World’s smallest memory bit stores data using just 12 atoms
Posted by admin in Hi-tech on 13. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
The world’s smallest magnetic data storage unit is made of just 12 atoms, squeezing an entire byte into just 96 atoms, a significant shrinkage in the world of information storage. It’s not a quantum computer, but it’s a computer storage unit at the quantum scale. By contrast, modern hard disk drives use about a million [...]
Scanadu developing a real-life medical tricorder
Posted by admin in Hi-tech, Medicine on 03. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
The future technology depicted in the various Star Trek TV series and films certainly holds a lot of appeal for many of us – who wouldn’t want to teleport to Hawaii, live out their fantasies on a holodeck, or enjoy some instant gourmet chow straight out of a replicator? It looks like the Star Trek [...]
Modified cotton cleans itself when exposed to sunlight
Posted by admin in Hi-tech on 16. Dec, 2011 | 0 Comments
Future shirts and socks could clean themselves using just sunlight, chemists report — all you’ll have to do is drape them over the balcony and voila, clean laundry. A coating of titanium dioxide makes this possible. Titanium dioxide is found in products like solar panels and sunscreen — it absorbs ultraviolet light — and in [...]
40-inch multitouch desk set for CES debut
Posted by admin in Computers, Design on 25. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
Could multi-touch desks be the wave of the future? ExoPC thinks so, and has posted a video of its new 40-inch multitouch desk on YouTube – a desk it plans on officially announcing at the Consumer Electronics Show at the beginning of January. The teaser video (below) doesn’t offer a ton of information about [...]
Electronic contact lenses tested successfully in real live eyes
Posted by admin in Future, Hi-tech on 23. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
The device’s display has only one pixel, but serves as a working proof-of-concept for developing more complex information lenses. A useful device would need hundreds of pixels at least, to display a short email or text message. The lens harvests energy from an external source using an antenna and has an integrated circuit to [...]
