Using technology developed by Conti's El Cerrito Marine Advanced Research Inc., the WAM-V is "a new class of watercraft ... that delivers a radically new seagoing experience."
A microchip the width of a pencil eraser shows promise in eye repair.
Most excellent multi-touch sensing screen computer interface.
"Scientists have created a tiny cable -- much thinner than a human hair -- through which they can transmit visible light, potentially paving the way for improvements in solar energy, computing and medicine.It could lend itself to miniature electrical circuitry and microscopic light-based switching devices for optical computing. It also could have medical applications such as retinal implants for people with the eye disease macular degeneration or detecting single molecules of pathogens in the body......
"You can envision making chips that can move light around -- basically convey information at the speed of light rather than using electronics. So it's optics for the manipulation of information rather than electronics."
Mmmm...speed of light.
Siemens has achieved a transmission speed of 107 gigabits per second over a single optical fiber. They have developed a new transmission and receiving system that is able to process data directly before and after its conversion into optical signals using electrical processing only.
Current systems handling very high data rates have to split signals into multiple lower data-rate signals and later reconvert them from optical to electrical, a process that adds to costs and reduces network capacity.
107-gigabits-per-second transmission could send two DVDs in a second.
Fully immerisve scratch and sniff VR still on track.
prism 200 is a handheld through-wall radar, which has been designed to be used by police, special forces or the emergency services. It provides quick and covert intelligence on the movement and location of people in a room or building - without the need for invasive sensors.
Stealth ninja gear now mandatory.
By manipulating carbon nanotubes inside scanning electron microscopes, 21st-century nanosmiths have begun crafting a suite of research tools, including nanotweezers, nanobearings and nano-oscillators.
"The EU and six nations have signed a treaty launching a multibillion-dollar experimental nuclear fusion research project, aimed at emulating the power of the sun to provide limitless, clean energy.
"China, seeking to ease its dependence on coal to fuel its booming economy, said on Tuesday it will build the world's largest solar power station in the poor but sunny northwestern province of Gansu.
"As part of their 50th anniversary celebrations NewScientist asked over 70 of the world's most brilliant scientists:
"Social policy makers and town planners will soon be able to play 'SimCity' for real using grid computing and e-Science techniques to test the consequences of their policies on a real, but anonymous, model of the UK population.
"In terms of size [of transistor] you can see that we're approaching the size of atoms which is a fundamental barrier, but it'll be two or three generations before we get that far - but that's as far out as we've ever been able to see.
.."capacitor has a layer of phosphorescent gel coating the top of the dielectric substance. So, when the current passes from the front electrode to the rear electrode, the capacitor emits light.
"..look for a PlayStation with the model number SCPH-1001, which is the unit with separate audio and video RCA output jacks. That particular model allows audiophiles to use their own (expensive) audio cables to get “perfect” sound.
"....advances in solar cells and the mirror- or lens-based concentrator systems that focus light on them could soon make solar power as cheap as electricity from the grid."
"Imagine a machine with the ability to manufacture anything.
"Helio launches new "Buddy Beacon" feature.
"..non-electronic semiconductor 100 times narrower than a human hair, uses holes between electrons, rather than electrons themselves, to carry currents.
