There are 18,000 parking lot attendants in the U.S. with college degrees. There are 5,000 janitors in the U.S. with PhDs. In all, some 17 million college-educated Americans have jobs that don't require their level of education. Why? More »
Android: Itching Thumb is an Android task manager that displays running tasks (in a fashion similar to the alt-tab function in Windows) with live preview and enables gesture-based application launching. More »
Kick off the weekend with a sweet selection of free and heavily discounted apps. You've earned it. More »
General Electric's new halogen-compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulb solves the main complain people have about CFL: It takes too much time to achieve full brightness level. I don't care too much about that, but it's really neat looking. More »
Amazon will add a neat new feature to its Kindle e-book program later this year, designed to let you loan Kindle e-books to your friends, either via Kindle devices or the Kindle app for the iPhone, iPad, Android, etc. More »
Either a writer at Luxembourgish newspaper L'essentiel is very confused or we've all been seriously deceived. Whichever the case, there's definitely an article claiming that Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen is "an official from Apple." More »
You can call them "near Earth objects" if you want to. I'll stick with "asteroids hellbent on obliterating our planet and all we hold dear." Here's the lineup of the space rocks closest to killing us, and where they are. More »
Google announced today that the Wi-Fi snooping its Street View vans were engaged in was even worse than previously acknowledged. The company announced today that entire URLs, emails, and passwords were collected as well. And they still have it. More »
More than 25 years ago, a commercial warned us about the future of computers. Closed. Censored. Dark. A "garden of pure ideology." How strange that that's exactly what the future of Apple's computers looks like today: the Mac App Store. More »
What happens next is the chess computer goes the way of Chris from Into The Wild. I won't spoil the ending, but poor, poor chess computer. You once had everything and now, nothing. *weeps* [Tom Gauld via Eggshell Robotics via BotJunkie] More »
I can hardly walk through a grocery store aisle without clumsily knocking something over. An amputee equipped with Dean Kamen's incredible, shoe-controlled prosthetic arm, however, selects produce with grace. It's enough to make you forget about the Segway. More »
China Ritar Power Corporation, a leading supplier of innovative nano gel battery products and solutions, today announced that the company will participate in PV Taiwan, the largest solar power trade show in Taiwan, Oct. 26 -28.
CHTF 2010 will focus on emerging industries, such as new energy, energy saving and environmental protection, new generation of information technology, biology, high-end equipment manufacturing, new materials and new energy automobiles.
SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc. (SWeNT), a world leader in high quality, Single-Wall and Specialty Multi-Wall carbon nanotubes (CNT), will feature new CNT inks and CNT materials targeted at energy storage and printed electronics applications at the 2010 Material Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, November 29 - December 3 at the Hynes Convention Center.
Cells can be cultured and sorted on specifically patterned surfaces of biomaterials.
In solar cells, solar radiation boosts electrons to higher energy states, thereby releasing them from their atomic bonds as electricity begins to flow. Scientists led by Professor Alexander Holleitner, physicist at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, have developed a novel method to analyze the way photogenerated electrons move in the smallest photodetectors.
On Mondays at 10 a.m. this fall semester, graduate students in the Nanomedicine in Healthcare course at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) log into an online virtual world known as Second Life, activate their computer-generated personae or avatars and head off to class.
FlexBone seen as potential replacement for current bone transplantations.
Researchers at the MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine are developing a method of detecting and treating tumours with the help of gold particles with dimensions measure in mere nanometers.
Die Hans-Boeckler-Stiftung laedt mit der Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie dazu ein, die innovationspolitischen Herausforderungen der Nanotechnologie fuer den Standort Deutschland zu diskutieren. Anlass ist die Vorstellung der neuen gemeinsamen Studie 'Nanotechnologie - Innovationsmotor fuer den Standort Deutschland" der VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH und der Prognos AG.
