Ads Support: Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Scientists at Oxford University have announced the first long-term trial of a new bionic eye implant. The technology consists of electrodes that replace the retina at the back of the eye and can treat the degenerative disease retinitis pigmentosa (RP). It is thought 200,000 people worldwide …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Evolved Machines, Inc. today announces completion of the first carbon nanotube field effect transistor (nanotube-FET) integrated sensor chip. Consisting of 1,536 nanotube-FET sensors along with a digital backplane for individually addressable gating and readout, the sensor chip is the first integrating high temperature carbon nanotube growth with …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Georgia Institute of Technology – A new high-performance anode structure based on silicon-carbon nanocomposite materials could significantly improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries used in a wide range of applications from hybrid vehicles to portable electronics. Other types of new batteries and new ultracapacitors have been claiming …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Fusion Transmutation of Waste: Design and Analysis of the In-Zinerator Concept (2006, Sandia report, 102 pages) The separation and transmutation of transuranics is part of a solution to decreasing the volume and heat load of nuclear waste significantly to increase the repository capacity. A fusion neutron source …
This is a schematic diagram of the light-trapping elements used to optimize absorption within a polymer-embedded silicon wire array. [Credit: Caltech/Michael Kelzenberg] Using arrays of long, thin silicon wires embedded in a polymer substrate, a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created a new type of flexible solar cell that …
McCurdy’s Armor is a LEGO type system that can be assembled quickly into multiple configurations • McCurdy’s Armor provides protection for operators while still providing full situational awareness through transparent armor • McCurdy’s Armor can be used in situations where rapid deployment is needed as well as fixed posts. • McCurdy’s Armor conserves manpower, equipment …
Few people know what is going on at Heartland Robotics and Mr. Brooks was careful to avoid specifics, but he showed video of robots that faintly resemble Star Wars’ C-3PO. Rodney was speaking at the Robotics Industry Forum. He spoke of how a world dominated by the Wal-Mart style of business (which he says relies …
Popular Science reports – DARPA believes that replicating the semiconductor industry manufacturing model will enable other manufacturing sectors to experience similar economic booms. Vertical integration has become inefficient, dragging creative companies down with costs associated with maintaining manufacturing facilities. “The seams between each stage of development; between design and prototyping, early production runs, limited, and …
A speed gene in horses is enabling thoroughbred owners to sort would-be sprinters from plodders from just a teaspoonful of the galloper’s blood. The research, published Jan. 20 in the Public Library of Science Journal PLoS ONE, is the first known characterization of a gene contributing to a specific athletic trait in thoroughbreds, the authors …
1. Utility companies and the government have agreed to allow all of Germany’s 17 nuclear power plants to keep operating, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Saturday, even two which were scheduled for closure soon. The two older reactors scheduled to be taken offline in the near future, Biblis A in Hesse and Neckarwestheim I in …
BBC News – The confirmed death toll from Haiti’s devastating earthquake has risen above 150,000 in the Port-au-Prince area alone, a government minister has said. Many more remain uncounted under rubble in the capital and elsewhere, including the towns of Jacmel and Leogane. Leogane had a population of 134,000 and 90% of the buildings were …