Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Image Metrics can make lifelike images of peoples faces that can be realistically manipulated in real time. The appearance and movements are perfect but such simulations cost $500,000 to construct for each person. Project Lifelike is an effort to make computer interfaces that learn. New Scientist …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software EEtimes reports that a series of functional 25-stage ring oscillators has been made by a team of researchers from the IBM Watson Research Center using silicon nanowire transistors with diameters down to 2.6-nanometers. The use of silicon nanowire transistors is proposed to allow the continued scaling …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Carnival of Space 156 is up at theSpacewriter.com. This site provided the following (2 of the three were in the Carnival): 1. Japan had a successful liftoff of what could be the first successful deployment and operation of a solar sail. 2. An article on …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Triskelia are the tripod shaped subunits of Clathrin. The Clathrin protein self-assembles into nanoscale spheres that lase “Our clathrin scaffolding applications are also dual use, with commercial applications in VLSI lithography, biomolecular electronics and in self-assembling novel photonic nanostructures for alternative energy generation EETimes reports on …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Carnival of Space 155 is up at backseat driving and it is in Haiku format This site provided two articles Details on a SSTO magnetohydrodynamic and inertial electrostatic space plane. This design was covered at STAIF 2005 but there is continuing research into both MHD …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. UEX Corp, a Vancouver company, is sitting on what could be the largest undeveloped uranium deposit in Canada. UEX Corp. (TSX:UEX) announced the first 43-101 resource estimate for its Shea Creek project in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin Wednesday morning. The basin is considered the world’s richest …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. UEX Corp, a Vancouver company, is sitting on what could be the largest undeveloped uranium deposit in Canada. UEX Corp. (TSX:UEX) announced the first 43-101 resource estimate for its Shea Creek project in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin Wednesday morning. The basin is considered the world’s richest …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Canadian adventurer Jamie Clarke is putting the zeroloft aerogel material to the ultimate test by climbing part of Mount Everest in a thin jacket made by Champion that contains Zeroloft. The 0.15-inch-thick windbreaker is as warm as a goose down jacket 1.6 inches thick. Aerogel blankets …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Sharkskin inspired paint made with Nanoparticles reduce drag and lower fuel consumption. If the paint were applied to every airplane every year throughout the world, the paint could save a volume of 4.48 million tons of fuel. The team was able to reduce wall friction …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Magnetically Loaded Composite (MLC) technology was invented by engineers at British Nuclear Fuels and Urenco working on the design of uranium enrichment centrifuges. Instead of using discrete permanent magnets to form the rotor of a flywheel’s integrated motor/generator, magnetic powder is mixed into the composite matrix. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Iraq expects to add 600,000 barrels per day of new oil to boost output to 3.2 million bpd by end 2011, Iraqi deputy oil minister for upstream was quoted as saying. The contract for Rumaila, Iraq’s largest oilfield, with BP and China’s CNPC, is expected to …