The Red Camera Company had already made digital video cameras that are better than 35 mm film cameras at one tenth the cost. The Red Camera Company had already made the Scarlet and Epic [Epic higher end] line of video cameras You are able upgrade EVERYTHING as technology advances. Every component, on an individual level, …
Researchers at The University of Nottingham have used carbon nanotubes to make fast non-volatiles memory. (H/T Sander Olsen) If one nanotube sits inside another — slightly larger — one, the inner tube will ‘float’ within the outer, responding to electrostatic, van der Waals and capillary forces. Passing power through the nanotubes allows the inner tube …
GE90 engine is an example of improving engine affordability and with better performance Phase 2 and 3 of the Versatile Affordable Advanced Turbine Engines (VAATE) program are being funded. The VAATE program is structured in three phases to achieve 4X performance/cost by 2009, 6X performance/cost by 2013 and 10X performance/cost by 2017. The Adaptive Versatile …
The latest upgrade to the Cray XT Jaguar supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has increased the system’s computing power to a peak 1.64 “petaflops,” or quadrillion mathematical calculations per second, making Jaguar the world’s first petaflop system dedicated to open research. Scientists have already used the newly upgraded …
The International Energy Agency has made a new comprehensive forecast of world energy from now until 2030. The conclusions are: Current energy trends are patently unsustainable —socially, environmentally, economically– Oil will remain the leading energy source but…> The era of cheap oil is over, although price volatility will remain> Oilfield decline is the key determinant …
the coin (Taiwan Dollar) shown is about the size of a US quarter. National Taiwan University announced their latest invention System on a Chip (SOC) yesterday, the smallest such product at the lowest cost and consuming the least electricity. The NTU research team claims that the transmission speed of the chip is 100 times as …
UCLA researchers developed a method of placing graphite oxide paper in a solution of pure hydrazine (a chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen), which reduces the graphite oxide paper into single-layer graphene. This is the first reported instance of using hydrazine as the solvent. The graphene produced from the hydrazine solution is also a more …
The Supercomputer conference is Nov 15-20, 2008. Technological developments in several areas have the potential to impact exascale supercomputer systems in a very disruptive way. These technologies could lead to viable exascale systems in the 2015-2020 timeframe. Four technologies are: * Quantum computing [Dwave Systems] * Flash storage Sun Micro has introduced high performance flash …
the Annals of Internal Medicine has a report of a drug MK-677 which has been found to boost the lean muscle of elderly people and reduce their frailty. Over 12 months, the ghrelin mimetic MK-677 enhanced pulsatile growth hormone secretion, significantly increased fat-free mass, and was generally well tolerated. Long-term functional and, ultimately, pharmacoeconomic, studies …
Statins can help lower heart attack risk by 50% even if you have low cholesterol but do have a high level of C-Reactive protein (6 million people in the United States fall into this category and 250,000 fewer cardiovascular events – strokes, heart attacks, could avoided over five years if those 6 million were given …
An editorial by Ricardo Radulovich strongly advocates using seaweed, macro-algae, to solve our energy issues. Until now, seaweed has been valued mainly as food, but also as fertiliser, animal feed, and recently for a growing phycocolloid industry producing algin, agar and carrageenan. But it could also be a major fuel. Macro-algae (seaweeds) are cultivated at …