XSight Head Mounted Dispalay The xSight is a professional headmounted display that delivers a previously-unattainable combination of panoramic field of view, high resolution and light weight. It is an ideal choice for a variety of training, simulation and design applications. • 123° Panoramic field of view provides superb situational awareness, active peripheral vision and enhanced …
Architectures for Extreme Scale Computing (8 page pdf) The petaflop supercomputers we have now are too large and consume too much power. Petascale machines have a footprint of about 1/10th of a football field and consume several megawatts (MW). One megawatt costs about one million dollars per year. What is needed for exaflop scale computing …
1. Intellectual Ventures Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft’s former chief technology officer, has assembled commonly available technology — parts used in printers, digital cameras and projectors — to make rapid lasers to shoot down mosquitoes in mid-flight. The laser mosquito zapping work was first covered here in early 2009 After hundreds of mosquitoes (which were kept in …
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 …
The Nakheel Tower had started construction, but was cancelled in Dec 2009 due to the financial crisis in Dubai. The Nakheel was to be 1000 meters tall. Proposed and the projects are Still Active The Burj Al Meel project is still active and is proceeding to award a design contract. If it is built it …
The estimated sizes of the 5 new exoplanets compared to jupiter and earth Kepler Mission scientists will reveal the space telescope’s latest discoveries at a news briefing in Washington on Monday, Jan. 4, 2010. The announcement will be made at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST) at a news conference during the 215th national meeting …
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Red blood cell-mimicking synthetic biomaterial particles Biomaterials form the basis of current and future biomedical technologies. They are routinely used to design therapeutic carriers, such as nanoparticles, for applications in drug delivery. Current strategies for synthesizing drug delivery carriers are based either on discovery of materials or development …
Time Magazine: Bookended by 9/11 at the start and a financial wipeout at the end, the first 10 years of this century will very likely go down as the most dispiriting and disillusioning decade Americans have lived through in the post–World War II era. * 9/11* Y2K, dot.bomb, credit crisis * Enron, Madoff* Asian Tsunami, …
China is going to reduce the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP in 2020 by 40 to 45 percent compared with the level of 2005. “In 2020, the country’s GDP will at least double that of now, so will the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). But the required reduction of emissions intensity …
Rio Tinto, mining company, projects the per capita GDP of India and China and other countries The nearly $20,000 per person PPP in China in 2025 translates to an overall economy of about $30 trillion PPP in China. Estimates of Rising Urbanization and Electricity Usage Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a …