http://www.metafilter.com/tags/water+technology Posts tagged with 'water' and 'technology' at MetaFilter. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:11:16 -0800 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:11:16 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/72768/Next%2Dup%2Dthe%2DPerpetual%2DMotion%2DMachine Last week, <a href="http://www.genepax.co.jp/en/index.html">Genepax Co</a> demonstrated a car that it says runs on <a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINSP7366720080613">water.</a> Video of the demonstration is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb9urNUFzAM">here.</a> The claim is not without its <a href="http://media.cleantech.com/3002/water-fueled-car-criticisim-fuel-cell-genepax">detractors,</a> and Genepax has not yet released any information about how the system works; most of their website (beyond press releases and general information) seems to be <a href="http://www.genepax.co.jp/en/construction.html">under construction</a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.72768 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:11:16 -0800 cars green hydrogen perpetualmotion technology water waterpower never used baby shoes http://www.metafilter.com/64177/Stainless%2DSteel%2DOndine <a href="http://www.eyetap.org/fluid/">Steve Mann</a>'s <a href="http://funtain.ca/hydraulophone/index.html">hydraulophone</a> with <a href="http://funtain.ca/hydraulophone/sculpture/index.html">sculpture gallery</a> and performance video snippets: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgU0OZkGhGI">[1]</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnJb9WyhCUc">[2]</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwUibDEH0nY">[3]</a> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64177 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:18:18 -0800 art avantgarde hydraulic hydraural music science sculpture sound technology water wet Blazecock Pileon http://www.metafilter.com/55319/Miracles%2DYou%3Fll%2DSee%2DIn%2DThe%2DNext%2DFifty%2DYears <a href="http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/10/05/miracles-youll-see-in-the-next-fifty-years/">Miracles You’ll See In The Next Fifty Years</a> (Feb, 1950)<br /> Some more up-to-date predictions: <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6119231548215342323">science</a>, <a href="http://encarta.msn.com/column_GreatInventions/Great_Inventions_of_the_Next_Fifty_Years.html">invention</a>, <a href="http://www.spacedaily.com/2003/031016024357.yvvtcqwo.html">space</a> <a href="http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationspace/c78c5b4a1db84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html">travel</a>, <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,750783,00.html">colonisation</a>, <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1489635,00.html">immortality</a>, <a href="http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20148421-5001028,00.html">water</a> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/water/story/0,,1851712,00.html">shortage</a>, <a href="http://flood.firetree.net/">flooding</a>, <a href="http://smalley.rice.edu/smalley.cfm?doc_id=5336">nanotech</a>, <a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2465/is_7_30/ai_66457050">techno-apocalypse</a>, <a href="http://ranprieur.com/readings/weeds.html">extinction</a>, <a href="http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/conferences/easyread/show_paper.asp?section=000100030002&confcode=000200060005&page=5">mental health</a>, <a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000AAAC0-5762-1C75-9B81809EC588EF21">smart machines</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.unm.edu/~kwiley/mindRamblings/robotsMindUploading.html">robots, mind uploading</a>, <a href="http://www.skeptic.com/the_magazine/featured_articles/v12n02_AI_gone_awry.html">AI</a>, <a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/01/12/357912/index.htm">Asia</a>, <a href="http://in.rediff.com/money/2003/oct/28india.htm">economics</a>, <a href="http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1291056">demographics</a>, <a href="http://www.brook.edu/comm/transcripts/20011220.htm">goverance</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/5094602.stm">cities</a>. <a href="http://www.nickbostrom.com/2050/world.html">What</a> <a href="http://www.hackwriters.com/Readingrunes.htm">is</a> <a href="http://www.hackwriters.com/FutureResponse.htm">your</a> <a href="http://www.longbets.org/predictions">prediction</a>? tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.55319 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:24:03 -0800 2050 ai apocalypse batshitinsane climate collapse demographics ecology economics extinction future invention mars mentalhealth miracles nanotechnology population prediction robots science society space systems technology virtualreality war water MetaMonkey http://www.metafilter.com/53788/drink%2Dwithout%2Dthinking <a href="http://www.lifestraw.com/en/high/maincont2.asp">Lifestraw</a>: From surface water to drinking water. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.53788 Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:53:17 -0800 clean_water development lifestraw technology water water_purifier davehat