Last week, an MIT research team announced that it had juiced up a 60W light bulb using ‘WiTricity’, the name it has given a wireless electricity source it is developing.

The team generated the WiTricity using two copper coils, one attached to a power source. The power coil emitted a field of magnetism to the unpowered coil, stimulating it to generate a current that powered the light bulb from seven feet away, said Andre Kurs, a graduate student in MIT’s physics department who worked on the project.

Do you own a cat? Do you ever wonder what it’s up to when you are not around? Well German-American Jürgen Perthold, an inventor, has created the “cat cam.”

“I wanted to find out what he gets up to, where he spends his days. He goes out the whole day, sometimes he returns hungry sometimes not, sometimes with traces of fights, sometimes he also stays out all night. It gave me the idea to equip the cat with a camera,” said Perthold.

The camera, which is operated by batteries and weighs 70 grams (including the batteries), is hooked onto the cat’s collar and records their journeys. Operating for a maximum of two days, the camera takes a picture every minute. Perthold used his cat as a test subject and discovered his cat was visiting the neighbor’s female cat on a regular basis. Perthold even wrote his own program to operate and control the camera.
Source: Wikinews

Yourteamonline.ca is a Saint John, New Brunswick based startup that is building an online sports team social network and creating a lot of buzz within the minor sports community. The website currently focuses on hockey but will be launching soccer in the next few weeks. YourTeam Online, which launched in November 2006, allows coaches and teammates to share game plans, schedules, statistics, photos, videos and information with each other in a central place. There are currently 300 + teams using the website, consisting of coaches, players and parents.

YourTeam Online provides teams with web tools to assist in the following key areas:

* Communication
* Fund raising
* Self Improvement
* And Having Fun!

Anybody who has coached, managed or played on a sports team knows how much work is involved. Managing team rosters, stats, raising money, communication and event schedules is a time consuming chore. YourTeam Online aims to simplify the management of the various aspects of running any sort of team by providing an online destination, a social network tool of sorts for amateur sports.

YourTeam Online is completely free and always will be for coaches, parents and players. Revenue is generated by providing targeted sponsorship space to both local and national organizations and charging an activation fee for teams who want to use the fund raising component for their team website.

The entire YourTeam Online team is extremely excited to improve the daily YourTeam Online experience while preserving the reliability and functionality that its users have grown to know and love. In other words, YourTeam Online will only get better.

The next step ahead for YourTeam Online includes a wide array of improvements. We will be ramping up more enhanced features for customization for each team and working on all the great feedback that was provided by our users.

We’re looking forward to a very bright future here at YourTeam Online, and we couldn’t have made it here without our incredible community.

Chris Nadeau is a Guest Writer at The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Technology – Find out more about YourTeam Online at www.yourteamonline.ca or at www.yourteamonline.ca/blog. More on Chris at www.evolvingsolutions.ca and www.evolvingsolutions.ca/blog