Other tech: radio controlled planes, building your own UAV

Here is some info on how hobbiest and businesses with some technical skill, some budget and the desire could make their own UAVs. There are currently few regulations for radio controlled planes and flyers that have a total weight less than 2 pounds. If this did not change then the improvements in MEMS and other …

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Other tech: quantum encryption over fiber at 4 Mbps

The laboratory system produced this “raw” key at a rate of more than 4 million bits per second (4 million bps) over 1 kilometer (km) of optical fiber, twice the speed of NIST’s previous record, reported just last month.** The system also worked successfully, although more slowly, over 4 km of fiber. The record speed …

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Advances make Faster and cheaper sequencing of human genome possible

An instrument capable of reading thousands of DNA fragments per second is being developed by researchers led by Tony Bland of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. The concept behind it was unveiled last week at a briefing in London. It took a decade and an army of researchers working together to produce …

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Paint on quantum dot lasers

Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a laser that could help save the $200-billion dollar computer chip industry from a crisis expected in 2010 dubbed the “interconnect bottleneck.” To tackle this problem, Ted Sargent, a Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology, created the new laser using colloidal quantum dots — nanometre-sized particles of semiconductor …

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Machine optimization, brute force innovation and artificial intelligence

John Koza has combined genetic algorithms to search solutions and optimize around a problem space with artificial intelligence to create computer generated patentable solutions He is examining existing patents for electronic circuits and using those as parameters to be fed into genetic algorithms. Applying these genetic algorithm principles to improving the design of project teams …

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Other tech: artificial gill closer

Artificial Gills: One Big Stroke Closer To Reality The key to artificial gills, explains Harihara Baskaran, an engineer at Case Western Reserve University, is getting water to flow easily through microchannels, which mimic a real gill. Working with Infoscitex of Waltham, Mass., Baskaran is using chipmaking techniques to create tiny devices with hundreds of channels. …

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other tech: new robotic military vehicle, Crusher

“Crusher,” a 6.5-ton, six-wheeled robotic vehicle designed to negotiate harsh terrain, will be presented along with its predecessor, “Spinner,” at Carnegie Mellon’s National Robotics Engineering Center on April 28, spokeswoman Anne Watzman said. Although Crusher is designed to carry weapons, the university has worked only on the machinery of the vehicle, Watzman said. Crusher combines …

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Larger nanoscale: Improved electrospinning

Techniques improved could be useful on smaller scales. Daoheng Sun and Liwei Lin’s at the university of Berkeley have improved electrospinning. They enable fibers ranging from 50 to 500 nanometers in diameter to be deposited onto a collector plate in a directed, controlled manner. In reference to the shortened distance between the ejector and collection …

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Light powered engine added the 4 nanometer long Rice University nanocar

This work is continued refinement of increasingly complex and useful nanodevices. Light powered engine added the 4 nanometer long Rice University nanocar The car’s light-powered motor is attached mid-chassis. When struck by light, it rotates in one direction, pushing the car along like a paddlewheel. There is other coverage at cnetThe nanocar consists of a …

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Oak Ridge develops method for optically trapping and moving objects smaller than wavelength of light

A team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and Protein Discovery developed a new method to use a beam of light to trap protein molecules and make them dance in space The technique, called photoelectrophoretic localization and transport, or PELT, involves shining a highly focused beam of light …

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Other tech: State of the art superconductor electronics 2006

A large number of articles on superconductor electronics as of 2005-6 In general higher speed (up to 1000GHz) and more sensitive for detection and communication. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers …

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