Farmers in areas where water supply is scarce may be able to breathe more freely now, thanks to Max Whisson, an Australian inventor. Whisson has invented the Whisson windmill, an invention which extracts water from the air around. How does it work? The key is absolute humidity. The invention makes clever use of water present [...]

Adobe, the company owning PDF, has decided to release the specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association. PDF has become the de facto standard for distributing documents over the web. It already provides support for web technologies, rich media and XML. It is a great move from Adobe, the company who invented the format [...]