Facebook. MIT Creates New Energy Source. This is some pretty exciting news. It seems that researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the most prestigious science and engineering schools in the United States, has created a new energy source -- and it's clean and renewable. The odd thing is that the only way you can see this energy source is with a very powerful microscope, because it is created by using nanotechnology. For a few years now, we have been hearing about the possibilities offered by the new field of nanotechnology. Now it looks like the first usable breakthrough has been accomplished. MIT has devised a process to generate electricity using nanotechnology. And this new process may soon revolutionize batteries for all kind of devices. The researchers built tiny wires out of carbon nanotubes.
The nanotechnology batteries will have a couple of other advantages over current batteries. Second, these batteries are non-toxic since they are made of carbon. Link to original post. Sweden rolls out invisible infrared tank. High performance access to file storage Engineers in Sweden have announced the development of a prototype tank which is covered in "pixels" that enable it to disappear from thermal images – or to disguise itself as something else. The "Adaptiv" system, funded by the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV), covers the test vehicle in hexagonal panels whose temperature can be quickly adjusted.
The vehicle's own thermal cameras scan the background against which the tank is seen from each aspect, and the system can then adjust the pixels to match, making it very hard to see using thermal imaging systems. Alternatively, the pixels can be manipulated to present the appearance of something other than a tank – for instance a car or truck. How future visible-light versions of the stealth tank might look in action. He adds: "We can resize the pixels to achieve stealth for different ranges. Current work focuses mainly on the infra-red spectrum. Molecular memory a game-changer. A team at Rice University has determined that a strip of graphite only 10 atoms thick can serve as the basic element in a new type of memory, making massive amounts of storage available for computers, handheld media players, cell phones and cameras. In new research available online in Nature Materials, Rice professor James Tour and postdoctoral researchers Yubao Li and Alexander Sinitskii describe a solid-state device that takes advantage of the conducting properties of graphene.
Tour said such a device would have many advantages over today's state-of-the-art flash memory and other new technologies. Graphene memory would increase the amount of storage in a two-dimensional array by a factor of five, he said, as individual bits could be made smaller than 10 nanometers, compared to the 45-nanometer circuitry in today's flash memory chips. The new switches can be controlled by two terminals instead of three, as in current chips. Current tends to leak from an "off" that's holding a charge. Motorola Droid Bionic Teardown. Video: New Atomic Clock Reaches A 100 Quadrillionth Of A Second Accuracy. A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo has developed a new type of optical atomic clock that boasts a 100 quadrillionth of a second accuracy (one quadrillion has 15 zeros).
The optical lattice clock is the brain child of Professor Katori who says his device observes a million atoms simultaneously whereas conventional atomic clocks measure time by using single atoms. The Professor explains: “(…) if one clock is placed one centimeter higher than another clock, the higher clock is affected by less gravity, so it goes faster. That difference could be read out in the 18th decimal place of the clocks in one second averaging time.
Until now, clocks have been thought of as tools for sharing a common time. But with clocks like this, conversely, we can understand that time passes at different speeds, depending on the time and place a clock is at.” This video (shot by Diginfonews in Tokyo, in English) provides more insight: Building Computer Chips From Collapsing Nanopillars - News - Institute of Nanotechnology. The manufacture of nanoscale devices — the transistors in computer chips, the optics in communications chips, the mechanical systems in biosensors and in microfluidic and micromirror chips — still depends overwhelmingly on a technique known as photolithography. But ultimately, the size of the devices that photolithography can produce is limited by the very wavelength of light. As nanodevices get smaller, they’ll demand new fabrication methods.
In a pair of recent papers, researchers at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics and Singapore’s Engineering Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have demonstrated a new technique that could produce chip features only 10 nanometers — or about 30 atoms — across. The researchers use existing methods to deposit narrow pillars of plastic on a chip’s surface; then they cause the pillars to collapse in predetermined directions, covering the chip with intricate patterns.
Status quo Getting uneven. World's Smallest Electric Motor - News - Institute of Nanotechnology. The smallest electrical motor on the planet, at least according to Guinness World Records, is 200 nanometers. Granted, that’s a pretty small motor—after all, a single strand of human hair is 60,000 nanometers wide—but that tiny mark is about to be shattered in a big way. A Tufts research team has developed the world’s first single-molecule electric motor—which is a mere 1 nanometer across.
They reported the results in a paper published in Nature Nanotechnology on Sept. 4. This development—made possible with a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope at Tufts, one of only about 100 in the United States—may be the first step toward a new class of devices that could be used in applications ranging from medicine to engineering. “The excitement is in the demonstration that you can provide electricity to a single molecule and get it to do something that’s not just random,” says team leader Charles Sykes, an associate professor of chemistry in the School of Arts and Sciences.
70 Things Every Computer Geek Should Know. | Arrow Webzine. The term ‘geek’, once used to label a circus freak, has morphed in meaning over the years. What was once an unusual profession transferred into a word indicating social awkwardness. As time has gone on, the word has yet again morphed to indicate a new type of individual: someone who is obsessive over one (or more) particular subjects, whether it be science, photography, electronics, computers, media, or any other field.
A geek is one who isn’t satisfied knowing only the surface facts, but instead has a visceral desire to learn everything possible about a particular subject. A techie geek is usually one who knows a little about everything, and is thus the person family and friends turn to whenever they have a question. If you’re that type of person and are looking for a few extra skills to pick up, or if you’re a newbie aiming to get a handhold on the honor that is geekhood, read on to find out what skills you need to know. How to become a real computer Geek? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Self replication. The best survey of self-replication written to date is Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines, a book co-authored by Robert A. Freitas Jr. and Ralph C. Merkle, which describes all proposed and experimentally realized self-replicating systems that were publicly known as of 2004 ranging from nanoscale to macroscale systems, and presents for the first time a detailed 137-dimensional map of the entire kinematic replicator design space to assist future engineering efforts.
A crucial objective of nanotechnology is to make products inexpensively. While the ability to make a few very small, very precise molecular machines very expensively would clearly be a major scientific achievement, it would not fundamentally change how we make most products. If we are to use positional assembly of molecular parts to efficiently build large structures (kilograms or more) then we will have to use some form of massive parallelism. Horses and cars both provide transportation. Complexity of self replicating systems. The Top 10 Supercomputers, Illustrated (June 2011) « Data Center Knowledge. Like this story?
Get the latest data center news by e-mail or RSS, or follow us on Twitter or Facebook. The twice-a-year list of the Top 500 supercomputers documents the most powerful systems on the planet. Many of these supercomputers are striking not just for their processing power, but for their design and appearance as well. Here’s a look at the top finishers in the latest Top 500 list, which was released Monday, June 20, 2011 at the ISC 11 conference in Germany. K SUPERCOMPUTER, RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS), Japan The “K” supercomputer, a joint project by Fujitsu and the RIKEN center, has overtaken China’s Tianhe-1A system to gain the top spot on the updated list. The K computer system, currently in the configuration stage, features 68,544 Sparc 64 CPUs, each with eight cores, for a total of 548,352 cores—almost twice as many as any other system in the TOP500.
TIANHE-1A, National Supercomputing Center, Tianjin, China JAGUAR, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. RFID Implant in Hand Do It Yourself. EM4102 - 13mm Implantation - RFID Toys - Page 2. CYNTAG. 9 Implants that make human healthy body even more useful. Here’s a list of 9 ways you can modify your body to be even more useful, from bionic implants to portable power generators. 1. RFID Chips – A nice and easy way to start out with body hacking is to implant an RFID chip into you. An RFID chip is just a passive antenna that’s pre-configured to transmit a specific code when it’s brought near an RFID reader. Generally, RFID is used as a key of sorts; so for example, you can set up your computer or your phone to unlock only when you pick them up. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Source. AIDS is man-made - Interview with Dr. Boyd Graves.
By FinalCall.com News | Last updated: Oct 5, 2004 - 11:42:00 PM What's your opinion on this article? Printer Friendly Page (FinalCall.com) - After beginning his research on the AIDS pandemic in 1992, Dr. Boyd Graves discovered in February 1999 the greatest evidence, to date, of records and reports of the experiments that led to the development of what the world now knows as the AIDS virus. That document is the “1971 Flow Chart of the Special Virus Program of the United States.” Dr. Sultan Muhammad (SM): What is this flowchart and what does it indicate? Boyd Graves (BG): The 1971 Flow Chart is the blueprint for the development of AIDS. We are currently bringing the lawsuit again with respect to the origin of AIDS/U.S. manufacture of AIDS, vis-à-vis through a federal complaint which we now have pending in the San Diego Federal Court. SM: There have been several other researchers who have said what you have said.
However, any cursory review of the U.S. SM: There were 15 Progress Reports? (Dr. La5354ms.pdf. Google I/O 2011: Keynote Day One. Scientists: New Alloy Could Produce Hydrogen Fuel From Sunlight. The research, published in the Physical Review Journal, was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and led by scientists at the UK Center for Computational Sciences and the University of Louisville Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research. The team demonstrated that an alloy formed by a two percent substitution of antimony in gallium nitride has electrical properties that enable solar light energy to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen through a process known as photoelectrochemical water splitting.
The researchers found that when the alloy is submerged in water and exposed to sunlight, the chemical bond between the hydrogen and oxygen molecules break, allowing the hydrogen to be collected to separately. We decided to go against the conventional wisdom and start with some easy-to-produce materials, even if they lacked the right arrangement of electrons to meet [photoelectrochemical] criteria. The findings may help advance the future of solar energy. 10 Future Technologies That Already Exist. 22nm 3-D Tri-Gate Transistor Technology. Using TI-Nspire™ Computer Link software to Disable Press-to-Test Mode. - Knowledge Base by Texas Instruments - US and Canada.
How does the Computer Link software cause TI-Nspire family handhelds to exit Press-to-Test mode? The recommended method for exiting Press-to-Test requires connecting to another TI-Nspire family handheld. There may be occasions when another TI-Nspire is not available but you need to exit Press-to-Test. The following instructions describe an alternate method of exiting Press-to-Test. This method uses TI-Nspire Computer Link software while your TI-Nspire is connected to the computer.
The following process can be used to exit Press-to-Test mode on TI-Nspire family handhelds: • First verify that there is a folder named Press-to-Test present on the TI-Nspire family handheld. The folder is created automatically when the Press-to-Test mode is enabled. . • Detach and save the file below named "Exit Test Mode.tns" to your desktop. • Open the TI-Nspire Computer Link software and attach the TI-Nspire family handheld. • Drag and drop the "Exit Test Mode" file into the "Press-to-Test" folder.
Computer derives natural laws. Lindsay France/University Photography Professor Hod Lipson and graduate student Michael Schmidt adjust a double pendulum. Refectors on the pendulum enable motion-tracking software to record position and velocity as the pendulum swings. From this a new computer algorithm can derive equations of motion. If Isaac Newton had had access to a supercomputer, he'd have had it watch apples fall and let it figure out what that meant. But the computer would have needed to run an algorithm developed by Cornell researchers that can derive natural laws from observed data. The researchers have taught a computer to find regularities in the natural world that represent natural laws -- without any prior scientific knowledge on the part of the computer.
The research is described in the April 3 issue of the journal Science (Vol. 323, No. 5924) by Hod Lipson, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and graduate student Michael Schmidt, a specialist in computational biology. Airbus Concept Cabin – travel of future 2050 (video) | Technology news. It will have a see-through cabin to enjoy a picturesque view that will leave travelers enchanted. The walls will alter in behavior as per the available light conditions. This will have power over air temperature, and when needed, will turn transparent. The seats have been crafted in a way that will adjust according to the body shape of a passenger and not the other way round.
It will be a storehouse of entertainment and interactive games, which will use the heat generated by a passenger’s body. The transparent ride will take you sky high from where you will never want to come back. Innovative Luxurious BusVirtual Footwear Wall – 3D Retail ShoppingInnovation Flight Entertainment System by Panasonicfuture of green technology. Neuroscience stories - io9.