Technorati is publishing their report on the State of the Blogosphere 2010 The 2010 edition of State of the Blogosphere finds blogs in transition—no longer an upstart community, now with influence on mainstream narratives firmly entrenched, with bloggers still searching for the next steps forward. Bloggers’ use of and engagement with various social media tools …
3D printing company Stratasys has teamed with Kor Ecologic to create the first 3D printed car, the Urbee. Recently we covered the Airbus projects to develop super large format 3d printing of Airplane parts and eventually all the parts for whole Airplanes. Stratasys today announced its development partnership with Winnipeg engineering group, Kor Ecologic. The …
Transterrestrial Musings and Parabolic Arc has coverage as does Hobbyspace. – Biggest problem is market demand – Near term markets – ISS resupply, propellant depots, debris cleanup, tourism can help create markets… – long-term solution: space settlement – Changes required: * no major technical breakthroughs necessary; * breakthroughs that reduce risk and cost; * end …
MIT Technology Review – Self-assembly technique could make optical metamaterials cheaply and easily for the first time Materials scientists have been puzzling over how to make metamaterials cheaply and easily. Metamaterials consist of repeating patterns of elements that interact with an electromagnetic wave so as to control and distort its path At millimetre and microwave …
The United States needs to build things the way it used to. It took 410 days to build the Empire State Building (381 meters tall); four years to erect the Golden Gate Bridge. The Pentagon took two years; the Alaska Highway just nine months. These days it takes longer to build an overpass. Burj Khalifa …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The twenty passenger hybrid plane design assumes that 750 Wh/kg batteries or energy storage devices can be created. The plan covers candidate technologies for energy storage and considers if the current 7.6% improvement can be maintained. The flight profile is examined in detail as are all …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software MIT engineer Angela Belcher is now taking a new approach that would not only remove carbon dioxide from the environment, but also turn it into something useful: solid carbonates that could be used for building construction. By genetically engineering ordinary baker’s yeast, Belcher and two of …
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Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Folding DNA to create nanoscale shapes and patterns by Paul Rothemund(Caltech) presented for the ECE550 course by Abdullah Akce [25 page pdf] (H/T Eric Drexler at Metamodern * The cost of DNA origami is from 1,000$ to 10,000$ per nmol. The scaffold strand dominates the total …
A presentation included pictures of the Bangkok airport and how they use a fabric cover to reflect sunlight and control the temperature beneath it. This structure was made of PTFE and glass but the principles would still apply for ETFE and other materials. The shape of the structure traps more of the heat near the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Following many years of public assertions and cocksure, blatant warnings of numerous negative health effects allegedly caused by electromagnetic fields, associate professor Olle Johansson has been awarded the title “Misleader of the year 2004”. (H/T to reader XPT) Olle Johansson receives the award as one of …