Steve Jobs is extremely happy with the rumored tablet Jan 26, 2010 is the expected announcement date and sales should start before the end of March, 2010. Appleinsider speculates on the features of the iSlate tablet – tactile feedback bumps that appear and disappear– The hand-based system was said to allow “unprecedented integration of typing, …
Drexler has some comments about nanotechnology development, progress in nanotechnology and development pathways. Drexler indicates that “basement development” is not possible. Note : Eric Drexler reminded me that he no longer has any connection with the Foresight Institute and asked that I split the original post to avoid confusion. Molecular nanotechnology/nanofactories will not be developed …
The Manhattan Beach Project was a conference of leading scientists, entrepreneurs, anti-aging doctors held in Manhattan Beach, California on November 13-15, 2009. The goal of the event was to create real time lines and real budgets designed to completely change the face of aging. The Summit agenda lists a mix of well known names from …
Older image of nanoionic memory Scientists at Arizona State University have developed an elegant method for significantly improving the memory capacity of electronic chips. The researchers have shown that they can build stackable memory based on “ionic memory technology,” which could make them ideal candidates for storage cells in high-density memory. Best of all, the …
J Storrs Hall discusses his weather machine designs and theoretical capabilities. Weather machine Mark I – many small aerostats—a hydrogen balloon—at a guess an optimal size is somewhere between a millimeter and a centimeter in diameter that have a continuous layer in the stratosphere. Each aerostat contains a mirror, and also a control unit consisting …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Scanning electron microscope image (false color) illustrating a full pattern of the devices. The whole structure was defined on an oxidised Si wafer. The yellow regions show portions of the multi-layered Au electrodes (a thin Au layer with a thickness of ~15 nm; a thick Au layer …
China a will build a 1.4 GW reactor starting in 2013 that will expand on the Westinghouse AP1000 design — a simplified, “advanced passive” (AP) design that reduces the need for human action in the event of an accident. Westinghouse, based in Cranberry, is building the first of four AP1000 nuclear-power plants for China under …
This is a follow up on digital quantum batteries Dr Alfred Hubler discusses the managing the risks of the high energy densities if digital quantum batteries are developed. Could one use nano capacitors for energy storage, where dielectric breakthrough is prevented by quantization phenomena? This is an exciting prospect. The introduction of digital batteries could …
Carnival of Space 134 is up at Cambrian Sky This site supplied an article about maxing out the VASIMR plasma rocket with nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reactors Note: nuclear fusion can have a superior option with the Bussard QED propulsion system (direct heating of electrons). Centauri Dreams looked at A ‘Super-Earth’ with an Atmosphere …
Robin Hanson at Overcoming Bias looked at nuclear winter again. Robin looks at the Scientific American article that attempts to make the case that a regional nuclear war in India and Pakistan would be sufficient to trigger a nuclear winter. UPDATE : Nextbigfuture has an updated article describing why the nuclear winter theory is wrong. …
1. Scientists working on the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS), in a disused iron ore mine in Minnesota, have announced that they had detected two weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs), that are thought to make up dark matter. If they are confirmed by further observations that will begin next year, they would rank as one of …