Green Decontaminants Could Clean Up Terrorist Attacks
There’s nothing remotely green about nerve gas, mustard gas, anthrax, and other nasty chemical agents that could be used in a terrorist attack. The cleanup process, on the other hand, doesn’t have to...
View ArticleGreen Tech’s Big Patent Problem
You may remember the battle that raged between pharmaceutical companies who wanted to hold on to their patents and African nations who couldn’t afford the non-generic price tag on the AIDS drugs that...
View ArticleWould You Use Amazon’s Preemptive Return Tool for Gifts You Don’t Want?
We’ve all got relatives that seem to be missing the gift giving gene — remember those horrible holiday sweaters and itchy scarves of your childhood? Well, Amazon.com has a plan to curb unwanted...
View ArticleApple Patents (Intentionally) Flexible ‘Smart Paper’ Display
The US Patent and Trademark Office has just granted the latest batch of Apple’s patents, and as usual, none of us has any idea which of them will go anywhere. But one of them— #8,855,727 , to be...
View ArticleToyota gives away more than 5,600 hydrogen fuel-cell patents, for free
Taking a page out of Tesla’s book , Toyota has announced that more than 5,600 of its fuel-cell-related patents are available for use—for free. Toyota hopes that its announcement at the 2015 Consumer...
View ArticleThoth Technology patents 12-mile-high inflatable space elevator
The hardest part about space travel is actually getting to space. Tearing through Earth’s atmosphere and escaping its gravitational pull requires a huge amount of fuel and money to be successful. A...
View ArticleAmazon wants to build flying warehouses in the sky
We’ve all heard before about Amazon’s plans to deliver orders via drone , but a recently-unearthed patent shows the company could one day push the concept to a startling extreme. Discovered by Zoe...
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