NHK Japan is Promising Functional Holographic TV by 2016 and Will Work With Korea to Present 2022 World Cup With 3D Holography

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Japan is banking on its reputation for technological innovation to win hosting rights for the 2022 World Cup and a plan to 550 billion yen (about US$6 billion and most of that is for the World Cup and not directly on the 3D holographic TV technology).Basically …

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5 nanometer Titanium oxide nanoparticles Could make Cheap Storage Discs with 1000 Times the Density of Blue-Ray

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software A japanese research team has found a material (titanium oxide) that could be used to make a low-price super disc with data storage capacity thousands of times greater than a DVD. The material transforms from a black metal state that conducts electricity into a brown semiconductor …

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Triple Junction Solar Cell Reaches Record 41.1%

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Dr. Frank Dimroth and his team made a metamorphic triple-junction solar cell that reached a record efficiency of 41.1%. To accomplish this, researchers created a multi-junction solar cell made of III-V compound semiconductors by stacking three single-junction cells on top of each other, each one particularly …

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Hyperion Power Generation Will Apply for a License Starting in 2011 For Its 25 MW Uranium Nitride Reactor

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Businessweek – John Deal, chief executive officer of Hyperion Power Generation Inc., intends to apply for a license “within a year” for plants that would power a small factory or town too remote for traditional utility grid connections. Hyperion has more than 150 purchase commitments from …

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DNA Testing Kit Will Sell At Walgreens Pharmacy starting in Mid May

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Pathway Genomics with have genetic testing kits selling at Walgreens Pharmacy. Walgreen will start offering the kits in about 6000 stores (It will not be available in New York because of a state law) * Walgreen plans to offer Pathway’s Insight Saliva Collection Kit at retail …

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Inexpensive Metal Catalyst for Generating Hydrogen from Water and Cheaper and More Efficient Fuel Cell Catalysts

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software 1. A new proton reduction catalyst based on a molybdenum-oxo metal complex is about 70 times cheaper than platinum, today’s most widely used metal catalyst for splitting the water molecule. This work that appears in the April 29, 2010 issue of the journal Nature, titled “A …

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Aubrey de Grey declares an end to generations

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software “There won’t be generations anymore,” says Aubrey de Grey of tomorrow’s world where anti-aging treatments will give us at least 30 extra years of life. You’ll be able to keep up with your granddaughter on the ski slopes, he told his host at the Lift 2010 …

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UCLA researchers use new microscope to ‘see’ atoms for first time

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software UCLA researchers report in the April 30 edition of the journal Cell that they have imaged a virus structure at a resolution high enough to effectively “see” atoms, the first published instance of imaging biological complexes at such a resolution. The research team, led by Hong …

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Polymer Optical Switches Could Make the Internet Hundreds of Times Faster

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Tel Aviv University develops fiber optics technology to replace semi-conductors. It’s a new nano-based technology that can make computers and the Internet hundreds of times faster — a communications technology “enabler” that may be in use only five or ten years in the future. Dr. Koby …

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University of California Riverside has created Spin Polarized Positronium Antimatter Atoms

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Researchers have isolated collection of “pure” or spin polarized positronium atoms for the first time. Spin is a fundamental and intrinsic property of an electron, and refers to the electron’s angular momentum. Spin polarized atoms are atoms that are all in the same spin state. A …

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