1. Intel has made millimeter size 2d and 3d catoms for claytronics 2. Niel Gershenfeld, Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT, showed a programmable matter project. Small 3d objects would use local rules which would result in 100 cube components turning themselves into the shape of a wrench.3. Intel will be making all digital …
Derek Lowe, phd in chemisty, has gotten responses to some of his questions from Blacklight Power. Derek is skeptical but is trying to gain a deeper understanding of what is being done. Blacklight Power seems to be open to providing information and assistance to Derek. Mills has been good enough to offer to help me …
The Dwave quantum computer has a grid of connected qubits and problems need to be mapped onto them to be solved. What can we say about whether or not we can embed the problem graph into a hardware graph? Here are some things that we know: 1. You can always embed a fully connected graph …
Nationmaster.com has historical GDP figures from the World Development Bank. GDP figures by country for 2006 GDP figures for 2007 from the Worldbank IMF GDP estimates made in 2008 for 2008 through 2013 Currency history can be examined here at oanda.com China revised GDP growth in 2006 for 1973-2004 with the 2005 economic survey. Year …
Light Sweet Crude oil traded below $70 a barrel today. The current reprieve from high energy costs should be used to aggressively pursue an effective energy policy. This site has discussed effective energy plans. Energy Technology PlanThis site has proposed an energy plan with a greater focus on applying better energy technology. The plan is …
In 2001, the FDA approved the use of capsule endoscopy, which uses a capsule size camera [1.2 inches long by 0.4 inches in diameter]. These are passive systems. There is work to make smaller robotic systems and systems that can perform more of the capabilities of regular endoscopes. These capabilities include therapeutic and diagnostic operations …
Current Nikkei Business tech news and highlights from the August 2008 report on japanese research and innovation from the UK Embassy in Japan. 1. Furukawa Co Ltd plans to deploy a thermoelectric device for capturing 7% of the waste heat in car exhaust within 3 years. Furukawa used the latest material to prototype a thermoelectric …
1. Several startups take Wifi to the next level: Amimon WHDI – Wireless Home Digital Interface provides a high-quality, uncompressed wireless link which can support delivery of equivalent video data rates of up to 3Gbps (including uncompressed 1080p) in a 40MHz channel in the 5GHz unlicensed band. The Quantenna High Speed (QHS) family of chipsets …
4mm square of new carbon nanotube adhesive holds up a bottle of coke. Image: Science/AAAS Liming Dai, a professor of materials engineering at the University of Dayton, and Zhong Wang, director of the Center for Nanostructure Characterization at Georgia Tech have developed an adhesive made of carbon nanotubes whose structure closely mimics that of gecko …
Terahertz near field nanoscope has 40 nanometer resolution. Nanoscale resolution is achieved by THz field confinement at the very tip apex to within 30 nm, which is in good agreement with full electro-dynamic calculations. Imaging semiconductor transistors, we provide first evidence of 40 nm (λ/3000) spatial resolution at 2.54 THz (wavelength λ = 118 μm) …
Carnival of Space Week 74 is up at Kentucky Space. This site contributed an article about the Hyperion uranium hydride nuclear power reactor and how its light weight would make it suitable for power lunar facilities. Centauri Dreams talks about laser pushed solar sails. The lasers powered by using tethers in Jupiter’s magnetosphere for the …