-engineered-food

The middle one is fully for links to useful websites...

http://www.youthareawesome.com/sweet-inventions/
http://www.twirlit.com/2012/11/21/teen-girls-whose-inventions-are-making-the-world-a-better-place-videos/
- Vaishu

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/26/7-game-changing-green-adv_n_942685.html#s344913&title=Electric_vehicles

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

Please ignore any disgusting stuff and focus oh the important stuff thank you.

I.B.M. Research Points to Circuits That Mimic the Brain’s Design

A nanofluidic circuit would operate by passing ionic fluid, shown in green, through conduits fabricated on top of a planar oxide surface, shown in orange.

I.B.M. scientists said Thursday that they had developed a fluidic electronic system that mimics the circuits in the human brain and potentially offers a new direction for ultra-low-power microelectronics and artificial intelligence.
A group of researchers at the company’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., reported in the journal Science that they had pioneered a novel mechanism for transforming an insulating material into a metallic conductor by placing it in contact with a charged fluid. In contrast to conventional semiconductors, which use electric currents to switch materials between insulating and conducting states, the new method uses what the researchers describe as “ionic currents” — mobile charged atoms rather than electrons — as a switching mechanism.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/i-b-m-research-points-to-circuits-that-mimic-the-brains-design/?ref=technology

Apple makes renewable energy push with solar, fuel cells

AN FRANCISCO (REUTERS) - Apple Inc now runs its largest United States (US) data center entirely on renewable energy, with a majority of the power generated on-site from solar panels and fuel cells, the company's chief financial officer, Mr Peter Oppenheimer, said on Thursday.

The data center in Maiden, North Carolina, which supports Internet storage and Apple's service-hosting iCloud product, produces 167 million kilowatts - the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year - from a 40.5 ha solar farm and fuel cell installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.

They are the largest, non-utility power-generating facilities of their kind in the United States (US), Mr Oppenheimer told Reuters.

"We switched over to these new energy sources in December," he said. "And we are committed to generating 60 per cent of the electricity that the data center will use by making power on site. We are now achieving that goal."

People walk past the Apple logo near an Apple Store at a shopping area in central Beijing on Feb 19, 2013.  Apple now runs its largest United States (US) data center entirely on renewable energy, with a majority of the power generated on-site from solar panels and fuel cells, the company's chief financial officer, Mr Peter Oppenheimer, said on Thursday. -- FILE PHOTO: REUTERS

http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/technology/story/apple-makes-renewable-energy-push-solar-fuel-cells-20130322

Due to advancement in science and technology, experts are now able to research and find out more about the universe and answer deep and fundamental questions. Recently, a detailed picture of the universe in its early stages was released, being captured by a space telescope.

http://www.technologyreview.com/fromthelabs/404477/from-the-lab-information-technology/

Points:
- Graphics technique allows movie-scene lighting after filming
- Streamlining retrieval on the Web
- Digital fingerprints make for easier searching

Technology found in the supermarket

Self-services checkouts are found in several big supermarkets.Customers used these sevices to scan,bag and pay for their purchases by temselves.However,I feel that these system should be rolled out en masse in stores.Not only  it is convenient for customers' usage,it also improve supermarket's productivity.Automated money-counting machines are also explored to ease the workload of cashiers.

http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/brain-scanning-headphones-match-songs-to-mood-130313.htm

http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/eye-scroll-web-pages-130305.htm

http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/reach-into-transparent-content-grab-content-130305.htm

http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/google-kill-passwords-magic-ring-130314.htm

Yay some more interesting stuff I found. Advances in technology kay. And also I went to Bedok Library and borrowed this cool encyclopedia on inventions. I'll try to type out or photograph the intersesting ones. Or you guys can comment and suggest something I can look for in the encyclopedia.
-Vaishu
P.S. Rayna and Evie, where are you people?!

Cornea Transplant

This is an article on Boston keratoprosthesis surgery,known as an artificial cornea transplant.This complex surgery gives children borned withcornea blindness a better shot of restoring long-term vision compared to the conventional cornea transplant which has a high failure rate among children.

3D Printing

Reading today's Straits Time,I found this invention cool and appealing.It is about 3D-Printing.As we all know,there are many technolgy that uses 3D now such as smart TVs. Now,Singapore is going to embark on this technological advancement on 3D-Printing as such services are of great demand to consumers,mainly for their creative designs.This technology can serve many purposes,ranging from the biomedical field to fashion and jewellery.Although the immense potential of 3D-Printing brings excitement possibilities and the appeal of it may sound irrisistable,3D-Printing poses many challenges and problems as well such as the misuse of it for weapon printing.Of lately,functional parts of firearms haven been successfully printed by some Americans.This is a problem that surfaced with this new technological invention.

Science

Unless my memory fails me,I recalled reading an article about pythons.NUS have discovered that some parts of the pythons have life-saving potential.They are used as a treatment to certain cancers.Guys I can't find that particular newspaper article but it is featured in the Straits Time.

Inventions by students

The words are probably too small so you might not be able to read them.Here is the gist of the article.These are elderly-friendly projects done by Ngee Ann students.Some inventions featured in this article include the reserved seats which are proposed to the transport operators SMRT and SBS Transit.It aims to prevent people from hogging seats during peak hours and to priortise reserved seats for the elderly.The other two projects which are built in collaboration with Ren Ci Hospital are the toilet sensor system and the improved genriatric chair.The geriatric chair,which features a lap board and foot rest that allows patients to have meals in it,as well as ensure tha tcaregivers can secure their patients in the chair more quickly and easily.Th toilet sensor system aims at preventing falls fallls among patients with impaired mobility.Caregivers will be alerted though an optical sensor when patients get up from the toilet seats,allowing them to provide necessary assistance if needed.

Interesting stuff kay
http://www.biography.com/people/daniel-hale-williams-9532269
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/famous-scientists-and-their-discoveries.html
Google pasteurization it was in our P3 science textbook
-Vaishu

Hey guys have you heard of this Japanese scientist called Nakamats? He invented the floppy disc. He beat Thomas Edison at the number of inventions. Please go google him it might be useful for our project. And also, you know how we decided to try merging two topics together? I have SOME material.
Like for environment: You know how the person discovered that plants have feelings or like for medicine have the penicilin story...
Anyways we need to discuss so lets find a time we are all free and DEFINITELY can come online cause the research question has to be decided but we need time before that we need to narrow down a subtopic so that we can collate articles and stuff
-Vaishu
P.S. all my current posts are about inventions... I can't think of anything else so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE comment and share your views.

Um these sites are super useful when it comes to science.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/

-Vaishu

First mechanical computer or automatic computing engine concept

In 1822, Charles Babbage purposed and began developing the Difference Engine, considered to be the first automatic computing engine that was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making a hard copies of the results. Unfortunately, because of funding he was never able to complete a full-scale functional version of this machine. In June of 1991, the London Science Museum completed the Difference Engine No 2 for the bicentennial year of Babbage's birth and later completed the printing mechanism in 2000.

Later, in 1837 Charles Babbage proposed the first general mechanical computer, the Analytical Engine. The Analytical Engine contained anArithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), basic flow control, and integrated memoryand is the first general-purpose computer concept. Unfortunately, because of funding issues this computer was also never built while Charles Babbage's was alive. In 1910, Henry Babbage, Charles Babbage's youngest son was able to complete a portion of this machine and was able to perform basic calculations.

First programmable computer

The Z1, originally created by Germany's Konrad Zuse in his parents living room in 1936 to 1938 is considered to be the first electro-mechanical binary programmable (modern) computer and really the first functional computer.

The first electric programmable computer

The Colossus was the first electric programmable computer and was developed by Tommy Flowers and first demonstrated in December 1943. The Colossus was created to help the British code breakers read encrypted German messages.

The first digital computer

Short for Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the ABC started being developed by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry in 1937 and continued to be developed until 1942 at the Iowa State College (now Iowa State University). The ABC was an electrical computer that used vacuum tubes for digital computation including binary math and Boolean logic and had no CPU. On October 19, 1973, the US Federal Judge Earl R. Larson signed his decision that the ENIAC patent by Eckert and Mauchly was invalid and named Atanasoff the inventor of the electronic digital computer.

The ENIAC was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. It occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons. Although the Judge ruled that the ABC computer was the first digital computer, many still consider the ENIAC to be the first digital computer because it was fully functional.

The first stored program computer

The early British computer known as the EDSAC is considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. The computer performed its first calculation on May 6, 1949 and was the computer that ran the first graphical computer game, nicknamed "Baby".

The first computer company

The first computer company was the Electronic Controls Company and was founded in 1949 by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the same individuals who helped create the ENIAC computer. The company was later renamed to EMCC or Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and released a series of mainframe computers under the UNIVAC name.

First stored program computer

First delivered to the United States Government in 1950, the UNIVAC 1101 or ERA 1101 is considered to be the first computer that was capable of storing and running a program from memory.

First commercial computer

In 1942, Konrad Zuse begin working on the Z4, which later became the first commercial computer after being sold to Eduard Stiefel a mathematician of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich on July 12, 1950.

The first PC (IBM compatible) computer

On April 7, 1953 IBM publicly introduced the 701, its first electric computer and first mass produced computer. Later IBM introduced its first personal computer called the IBM PC in 1981. The computer was code named and still sometimes referred to as the Acorn and had a 8088processor, 16 KB of memory, which was expandable to 256 and utilizing MS-DOS.

The first computer with RAM

 MIT introduces the Whirlwind machine on March 8, 1955, a revolutionary computer that was the first digital computer with magnetic core RAM and real-time graphics.

The first transistor computer

The TX-O (Transistorized Experimental computer) is the firsttransistorized computer to be demonstrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956.

The first minicomputer

In 1960, Digital Equipment Corporation released its first of many PDP computers the PDP-1.

The first mass-market PC

In 1968, Hewlett Packard began marketing the first mass-marketed PC, the HP 9100A.

The first workstation

Although it was never sold, the first workstation is considered to be the Xerox Alto, introduced in 1974. The computer was revolutionary for its time and included a fully functional computer, display, and mouse. The computer operated like many computers today utilizing windows, menusand icons as an interface to its operating system.

The first microprocessor

Intel introduces the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004 on November 15, 1971.

The first personal computer

In 1975, Ed Roberts coined the term "personal computer" when he introduced the Altair 8800. Although the first personal computer is considered by many to be the Kenback-1, which was first introduced for $750 in 1971. The computer relied on a series of switches for inputting data and output data by turning on and off a series of lights.

The Micral is considered the be the first commercial non-assembly computer. The computer used the Intel 8008 processor and sold for $1,750 in 1973.

The first laptop or portable computer

The IBM 5100 is the first portable computer, which was released on September 1975. The computer weighed 55 pounds and had a five inch CRT display, tape drive, 1.9MHz PALM processor, and 64KB of RAM. In the picture to the right, is an ad of the IBM 5100 taken from a November 1975 issue of Scientific America.

The first truly portable computer or laptop is considered to be theOsborne I, which was released on April 1981 and developed by Adam Osborne. The Osborne I weighed 24.5 pounds, had a 5-inch display, 64 KB of memory, two 5 1/4" floppy drives, ran the CP/M 2.2 operating system, included a modem, and cost US$179.

The IBM PC Division (PCD) later released the IBM portable in 1984, it's first portable computer that weighed in at 30 pounds. Later in 1986, IBM PCD announced it's firstlaptop computer, the PC Convertible, weighing 12 pounds. Finally, in 1994, IBM introduced the IBM ThinkPad 775CD, the first notebook with an integrated CD-ROM.

The first Apple computer

Steve Wozniak designed the first Apple known as the Apple I computer in 1976.

The first PC clone

The Compaq Portable is considered to be the first PC clone and was release in March 1983 byCompaq. The Compaq Portable was 100% compatible with IBM computers and was capable of running any software developed for IBM computers.

• See the below other major computer companies first for other IBM compatible computers

The first multimedia computer

In 1992, Tandy Radio Shack becomes one of the first companies to release a computer based on the MPC standard with its introduction of the M2500 XL/2 and M4020 SX computers.

Other major computer company firsts

Below is a listing of some of the major computers companies first computers.

Compaq - In March 1983, Compaq released its first computer and the first 100% IBM compatible computer the "Compaq Portable."
Dell - In 1985, Dell introduced its first computer, the "Turbo PC."
Hewlett Packard - In 1966, Hewlett Packard released its first general computer, the "HP-2115."
NEC - In 1958, NEC builds its first computer the "NEAC 1101."
Toshiba - In 1954, Toshiba introduces its first computer, the "TAC" digital computer.

Look guys, some useful stuff. I am gonna post more now okay. Comment please. -Vaishu