Center for Responsible Nanotechnology has a recent article that recalls a passage from Unbounding the Future (1991) which discusses virtual reality with sensory feedback What do we have now for the state of the art in virtual reality? We have a 100 million pixel virtual reality room The 10 foot by 10 foot cube room …
Samsung releasing 64 GB flash drive in Q2 2007 The read and write performance on the drive has been increased by 20 and 60 percent (over last years 32 GB unit): the 64 GB unit can read 64 MB/S, write 45 MB/s, and consumes just half a Watt when operating (one tenth of a Watt …
Current state of the art for arrays of scanning tunneling microscopes (STM) or atomic force microscopes (AFM) or nanostructured patterning: IBM millipede at wikipedia uses an array of atomic force probes.They are hoping for a 2007 commercial launch possibility with a64X64 cantilever chips with a 7 mm x 7 mm data sled that uses 10 …
A description of how the Robert Bussard Inertial Electrostatic fusion system would work His fuel of choice is one of the earth’s most common and least exotic elements: boron. It can be scooped from the Mojave Desert in California, possibly even extracted from sea water. Boron is used in the production of hundreds of products …
Robert Bussard Inertial Electrostatic Fusion work The gear from the last round of testing are with Jim Benson of Spacedev in San Diego.More info on Robert Bussard’s Inertial confinement fusion It would take $250 million and 5 years to create a full scale demonstration plant which should be able to produce more power than it …
IBM showed a prototype optical transceiver chip set Monday that they said will allow people to download movies or share online data at 160 Gbit/sec. IBM says it can meet that need, building its new chip set by making an optical transceiver with standard CMOS technology and combining that with optical components crafted from exotic …
One of the main uses of water in the power industry is to cool the power-producing equipment. Water used for this purpose does cool the equipment, but at the same time, the hot equipment heats up the cooling water. Overly hot water cannot be released back into the environment — fish downstream from a power …
A method of using isotopes to make bonds in the body more resistant to free radical damage could lengthen human lives by 10% or about 10 years. It does not reverse free radical damage, so it would be less helpful to older people. A team led by Mikhail Shchepinov, formerly of Oxford University, fed nematode …
light beam striking a metal surface can generate plasmons, electron density waves that can carry huge amounts of data. If focused on a surface etched with a circular groove, as in this artist’s rendering, the beam produces concentric waves, organizing the electrons into high- and low-density rings. Over the past decade investigators have found that …
Another indicator of accelerating progress. The Memjet technology uses a series of individual MEMS-based inkjet nozzles, fabricated using conventional semiconductor manufacturing techniques. Each chip measures 20 millimeters across and contains 6,400 nozzles, with five color channels, the company said. A separate driver chip calculates 900 million picoliter-sized drops per second. For a standard A4 letter …
This latest development from Henri Lezec and co-workers at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, US, could lead to a ‘superlens’ capable of producing optical images with detail to rival electron microscopes. The bolt on microscope resolution booster could be out to the top 1000 labs within 2 years. The target of 1 nanometer resolution for …