Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Journal of Diplay Technology – Integral Three-Dimensional Television Using a 33-Megapixel Imaging System We [Science and Technology Research Laboratories, NHK(Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Tokyo, Japan] have developed integral three-dimensional (3D) television using an ultra high definition imaging system. The system uses a device having 7680 pixels in …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Update for a missed submission: Cheap Astronomy presents the second of its epic two part podcast series on stellar archaeology. 1. Centauri Dreams sends “The Solar Sail in Context”: This is one of four pieces I wrote this past week covering one aspect or another of …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Tesla electric car company has released a 258 page document as part of its planned IPO. They reveal all sorts of financial and technical details. They also incidate how the model S Sedan planned for 2012 will be the platform for three other vehicle lines. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software There has been concern about the sex ratio (baby boys to baby girls) in China. The sex ratio is normally about 103 to 107 boys for every 100 girls. Recent analysis indicates that 3 million children are hidden each year in China and this action overstated …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software SGI a global leader in HPC and data center solutions, today announced at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC, SC10) that it has developed a breakthrough hybrid computing platform that will deliver a petaflop of performance within a single cabinet. (A petaflop is defined as a thousand …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software MIT reports NASA has the next generation Plus three (planes for 2035) project whose objective is to develop concepts for, and evaluate the potential of, quieter subsonic commercial planes that would burn 70% less fuel and emit 75% less NOx than today’s commercial planes. [Note updated …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Superpower inc makes superconductors * Superconducting wire consists of a strip a few thousandths of an inch thick of modified YBCO, surrounded by various other layers, including copper. To work, it must be chilled within a cryostat, a cooling device that uses liquid nitrogen to push …
The UK National Physical Laboratory is part of a european collaborative research project. They have brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including NPL, have demonstrated how an incredible material, graphene, could hold the key to the future of high-speed electronics, …
Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing. In seperate research, another group controlled spin electronically The researchers have demonstrated the ability to electrically manipulate, at gigahertz rates, the quantum states of electrons trapped on …
Dr Masao Tamada, of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, has developed a fabric made primarily of irradiated polyethylene that is able to soak up the minute amounts of uranium – around 3.3 parts per billion – in the seawater. Dr Tamada hopes to secure funding to construct an underwater uranium farm covering nearly 400 square …
In October 2008, Complete Genomics of Mountain View, California, said it would sell whole human genomes in 2009 for $5,000, but it released no supporting data. At the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology meeting in Marco Island, Florida, 2009 conference, the company revealed a human genome it said it had sequenced using nine machines …