Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. The Chinese government is preparing to spend $25 billion on wafer fabs to boost domestic chip manufacturing over the next five years. China’s chip industry had stumbled during the recession. So this is an effort to revive growth. In 2009 Mainland China produced 40 billion …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Apple has returned to being a successful company. Apple has about 1% of the global phone market and a US PC marketshare of about 8%. Worldwide Apple’s PC marketshare is about 2-3%. Apple is a profitable premium niche player and a design leader. However, Apple is …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software We are going to revolutionise the treatment of cancer during the next five years, says Professor Jonathan K.C. Knowles. Professor Jonathan K.C. Knowles from the Insitute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) is a global opinion leader in personalized medicine. So what will happen in personalized medicine during …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Journal Angewandte Chemie – A High-Performance Polymer Tin Sulfur Lithium Ion Battery A tin-sulfur lithium ion battery has an energy density value of the order of 1000 W h kg-1, which is five times higher than those of conventional batteries that containing intercalated materials (see picture). Replacement …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software An illustration of the nanoelectromechanical oscillator, with the cantilever on the far right. The inset is a tilted 3-D profile of the structure, which shows the silicon dioxide posts. Cornell researchers are a step closer to creating extraordinarily tiny sensors that can instantly recognize harmful substances and …
At today’s International Solid State Circuit Conference, imec and Holst Centre report a 2.4GHz/915MHz wake-up receiver which consumes only 51µW power. This record low power achievement opens the door to battery-less or energy-harvesting based radios for a wide range of applications including long-range RFID and wireless sensor nodes for logistics, smart buildings, healthcare etc. Today’s …
Here is the Marc Raibert interview, attached. Dr. Raibert is a former MIT Professor who founded the Boston Dynamics corporation. Dr. Raibert and his colleagues have succeeded in developing hopping, self-balancing robots that can run and traverse terrain like animals. Boston Dynamics has recently unveiled a series of sophisticated mobile robots, including Big Dog: http://www.youtube.com/bostondynamics …
Hitachi plans to use millimeter-wave communication to transfer high-definition (HD) video streams between AV equipment, such as wall-screen TVs and Blu-ray Disc recorders. Millimeter-wave communication will enable 1 gigabits per second and faster wireless communication. Hitachi, Toshiba and Panasonic are introducing their millimeter wave products in the second half of 2010. Sony appears to be …
Graphane is graphene with a lot of hydrogen. Graphene is two dimensional sheet of carbon. Graphane was made for the first time only last year at the University of Manchester. P-doped diamond nanowires might have similar properties. Copper oxides superconduct in an entirely different way to conventional BCS superconductors (after Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer, who …
NASA pre-solitication of a lunar tug using VARIABLE SPECIFIC IMPULSE MAGNETO-PLASMA ROCKET – VASIMR Studies will be conducted to evaluate a Lunar Tug concept utilizing Variable Specific Impulse Magneto-plasma Rocket (VASIMR) engine capabilities from Low Earth Orbit to Lunar Orbit and libration points. NASA/JSC intends to purchase these services from Ad Astra Rocket Company. Adequate …
