The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has just completed a 5-year project called “Urban Photonic Sandtable Display”, or UPSD, that creates realtime, color, 360-degree 3D holographic displays. Without any special goggles, an entire team of planners can view a large-format (up to 6-foot diagonal) interactive 3D display. Zebra Imaging has developed the system. Zebra …
The principle of cross-correlation. By linking electron spins, charges and orbitals using a strongly correlated electron system, it is possible to achieve cross-correlation, an unusual form of responses of electricity, magnetism, light and heat. Yoshinori Tokura, Riken Japan, has a vision for a revolution, which he calls ‘Innovation 4’. He believes that four key technological …
Vein drain: Using human cells, scientists have grown shelf-stable blood vessels, like this six-millimeter-diameter model, that they hope to eventually see used as grafts for heart surgeries and hemodialysis. Credit: Science/AAAS New research published in the current issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine demonstrates the capability of tissue-engineered vascular grafts that are immediately available …
“How Would You Disprove Your Viewpoint?!” by Howard Gardner (H/T Reddit Psychologist, Harvard University; Author, Truth, Beauty, And Goodness Reframed: Educating For The Virtues In The 21St Century Thanks to Karl Popper, we have a simple and powerful tool: the phrase “How Would You Disprove Your Viewpoint?!” In a democratic and demotic society like ours, …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Fernando Galembeck, of the University of Campinas in Brazil, has shown that water vapor in humid air can accumulate charge and transfer it to materials it comes in contact with. He says it might be possible to design collectors that exploit this behavior to generate electricity. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software There are two general trends in the glass fiber industry: one is upward, toward enormous growth, and the other is downward, toward lower cost. A general trend is the continuing push toward increased performance at lower price. In a typical graph of specific tensile strength (GPa …
Tri-alpha energy has reportedly raised another $50 million. Tri-alpha energy is a stealth company that is pursuing commercial nuclear fusion using field reversed configuration colliding beam fusion. Here is an article from 2007 when they raised $40 million. And I review some of their recent patents here. The FRC plant layout from the 2010 patent …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software There are new proposals being made to define the maximum human ability of certain characteristics like VO2 max or a cyclists power output and anyone over those limits would be assumed to be a cheater (using performance enhancement) The highest VO2 max figures on record – …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Nature Physics – Controlling the state of quantum spins with electric currents A current of spin-polarized electrons senses and controls the magnetic state of nanostructured materials1. Obtaining similar electrical access to quantum spin systems, such as single-molecule magnets, is still in its infancy. Recent progress has …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software 1. BusinessWeek – A half-century-old Texas field may become one of the most profitable U.S. natural-gas developments after new horizontal drilling techniques tapped liquid fuel deposits. Apache Corp. and Forest Oil Corp. are among producers using horizontal drilling in so-called tight-sand formations thousands of feet below …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Lawrenceville Plasma Physics reports good progress in March, 2010. At the beginning of March, good shots (those without pre-firing and with pinches) were a bit under 50% of the shots we fired. Since mid-month, we have increased that to 90% good shots. The two time-of-flight neutron …