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Intel’s smart TV remote will recognize you, tailor content to your wishes
It’s all about how you hold it, apparently. Intel’s Labs have churned out a proposal for a new user-identifying system to be embedded into remote controls.
Inhabitat’s Week in Green: solar aircraft, freshwater wind farms, and the Automotive X Prize
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.
LCDs can be transformed from e-waste to infection fighters, says new research
Researchers at the University of York have discovered a possible use for discarded LCD s which should come as a relief to anyone familiar with the world’s rampant e-waste problem. According to the report, which will be presented today at the Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference in Washington, D.C., a process of heating, then cooling and dehydrating the PVA (polyvinyl-alcohol, the key component of LCDs) with ethanol produces a surface area of mesoporous material with great potential for use in biomedicine . The resultant product’s anti-microbial properties can now be enhanced by adding silver nanoparticles, producing something which is anti-bacterial and can kill things like E.coli
Self-assembling nanodevices could advance medicine one tiny leap at a time
Seems like Harvard wasn’t content with making robotic bees , and has taken its quest for miniaturization right down to the nanoscale level.
VIA reveals 1.6GHz Nano DC processor at Computex, shows it handling 720p (video)
Guess who showed up at Computex with an all-new dual-core processor? Nah, we’re not referring to AMD or Intel (though they certainly did) — we’re talking about VIA . The company quietly (re)introduced a dual-core desktop chip here in Taipei, with the codename Nano DC being used to describe it for the time being
5nm crystals could lead to vastly larger optical discs, mighty fine time machines
Blu-ray was already looking mighty fine at 25GB of storage per layer — and if Sony manages to make the indigo foil sheets hold 33.4GB each , we certainly won’t complain — but Japanese researchers have discovered a compound that could leapfrog Blu-ray entirely. Scientists at the University of Tokyo discovered that by hitting 5-nanometer titanium pentoxide crystals with a laser, they could get the metal to change color and conduct less electricity, leading to what they believe is an effective new medium for optical data storage.
