Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A microcontroller device will direct ultrasound to stimulate different brain regions to boost troop alertness and cognition, relieve stress and pain, and protect them against traumatic brain injuries. Transcranial pulsed ultrasound can stimulate targeting deep brain regions that are as small as two or three millimeters. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Cisco predicts that high-definition TV and 3D TV content will increase 13 times between 2009 and 2014. In total, HDTV and 3D video will account for 42 percent of the video on the Internet by 2014. Cisco predicts that in the next four years, more than …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Union of Concerned Scientists recently covered a 1988 nuclear power accident which caused no deaths. There are plenty of fatal coal and oil and natural gas accidents that the Union of concerned scientists are unconcerned about. There were 161 oil pipeline deaths and 576 injuries …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. A ceremony has been held to mark the start of groundbreaking for units 7 and 8 of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (RAPP) in India. First concrete is scheduled to be poured at the site before the end of the year. RAPP 7 and 8 …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Georgia Institute of Technology has created logic circuits that can be used as the basis of nanometer-scale robotics and processors. The logic circuits are not as fast as those currently in use and based on CMOS. The researcher see the applications of the CMOS and nanowire …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software There is a landmark paper entitled “Network architecture of the long-distance pathways in the macaque brain” (an open-access paper) by Dharmendra S. Modha (IBM Almaden) and Raghavendra Singh (IBM Research-India) with major implications for reverse-engineering the brain and developing a network of cognitive-computing chips. Understanding the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Uranium supplies will exceed demand through 2012 and there is “limited upside” to prices for at least six months, London-based research company CRU said. This year production is expected to rise to 55,000 tons from 50,772 tons last year, according to data from the World …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Last fall, researchers, including Larry Taylor, a distinguished professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, discovered “lunar dew” on the moon’s surface — absorbed “water” in the uppermost layers of lunar soil. This discovery of water debunked beliefs held since the return of the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Lockheed Martin has received a $1.1 million contract from the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Center for test and evaluation of its next-generation HULC advanced robotic exoskeleton, designed to augment Soldiers’ strength and endurance, as well as reduce load carriage injuries. 2. A robotic exoskeleton called …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The evidence for this spying that I have read about seems weak. Anna Chapman they arrested when an agent trying to pass her some kind of fake passport in some kind of sting. Other than that she was a partier who partied with Venture capitalists, hedge …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Dr. Suzanne Gildert is the author of the wonderful Physics and Cake blog. She has a high level overview of the Investigating the Performance of an Adiabatic Quantum Optimization Processor paper (10 pages) up at the Dwave blog. How do you measure the speed of an …