Warren Phillips 11 24 07 In Explora Vision students

Warren Phillips 11/24/07

In Explora. Vision, students choose a current technology and imagine what it could be like in 20 years. As recognition for their outstanding achievement, national finalist team members and their parents/guardians will travel to Washington, D. C. in June for Explora. Vision Awards Weekend. Explora. Vision prizes include: * First Prize (4 teams): U. S. EE Savings Bond worth $10, 000* at maturity for each student. * Second Prize (4 teams): U. S. EE Savings Bond worth $5, 000* at maturity for each student.

Plasma TV LCOS TV DLP TV SED TV Laser TV Gas Tubes Liquid Crystal on Silicon Digital Light Projection DMD (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display) Coming See How Stuff Works Picture Frame High Definition 6 x resolution Monitor and Television combine Sensory Enhancements Surround Smell 3 -D Touch Interactivity - Teleconference

Video exchange began 2004 - sold for $1. 6 billion in 2006 i. Chat Ipod -exchange videos, Podcasts, and music 30 mile range Blackberry - text messaging, Internet access Wi. Max and Wireless Mesh Networks

Segway Balance Sensors - checking 100 times per second 5 Gyroscopes – measure rotation in multiple directions 2 Tilt Sensors – work much like your inner ear Speed – 12 MPH Battery Powered – 15 Miles/Charge $5000 Centaur - future concept =>

Converts hydrogen and oxygen into water, producing electricity. Fuel Cells Provides a DC (direct current) voltage that can be used to power motors. The 2008 Honda FCX Clarity A zero-emission fuel-cell car Thin film solar cells producing hydrogen using renewable solar energy. Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC)

Electric Cars The 2008 Tesla • 0 -60 mph. in 4 seconds • 245 Miles per charge • 7, 000 Li-ion batteries • Shipping in winter 2008 • Carbon fiber body • $98, 000 The 2008 Chevy Volt • 0 -60 mph. in 8 seconds • 40 Miles per charge, then gas • 150 mpg • Concept car - Road Test 2008 • 110 volt plug-in

Robots Walks and moves like a human Involves 16 years of Research 4 feet tall – 115 pounds Developed by Honda Visit the ASIMO Site Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility Self-replicating robot

E-Ink Reusable paper that can be erased and re-printed

GPS Google Earth Locate any position within inches! Zoom in to any location!

Lighter than plastic, stronger than steel! The hardest substance known to man! Click here to see how Buckyballs and nanotubes are made Named after R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, "Bucky. Ball" is the nickname for a Carbon 60 molecule. Like the faces of a soccer ball, it has 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons.

l l l CNT can be metallic or semiconducting and offers amazing possibilities to create future nanoelectronics devices, circuits, and computers. Nanotubes are as hard as diamonds and have the strongest tensile strength known. They Emit light! They Repair Themselves! 2008 trial production of Carbon Nanotube TVs.

Space Elevator Twenty tons of cable and reel would be kicked up to geosynchronous altitude by spacecraft to get the project started. The making of carbon nanotubes is moving very quickly.

Space Elevator 2010 $4 Million Competition 62, 000 miles high!

Anti. Matter Antimatter spacecraft like this one could some day shorten a trip to Mars from 11 months to one month. Mars Colonization of Mars Future Planned Missions

“Smart” Appliances that can be operated by phone/communicate with operators… “Bluetooth” Timer controls coffee maker, electric blanket, etc. Computer chips inserted into products to increase productivity. Automatic Vacuuming from “Roomba” Stove researches the web and stores recipes Energy efficient products Fridge reads bar codes and keeps inventory. List sent to grocery store.

Monthly monitoring will give people time to evacuate before an earthquake. Satellites will monitor stress on fault lines using radar data. Infrared images can show the increased temperatures just before an earthquake.

Microchips can be implanted with ID information, GPS, or instructions for the body. Implants in the brain can control sight and sound perceptions

Wearable computers Translators Computerized clothing “Smart Objects” Wireless Receiver

Arrange atoms and molecules individually to create anything. (Nano = 1 billionth of a meter) Self –Replication? A Medicine – Re-arrange molecules in your body Micro-Machines Nano Computers Nano Sensors in your body

Gel Electrophoresis D. N. A. Extraction Attach utraviolet, flourescent, or radioactive “markers”. Gene Identification Gene Mapping Human Genome Project

D. N. A. Extraction Attach utraviolet, flourescent, or radioactive “markers”.

Insert new traits Improve qualities Delete Defects / gene silencing Improve agriculture Help World Hunger Human genes in Plants Controversial

Insert new traits Fluorescent gene from a jellyfish inserted into a mouse Hybridizing traits to create transparent frog Scientists Mario R. Capecchi, Oliver Smithies and Sir Martin J. Evans have been named the recipients of the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine. The three developed a technique called "gene targeting, " which lets scientists deactivate or modify particular genes in mice. That in turn lets them study how those genes affect health and disease.

A New Method! Regeneration of Body Parts

Tactical Laser Weapon More Information

Individualized – made to order Constant monitoring Total body scans

Radio Frequency Identification Tags may revolutionize shopping. Size: as small as a pepper flake Can be placed inside of product packaging Readers can identify and track the product Cheaper and better than bar codes

Wind Power Wave Energy (Pelamis) VOLTS FROM A MECHANICAL SEA SNAKE Pelamis is a segmented cylinder moored at both ends to the ocean floor. As a wave passes down the length of Pelamis, hinged joints on the power conversion modules allow the tubes to move up and down and side to side. The motion of the tubes relative to one another drives pumps that turn generators. The electricity flows via a cable to a shore-based grid. To access high-energy swells, Pelamis is designed for use about five miles offshore. It generates over 2. 5 million k. Wh's of electricity per year, enough to provide power for 150 -200 homes. The same technology will be used to desalinate water or produce hydrogen Solar Power Anti. Matter CERN When matter comes into contact with antimatter it produces an explosion of pure radiation, traveling outwards at the speed of light. Both particles that created the explosion are completely destroyed, leaving behind only other subatomic particles. It's a perfect conversion of mass into energy. It releases about 10 billion time the energy of a chemical reaction and 1000 times more than nuclear fission in a nuclear power plant.

Cloning could offer a key to the fountain of youth, say scientists whose six cloned cows show signs of being younger than their Human Ear grown on a mouse chronological ages. On January 8, 2001, scientists at Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. , announced the birth of the first clone of an endangered animal, a baby bull gaur (a large wild ox from India and southeast Asia) named Noah.

Good News Holdings building the first "green" film and television production studio, and what Good News Holdings expects to be the most modern, user-friendly studio complex in the world. While this $150 M project is still in the early stage, with feasibility studies being conducted, Good News Holdings has created a Delaware based LLC named "Project Julia" (working title) to facilitate progress. David Kirkpatrick receives a lifetime achievement award for films

Cryogenics is a branch of physics (or engineering) that studies the production of very low temperatures (below – 150 °C, – 238 °F or 123 K) and the behavior of materials at those temperatures. Superconductors Magnetic Resonance Imaging Storage and transport breakthroughs Cryonics is freezing living things so they may be brought back to life in the future. This has been successfully done with hamsters. Click Here

Aging can be slowed in laboratory rodents by low-calorie diets, and changes in single genes can extend mouse life span by 40 percent or more. U. S. life expectancy at birth has increased by about 7 years (from 70 to 77) since 1960 Contributing Factors: Diet Happy Marriages Calorie Reduction Nursing Optimism Exercise Faith

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