Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Heating, cooling and dehumidifying air in buildings currently consumes one sixth of all the energy used in the world. With the “Cleanair” system Professor Matthew Johnson of the University of Copenhagen has created a device that cuts building energy use by up to 25%. In a …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. A new approach to anchor teeth back in the jaw using stem cells has been developed and successfully tested in the laboratory for the first time by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The new strategy represents a potential major advance in the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arvix – Metamaterial-based model of the Alcubierre warp drive by Igor I. Smolyaninov of the University of Maryland. Alcubierre imagined a small volume of flat spacetime in which a spacecraft sits, surrounded by a bubble of spacetime that shrinks in the direction of travel, bringing your …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The SMAVNET project aims at developing swarms of flying robots that can be deployed in disaster areas to rapidly create communication networks for rescuers. Flying robots are interesting for such applications because they are fast, can easily overcome difficult terrain, and benefit from line-of-sight communication. From …
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Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The future of public debt: prospects and implications by Cecchetti is Economic Adviser at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and Head of its Monetary and Economic Department, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Google CEO Schmidt says that computers will clearly handle the things we aren’t good at, and we will handle the things computers clearly aren’t good at. Schmidt was speaking at the Techcrunch Disrupt conference AOL announced today that they are buying Techcrunch for a rumored $30 …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software If a country’s public debt reaches 77 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP), bad things start to happen according to a study by North Carolina State University. There is a tipping point for national debt, and if you exceed that point the amount of debt …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software PNAS – Transcranial magnetic stimulation of posterior parietal cortex affects decisions of hand choice Deciding which hand to use for an action is one of the most frequent decisions people make in everyday behavior. Using a speeded reaching task, we provide evidence that hand choice entails …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Here is the Andrew Allen interview by Sander Olson. Mr. Allen is the Project Manager for the BEAR robot program, which is run by Vecna robotics. The BEAR is being designed as a multipurpose, semi-autonomous robot that can escort soldiers into battlefield situations and perform various …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software This schematic diagram of a thin film organic solar cell shows the top layer, a patterned, roughened scattering layer, in green. The organic thin film layer, shown in red, is where light is trapped and electrical current is generated. The film is sandwiched between two layers …