Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software I will be liveblogging the Techonomy conference (Technology and Innovation) conference today and tomorrow. I will start at about noon today. Besides high powered speakers there are many high powered attendees a list of some of them is below. Jeffrey Fulgham Chief Sustainability Officer and ecomagination …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Interface magazine looked at the inside of the Eden Project Greenhouse (ETFE Geodesic domes) and the Radclyffe School which has a ETFE roof. These pictures show that it can be very pleasant inside a well designed ETFE dome. Modern Materials featured the Beijing Olympics Watercube that …
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 …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Solar Thermal Electrochemical Photo (STEP) Carbon Capture can be up to 50% efficient at removing CO2 from the atmosphere using solar power. * 700 square kilometers (270 square miles) of this system would extract the excess CO2 within ten years * Research is also looking STEP …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new approach to producing high-temperature superconductors could drive down the cost of MRI scanners and protect infrastructure during energy surges. Engineers at the University of Cambridge used new techniques to manufacture high-temperature superconducting materials, producing samples that can carry record quantities of electrical current for …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A group of MIT researchers led by Vincent Chan, the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has demonstrated a new way of organizing optical networks that, in most cases, would eliminate converting optical signals to electrical ones for processing, then convert …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software The property price numbers from NBS (China’s National Bureau of Statistics_ are becoming surreal. In February the bureau announced that housing prices in 70 medium- and large-sized cities increased about 1.5% last year. The increase, we were told, was a five-year low. This was too much …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Boeing has a complete 100 kilowatt free electron laser (FEL) design which will operate by passing a beam of high-energy electrons through a series of powerful magnetic fields, generating an intense emission of laser light that can disable or destroy targets The Boeing news release does not …
Economy Watch has a forecast for the Indian Economy in 2014 GDP Growth (Constant Prices, National Currency) 8.079 % GDP (Current Prices, National Currency) INR 101,695.91 Billion. GDP (Current Prices, US Dollars) US$ 1,908.33 Billion GDP Per Capita (Constant Prices, National Currency) INR 41,928.71 GDP Per Capita (Current Prices, National Currency) INR 79,043.24 GDP Per …
Metamaterial sound proofing from materials less than an inch thick would be as good as 4 foot thick walls for soundproofing. People outside a metamaterial sound proofed room – no one will hear you screaming inside Applied Physics Letters – Acoustic metamaterial panels for sound attenuation in the 50–1000 Hz regime The Hong Kong University …
Robocars – where will they take you ? Human drivers kill 40,000 per year in the US. 3 parking spaces per car up to 60% of the land in LA. DARPA contests. 2007 Urban grand challenge. Coming or here now Auto parallel parking lane changing warning Infiniti lane departure prevention Volvo – nobody will die …