Roger Longstaff, engineer at Reaction Engines Ltd (REL), said that the company intends to test its amazing “pre-cooler” technology in June, 2011. An REL spokesperson announced that they had secured $350 million of further funding, contingent on successful completion of the full-sized precooled jet engine test in June 2011. In paper studies, the costs per …
One of two Slocum gliders owned and operated by the USC Center for Integrated Networked Aquatic PlatformS (CINAPS). Image: Smith et al. A new algorithm ensures that robotic environmental sensors will be able to focus on areas of interest without giving other areas short shrift. At the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ International Conference …
1. According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, worldwide camera phone sales will exceed 1 billion units for the first time in 2011. The fastest growing segment will be the high-tier camera phone market with sensors of eight megapixels and above. Worldwide camera phone sales are projected to grow 21 percent from 918 million …
Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd., in partnership with Kyoto University, has developed a lower temperature molten-salt rechargeable battery that promises to cost only about 10% as much as lithium ion batteries. Sumitomo intends to commercialize the battery around 2015 and market it as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries used in automobiles and homes. The new battery …
University of Houston researchers are helping the Pentagon build reliable mind-controlled prosthetic devices that military and civilian amputees can use the rest of their lives. Prosthetic limbs that can be maneuvered by neural implants have shown promise in the laboratory, but there are challenges to making them work in the real world. Chief among these …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A microcontroller device will direct ultrasound to stimulate different brain regions to boost troop alertness and cognition, relieve stress and pain, and protect them against traumatic brain injuries. Transcranial pulsed ultrasound can stimulate targeting deep brain regions that are as small as two or three millimeters. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Europhysics letters – A phonon laser in ultra-cold matter It is shown that the possible excitation of a phonon laser instability in an ultra-cold atomic gas confined in a magneto-optical trap. Such an effect results from a negative Landau damping of the collective density perturbations in …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Measurements taken at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may help physicists develop a clearer understanding of high-temperature superconductors, whose behavior remains in many ways mysterious decades after their discovery. A new copper-based compound exhibits properties never before seen in a superconductor and could …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Reinventing [financial] Markets Speakers: J. Doyne Farmer, Santa Fe Institute Duncan Niederauer, NYSE Euronext Barry E. Silbert, SecondMarket Moderator: Justin Fox, Harvard Business Review What is wrong about financial markets today ? trust has been destroyed Nothing new is being created other than products the public …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A recent theory for cold fusion is that deuteron stripping reactions (1935 discovery by Oppenheimer) are occuring with Nickel-64 isotope. This would produce 8 MeV for each reaction for the 1% of the nickel that is nickel-64. 80,000 eV for each atom of nickel. 1250 times …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Colorized micrograph of superconducting circuit used in NIST quantum computing research. The chip combines a quantum bit (pink) for storing quantum information, a quantum bus (green) for transporting information, and a switch (purple) that “tunes” interactions between the other two components.Credit: M.S. Allman/NIST 1. Scientists at …