Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A tiny silicon chip that works a bit like a nose may one day detect dangerous airborne chemicals and alert emergency responders through the cell phone network. The sensor, a porous flake of silicon, changes color when it interacts with specific chemicals. By manipulating the shape …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software LaserMotive White Paper – Power Beaming for UAVs (9 page pdf) Laser Motive will be competing in the 2010 Powerbeaming (Space Elevator Games) competition. The last date given for the competition is May 10, 2010. However, this would seem likely to slip as their should be …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arxiv – The Physics and Applications of Superconducting Metamaterials We summarize progress in the development and application of metamaterial structures utilizing superconducting elements. After a brief review of the salient features of superconductivity, the advantages of superconducting metamaterials over their normal metal counterparts are discussed. We …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software One of the big secrets of World War 2 is why Nazi Germany succeeded in surprising Soviet Russia in June 1941. The usual reasons were that Stalin trusted a non-aggression pact with Hitler or Stalin was afraid of Nazi Germany. Viktor Sukorov analyzes some recently released …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Augmented Steps This “haptic” floor can mimic the look and feel of sand.Credit: Yon Visell MIT Technology ReviewAugmented reality floor tiling Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada have developed floor tiles that can simulate the look, sound and feel of snow, grass or pebbles underfoot. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Rice university physicists found that ultracold mixes of electrons caught in magnetic traps could have the necessary properties for constructing fault-tolerant quantum computers — future computers that could be far more powerful than today’s computers. The mixes of electrons are dubbed “5/2 quantum Hall liquids” in …
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 …
Ad Support : Business Success How to Make Money Executive Jobs Paid Surveys Self-Alignment of Plasmonic Gold Nanorods in Reconfigurable Anisotropic Fluids for Tunable Bulk Metamaterial Applications We demonstrate the bulk self-alignment of dispersed gold nanorods imposed by the intrinsic cylindrical micelle self-assembly in nematic and hexagonal liquid crystalline phases of anisotropic fluids. External magnetic field …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software According to figures released by the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF), the weighted average capacity factor of the country’s fleet of 54 power reactors, with a combined capacity of 48,847 MWe, was 65.7% during the year to the end of March 2010. This compares with an …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Researchers at the University of South Carolina, collaborating with others from China and Switzerland, drastically increased the toughness of a T-shirt by combining the carbon in the shirt’s cotton with boron – the third hardest material on earth. The result is a lightweight shirt reinforced with …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software 1. The researchers used a specially engineered virus to deliver extra copies of the gene for Nerve growth factor (NGF) into the hearts of mice. Thirty days after having a heart attack, 80 per cent of the mice that received this treatment were still alive, compared …