PESN – Defkalion states that their Hyperion products are a highly engineered advancement of the initial lab version of Rossi’s E-Cat concept, and that Rossi signed off on all their improvements, and that they are preparing to launch product as planned. There are significant differences between an e-cat (as a lab prototype system) and a …
Apple has a valuation of $369 billion (as the stock price closes on $400 per share) At $449 per share (if Exxon Mobil remained shares were flat), Apple would be the world’s most valuable company. Apple is worth more than Microsoft ($235 billion) and Intel ($122 billion) combined. Apple is close to the value of …
Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks says a new generation of industrial robots could be enabled by better machine vision. A coming wave of industrial robots will be smart enough to work safely alongside humans in many different settings, says Rodney Brooks, a professor emeritus of robotics at MIT and a founder of iRobot. “I think there’s …
1. Graphene and ‘spintronics’ combo looks promising Graphene, a two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon, is being touted as a sort of “Holy Grail” of materials. It boasts properties such as a breaking strength 200 times greater than steel and, of great interest to the semiconductor and data storage industries, electric currents that can blaze through …
Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy blog reports on Heartland Robotics Heartland Robotics targets a $5000 robot that is an alternative to low wage workers. It will be a hardware platform that will use an iPhone application model to customize its software. The one-armed Obero robot is the basis from which this two armed robot is being …
The sensational kick Anthony Pettis used to floor Benson Henderson was inspired by the cult martial-arts classic, “Ong Bak.” It’s “an old school Muay Thai move.” He said fighters are taught in “battlefield Muay Thai” to climb an opponent’s leg and then kick. “We have a cage and I thought, ‘You know, why not use …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Fiercewireless reports that Verizon Wireless is just months away from launching their LTE (Long term evolution) 4G wireless network There are lots of unknowns about how early LTE deployments will perform in real-world scenarios and how quickly the LTE device ecosystem beyond USB dongles and …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software There is fresh buzz in nanomechanics. Scientists at the University of Bonn have succeeded for the first time in making, out of DNA double stands, an interlocked molecule (rotaxane) with freely moveable components. As the researchers wrote in the latest edition of the science journal “Nature …
There were 8.6 million robots at the end of 2008. There are probably about 11 million robots now (start of Q2 2010). Automation goes beyond robots and below I discuss vending machines, self service kiosks, ATMS and more. The total worldwide stock of operational industrial robots at the end of 2008 was in the range …
Researchers have demonstrated the safety of a potential vaccine against mesothelioma, a rare cancer associated primarily with asbestos exposure. (31 page pdf) The vaccine, which infuses uses a patient’s own dendritic cells (DC) with antigen from the patient’s tumor, was able to induce a T-cell response against mesothelioma tumors. The U.S. and other developed countries …
1. In 1996, NASA researchers reported that a meteorite contained evidence that life once existed on Mars. But others argued that the evidence was most likely caused by inorganic processes that could be recreated artificially. A second group of NASA researchers (containing some scientists from the first study) has reexamined the 1996 findings using a …