Extra wearable robotic arms would be helpful. Above is a statue of Vishnu. If Rodney Brooks’ Heartland Robotics goal of low cost worker robots and robot arms were merged with the new bionic arm work at John’s Hopkins, then able bodied people could wear or use robotic arms that would function as an extra helping …
Bloomberg news has an excellent article about the people and companies involved in developing the Bakken oilfield AFS Trinity’s 150 mpg SUV hybrid car is generating a new round of press coverage AFS trinity appears to be looking to sell the 150 mpg SUV’s to operators of car fleets In Europe there is already a …
Six web pages feature at IEEE Spectrum, that describes the technical achievement of High-K insulation for computer chips. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, …
Here is the Breakdown of energy used in the USA by source from 2002 to 2006 Nnadir has a further breakdown of the non-fossil fuel portion Non-fossil fuel source Share of non-fossil fuel total shareNuclear: 54.5% 8.2%Conventional Hydro: 19.2% 2.9%Wood: 14.0% 2.1%Other biofuels like, and including, ethanol: 5% 0.7%Garbage burning (waste): 2.7% 0.4%Geothermal: 2.3% 0.3%Wind: …
Dwave systems, CTO Geordie Rose, theorizes about the usefulness and possible necessity of quantum computers for human level and higher artificial intelligence Summarizing: Are humans somehow getting good approximate solutions to problems that are NP hard ? If so, would quantum computers be useful to develop alternative ways to get as good or better than …
DNA is being used to control nanoparticle self assembly Learning how to control and tailor the assembly of nanoparticles, which have dimensions on the order of billionths of a meter, could potentially lead to applications ranging from more efficient energy generation and data storage to cell-targeted systems for drug delivery. “We can synthesize nanoparticles with …
The University of Pennsylvania scientists used transmission electron beam ablation lithography to “carve” nanostructures from thin sheets of gold, silver, aluminum and other metals. The researchers said TEBAL provides a more dependable method for producing quality versions of such microscopic devices, while also permitting simultaneous, real-time atomic imaging of the devices as they are made. …
From the New Scientist, a pocket-sized device that runs on two AA batteries and copies DNA as accurately as expensive lab equipment has been developed by researchers in the US. The DNA-copying device runs off two AA batteries (Image: Victor Ugaz/Angewandte Chemie) The device has no moving parts and costs just $10 to make. It …
The Brookhaven group uses magnetism to manipulate spin in graphene, a material consisting of flat sheets of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal pattern. They’ve proposed ways to make materials consisting of layers of graphene mated to magnetic and nonmagnetic layers. These “graphene-magnet multilayers” (GMMs) are expected to retain their properties at room temperature, an …
The end product of a hard material is interesting but it is the understanding of how to tune materials to make them superhard that is more impressive and even more interesting. Researchers have designed and created superhard materials that can be made without using high pressure. There are two ways to make super-hard materials that …
Current state of the art for arrays of scanning tunneling microscopes (STM) or atomic force microscopes (AFM) or nanostructured patterning: IBM millipede at wikipedia uses an array of atomic force probes.They are hoping for a 2007 commercial launch possibility with a64X64 cantilever chips with a 7 mm x 7 mm data sled that uses 10 …