The Roadmap for Organic and Printed Electronics (78 pages, register for free download) Organic Solar for the start of grid impact will not be reasonable ready until 2016 at the earliest Displays (Small Displays) Electrophoretic price label display, segmented, driver electronics printed on backplane (2013) Color e-reader, A4, 10 frames/sec, flex for robustness – Quad …
Blood is filtered and transferred to nanosensors on a chip, which can detect and measure cancer biomarkers. Credit: Mark Reed/Yale University A team led by Yale University researchers has used nanosensors to measure cancer biomarkers in whole blood for the first time. They used nanowire sensors to detect and measure concentrations of two specific biomarkers: …
MEMS used to detect the presence of the Casimir Force Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are developing a way to control the Casimir force, a quantum mechanical force which attracts objects when they are only a hundred nanometers apart. Recently Ames Lab calculated that metamaterials could be used to make …
Back in January 2007, nextbigfuture covered the bear protection body armor suit made by Troy Hurtubise. Troy Hurtubise has made a suit that stops bullets (from 12 gauge to ELEPHANT GUN), shrapnel and is light weight. He spent two years and $150,000 in the lab out back of his house in North Bay, Ontario, Canada …
This is a follow up of Sanders report of day one of the International Electron Devices Meeting Sander Olson reports on Day 2 and 3. Days 2 and 3 of the International Electron Devices Meeting focused on both conventional and radical switching paradigms to continue Moore’s law as long as possible. Conventional techniques, such as …
Here we show that self-propulsion in quantum vacuum may be achieved by rotating or aggregating magneto-electric nano-particles. The back-action follows from changes in momentum of electro-magnetic zero-point fluctuations, generated in magneto-electric materials. This effect may provide new tools for investigation of the quantum nature of our world. It might also serve in the future as …
Warner Music Canada, Sony BMG Music Canada, EMI Music Canada, and Universal Music Canada are being sued for up to $60 billion for violating music copyright on over 300,000 songs The four primary members of the Canadian Recording Industry Association. The claims arise from a longstanding practice of the recording industry in Canada, described in …
IEEE Spectrum picked the Intel Larrabee as a technology winner for 2009 Intel has canceled the Intel Larrabee, so the IEEE Spectrum pick is completely, unambiguously wrong I had commented about the prediction of the IEEE Spectrum when it was made, that it was vague. What would it mean that Larrabee would be a winner …
A novel technology involving use of stem cells, developed by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers, has been applied to provide better and rapid healing for patients suffering from complicated bone fractures. The technology, involving isolation of the stem cells from bone marrow, was developed by Dr. Zulma Gazit, Dr. Gadi Pelled, Prof. Dan Gazit and …
PresbyLASIK is a surgical technique for presbyopic visual correction using Excimer LASER ablation. Singapore and India offer the treatment now and Canada and the USA have advanced clinical trials, which are showing promising results. PresbyLASIK treatment uses the principles of LASIK surgery to create a multifocal corneal surface aimed at reducing near vision spectacle dependence …
Designboom had 3709 designers from 96 different countries participated in the green life competition. This was the second place winner. ‘shelf’ by leon zhu from china won second place netizens’ choice award. ‘shelf’ can not only shield your car from long exposure to sunshine, but also can convert solar energy to electricity to power the …