Inventions and Innovations of the '70s '80s '90s.

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Australian Green technology company Star 8 Solar is leading the push for a less polluted South East Asia with their innovative solar powered transport. Since its inception in 2013 the company has built solar powered vehicles for Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines and Thailand, some South American and African markets. I have travelled in most of these Asian countries and I can tell you first hand that massive pollution from burning fossil fuel from mass transit vehicles such as Jeepneys and Tuk Tuks is appalling and very unhealthy. It is also a downside to tourism in these countries.

Star 8's solar powered Philippine Jeepney (below)

I'm all for any innovation that contributes to a cleaner environment, we are lucky here in Blighty as we have relatively clean air. Ofcourse solar powered transportation would not and could not work in a country that is notorious for rain and cloud for 51 weeks of the year, plus ofcourse sunlight is free and that would not sit well within the British taxation system. That said electric cars are growing in popularity so who knows where we may be in a few more years?

[tex]

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More innovations tex as you seem interested more than most other members. Sorry so many of these are Aussie based.. not being biased mate.

Venetoclax is a potent new anti-cancer drug, co-developed and trialled in Australia, and based on a landmark research discovery made at Australia's famed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute For medical Research.

[FONT="]Clinical trials of Venetoclax have delivered remission in patients with an advanced form of leukaemia, for whom conventional treatment options had been exhausted. The super drug's latest success is against against advanced breast cancer.[/FONT]

Reassuring to know that research in the fight against cancer goes on across the globe and that Australian science is at the forefront. Perhaps this would of been better in the fighting cancer forum?

[Donald the Great]

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Australian Green technology company Star 8 Solar is leading the push for a less polluted South East Asia with their innovative solar powered transport. Since its inception in 2013 the company has built solar powered vehicles for Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines and Thailand, some South American and African markets. I have travelled in most of these Asian countries and I can tell you first hand that massive pollution from burning fossil fuel from mass transit vehicles such as Jeepneys and Tuk Tuks is appalling and very unhealthy. It is also a downside to tourism in these countries.

Star 8's solar powered Philippine Jeepney (below)

[Donald the Great]

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Australian scientists from the Australian National and Macquarie Universities will spearhead the design of an ambitious $32 million telescopic optics system which will produce images of space three times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Aussie boffins will lead the design phase of a new adaptive-optics system, called MAVIS, for one of the eight-metre telescopes at the ground-based Very Large Telescope facility in Chile.

Currently, bubbles of hot and cold air mixing in the atmosphere distort light waves and blur images captured from telescopes, producing a phenomenon exactly like "looking at the horizon through a desert," says ANU Associate Professor Francois Rigaut, who is leading the international consortium

The new technology will counteract this and produce images 10 to 20 times clearer than images captured without the technology, and three times more detailed than images captured by the Hubble telescope.

[Donald the Great]

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Australia's Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health may have found a way to reverse severe brain injury in stroke victims. The work is being carried out by Dr Carli Roulston using the Institute's own drug Fasudil. Watch this space.

[Donald the Great]

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More innovations tex as you seem interested more than most other members. Sorry so many of these are Aussie based.. not being biased mate.

Venetoclax is a potent new anti-cancer drug, co-developed and trialled in Australia, and based on a landmark research discovery made at Australia's famed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute For medical Research.

Clinical trials of Venetoclax have delivered remission in patients with an advanced form of leukaemia, for whom conventional treatment options had been exhausted. The super drug's latest success is against against advanced breast cancer.

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Is this the first step along the pathway to a Bionic Eye?
In a world first US scientists from the University of Minnesota have 3D-printed a light-sensitive array, comprised of silver particles and semiconducting materials, onto a domed surface made of glass. The printed material managed to cling to the rounded surface and convert light into electricity.Eventually, a scaled-up version of the device could restore vision to the blind, or even improve the vision of sighted people.

Wow,thats crazy

[tex]

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Australian researchers have developed a tiny device..a Stentrode.. to electronically stimulate the brain in the hope of treating Epilepy and Parkinson's Disease without invasive surgery. The device is implanted into a blood vessel to place electrodes in the brain thru a vein in the neck.

Interesting development, watch this space

[Donald the Great]

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Australian researchers have developed a tiny device..a Stentrode.. to electronically stimulate the brain in the hope of treating Epilepy and Parkinson's Disease without invasive surgery. The device is implanted into a blood vessel to place electrodes in the brain thru a vein in the neck.

[Donald the Great]

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Is this the first step along the pathway to a Bionic Eye?
In a world first US scientists from the University of Minnesota have 3D-printed a light-sensitive array, comprised of silver particles and semiconducting materials, onto a domed surface made of glass. The printed material managed to cling to the rounded surface and convert light into electricity.Eventually, a scaled-up version of the device could restore vision to the blind, or even improve the vision of sighted people.

[tex]

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Women who have suffered the humiliation of a masectomy may soon be able to grow back their breasts if research being carried out by an Australian team of scientists bears fruit. A multidisciplinary research group, led by Professor Dietmar Hutmacher, Chair in Regenerative Medicine at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Qld University of Technology, is aiming to regenerate breast tissue using patients own fat cells and biodegradable breast scaffolds, customised to patients, using 3D scanning technology, computer aided design and 3D printing. The QUT research is hoping to branch out into patient clinical trials next year.

Science fiction once again to become science fact perhaps?...not sure humiliation would be forefront in the mind of a woman who just lost her breasts however

[Donald the Great]

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Women who have suffered the humiliation of a masectomy may soon be able to grow back their breasts if research being carried out by an Australian team of scientists bears fruit. A multidisciplinary research group, led by Professor Dietmar Hutmacher, Chair in Regenerative Medicine at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Qld University of Technology, is aiming to regenerate breast tissue using patients own fat cells and biodegradable breast scaffolds, customised to patients, using 3D scanning technology, computer aided design and 3D printing. The QUT research is hoping to branch out into patient clinical trials next year.

[Donald the Great]

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What do the rest of our nostalgia tragics thing?

[staffslad]

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This is surely the home of the future? Science fiction had become science fact for a Sydney apartment block that is being called Australia's "smartest residence"

Tech-savy house hunters can now buy into this new Burcham development in the southern suburb of Roseberry that features such innovations as finger print scanning, licence plate recognition, voice control and even its own electricity source for electric cars. It also boasts geofencing which notifies the home when the owner is approaching and presets such things at liting or heating.

The whole enchalada is fuelled by solar power. In the unlikely event of a power outage the system will shift to manual operation of the doors and utilities. Dont expect to pay anything less than $790,000 for one of these "smart apartments".

Does the UK have anything like this?

I doubt whether an apartment block powered entirely by solar generated electricity could work here. Possibly in summer with lots of strong sunshine and a day of 15 or 16 hours, but in winter where daylight is limited to less than 8 hours and it is very weak, I think solar would not produce anywhere near enough power and would require backup from the grid.

[Donald the Great]

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The nervecentre of the "smart home"