News. Facts about Nuclear Weapons. New Filter Could Make LCDs >400% More Efficient. Photo: Flickr, CCNegawatts Strike BackThe immensely popular LCDs screens that are found everywhere in the modern home (television, computer, laptop, cellphones, etc) use less energy than CRTs, the previous technology, but they are still far from being optimally efficient. Only about 8% of the light emitted by a LCD's backlight makes its way out, and the rest is wasted. But that might be about to change thanks to a new filter that could boost that efficiency by more than 400% and allow around 36% of the light to pass through. Read on for more details. Image: Wikipedia, CC Normally, LCDs use several layers of optical devices to colorize, polarize, and shutter light from a backlight, and inefficiencies emerge at every step.
For televisions, such a technology would make a big difference because most people have their TVs on during peak electricity demand periods, when conserving energy provides the biggest benefits. CASE Solar Power Glass. Posted on February 6, 2010 by saya The Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE) has finally developed the stylish solar power glass after lengthy years of research. The system is constructed of rows of pyramid-shaped glass receptors, which will change their directions all the time to keep track of the sunlight. All the energy is stored in a small photovoltaic cell built in the center of each pyramid. The transparent design not only makes the system eye-pleasing and attractive, but means light could pass through the system more effectively for energy storage.
More Information Here. Top Inventors - Slideshows. Yamazaki Yamazaki (No. 1) in a lab outside Tokyo, with a circuit he developed that is fabricated on a piece of glass; it will allow computer monitors to be no thicker than a pane of glass. Dan Winters Silverbrook Silverbrook (No. 2) in his laboratory at the company he co-founded, Silverbrook Research, in Sydney. Dan Winters Inventors From left, Leonard Forbes (No. 6), Salman Akram (No. 8), Warren Farnworth (No. 7), and Gurtej Sandhu (No. 5) in a clean-room environment at Micron's headquarters in Boise, Idaho. Dan Winters Gardner Gardner (No. 9) in Driftwood, Texas. He perfected chips for A.M.D. for 24 years and now does the same for his own company.
Dan Winters Straeter & Weder Straeter (No. 10) and Weder (No. 3) photographed at Highland Supply Corp. in Highland, Illinois. At right is a plastic sleeve for a flowerpot invented by Weder. Technological singularity. The technological singularity is the hypothesis that accelerating progress in technologies will cause a runaway effect wherein artificial intelligence will exceed human intellectual capacity and control, thus radically changing civilization in an event called the singularity.[1] Because the capabilities of such an intelligence may be impossible for a human to comprehend, the technological singularity is an occurrence beyond which events may become unpredictable, unfavorable, or even unfathomable.[2] The first use of the term "singularity" in this context was by mathematician John von Neumann.
Proponents of the singularity typically postulate an "intelligence explosion",[5][6] where superintelligences design successive generations of increasingly powerful minds, that might occur very quickly and might not stop until the agent's cognitive abilities greatly surpass that of any human. Basic concepts Superintelligence Non-AI singularity Intelligence explosion Exponential growth Plausibility.