New Technology Produces Electricity from Highway Traffic

we could obtain electricity by simply putting the weight of cars and pedestrians to good use? This is the question posed recently by a group of entrepreneurs and innovators in Mexico, led by researchers Héctor Ricardo Macías Hernández.

The expert developed a new system of harness electricity that could prove very efficient. He and his team propose that highways and roads be outfitted with a series of devices that would turn the weight of passing energy into electrical current.

The team believes that this process could generate enough current to make the initial investment worthwhile.
A single energy-harnessing device of the type the Mexican group proposes could theoretically produce enough electricity to power up an entire household for a day, Science Daily reports. These tools work based on the standard laws of gravitational energy

Urine could power future robot hearts

Researchers have built an artificial-heart-like pump that could extract electricity using microbial fuel cells that are fed on human urine or other waste products.

It's a first: researchers have built the first artificial-heart-like pump that is powered by microbial fuel cells fed on human urine. But instead of being used as a prosthetic device for human patients suffering from cardiac failure, the pump is intended to be used in "EcoBots" that extract energy from organic waste and turn it into electricity.
The researchers, from the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol have published their paper in Bioinspiration &Biomimetics.

Mammoths still walked the earth when the Great Pyramid was being built

Wrangel Island is an island in the Arctic Ocean, between the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea.
Woolly mammoths survived there until 2500–2000 BC, the most recent survival of all known mammoth populations. Isolated from the mainland for 6000 years, about 500 to 1000 mammoths lived on the island at a time.

The Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt.
It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact.

Egyptologists believe that the pyramid was built as a tomb for fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops in Greek) over a 10 to 20-year period concluding around 2560 BCE.

App For Time Travel Surfaces

A newly-released iPad app called Roman app HD offers a new way to virtually explore the very best Roman sites in the world while providing a rich, visual tour of these landmarks. Developed by Historvius, a leading online guide to historical places, the app allows people to explore and discover the length & breadth of the Roman Empire.
This revolutionary tablet experience allows people to view the Palatine Hill, pop in to Pompeii and march into the heart of Hadrian’s Wall.

Three Programmers Build Health Care Website In Days

George Kalogeropoulos, who created the site along with Ning Liang and Michael Wasser, said all three of them had tried using the government website to get insurance.
Spurred by the problems that have surrounded the rollout of the official HeathCare.gov site, the trio created an alternative, Health Sherpa, quickly and cheaply. "The Health Sherpa is a free guide that makes it easier to find and sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. We only use carefully vetted, publicly available data," the site reads. "The Health Sherpa is not affiliated with any lobby, trade group or government agency and has no political agenda."