Month: March 2013

Laser in CMOS for datacenter interconnects and long-haul systems at data rates of 100-Gbits per second

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Skorpios Technologies, Inc., an innovator in silicon photonic technology, announced a demonstration of a full C-band tunable CMOS photonic laser manufactured in a commercial foundry utilizing its proprietary STAB process. The application of this wafer scale integration process results in a photonic CMOS Integrated Circuit (IC) that is planar and hermetically encapsulated. Additionally, the Skorpios …

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Areva Says Japan will restart 6 reactors before the end of 2013

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The head of French nuclear group Areva, a major supplier to Japan, said today six reactors would reopen in the country before the end of the year and that most of the country’s nuclear plants would eventually be put back on line. “We think that there could be a half dozen reactors that will restart …

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Detecting extraterrestrial life on planets around white dwarfs

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A new study finds that researchers can detect oxygen in the atmosphere of a habitable planet orbiting a white dwarf. Arxiv – Detecting bio-markers in habitable-zone earths transiting white dwarfs The characterization of the atmospheres of habitable-zone Earth-mass exoplanets that transit across main-sequence stars, let alone the detection of bio-markers in their atmospheres, will be …

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Rumored to have 4.99 inch High definition AMOLED screen

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The Samsung Galaxy S4 will feature a 4.99-inch, 1080p screen capable of displaying 440 pixels per inch. Previous rumors suggested that the Galaxy S4 will feature a powerful quad-core processor and 13-megapixel camera If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist …

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Solve for X – Alzheimers Diagnostics Could Save trillions of public health dollars and improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people

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Problem: 1/3 Americans born today will live to 100. That’s really great but cognitive decline begins at 30 and it’s just a matter of time before dementia develops. Alzheimer’s specifically accounts for 70% of dementia cases and has no treatment. Alzheimer’s costs the US healthcare system $200 Billion dollars today and if no treatment is …

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Stop Streaming America

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There are a series of ads that talk about the media streaming device Roku. Roku, the maker of set-top boxes that stream TV. Here is the text of the ad about Keep Streaming America. America, a majestic land made even more magnificent by the tenacity of our compatriots. And because we entrust this great country …

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MBAs and Quarterly Profit Focus are the Cause of the Great Economic Stagnation

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Economist Tyler Cowen makes the case that the pace of innovation has slowed, and that we are now on a “technological plateau” that makes further growth challenging. There is a detailed review by Chuck Crane. The USA has eaten low hanging economic fruit since the 1700s. 1. Free land (Homestead Act, etc.) 2. Technological breakthroughs …

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High Impact Super-Technologies

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In his book The Great Stagnation Cowen says Tyler says his grandmother saw greater changes. I would note that there has to be a specified lifespan range for grandma versus the current individual. Also, technically in my life I have seen the birth of mass market success of certain technologies which were still emerging for …

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Natural Gas at $2.30 a gallon versus $4 per gallon for gas is Driving Shift to Natural gas Vehicles

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In 2012, Clean Energy Fuels completed the first 70 stations of America’s Natural Gas Highway, and with gasoline and diesel prices at near historic high levels, they are seeing significant interest and movement by the long-haul trucking industry to make the switch to natural gas. Clean Energy also saw growth in their core businesses of …

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