Prediction: Reverse electrowetting, science prediction come true
Predictive Innovation can help guide scientific discoveries as well as innovations. I predicted this would be discovered.
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v2/n8/full/ncomms1454.html
I used the 15 Alternatives to describe all the ways for electricity to be stored. I noticed that one of the types had not been discovered. You could have seen this a hundred years ago.
New Form of Life, Discovery Published Creative Commons
The Economist reports a new form of life was discovered, very interesting. The actual scientific article is released with a Creative Commons license, awesome.
Economists summary
http://www.economist.com/node/18437900?story_id=18437900
Actual scientific article
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0018011
Patent for faster than light antenna
This patent claims to transmit RF signals faster than light and those RF signals increase the growth of plants. Very interesting if real.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=csYDAAAAEBAJ&printsec=description&zoom=4&output=text
FIELD OF INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new type of antenna for transmission and reception of RF signals. The present invention can be used to replace conventional antennas. It is believed that this invention can transmit energy at a faster speed and over a greater distance than conventional antennas with the same power.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
All known radio transmissions use known models of time and space dimensions for sending the RF signal.
The present invention has discovered the apparent existence of a new dimension capable of acting as a medium for RE signals. Initial benefits of penetrating this new dimension include sending RF signals faster than the speed of light, extending the effective distance of RF transmitters at 2s the same power radiated, penetrating known RF shielding devices, and accelerating plant growth exposed to the by-product energy of the RF transmissions.
If this actually works it would turn a lot of current technology and economics on it’s head. From a quick read of the patent it sounds rather inexpensive to produce. It was issued in 2000 but 11 years later it still doesn’t seem to be commercialized. That of itself is not surprising. Many inventors fail to develop their world changing inventions simply because they can’t explain the business case to others.
