Written by and posted on behalf of Tony Hill, IPv6Now. Yesterday the world trialled the ‘new Internet’, the new address system that will open up the future of the Internet allowing you to have an address for every device in the home – your phone, TV, baby monitor, computer, and, with smart labels, even your…
Schools, Google and Facebook testing the new Internet on ‘World IPv6 Day’ The world is running out of Internet addresses. A new system of addresses will fix that and allow you to have an address for every device in the home – your phone, TV, baby monitor, computer, and, with smart labels, even your wine…
Thank-you to all those who took the time to apply for the fellowships. The three $20,000 Fellowships are intended to help early-career women scientists consolidate their careers and rise to leadership positions in science. The Fellowships are awarded t…
The next generation of hearing aids could be made in Melbourne thanks to a Victorian government grant that will fast-track the prototyping of Australian-designed hearing aids. The $50,000 small technology grant will fund Australia Hears to use RMIT’s rapid prototyping facilities to test new hearing aid designs.
Invented in Melbourne with bionic ear technology Melbourne researchers have invented a small, smart, self-managed hearing aid that outperforms most conventional hearing aids for less than half the price. It uses technology first developed for Australia’s bionic ear, and is so simple to set up that most users can buy one over the internet and…
The Australia Hears media kit is now available – more info from niall@scienceinpublic.com.au, 0417 131 977. Australia Hears media kit final, 27 April
These fact sheets are included in the media kit. You can download them separately here. Fact sheet 1: Rediscover a world of sound – Australian researchers have invented a small, smart, self-managed hearing aid that outperforms most conventional devices for less then half the price. Fact sheet 2: High-tech hearing at low cost – the…
Australian Academy of Science media release AAS 1/11 Sixty of Australia’s big-thinking young geoscientists have identified how to ensure this country continues to be a powerhouse of mining for at least the next century. The report of a Think Tank on the future of resource discovery and utilisation held at the Australian Academy of Science…
On radio this week… 25 years ago when Barry Jones was Science Minister he called scientists wimps, and told them to get out of their labs and fight for better support for science.
This week Niall talked about the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science. You can read about the winners at http://www.scienceinpublic.com/blog/prime-ministers-prize/pmprizeinbrief