Augmenting soldiers

April 7, 2017March 12, 2007 by Brian Wang

Wired looks at DARPA’s human soldier augmentation programs – Cooling hands helps endurance. The reason is that muscles don’t wear out because they use up stored sugars but because they get to hot. Cooling helps overclock the body. – Working to suspend injured soldiers through oxygen depravation. Mice were give a whiff of hydrogen sulfide …

Cooling technology and ultimate limits of computing

April 29, 2022May 11, 2006 by Brian Wang

In Dec, 2005, Fujitsu announced that they were able to connect carbon nanotube bumps to the miniature electrode of a high power transistor. Carbon nanotubes have thermal conductivity of 1400W/(m-K) – a level much higher than that of metal(4), and because it is possible to connect carbon nanotube-based bumps very near to the heat-generating miniature …