Maker Faire Africa: A Celebration of African Ingenuity and Innovation

M Dee Dubroff — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:16:34 -0700

Maker Faire Africa (MFA) will take place at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Ghana's capital, Accra, on August 13-15, 2009. Its sole purpose is to identify, spur and support local innovation. Read all about this important and glorious event and find out how you can be a part of it.

Russian Engineers Develop Nano-Introscope to Measure Electrons

M Dee Dubroff — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:52:28 -0700

Russian engineers from the town of Dolgoprudny (Moscow Region) have a lot to celebrate as their new innovation will not only reveal atoms but even the electron shells of single atoms. Read on for more details about this exciting Russian scientific innovation.

Russia Will Now Track its own Nanotechnology

M Dee Dubroff — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:53:20 -0700

Rusnano (the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnology) and the State Statistics Service are joining forces to help develop a protocol that will track everything produced in Russia that utilizes nanotechnology. Is this a good idea and what can such a system accomplish for Russia?

Australian Technology Park: Unique Technological Innovation

M Dee Dubroff — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:14:18 -0700

Australian Technology Park better known as (ATP) to those nearest and dearest, is a unique place focused on fostering the growth of Australian technology businesses. Located about 3 km (a little more than 2 miles) south of the Sydney central business district, the park is spread over 13.9 hectares (more than 34 acres) of land. It offers an environment for the exchange of ideas and networking unlike any other in the world. Read on for some amazing details.

Russian Auto Innovation Eco-Friendly Car Developed

M Dee Dubroff — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:28:09 -0700

Scientists from St. Petersburg, Russia have developed an ecologically friendly electric car with accumulators, which recharge during nighttime. In daylight hours, solar batteries deliver energy. It is, without a doubt, one very cool number, but don’t trade in your gas-run vehicle just yet.

Russian Modder Yellow Bulldozer PC Case: Cool and Different

M Dee Dubroff — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:48:11 -0700

Modding is a popular art form in Russia. The slang expression has come to stand for the modification of one object into another that is just as practical in its new form as it was in it former state, but in a different way. Here’s a PC case in the form of a bulldozer. Read on and have a look, but get out of the way!

Russian Innovation: Microcapsules to Carry DNA-Vaccine

M Dee Dubroff — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:06:05 -0700

Micro-containers for DNA delivery are new upon the medical scene. Russian scientists have now developed a general technique for producing them, which could mean that DNA-vaccines can now be guaranteed to provide stable and powerful immunity for those who take them. Read on for some amazing details.

Siberian Sculptors Erect Monument to Yeti

M Dee Dubroff — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:47:23 -0700

Last month, I wrote an article about a scientific expedition that set out to the mountains of Siberia to explore recent reports of Bigfoot sightings. Although fruitless so far, organizers deterred by the severe climate are determined to resume the search this summer. A monument has been erected to honor this yeti expedition, but viewers cannot resist the urge to smile upon viewing it. Read on and find out why.

South Africa Fight Aids With Innovative Phone Project

M Dee Dubroff — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:17:02 -0700

In an attempt to curb the terrible rising tide of South Africans afflicted with HIV/AIDS, local organizations have teamed up with leading telecommunication firms to launch the life-saving, Project Masiluleke, (the please-call-me project) which aims to close the healthcare information gap by delivering messages that encourage South Africans to access HIV testing and to know their status.

Russian Orphan Designs Winning Spaceship Logo

M Dee Dubroff — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:36:52 -0700

A talented, 15-year-old Russian orphan has won the competition to design the space mission emblem that is certain to go down in space travel history. Read on for more information about this very special contest and its extraordinary winner.

Russian Innovation: State-of-The-Art Door Chain

M Dee Dubroff — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:26:32 -0700

Russia’s Lebedev Studio is known for its creativity in transforming objects from the world of the mundane into works of art with unique designs. Their new door chain lock is no exception and housebreakers beware, because there is a new lock in town! Read on for more details.

Russia and India Collaborate on Future Space Missions

M Dee Dubroff — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:46:08 -0700

It is expected that Russia and India will collaborate in future manned space expeditions. India plans to use Russian experience and equipment in its space program to send a man into orbit within the next five years, and considering the Memorandum of Understanding on Joint Activities in the Field of Human Spaceflight Programme, which was signed by both countries last year, it does seem much more than just a pipe (or in this case, space travel) dream. Read on for more details.

Russian Innovation:Revolutionary Car Engine

M Dee Dubroff — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:39:51 -0700

It was certainly an American, Henry Ford, who got the whole thing started with his assembly lines in Detroit and his famous Model-T, but it is a Russian who today has developed a car engine which is sure to revolutionize that industry. Read on for more amazing details.

Russian Doctors Suggest Hadron Colider Can Cure Cancer

M Dee Dubroff — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:46:30 -0700

Is it possible that a cure for dreaded cancer is finally in sight? Will there soon come a time the human race will recall its devastation with the same distant nostalgia as the bubonic plague and other disasters of eras long faded into antiquity? Read on, be hopeful and most of all be…amazed!

Will Russia Be Mining on The Moon in The Next Twenty Years?

M Dee Dubroff — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:26:38 -0700

The Soyuz spacecraft may prove to be a model for a future excursion that might culminate in the establishment of Russian moon-base by 2025. According to Nikolai Sevastyanov, the president of Russia’s Energia Rocket and Space Corporation, the mining of raw materials from the lunar surface of the moon may soon be a reality. Read on for more details.

Russian Scientists Discover New Anti-Epileptic Agent

M Dee Dubroff — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:41:11 -0700

Patients afflicted with epilepsy always desperately need new, effective and reasonably priced anti-convulsants. Scientists from the Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry (Siberian branch of Russian Academy of Sciences) are currently developing less toxic and cheaper drugs to treat the disease. Read on for more information on a very serious subject.

Does The Russian Army Inflate Itself With Fake Tanks?

M Dee Dubroff — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:21:55 -0700

In the case of so many things appearances are everything, although who would have thought this would ever apply to a nation’s security? Perhaps the Russian army is correct and power truly is, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder? Still, wonder and read on before you decide to throw down the gauntlet.

Russian Technology Allows For Easier Extraction of Underwater Minerals

M Dee Dubroff — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:40:36 -0700

The mining of raw materials in Russia has up to now been an activity limited to times when outside temperatures are significantly above the freezing point. This is a feature shared with other countries like Russia that suffer from severe climactic conditions. Now that’s all changed as Russian scientists introduce a new phenomenon known as “high output technology,” which provides a new method for mining water-bearing deposits. Read on for more details.

Russian Scientists Can Now Diagnose Schizophrenia Early

M Dee Dubroff — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:38:40 -0700

Russian scientists from the Center of Mental Health of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences have conducted a study concerning the most severe form of schizophrenia (chronic schizophrenia) which may well become the basis for the development of a system that will be able to diagnose the disease early, an important factor in effective treatment. Read on for some amazing details about a devastating illness.

Moscow Will House Europe's Biggest Oceanarium

M Dee Dubroff — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:50:02 -0700

By 2011, it is expected that Moscow will boast of having one of the world’s largest oceanariums. It is expected to contain an area of over 180, 000 square meters (over 44 acres) and will be situated in the western part of the city at the territory of Victory Park close to the Moscow Triumphal Arch. Read on for more amazing details.

Russian Aviation Innovation: A Unique Identified-Flying Object

M Dee Dubroff — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:31:18 -0700

With all the fascination surrounding UFOs (unidentified flying objects), here is the story of an IFO (identified flying object), which Russian engineers are currently working on. The new Lokomoscanner is sure to attract many potential buyers from Russia and abroad (although perhaps not from other galaxies). Read on but…duck!

Russian Innovation: Ricochet Lightweight Jacket

M Dee Dubroff — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:41:48 -0700

Russian researchers have created a new super-light armour jacket called the Ricochet Vest, which is the latest in ballistic protection against a direct shot from an assault rifle. It weights just 2 kilograms (about 4 pounds) while standard police issue is 10 kilograms (about 20 pounds). Read all about this new and efficient armor designed for police officers.

Siberian Innovation: Computer Generated Church Bells

M Dee Dubroff — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:30:41 -0700

Talk about making lemons out of lemonade! Meet one Russian Orthodox priest in Western Siberia who has turned to modern technology in his quest for a competent bell-ringer for his church. Read on, inventors, and feel inspired to take the bull by the horns (or something like that).

New Russian Stereomicroscopes: Crime-Solvers Extraordinaire!

M Dee Dubroff — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:46:46 -0700

Since the early 1800s, the microscope has been used to help solve crimes, and even today it is a vital tool. Criminal investigators in Russia have gone one step further and introduced a new and better stereomicroscope with a digital recording system. Criminals beware; your time for capture is nigh.

Morristown UFO: Close Encounter of the Jersey Kind?

M Dee Dubroff — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:33:28 -0700

On January 5, 2009, between 8:30 and 9 pm, both cops and residents reported seeing five eerie red blinking lights hovering in the night sky over quiet, little Morris County, New Jersey. One family captured the images and released them to the media. Some twenty-five miles from my own home, that’s a bit too close for me, but no one there seems very comfortable about it either. Read on for more details, and forget about going back to sleep.

Incrudo and the Russian Phantom Smartphone

M Dee Dubroff — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:08:03 -0700

The smartphone market is constantly expanding and Russia, while slow to start, is getting on the bandwagon. Creators of the exclusive Phantom refer to it as the “Rolls Royce of the mobile phone world.” Read all about this beautiful gadget made of incredibly expensive materials.

Russia's Innovative Cyber-War on Estonia

M Dee Dubroff — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:44:50 -0700

There’s a new kind of war in town. Aren’t you thrilled? It entails fighting with bits and bytes instead of bullets, but if you think that means you don’t need to duck, you are mistaken. Read on and learn …well, something new.

Russia Orders Early Warning Radar: Intruders Beware

M Dee Dubroff — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:00:16 -0700

The Russian military claims it has commissioned a new early-warning radarthat via monitoring will protect its southern flank from potential missile threats. Read on for more details and if you are approaching Russia from the south, beware.

Sunken 18th Century Russian Ship Stuck in Pipe

M Dee Dubroff — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:01:23 -0700

During a recent seabed survey for the Nordstream Gas Pipeline Project, a sunken ship along with the remains of five other ships from a Russian fleet that dates back three centuries has been discovered. Scientists have been called upon to quickly save it before fresh construction work destroys it. Read on for some amazing details.

Russian Pirates Beware: Shiver Your Own Timbers!

M Dee Dubroff — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:53:24 -0700

A new fire-fighting robot to fend off pirate attacks has been designed by Russian engineers. Known to wash away pirates and their weapons, even the dastardly Blackbeard himself might have reconsidered before attacking a ship so equipped that it could have forced his early retirement (not to mention, funeral). Read on, as those who deserve it shiver in the pants as well as their timbers