The squidworm has ten tentacles along its body and its head stick out of it. The body part also comprises six pairs of curved nuchal organs allow the squidworm to taste and smell underwater. It controls the course and position by moving two body-length rows of thin, paddle-shaped protrusions. It also has the feature to swim upright with the fantastic headgear.

Scientist from Scripps Institute of Oceanography in California and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts have named Squidworm as Teuthidodrilus samae, a new genus and species of deep pelagic communities.

Teuthidodrilus samae did not appeared to be a predator but it feeds on passing plankton and marine snow which is a mix of sinking microscopic plants and animals, faecal material and cast-off mucus. Karen Osborn the marine biologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California had earlier discovered unknown animals in the Celebes Sea at a depth of 2.8 kilometers (1.7 miles) using a remotely-operated submersible. Karen Osborn expectation was something unattainable because the animal was different from other species discovered earlier.

Karen Osborn estimated that when exploring in deep sea water column more than half the animals are not yet identified and this discovery will be new to science. Till now under ocean exploration are unable to be reached since the tools used for collecting samples are either scrapped or severely mutilated or disfigured which leads to higher complication in recognizing the specimen when brought to the surfaces.

Studies have suggested that Gamma-rays bursts can leave behind black holes like cosmic gravestones and the remaining may end up as spinning neutron stars. The other studies have also suggested that certain class of brightest and the most powerful Gamma-rays burst only because of black holes. Gamma-rays burst occur when certain massive stars have reached end of their lives and gives fuel for nuclear fusion in their cores without the pressure from the nuclear fusion pushing outward the gravity wins.

Brad Cenko a post-doctoral fellow from the University of California-Berkerly, said that the energy released from these events have too huge power by collapse and to form a neutron star which is known as a Magnetars. Magnetars are nothing but a type of neutron stars, where as a neutron are nothing but an object having protons and electrons in a merged form and that are spinning very quickly with extremely powerful magnetic fields.

Neutron stars if they weigh over a certain limit then gravity would have collapsed the object further into a black hole thus neutron stars are restricted in how massive they can be. Whereas black holes have no upper mass limit so it will incorporate any number of mass needed to power a Gamma-ray burst.

Scientist studied a sampling of Gamma-ray bursts observed by NASA’s Swift Gamma-ray satellite and they have found that 11 Gamma-rays bursts bore similar signatures in the same pattern of the light they emitted and also observed a magnetar was present in it.

But some scientists say magnetars would not be huge enough to produce energy required for a Gamma-ray burst.

I am not sure about the current status of this product but have no doubt that this could one day become feasible when the technology is ripe and go on to revolutionaize the future of PC/Latop technology. It may seem that such creations are part of sci-fi movies where computerised screen is projected virtually and all actions are performed by interacting with the virtual input screen. But what you see in below photos show what Japense brains were upto in shaping the technology to make such dreams come real. The photos should not be seen as showcasing a working product but as an illustration of the concept (I have no way of verifying the authenticity of these photos!). See photos and you will know what I am talking about.

The product concept looks really cool but I can foresee few issues those who developed the concept could have faced when they attempted to implement a working prototype. The foremost that comes to my mind is the power requirements. Has technology advanced and aligned enough to come up with minuscule batteries that would power up the projections and cpu processing. I doubt so. Also how error prone would be the virtual keyboard and how it could interpret finger movements, depressions and mouse movements etc from random hand movements. These are things to ponder about. Suprisingly I was unable to find of the fate of this concept on net.

For now enjoy the photos and be dazzled by what could be your future in case you have not seen these images before ….

Arun

Editor hardwareinreview.com