Engineers at Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) have developed a system that can give soldiers just such an edge by turning their combat helmets into “smart nodes” in a wireless sensor network. Soldiers can carry personal digital assistants that can display the location of enemy shooters in three dimensions and accurately identify …
Kindle 2 has text entry and and a basic web browser for text centric sites and wireless connectivity via Sprints data network. So you could use it to post blog entries and enter comments on other websites. The cost and value of wireless connectivity is one of the key differences. If you have internet connected …
About a 45 minute interview of the cold fusion researchers. Free Webcam Chat at Ustream Organizer, Jan Marwan, first 5 minutesSteven Krivit, New Energy Times, 6-10 minutes. Overview of the last 20 yearsAntonella De Ninno, 10-13 minutesPamela Boss, 13-17 minutes, Navy researcher who detected neutrons John Dash, 17-22 minutesMahadeva Srinivasan, 22-28Q & A 29-45 minutesTriple …
The Black Swan theory (in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s version) refers to a large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations. Taleb regards many scientific discoveries as “black swans” — undirected and unpredicted. He gives the rise of the Internet, the personal computer, World War I, and the September 11, 2001 attacks as …
Carnival of Space Week 95 is up at the Orbital Hub Centauri Dreams looks at the chances for habital earth sized worlds around Red Dwarf stars This site submitted a technical update on the research of General Fusion towards making a fusion reactor using a variation on magnetized target fusion. Nancy Atkinson, writer for Universe …
From presentations at the American Chemical Society conference. 1. Excess heat, gamma radiation production from an unconventional LENR device —Tadahiko Mizuno, Ph.D., of Hokkaido University in Japan, has reported the production of excess heat generation and gamma ray emissions from an unconventional LENR device that uses phenanthrene, a type of hydrocarbon, as a reactant. He …
Futurismic has some of Karl Schroeder twittered short predictions of likely surprises for 2009. eBook Readers become as common as iPods. So ebook sales to track which part of the iPod quarterly sales jumps ? 240,000 kindle sales first half of 2008 Estimated 2008 Kindle sales are 500,000 So iPod like sales tracking would be …
Genetic researchers at Children’s National Medical Center and the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry in Tokyo published the results of the first successful application of “multiple exon-skipping” to curb the devastating effects of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in an animal larger than a mouse. Multiple exon-skipping employs multiple DNA-like molecules as a “DNA band-aids” to …
Yiran Chen and Xiaobin Wang, researchers at disk-drive manufacturer Seagate Technology, in Bloomington, Minn., described three examples of possible magnetic memristors this month in IEEE Electron Device Letters. In one of the three, resistance is caused by the spin of electrons in one section of the device pointing in a different direction than those in …
From MIT Technology Review, A genome-wide approach to genetic engineering greatly speeds the manufacture of bacteria for making drugs and biofuels. H/T Alfin Rather than changing the genome letter by letter, as most genetic engineering is done, George Church and his colleagues have developed a new technology that can make 50 changes to a bacterial …
A surviving cluster of transplanted neurons at the graft extremity (top) with axons in the center (bottom). In both images, transplanted nerve cells are labeled green and axons are stained red. These axons are a mix of the transplanted axons and host axons, which intertwined as regeneration occurred directly across the transplanted tissue. – Researchers …