This air-breathing solar panel stores its own electricity, cutting the cost of solar power significantly

It’s a solar cell! No… it’s a rechargeable lithium-air battery! No… wait… it’s both: It’s the world’s first all-in-one solar battery!

The new device, developed by Ohio State University, is essentially an air-breathing lithium battery that recharges via a built-in solar cell. This is significant, because one of the biggest problems with wide-scale solar power deployment is that you also need huge banks of batteries to store electricity — to even out spikes in generation when it’s cloudy or dark – and not only are those batteries expensive, but a lot of electricity is lost simply by traveling from the solar panels to external storage. An integrated solution is both cheaper and more efficient — about 25% cheaper and 20% more efficient, according to the researchers.

This weird exoskeleton adds the sensation of touch to virtual reality

Virtual reality is so much more than visuals, but most of what we’re used to seeing is little more than head-tracking and 3D imagery in a head-mounted display. For real immersion, VR is going to need to take advantage of the other senses as well. Touch and smell are just as important as sight and sound, but those are much harder problems to solve. Thankfully, a company by the name of Dexta Robotics is developing a peripheral to simulate the sensation of touch in a virtual world.

Musk’s million man march to Mars

With SpaceX now set to receive its$2.6 billion slice of the manned space travel pie, Elon Musk has sensed the time is right to set the Mars agenda. There is nowhere else on the planet where such private financial power, engineering resource, visionary clout, and now responsibility is concentrated into the will of one man. In short, Musk is US citizen number one right now, the mold for mankind.

Moto 360 goes on sale at Flipkart for Rs 17,999

Moto 360, the Android wear smartwatch by Motorola will be available for sale in India on e-commerce website Flipkart from Friday for Rs 17,999.
Flipkart holds the exclusive rights to sell Motorola smartphones. The smartwatch comes in a classic wristwatch design and will be compatible with most smartphones running on Android 4.3 and above operating system.

2015 BMW i8 review: The first eco-friendly supercar

Meet the 21st century supercar: the BMW i8 plug-in hybrid. It’s insanely fast despite having three cylinders, not eight or twelve. On country roads you cruise in supreme comfort and quiet. The first 20 miles of your trip come from electric power.

Pluto to get its planet status back?

Harvard-Smithsonian Center debate comes to conclusion that Pluto IS a planet. There were once nine planets. Everyone lea8rned them, sometimes aided by a mnemonic: "My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas." But back in 2006, the International Astronomical Union, arbiter of what is and what isn't a planet, stri8pped Pluto of its status, saying it was too small to pack sufficient gravitational punch. It was downgraded to a second-class status: "dwarf planet." So then there were eight: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, or "My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nachos." 

A bandage that glows while healing

Inspired by a desire to help wounded soldiers, an international, multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Assistant Professor Conor L. Evans at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) has created a paint-on, see-through, "smart" bandage that glows to indicate a wound's tissue oxygenation concentration. Because oxygen plays a critical role in healing, mapping these levels in severe wounds and burns can help to significantly improve the success of surgeries to restore limbs and physical functions. The work was published today in The Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal Biomedical Optics Express.

How A Man With Just $26 Sold A Company For Half A Billion?

Everyone wants to get rich, as is everyone's right. Some people work long and hard for it, while others get lucky. But if you think it takes resources to become rich, then read the rest of this story, and judge for yourself. It's a story about Christian Gheorghe, a Romanian who came to the U.S with just $26 in his pocket, but a couple decades later, managed to sell a startup company for no less than half a Billion dollars!

Turn your Xbox One into a laptop

Do you wish you had a portable Xbox One — a way to play your games while you’re away from your TV? Microsoft doesn’t offer any sort ofRemote Play functionality, but there is a solution: the Xbox One laptop. A clever tinkerer named Ed Zarick has developed a clamshell Xbox One mod that lets you play your console even when you’re away from your living room. Want one? Well, prepare to lay down more than a grand for this behemoth.

64-bit Chrome finally available to download: Faster, more secure, twice as stable

At long last, Google has released a stable 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows. A download link is available at the bottom of this story. According to Google, 64-bit Chrome for Windows has three major advantages over its 32-bit cousin: It’s faster, more secure, and more stable. Some tasks, such as decoding HD video on YouTube, are 15% faster under the 64-bit version of Chrome. The only major caveat seems to be a lack of support for 32-bit NPAPI plug-ins — but with the exception of a few lesser-known plug-ins, most major plug-ins, including Silverlight, Java, and Flash have all been updated to 64-bit. That’s a small price to pay for increased speed, security, and (according to Google)twice the stability of 32-bit Chrome, though.