Powering insect cyborgs with an implantable biofuel cell
Posted by admin in Alternative energy, Design on 09. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
Research into developing insect cyborgs for use as first responders or super stealthy spies has been going on for a while now. Most research has focused on using batteries, tiny solar cells or piezoelectric generators to harvest kinetic energy from the movement of an insect’s wings to power the electronics attached to the insects. Now [...]
Salmon DNA used in data storage device
Posted by admin in Science on 08. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
Salmon … they’re good to eat, provide a livelihood for fishermen, are an important part of their ecosystem, and now it seems that they can store data. More specifically, their DNA can. Scientists from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have created a "write-once-read-many-times" (WORM) memory device, [...]
IBM announces its annual "Next 5 in 5" list
Posted by admin in Science on 21. Dec, 2011 | 0 Comments
It’s late December, and that means that it’s time once again for IBM’s Next 5 in 5 list. Every year since 2006, the corporation has put together an annual roundup of the top five emerging technologies that its researchers feel "will change the way we work, live and play" within the next five years. Here’s [...]
Researchers entangle two millimeter-sized diamonds, a huge leap in the scale of quantum entanglement
Posted by admin in Science on 02. Dec, 2011 | 0 Comments
Quantum entanglement, the spooky action at a distance that promises to be so useful for things like high-powered computing and security, is generally considered a function of the tiny world. It’s easy — OK, not easy, but relatively practical nowadays — to take two particles or two microscopic things and intertwine their fates. Now [...]
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 [...]
