News tagged with applications
Biodegradable synthetic resin replaces vital body parts
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Twente (UT) have developed a new type of resin that can be broken down by the body. This new resin makes it possible to replicate important body parts exactly and make them ...
Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge (w/ Video)
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2008, scientists built a loudspeaker made of carbon nanotubes that produced sound and music based on the thermoacoustic effect. Now, a different team of scientists has built a loudspeaker ...
Toshiba Introduces High Power, High Flux 90 Lumen White LED
Jul 08, 2008 |
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Toshiba today announced TL12W02-D, a new high power, high brightness white LED for commercial, residential and industrial lighting applications that can provide a typical flux of 90 lumens (lm) when driven ...
A new 'Pyrex' nanoparticle
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 07, 2008 |
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Researchers in Switzerland have developed a new method to fabricate borosilicate glass nanoparticles. Used in microfluidic systems, these "Pyrex"-like nanoparticles are more stable when subjected to temperature ...
Intel Reports Breakthrough in Stacked, Cross Point Phase Change Memory Technology
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Intel Corp. and Numonyx today announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today's various memory types.
Will carbon nanotubes replace indium tin oxide?
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Up until now, George Grüner tells PhysOrg.com, most of the studies regarding the properties - and uses - of carbon nanotubes have been restricted to the visible spectral range. “We, however, were interested in the ...
Google Hold'em Poker: Does Google Have An OS Up Their Sleeve?
Dec 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Google card shark watchers have been placing side bets on the possibility that Google may be holding back some news on a new OS. The search giant has been the subject of rumors in Forbes, ...
Amazon, Apple, Google, Yahoo! targeted in patent case
Oct 06, 2009 |
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A US technology company which won a patent case against software giant Microsoft filed suit on Tuesday against nearly two dozen other high-profile firms accusing them of violating the same patent.
Graphene Used As Floating-Molecular Carpet To Ornament It With 24-Carat Gold 'Snowflakes'
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to make graphene more useful in electronics applications, Kansas State University engineers made a golden discovery -- gold "snowflakes" on graphene.
Study critiques corn-for-ethanol's carbon footprint
Mar 02, 2009 |
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To avoid creating greenhouse gases, it makes more sense using today's technology to leave land unfarmed in conservation reserves than to plow it up for corn to make biofuel, according to a comprehensive Duke University-led ...
Nvidia Adds Five New GPU's to Their Mobile Line
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Nvidia adds five new GPU's to their mobile GeForce lineup. These new chips have up to twice the performance and half the power consumption of previous chips.
Keeping up with your peers, securely
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 21, 2008 |
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Mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) applications allow a team or group to create new levels of ad hoc co-operation and collaboration around a specific, real-time goal. But developing compelling and secure applications is a challenge. ...
IBM Alliance Announces Availability of Advanced 28-Nanometer, Low-Power Semiconductor Technology
Apr 20, 2009 |
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IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Infineon Technologies, Samsung Electronics, and STMicroelectronics have defined and are jointly developing a 28-nanometer, high-k metal gate (HKMG), low-power bulk ...
Windows 7 Virtual XP Mode
Apr 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft has decided to give Windows 7 users a tool that will allow them to run Windows XP applications in a virtual machine. The tool is free with Windows 7 but will only be available to ...
NVIDIA Unveils Next Generation CUDA GPU Architecture -- Codenamed 'Fermi'
Oct 01, 2009 |
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NVIDIA Corp. today introduced its next generation CUDA GPU architecture, codenamed "Fermi". An entirely new ground-up design, the "Fermi" architecture is the foundation for the world’s first computational graphics processing ...
