5 Genius Inventions We're Still Waiting For

Sonic Showers

Though much has changed since humankind fled the wilderness for civilized comforts, one thing hasn't: We still clean ourselves with water. Yet traditional showers take time, waste resources and don't necessarily get the job done. Instead, we should take a lesson from doctors who sterilize surgical instruments through techniques such as high-pressure, high-temperature autoclaves, ethylene oxide gas and ultrasonic vibrations. While these methods aren't exactly "people-friendly," a little research may enable modern humans to step out from under the indoor waterfall and give up the last of our caveman-like ways.





Life Simulator

The world is complicated, and big decisions can be hard to make. Instead of trusting your own fallible human intuition, why not plug the variables of your life into a supercomputer and watch your fate unfold by the numbers? Advanced simulation software could generate a slew of parallel lives, each following a different fork in the road: where you live, which person you date or whether you adopt that Great Dane puppy. The U.S. Army already uses tactical simulators to predict the outcome of battles and to fine-tune supply-chain logistics. Now, researchers at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California are working on the Intelligent Forces project, with the goal of simulating the behavior of civilian populations -- and insurgent forces -- on a citywide scale. If the combat shifts from Baghdad to Darfur, researchers can even plug in different cultures. Predicting the outcomes that stem from whether you ask for that raise, buy that house or quit your job for a career in animal husbandry should be easy in comparison. In the coming decades, this type of technology could be used by urban planners, video-game designers and maybe even indecisive civilians who face tough life decisions.





Legged-Robot Everything

Humans invented the wheel; Mother Nature invented legs. It was only a matter of time before we realized her design was better. The product of this epiphany? A wheelchair that can walk. Developed by Toyota, the "i-foot" prototype is an 8-ft.-tall bipedal throne that ambles, kneels and climbs stairs on backward-bending, ostrichlike legs. But let's not stop there. Picture a world of legged beds, couches and tables. People could downsize their houses to only two rooms: a storage room that holds the furniture and a main room that shifts to become whichever space is needed. Want a living room? Have the couch and coffee table walk over. Need a beer? Call the refrigerator. Feel free to mix and match: Take a bath while watching television, or cook dinner while using the treadmill. Anything is possible in the legged home of the future!





Insect Force Field

Insects are important for healthy ecosystems, but they also ruin crops, spread disease and occasionally bite your neck -- ouch. Clearly, humankind needs a portable device capable of protecting an area from all six-legged critters. An insect force field would allow hikers to wear what they want, sleep outside the tent and come back for a dropped candy bar an hour later and find it whole. Harmful pesticides and superfluous food packaging would be a thing of the past -- so would Lyme disease and West Nile virus. Sadly, current technology is lacking: Researchers consider ultrasonic pest-control devices useless, and bug zappers -- while fun to watch -- kill the good insects with the bad.





Kid OnStar

Cars have it, so why not kids? In an automobile, GM's OnStar system is a computer that monitors car diagnostics such as engine temperature, tire pressure and whether the airbags have deployed. In the case of an accident, the system uses a built-in mobile phone and GPS tracker to contact a dispatcher who arranges to send help to stranded motorists. Similarly, Kid OnStar could be packaged into a bracelet or necklace crammed with sensors that monitor location, physiological status and voice stress levels. Parents could receive monthly diagnostic checks on exercise levels, notification if children are injured or kidnapped and the assurance that emergency services will be sent the instant a problem arises. While newer versions of OnStar allow police to automatically disable a vehicle at the touch of a button, we don't recommend this feature for Kid OnStar -- no matter how rowdy your offspring may be.

WEIRD QUESTIONS CRAZY ANSWERS

Whats the speed of dark?

From the scientific aspect:Darkness does not move, it is always present, and light is layed on top of it. (As an analogy, consider a table as being darkness, a tablecloth as being light: when you pull the tablecloth off, the table itself (darkness) doesn't move)
but in my simple mind darkness and light are opposites, so if we follow the yin-yang principle it isobvious to me that disturbing one of the two means that the other is disturbed in the opposite direction

PURE SCIENCE:Heat moves, cold is the absence of heat. You can describe the rate at which you “cool” and infer a “speed of cold” from that. However the physical reality is that only heat moves.
Similarly you might infer a “speed of darkness” measuring the rate at which darkness envelopes a room when the light is switched off (for example). But be aware that you are actually “measuring” a function of the speed of light – in the room case it is the speed at which the light leaves the room (ie c for speed of light over n refractive index of room accounting for light exit paths, absorption and reflection at boundaries, etc).

HOW DO YOU PROVE THAT LIGHT IS DARK?

Everything always has two colors: dark and its own color with light: i.e. Your chair: if you turn off the light; it is dark, if you turn it
back on it has it's own color, like brown.
Now how do we know what color "light" is? We assume it's its own color,
now why do we assume that, this is why Because whenever we see light, we assume it's by itself, but its not! It is where pure dark was before! i.e. - In you light bulb, when there is not light in it, what is in it?
(can only be seen when it is night); darkness!
So by this, we can say that light is dark!

Classic battle between theist and atheist

Both atheist and theist :

• Discoveries in astronomy have shown beyond a reasonable doubt that the universe did, in fact, have a beginning. There was a single moment of creation.
• Advances in molecular biology have revealed vast amounts of information encoded in each and every living cell, and molecular biologists have discovered thousands upon thousands of exquisitely designed machines at the molecular level. Information requires intelligence and design requires a designer.
• Biochemists and mathematicians have calculated the odds against life arising from non-life naturally via unintelligent processes. The odds are astronomical. In fact, scientists aren't even sure if life could have evolved naturally via unintelligent processes. If life did not arise by chance, how did it arise?
• The universe is ordered by natural laws. Where did these laws come from and what purpose do they serve?
• Philosophers agree that a transcendent Law Giver is the only plausible explanation for an objective moral standard. So, ask yourself if you believe in right and wrong and then ask yourself why. Who gave you your conscience? Why does it exist?
• People of every race, creed, color, and culture, both men and women, young and old, wise and foolish, from the educated to the ignorant, claim to have personally experienced something of the supernatural. So what are we supposed to do with these prodigious accounts of divine healing, prophetic revelation, answered prayer, and other miraculous phenomena? Ignorance and imagination may have played a part to be sure, but is there something more?

BELOW IS THE PART WHICH IS MY PERSONAL FAVOURITE:

• Causation. God provides the best explanation for the existence of the universe and all that's in it. (The alternative theory is that "nothing" exploded and resulted in everything that we see.)
• Order. God provides the best explanation for abstract notions such as numbers, mathematical formulae, chemical-based processes, and natural laws. (The alternative theory is that the chaotic first elements ordered themselves into complex information systems.)
• Design. God provides the best explanation for the absolute complexity inherent in cosmological, stellar, planetary, chemical and biological systems. (The alternative theory is that random chance engineered apparent design.)
• Encoded Instructions. God provides the best explanation for the digital DNA code contained in and controlling the functions of all life on earth. (The alternative theory is that complex code, such as binary code running computers, can pop into existence without any kind of programming, testing and debugging process.)
• Irreducible Complexity. God provides the best explanation for fully functioning biological organisms, systems, and subsystems that couldn’t come about through gradual evolutionary process without totally ceasing to exist at lower, evolutionary levels. (The alternative theory is that biological systems took huge, unseen leaps from simple to complex without any guided process or forward-looking instructions.)
• Duality. God provides the best explanation for the separate human functions of brain and conscience (matter and mind). (The alternative theory is monism -- only matter exists and the human brain only appears to have a separate subconscious ability.)
• Morality. God provides the best explanation for the existence of love, emotion, altruism, and inherent moral/ethical values throughout the world. (The alternative theory is that unguided materialistic processes evolve higher human consciousness.)