Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Excess power from off-grid cellphone towers could be used to chill vaccines and water purification and save 5 million lives a year by 2015 This would be saving about 9% of the 54 million deaths that happen worldwide each year. According to the United Nations’ International …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Nanoletters – Highly Flexible and All-Solid-State Paperlike Polymer Supercapacitors with six times higher energy current. Given its high capacitance and flexibility that surpass current commercial supercapacitors, the new supercapacitor should be attractive for use in wearable electronics. Combined with flexible large-scale integrated circuits, these new supercapacitors …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Carnival of Space 170 is up at the National Geographic Breaking Orbit blog. This site provided an article of different high power density systems to go with VASIMR plasma rockets. The VASIMR mission architectures with the 39-day travel times had assumed an overall mission mass …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Yale researchers are developing developing synthetic models of the mammal visual system using custom hardware. Their most recent model uses convolutional neural networks to model the ventral pathway of the mammalian visual system. The goal is to design custom hardware that can implement these models and …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software This filament containing about 30 million carbon nanotubes absorbs energy from the sun as photons and then re-emits photons of lower energy, creating the fluorescence seen here. The red regions indicate highest energy intensity, and green and blue are lower intensity. Image: Geraldine Paulus Using carbon …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software German manufacturer Kalkhoff has an e-bike with an 18 amp-hour battery option which can provide 88 mile range and Giant bicycles is employing has a 2011 Twist ebike with two batteries to get 100 mile range. Eurobike 2010 had a lot of interesting electric bikes. The …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software University of California Los Angeles researchers have used a nanowire to build a transistor based on graphene. The resulting field-effect transistor switches at the highest speed reported so far: 300 gigahertz in a device with a channel length (the distance between the source and the drain) …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software University of Florida researchers have helped to develop a device that quickly identifies genes and proteins in body fluids — a technique that could make a vital difference to the trauma patients doctors treat. Previous devices required 4 to 8 milliliters of fluids, the work of …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new concept opens the door to creating an intense isolated attosecond pulse using a conventional femtosecond laser system. Physical Review Letters – Infrared Two-Color Multicycle Laser Field Synthesis for Generating an Intense Attosecond Pulse We propose and demonstrate the generation of a continuum high-order harmonic …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Google Prediction API provides a simple way for developers to create software that learns how to handle incoming data. For example, the Google-hosted algorithms could be trained to sort e-mails into categories for “complaints” and “praise” using a dataset that provides many examples of both …
removed Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology. Known for identifying cutting edge technologies, he is currently …