—Tablet PCs, such as Apple’s iPad, are expected to be the growth driver for the mobile PC market over the next few years. Tablet shipments will surpass notebook shipments in 2016, according to the latest NPD DisplaySearch Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report. Overall mobile PC shipments will grow from 347 million units in …
Talk Polywell has a posting from Paul March on James Woodward latest Mach Effect propulsion work. Woodward is now claiming that he and his associate, a Dr. Heidi Fearn at CSUF, have performed an updated analysis of the M-E derivation for the upcomming JPC conference that has a much better handle on the M-E bulk …
Ocean acidification is the name given to the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth’s oceans, caused by the uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. About a quarter of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere goes into the oceans, where it forms carbonic acid. As the amount of carbon has risen …
Arxiv – Space-time crystals of trapped ions (6 pages) One of the basic properties of spatial crystals is that they form when a system drops to its lowest possible energy state. They are not the result of adding energy to a system, but of taking it away. All of it. Another basic property is that …
Blofeld had a space vehicle capable of entering orbit and effecting a controlled landing and he had an enormous base constructed within the caldera of an extinct volcano on an island. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, is paying $500-600 million to buy most of the 141 square mile Hawaiian island of Lanai. Self-made billionaire David …
A guest post by Joseph Friedlander for Brian Wang’s Next Big Future (excerpts, rearranged for effect) from http://www.nss.org/settlement/mars/zubrin-frontier.html read the whole thing there— ”Between 1903 and 1933 the world was revolutionized: Cities were electrified; telephones and broadcast radio became common; talking motion pictures appeared; automobiles became practical; and aviation progressed from the Wright Flyer to the …
Technology Review – Cognitive radios sense unused radio bands and can intelligently switch heavy data loads between different frequencies without any interruption. New Jersey startup has come out with the fastest cognitive radio yet. It works on the widest possible range of spectrum, and is part of a crop of improved technologies that are crucial …
Sandia’s new aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope (AC-STEM), the $3.2 million FEI Titan G2 8200, is 50 to 100 times better than what came before, both in resolution and the time it takes to analyze a sample. The AC-STEM delivers electron beams accelerated at voltages from 80 kV to 200 kV, allowing researchers to study …
Design Spark – a Raspberry Pi ($39) can be used to emulate a mainframe which would have filled a large computer room, and to run the same software which it would have run. Of course, the only reason you would do this is for fun, learning or perhaps as part of computer conservation efforts, e.g. …
9to5mac is live blogging the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference Keynote Expectations are that the company will unveil updated Macs, debut iOS6, show off some new features of Mac OSX Mountain Lion, unveil new mapping software and announce some upgrades to iCloud. There will be an all new laptop… The Next-Generation MacBook Pro. Breakthrough in display …
1. PESN reports that low energy nuclear reaction company Brillouin was funded for $2 million. Brillouin is starting an SRI contract middle of June. 2. Impulse Devices’ Extreme Acoustic Cavitation™ from Impulse shows the potential to produce plasma at the super-concentrated cores of the collapsed bubbles, making this technology well-suited for producing acoustic inertial confinement …