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Carbon 60, fullerene, thin film electronics closer to electronic billboards

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Using room-temperature processing, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have fabricated high-performance field effect transistors with thin films of Carbon 60, also known as fullerene. The ability to produce devices with such performance with an organic semiconductor represents another milestone toward practical applications for large area, low-cost electronic circuits on flexible organic substrates. Previous …

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IEEE Spectrum : The Singularity a Special Report

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IEEE Spectrum has a special report on the Singularity with contributions from several authors. Vernor Vinge first postulated the concept of a technological Singularity and he has an essay “Signs of the Singularity” and a video “How to Prepare for the Singularity” Richard Jones has an article “Rupturing The Nanotech Rapture”, but the essay criticizes …

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Reviewing my predictions on the future and recent Gartner predictions

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Here is another update to my March 2006 technology predictions. Prediction: Real-time biomarker tracking and monitoring 2008-2012 Progress: Cheap less than $100 USB gene testerOld mockup of the cheap gene tester. The device is now much smaller than size of a shoe-box (USB stick size) with the optics and supporting electronics filling the space around …

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Singularity lite: one to two levels of faster technological change

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The technological singularity is a hypothesized point in the future variously characterized by the technological creation of self-improving intelligence, unprecedentedly rapid technological progress, or some combination of the two. I would want to focus on the aspect of “unprecendentedly rapid technological progress“. I feel that a proxy for measuring “technological progress” can be the rate …

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Glasses with displays projected into your retina ? Old school. Now contact lens with displays

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Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights. Previously the Virtual Retina display (VRD) was invented at the University of Washington in the Human Interface Technology Lab in 1991. Advances in …

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Carbon nanotubes on plastic 312 megahertz instead of kilohertz for current plastic circuits

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Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Brewer Science, Inc. have used carbon nanotubes as the basis for a high-speed (312 megahertz) thin-film transistors printed onto sheets of flexible plastic. Their method may allow large-area electronic circuits to be printed onto almost any flexible substrate at low cost and in mass quantities. (Most Intel …

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