IM Flash Technologies LLC, the joint venture between Intel and Micron Technologies, is considering how and when to take its NAND flash memory ICs into the third dimension but reckons its development of a 20-nm memory cell has bought it a generation or two of 2-D scaling. An industry-wide transition for the nonvolatile NAND flash …
Danielle Morrill describes how Tumblr could have sold for $3 billion instead of the $1.1 billion deal with Yahoo. Tumblr claims 120 million+ daily impressions on Tumblr Radar, which equals 3.6 Billion+ monthly impressions. Assuming $10 – 20 RPM (revenue per thousand impressions), which is within the normal range for premium brand advertising, the total …
SheerWind is an innovator in high-performance, cost-efficient wind energy technology. They announced initial field-testing results, which compares INVELOX commercial-grade wind energy generation with the same turbine on a traditional tower-mounted system. The test results indicate that INVELOX significantly out-performs the traditional turbine and is competitive with natural gas and hydroelectric generation by: * Producing 600% …
Chris Hadfield is a Canadian astronaut who was the first Canadian to walk in space. Hadfield has flown two space shuttle missions, STS-74 in 1995 and STS-100 in 2001, and served as capsule communicator for both Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) expeditions. On 19 December 2012, Hadfield launched in the Soyuz TMA-07M flight …
One of the exciting possibilities of metamaterials – engineered materials that exhibit properties not found in the natural world – is the potential to control light in ways never before possible. The novel optical properties of such materials could lead to a “perfect lens” that allows direct observation of an individual protein in a light …
BeagleBone Black is a ready-to-use 1-GHz computer that retails for $45. BeagleBone Black was announced last week by BeagleBoard.org, a small group of engineers interested in creating powerful, open and embedded devices. The credit card sized computer runs on Linux and is designed to be an open hardware and software development platform that makes it …
The gun situation in the world and in the US is not going to radically shift over the next 20 years. 11 million guns made and sold in the USA each year. There are about 270 million guns in the US. There are about one billion guns in the world. 3D Printing a gun now …
Navy leaders announced plans Apr. 8 at the Sea-Air-Space exposition to deploy for the first time a solid-state laser aboard a ship in fiscal year 2014 (October 1 2013 through September 30 2014). The laser will be added to the USS Ponce which is stationed in the Persian Gulf. The Air force previously announced plans …
Elon Musk says he’s still waiting for a call from Boeing to fix the jumbo jet maker’s overheating Dreamliner battery problem. For the past few months, Boeing’s 787 fleet has been grounded in the United States following a lithium-ion battery that caught fire in flight. The National Transportation Safety Board was unable to determine the …
What are the pieces for the next President to command all seeing hunter killer laser armed drones ? * Super high resolution drone mounted cameras * Laser armed drones * 150 kilowatt or more powerful lasers * An open ended legal policy for the use of drones for targeted killing Lord Acton’s dictum, “Power tends …
Competition is intense among rival technologies and success depends on predicting their future trajectory of performance. To resolve this challenge, managers often follow popular heuristics, generalizations, or “laws” like the Moore’s Law. We propose a model, Step And Wait (SAW), for predicting the path of technological innovation and compare its performance against eight models for …