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Researchers write protein nanoarrays using a fountain pen and electric fields

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 13, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Nanotechnology offers unique opportunities to advance the life sciences by facilitating the delivery, manipulation and observation of biological materials with unprecedented resolution. The ability to pattern nanoscale arrays ...





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Mobile Digital Scribe

Electronic pen first to upload handwriting from plain paper

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 03, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (45) | comments 2

The Mobile Digital Scribe by IOGEAR is the first electronic pen that can capture handwriting and drawings from any surface, which can later be uploaded to a computer as text and JPEG files. Unlike other electronic ...


New process makes nanofibers in complex shapes and unlimited lengths

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 30, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (35) | comments 4

The continuous fabrication of complex, three-dimensional nanoscale structures and the ability to grow individual nanowires of unlimited length are now possible with a process developed by researchers at the University of ...


Innovative fountain pen writes on the nanoscale

Nanotechnology /

created Apr 26, 2005 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The first practical fountain pen was invented in 1884 by Lewis Waterman. Although pens with self-contained ink reservoirs had existed for more than a hundred years before his invention, they suffered from ink leaks and other ...


Portable Precision: A New Type of Atomic Clock

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 2

The most accurate atomic clocks in the world are based on the output of cesium atoms. These ultra-precise fountain clocks measure the frequency and time interval of seconds by using a fountain-like movement of cesium atoms. ...


Eastern independence, Western conformity?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 13, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 0

While the act of selecting an everyday writing utensil seems to be a simple enough task, scientists have found that it actually could shed light on complex cultural differences.


Portable Precision: A New Type of Atomic Clock

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 10, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- The most accurate atomic clocks in the world are based on the output of cesium atoms. These ultra-precise fountain clocks measure the frequency and time interval of seconds by using a fountain-like movement ...


The pen may be mightier than the keyboard

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to writing the pen apparently is mightier than the computer keyboard. Second, fourth and sixth grade children with and without handwriting disabilities were able to write more and faster when ...


Sharp Releases Notebook PC with Optical Sensor LCD Pad

Sharp Releases Notebook PC with Optical Sensor LCD Pad

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sharp Corporation will release into the Japanese market a new notebook PC employing an optical sensor LCD for the touchpad. Its new touch-sensing recognition method allows handwritten input and intuitive direct-touch ...


Nanoscale 'Fountain Pen' Draws Therapeutic Nanodiamonds

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A research team at Northwestern University has developed a tool that can precisely deliver tiny doses of drug-carrying nanomaterials to individual cells. The tool, called the nanofountain probe, functions in two different ...


Atomic fountain clocks are becoming still more stable

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

They are at present the most accurate clocks in the world: Caesium fountain clocks furnish the second accurate to 15 places after the decimal point. Until they reach this accuracy, caesium fountain clocks, however, need a ...



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