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Tag Archives: nanotechnology
Liquipel – An Invisible Waterproof Nano-Coating For Your Smartphone (video)
Raise your hand if you’ve ever dropped your smartphone in the toilet. Don’t feel bad, according to Danny McPhail, president [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged consumer electronics show, liquipel, nano-coating, nanotechnology, smartphone
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Help Accelerate Nanotechnology: Donate to the Foresight Institute With Matching Gifts Through Jan 15th
For twenty five years the Foresight Institute has been one of the leading proponents of nanotechnology, and 2011 was no [...]
Computer Chip-Sized Spacecraft Will Explore Space In Swarms
We knew to expect a paradigm shift with the end of the space shuttle program, but this is ridiculous. Mason [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Robots, Singularity
Tagged Cornell University, mason peck, nanotechnology, NASA, satellite, space shuttle, sprite, telepresence
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Now Robots Drink Wine Too – Scientists Create ‘Robot Sommelier’
Robots get to have all the fun. In this case what I’m calling a robot is the electronic tongue created [...]
Nanotechnology On The Internet – Videos of 25th Anniversary Foresight Reunion Now Online
Don’t worry if you missed it, you can time travel and attend the Foresight Institute’s 25th Anniversary Reunion through the [...]
Posted in Singularity, Video Central
Tagged Foresight Institute, Foresight&Google, nanotechnology, ustream
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IBM Celebrates Its Centennial By Unveiling Revolutionary Memory Technology
Scientists at IBM Research have created a relatively new type of memory that’s so fast and stable it may allow [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Gadgets, Singularity
Tagged computer memory, eth zurich, ibm, ibm zurich, nanotechnology, phase-change memory
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In Medical First Doctors Implant Lab Grown Synthetic Trachea Into Patient
Regenerative medicine history was made on June 9th at Stockholm’s Karolinska University Hospital when doctors successfully gave Andemariam Beyene a [...]
Foresight’s Nanotech Conference at Google June 25-26 ($50 OFF To Hub Readers!)
Back in 1986, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and shoulderpads were popular, forward minded scientists and friends gathered together to [...]
Microscopic Drug-Delivering Robot Operates In Eye
Robots have been trying to invade our bodies for years. Now they’ve found a way to get in our eyes [...]
Posted in Robots, Video Central
Tagged longevity, medicine, nanotechnology, robotics, telerobot
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Nanotech Implant Monitors for Cancer and Now Heart Attacks, Too
Heart attacks and cancer account for nearly half of all deaths in the United States – they’re the two biggest [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Longevity And Health
Tagged biomarkers, body monitoring, cancer, chtristophoros vassiliou, heart attack, implant, Michael Cima, MIT, monitor, nanoparticles, nanotechnology
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Another Dog Sniffs Cancer – So Why Aren’t Dogs In The Clinic?
Maybe you’ve heard that line about dogs being able to tell whether or not someone has cancer just by smelling [...]
Nanowire Polymer Film Turns Any Surface into a Multitouch Interface
Portuguese engineers have taken us one step closer to fusing the digital and physical worlds. Displax, a fledgling tech company [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged Displax, DMT, human computer interface, I/O, interface, multitouch, nanotechnology, nanowire, polymer, thin film, touch screen
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healthBase Medical Search Engine has Wins and Epic Fails
Surf the Internet these days and you’re likely to drown in a sea of information. New “better than search” engines [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Longevity And Health
Tagged aggregate, fail, healthbase, nanotechnology, netbase, TechCrunch
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Stanford Creates World’s Smallest Writing, Less Than a Nanometer
“Stanford researchers have reclaimed bragging rights for creating the world’s smallest writing, a distinction the University first gained in 1985 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged nano writing, nanoscale, nanoscale writing, nanotechnology, tiny writing
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IBM Research Creates 3D Microscope With 100 Million Times Finer Resolution Than Current MRI
IBM Research issued a major press release today announcing the creation of a microscope that can determine the 3-Dimensional structure [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged 3d microscope, microscopy, mrfm, mri, nanotechnology, virus
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Captivating Review of the Emerging Field of Nanotechnology
Canada’s Globemail has an article titled “Science of tiny raises big hopes, big fears” written by Dean Bennet that gives a [...]
Solar Power Game-Changer: Near Perfect Absorption of Sunlight, From All Angles
A huge leap has been made in the creation of high efficiency, cost effective solar power with the announcement of [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged absorption, material, nano surface, nanotechnology, reflection, rensselaer, solar
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Intel: Human and computer intelligence will merge in 40 years
Add Intel’s CTO and senior fellow Justin Rattner to the growing list of singularity proponents according to an article from [...]
Posted in AI, Computer Interfaces, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged intelligence, justin rattner, nanotechnology, Singularity
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Nanotechnology Overhyped in the Past…Booming Today!
In a press release Lux Research reports that nanotechnology is in the midst of a phenomenal boom, predicted to find [...]
Birth of nanotechnology documented by this historic IBM photo
From the IEEE report on the singularity I found a cool reference to the birth of nanotechnology in the article [...]
IEEE special report on the singularity
IEEE produced a special report on the singularity in its June 2008 issue located here: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/singularity This is a comprehensive [...]
Posted in AI, Computer Interfaces, Genetics, Longevity And Health, Robots
Tagged ai, brain, cells, computers, evolution, genes, ieee, longevity, nanotechnology, Singularity
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Physicists tweak quantum force, reducing barrier to nano sized devices
The University of Florida today reports that scientists have reduced the Casimir force between two metal plates by changing the [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged casimir force, mems, nano, nanotechnology, physics, plates, quantum
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