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The specially-adapted Fiat prototype, which will be presented at a European technology show this week, can tell garage staff about the state of its components in seconds by using electronic tags inside its engine.

The system has been designed by academics at Cambridge ’s Institute for Manufacturing. In conjunction with sophisticated software, it could be used [...]

Comsumers currently pay twice as much for some organic products with short shelf-life being one of the major contributing factors [that and greed, Ed.]

Conventional produce can be treated to aid preservation, but so-called organic produce cannot be treated in this way, as by definition no artificial chemicals can be used during processing.

`With some organic fruit [...]

MIT’s Andre Kurs, Aristeidis Karalis, Robert Moffatt, Peter Fisher, and John Joannopoulos, and team leader Marin Soljacic have developed “WiTricity” (pronounced like WhyTricity, not WiiTricitity) using magnetically coupled resonance to induce an electric current from one device to another.

It worries me that they tested this on a 60W bulb, why didn’t they use a low-energy [...]