Global Technology – October 2011

Now let’s focus on this month’s most important advances in technology.  We’ll begin with new breakthroughs in five key areas of research that we’ve been following closely in Business Briefings and Trends for several years:

1. Invisibility cloaks.
2. The ultra-thin material known as grapheme.
3. Growing meat in the lab.
4. Hydrogen fuel cells.
5. Adult stem cells.

Spanish researchers have designed what they believe to be a new type of magnetic cloak, which shields objects from external magnetic fields, while at the same time preven.....