David Gelertner was writing about the concept of Lifestreams back in 1995 and 1996 and predicted the modern internet in the book Mirror Worlds in 1991. A lifestream is a time-ordered stream of documents that functions as a diary of your electronic life; every document you create and every document other people send you is …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Scientists are seeking the recipe for regrowing a missing limb. Molecular biologist Ken Muneoka, who studies limb development and regeneration at Tulane University, in New Orleans, is exploring how a digit loss that can be repaired differs from one that can’t. Working with mice, his team …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software There is a development project for using sound based generators that are over 18% efficient at converting heat to electricity. The target is to mass produce the units starting in 2012. * Target of 100-150 Watts electrical thermo-acoustic generator (stove, fridge, electricity) for £20 in 1 …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Blood drawn with a simple needle stick can be coaxed into producing stem cells that may have the ability to form any type of tissue in the body, three independent papers report in the July 2 Cell Stem Cell. The new technique will allow scientists to …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Beyond Apollo has the Carnival of Space 160 Nextbigfuture provided : The first exoplanet weather report, Hypersonic winds (20,000 kph) on HD209458b (150 light years away) and Evidence for Sterile neurtinos and cosmologist help bound the weight of neutrinos Weird Science asks if panspermia is occurring …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new study from interactive research and technology firm Vision Critical looks at the features that would get consumers excited about the iPhone. iPhone Users or potential iPhone Users want features available now on google android phones but they would prefer them with all the rest …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software There is new theory for explaining one category of LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions – what was called cold fusion.) results involving nickel as the active host; and in particular the Arata-Zhang results and numerous replications. Nickel-64 can be purchased at 95% enrichment for about $100,000 …
Oak Ridge National Labs has funded a 20 petaflop supercomputer from IBM (2011-2012) and has talked about 100-250 petaflops by 2015 and an exaflop by 2018. If the SGI petaFLOP supercomputer in one cabinet does not turn out to be vaporware then having a 100 cabinet supercomputer system is relatively standard. 100 petaFLOPS system could …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Russia will complete an uprate for all but one of Russia’s VVER-1000s by the end of 2010. The uprates will increase the maximum capacity of eight third generation VVER-1000 reactors by 4%, resulting in 311 MWe extra generating capacity. This is part of a larger …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Falcon 9 was successfully launched.. There is an alternative feed of the live video here (still holding for 1 hour and 11 55 minutes.) The 50+ minute hold is due to range conditions. The Falcon-9 is a two-stage rocket that is about 180 feet tall. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software North Dakota Oil Production has hit a new high of 277,407 barrels of oil per day in March 2010. Most of the increased oil production is from the Bakken and Three Forks Sanish oil formations. This is an increase of 16,000 barrels of oil per day …