Most important inventions/discoveries of 2014: Ivory Coast has adopted the educational tablet computer Qelasy, a digital backpack for schoolchildren, created by Thierry NDoufou bbc/news/business-29163842 Aaswath Raman (Stanford Univ) has invented a material that reflects the heat of the Sun while radiating its own heat (in other words, cooling the building without any need for energy) news.stanford.edu/news/2014/november/radiative-cooling-mirror-112614.html RoboEarth, a world-wide web for robots to learn from each other bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25727110 Jeremy Englands theory of life https://simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/ The Solar Impulse 2 plane, a solar-powered plane as wide as a Boeing 747 jet but that weighs less than three tons solarimpulse/en/our-adventure/solar-impulse-2/ The first malaria vaccine, developed by Joe Cohen at GlaxoSmithKline under the non-profit Path Malaria Vaccine Initiative funded by Bill & Melinda Gates telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/pharmaceuticalsandchemicals/10988120/Malaria-vaccine-why-has-it-taken-30-years-to-develop.html Chinas 1200-km long canal from the Yangtze to Beijing news.xinhuanet/english/indepth/2014-12/28/c_133883672.htm University of Missouris nuclear-powered, water-based battery gizmag/water-nuclear-battery-radiolysis/33844/ The European robot probe Philae landed on a comet esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2014/02/philae_touchdown/14277343-1-eng-GB/Philae_touchdown_node_full_image_2.jpg Japans experimental magnetic levitation train reached 500 km/h (where i live, Silicon Valley, the fastest train reaches the speed of 127 km/h) bbc/news/world-asia-30067889 South Koreas 10 gigabit/sec Internet televisions.reviewed/news/south-korea-to-unveil-10gbps-broadband-connection (and read here how it happened: idgconnect/abstract/8960/why-does-south-korea-have-fastest-internet ) (Comcast Extreme 505 is the fastest available in Silicon Valley: 0.5 gigabit/sec, one of the slowest in the developed world) A staggering number of mobile payment systems popping up everywhere in Africa blogs.wsj/frontiers/2014/09/03/mobile-money-the-battle-for-africa/ (Note for those who live in Silicon Valley and missed the news: M-Pesa was introduced in Kenya in 2007, seven years before Apple Pay, and it has 13+ million active customers, carrying out more than $1 billion in transactions per month with 100s of associated services safaricom.co.ke/mpesa_timeline/timeline.html ). A biotech team (a large group) synthesized a chromosomes of the yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae (the first time ever for a eukaryote) the-scientist/?articles.view/articleNo/39573/title/Synthetic-Yeast-Chromosome/ Yes, i have seen lists like wareable/internet-of-things/best-wearable-tech-startups of wearables (and of robots and of 3D printers) Yawn. See also my timeline of modern science and technology scaruffi/science/20th.html
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