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Gigantic Wave Energy Generator Destined for Scottish Coast
From DVICE:
The ocean is a big place. And if you're going to steal a bunch of electricity from it, you'll need a big generator. A brand spankin' new Oyster 800 wave energy generator was just completed in Scotland, and this massive 85-foot-long beast will soon be cranking out hundreds of
Chevy Volts Invade NYC Police Fleet
From Engadget:
New York's boys in blue will soon be able to creep up on evildoers with even more subtlety, thanks to some new electrified vehicles the city unveiled yesterday. As part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's environmentally-friendly PlaNYC initiative, 70 new EVs have been added to t
Apple Forced To Cough Up Cash Over Iphone Location Tracking In South Korea
From Engadget:
You probably thought all the drama surrounding the iPhone location tracking fiasco was over. Oh, how wrong you were. In fact, the controversy seems ripe for a resurgence after a Korean court ordered that country's Apple arm to pay 1 million won (about $946) to Kim Hyung-su
The First Trial of an Embryonic Stem Cell Treatment for Blindness Begins in California
From Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now:
Keeping in step with this week's flood of awesome stem cell news, a development on the embryonic front: California surgeons have implanted lab-grown retinal cells into the eyes of two patients losing their vision to mac
Harvard-MIT Team's New Synthetic Vocal Cord Gel Gives Voice to the Voiceless
From Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now:
Call it a silent killer: some 6 percent of the U.S. population has some kind of voice disorder, most of those resulting from scarring of the vocal cords that can lead to diminishing or even total loss of the ability to
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The Singularity is Far: A Neuroscientist’s View – Boing Boing
 Boing Boing | The Singularity is Far: A Neuroscientist's View Boing Boing But while I see an exponential trajectory in the amount of neurobiological data collected to date, the ploddingly linear increase in our understanding of neural function means that an idea like mind-uploading to machines being usefully deployed by the ... |
Mitsubishi Chemical to Make Solar Cell Film
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp will start making adhesive film used in solar cells, challenging Bridgestone Corp and Mitsui Chemicals Inc , who make the key material that determines the life span of the cells.
Modified carbon nanotubes can store solar energy indefinitely
Modified carbon nanotubes can store solar energy indefinitely, then be recharged by exposure to the sun.
Agilent Technologies Establishes Capacitance Calibration Standard for AFM-Based Scanning Microwave Microscopy
The scientific solutions provider issued calibration specifications for capacitance measurements that allow quantitative assessment of material and device properties via its award-winning Scanning Microwave Microscopy Mode.
‘Amplified’ nanotubes may power the future
Rice University lab bulks up raw materials for highly efficient electric grid.
Soft memory device opens door to new biocompatible electronics
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a memory device that is soft and functions well in wet environments - opening the door to a new generation of biocompatible electronic devices.
Fiber Optic Alignment / Products for Telecommunication Brochure
PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. -- a leading manufacturer of precision motion-control equipment for photonics, laser optics, semiconductor, imaging and nanotechnology applications -- has released a new brochure on automatic fiber optic alignment and systems and steering mirrors for optical communication.
Graphene gives up more of its secrets
With the Advanced Light Source Berkeley Lab scientists explore the electronic structure of graphene in regions never before tested by experiment.
Henkel’s Conductive Die Attach Films Enable Leadframe Package Scalability at STMicroelectronics
Henkel today announced that it has worked with STMicroelectronics, one of the world's largest semiconductor companies and advanced chip packaging technology developers, to validate the performance of Henkel's Ablestik C100 conductive die attach film materials for production of very small package configurations in a process called ScalPack, which incorporates die with extremely small dimensions.
NanoSight is recognised as an ISO9001 Certified Company
NanoSight, leading manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterization technology, announces they have received notification of being recognised as an ISO9001 certified company.
Liquid processing method controls the shapes of nanowires and produce complete electronic devices
Researchers at MIT have found a way to grow submicroscopic wires in water with great precision, using a method that makes it possible to produce entire electronic devices through a liquid-based process.
Comprehensive overview of electronic transport in graphene
Researchers from the University of Maryland and the CNST's Shaffique Adam have recently published a detailed review of the electronic transport properties of two-dimensional graphene.