Productivity Future Vision The main aspects of this vision are superior computer displays like OLED and improved LED. * Displays are in every glass or flat surface. This would require displays to become 10 to 1000 times or more cheaper than they are now and to use 10 to 1000 times less power* The interactive …
Michael Anissimov discusses the idea that self-replicating factories, fed perhaps by acetylene, water, and the Sun (nanofactories) can lift most restrictions on freedom that come from finite resources. Michael refers to a piece by Peter Thiel that technology can enable Libertarianism. I remain committed to the faith of my teenage years: to authentic human freedom …
22 nanometer lithography has been performed with EUV (extreme Ultra Violet Light). (H/T Sander Olson) Fully functional 22nm CMOS SRAM cells of 0.099µm² density have been fabricated at IMEC using ASML’s EUV Alpha Demo Tool (ADT). The new cells are 47% smaller than IMEC’s 0.186µm² cell produced at the 32nm node last year. The results …
Star Trek will soon be relaunched in a new movie. The new movie is primarily a refresh to new actors and writing a more fast paced show. The basic technology of the show and story has not changed but the special effects have been updated, which shows progress in the visual displays and computer graphics …
Polar plot of net asymmetries A in 30° sectors in right ascension and slices in z. Segments with positive A are indicated in red and negative A in blue. [blue are left hand spinning and red are right hand spinning] The A for segments with The handedness preference was previously seen in an analysis of …
The lines on the graph depict what are called “zero net present value (NPV)” curves. These lines represent what a project would need to achieve in total installed and O&M costs to be economically viable from a commercial market perspective. Based on the economic assumptions shown in the lower right box, projects that can achieve …
Immune cells attracted to nooks in this porous, biodegradable polymer implant are stimulated to attack cancer. Credit: Omar Ali 1. A polymer implant signals cells to combat cancer. This was already covered at Nextbigfuture in Jan 2009 but we now have a photo and some more information and it is an important development to track. …
DUPIC stands for Direct Use of Pressurized Water Reactor Spent Fuel in CANDU. CANDU is the Canadian heavy water nuclear reactor. (H/T David Walters DUPIC CostsThe extra cost of DUPIC has been estimated to be six to ten percent above the once-through cost. This is far below credible estimates for the cost of the fast-reactor …
Rice University researchers have unzipped carbon nanotubes to make graphene ribbons tens of nanometres wide. This is the cover story from the April 16, 2009 issue of the Journal Nature. “Ribbon structures are very important structures and they’re not easy to make,” says James Tour, a chemist at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Early techniques …
The Human Enhancement & Nanotechnology Conference was at Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo on March 28-29, 2009. The conference is organized by the Ethics and Emerging Technologies which is headed by Patrick Lin at California State Polytechnic University. There were about fifty folks here at the conference. Nicole Hassoun, an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at …
The drug teriparatide, or Forteo, which was approved by the FDA in 2002 for the treatment of osteoporosis appear to also boost bone stem cell production for “miraculous bone healing”. Astute observations led a team of clinicians and researchers to uncover how this drug can also boost our bodies’ bone stem cell production to the …