“The crowdfunded phone of the future was a multimillion-dollar scam,” reports the Verge: In 2014, Jeffrey Tschiltsch opened an email from Indiegogo and saw the future of computing. The email showed something called the “Dragonfly Futurefon,” a kind of computer-phone hybrid. The Futurefon’s page showed a sleek, palm-sized touchscreen that slotted into a laptop dock, then folded flat and flipped open…
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Hyundai Releases Car With Solar Panel Roof
Hyundai has released a version of its Sonata hybrid that has solar panels to help charge its battery. The BBC reports: The Korean car maker said up to 60% of the power for the car’s battery could be supplied if the solar roof was used for six hours a day. The panels would provide enough power to propel the Sonata for…
World’s first human-monkey hybrid created
A team of Spanish scientists working in China have injected human stem cells into the embryo of a monkey. With transplant patients often having to wai… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/329438/worlds-first-human-monkey-hybrid-created…
Japanese Scientists Plan to Create Human-Mouse Hybrids. Here’s How.
Some unusual embryos may soon be growing in Japan: those of human-mouse and human-rat hybrids, news sources are reporting. Source: https://www.livescience.com/66071-human-animal-hybrid-embryos.html
The Hottest Phones For the Next Billion Users Aren’t Smartphones
Millions of first-time internet consumers from the Ivory Coast to India and Indonesia are connecting to the web on smart feature phones that cost only about $25. “[T]hese hybrid phones, fueled by inexpensive mobile data, provide some basic apps and internet access in addition to calling and texting,” the Wall Street Journal reports. From the report: While global smartphone sales began…
Japan Approves First Human-Animal Embryo Experiments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Nature: A Japanese stem-cell scientist is the first to receive government support to create animal embryos that contain human cells and transplant them into surrogate animals since a ban on the practice was overturned earlier this year. Hiromitsu Nakauchi, who leads teams at the University of Tokyo and Stanford University in California, plans to…
Largest Hybrid Electric Plane Set To Take Flight
Ampair, a Los Angeles clean tech company in my neck of the woods, is set to begin accepting orders for a hybrid electric aircraft at the EAA AirVenture airshow in Wisconsin next week. Dubbed the EEL, the aircraft is in fact a retrofit of a Cessna 337, an aircraft that has a forward-mounted prop engine that pulls and a rear-mounted prop…
First-Ever Beluga-Narwhal Hybrid Found in the Arctic
Belugas and narwhals can apparently breed. Scientists have confirmed the only known specimen of beluga-narwhal hybrid. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65757-first-beluga-narwhal-hybrid.html
Weird whale may be a hybrid of a narwhal mother and beluga father
DNA analysis of an unusually shaped skull found in West Greenland suggests the creature was a hybrid male whale, with a narwhal mother and beluga father Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2207013-weird-whale-may-be-a-hybrid-of-a-narwhal-mother-and-beluga-father/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
DNA confirms a weird Greenland whale was a narwhal-beluga hybrid
DNA analysis of a skull indicates that the animal had a narwhal mother and beluga father. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dna-confirms-greenland-whale-narwhal-beluga-hybrid4…