Still 10-15 Years to Commercialize 10+ Megawatt Superconducting Wind Turbines

AMSC (American Superconductor and Texas-based TECO-Westinghouse Motor Co have been working an estimated $6.8 million project to design components for a 10-MW HTS generator. Another HTS device manufacturer, Germany’s Zenergy Power Group, is working with Converteam Ltd in the UK to commercialize an 8-MW HTS wind-turbine generator. Because of the practical limitations to erecting large …

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Microsoft Has An Interesting Vision : Where the software works flawlessly and the Displays are Cheap and In Everything

Productivity Future Vision The main aspects of this vision are superior computer displays like OLED and improved LED. * Displays are in every glass or flat surface. This would require displays to become 10 to 1000 times or more cheaper than they are now and to use 10 to 1000 times less power* The interactive …

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EUV makes 22 Nanometer Transistors

22 nanometer lithography has been performed with EUV (extreme Ultra Violet Light). (H/T Sander Olson) Fully functional 22nm CMOS SRAM cells of 0.099µm² density have been fabricated at IMEC using ASML’s EUV Alpha Demo Tool (ADT). The new cells are 47% smaller than IMEC’s 0.186µm² cell produced at the 32nm node last year. The results …

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Safer Pluripotent Stem Cells using Recombinant Protein Bath to Convert Cells

In Vitro and In Vivo Pluripotency of piPSCs(A) piPSCs can effectively differentiate invitro into cells in the three germ layers, including neural progenitor cells (Pax6+), characteristic neurons (TUJ1+), mature cardiomyocytes (CT3+), definitive endoderm cells (Sox17+), pancreatic cells (Pdx1+), and hepatic cells (ALB+). Images were merged with DAPI (blue) staining.(B) RT-PCR analysis of invitro differentiation of …

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iPhone 3.0 OS

Apple reports that when iPhone OS 3.0 arrives this summer, it will introduce over 100 new features, including the ability to: * Search your iPhone a flick to the left on the homescreen, a user can do a Spotlight search for items anywhere on the device* Cut, copy, and paste * Send photos, contacts, audio …

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Laser Mosquito Zapping

The Wall Street Journal reports on an update to the bug zapper, lasers to add 100 feet or so of range to mosquito zapping. Malaria remains a major global public-health threat, killing about 1 million people annually. Scientists around the world are testing ways of thwarting mosquitoes with microwaves, rancid odors, poisoned blood and other …

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Magnetic resonance force microscopy

Magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM) is an imaging technique that acquires magnetic resonance images (MRI) at nanometer scales, and possibly at atomic scales in the future. IBM and Stanford combined ultrasensitive magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM) with 3D image reconstruction to achieve magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with resolution Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought …

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More Technical Details on Artificial Ribosome

Reconstituting ribosomes: Shown here is a parts list for creating a synthetic, self-replicating ribosome. Proteins are shown in purple, RNA in red, and DNA in blue. The list includes 54 ribosomal proteins, as well as RNA-based enzymes involved in protein production, and other molecules that interact with ribosomes. Credit: George Church and Mike Jewett Church …

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Computer Graphics Rendering Breakthrough: 200 times faster Ray Tracing for 2010

Caustic Graphics Inc. (San Francisco, Calif.) is a startup company that claims to have made a breakthrough in the hardware acceleration of ray-traced graphics. Caustic claims a 20 times speedup for better graphics algorithms hardcoded into silicon now and 200 times faster for next generation in 2010. Caustic said it’s first-generation technology will deliver an …

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