A form of electro-optical camouflage (referred to also as optical camouflage, adaptive camouflage, active camouflage, chameleonic camouflage, and cloaking technology) is said to be 85-100% invisible to the naked eye from 20 feet away. The system is low weight and relatively cheap. Advanced American Enterprises (AAE) AAE uses the tem “invisibility stealth” to describe the …
ECD Ovonics a 1.6 billion dollar company that trades on the german and nasdaq (symbol ENER) exchanges. Has announced a fundamentally new device with the potential to open a new field of semiconducting control devices The Ovonic Quantum Control, based on Stan Ovshinsky’s invention of a unique proprietary all thin-film control device, is based on …
The lightweight carbon fibre mono-wings will allow them to jump from high altitudes and then glide 120 miles or more before landing – making them almost impossible to spot, as their aircraft can avoid flying anywhere near the target. The technology was demonstrated three years ago when Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner – a pioneer of …
By 2010, the “More Than Moore’s Law” movement—which focuses on system integration rather than transistor density—will lead to revolutionary megafunction electronics Moore’s Law Integrated Circuits deal with only 10 percent of the system. The other 90 percent is still there, showing up as an array of bulky discrete passive components—such as resistors, capacitors, inductors, antennas, …
More analysis could be performed on any nanotubes or molecules grown on a cantilevered AFM tip. Imago Scientific Instruments has developed a tool in 2005 called LEAP(R) that can analyze many cubic nanometers of a sample, telling the position and isotope of each individual atom. The system can determine the position and type of each …
Sony’s Tokyo lab is looking to introduce magnetically inflatable gadgets. The body and screen of folding gadgets would be made from a flexible polymer containing conductive rubber bracing struts filled with a gel of aluminosilicate particles suspended in silicone oil. When a current is passed through the struts, the particles clump together and harden the …
During the past year, scientists have mastered the ability to grow 10-carat single crystals with a color and clarity that surpass mined diamonds. Within a decade, they’ll also be cheaper. Expect to see the first diamond semiconductors hit the market in 2011. Diamond semiconductors could operate at 81GHz. This would be 8-20 times faster than …
Refining this technique so that nanotubes can be grown and weighed at the same time, then the process can be scaled up to many (thousands/millions) of parallel analysis. Like computational chemistry or gene chip arrays it will accelerate the rate of progress in the mastery of nanotubes. Plus it shows that if other nanoscale structures …
Hybrid buses consume about 20 percent less fuel.Fuel consumption in electrical utility trucks can be reduced by 50 percent with hybrid technology, in large part because, rather than idling the engine at a worksite to power the hydraulic lift used by linemen, the system can be run by batteries, which is much more efficient than …
Now researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), using clues gleaned from marine sponges, have developed a method of synthesizing semiconducting materials with useful structures and novel electronic properties. The first applications could be ways to make materials for more powerful batteries and highly efficient solar cells at a lower price. They are …
Another essay of mine On the way to Nanomedicine: Decisions and technology past and future is pubilshed in nanonewsnow In it I make the case that society already has widespread internal and external devices that enhance are capabilities both physical and mental. The cases that are made for the rejection of superior performance or finer …