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Intel’s smart TV remote will recognize you, tailor content to your wishes

BlaineSnook64 — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:36:00 +0000

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.

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Intel’s smart TV remote will recognize you, tailor content to your wishes

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: solar aircraft, freshwater wind farms, and the Automotive X Prize

Admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:00:00 +0000

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.

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: solar aircraft, freshwater wind farms, and the Automotive X Prize

LCDs can be transformed from e-waste to infection fighters, says new research

BlaineSnook64 — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:27:00 +0000

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

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Self-assembling nanodevices could advance medicine one tiny leap at a time

Admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:40:00 +0000

Seems like Harvard wasn’t content with making robotic bees , and has taken its quest for miniaturization right down to the nanoscale level.

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VIA reveals 1.6GHz Nano DC processor at Computex, shows it handling 720p (video)

Admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:33:00 +0000

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

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5nm crystals could lead to vastly larger optical discs, mighty fine time machines

Admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 02:04:00 +0000

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.

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5nm crystals could lead to vastly larger optical discs, mighty fine time machines

DNA used to build nanoscale assembly line, Arto Lindsay unavailable for comment

Admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:19:00 +0000

This is what they call in the blog biz a “DNA Two-fer.” Earlier today we heard about self-assembling DNA circuits , and now what do we have?

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DNA used to build nanoscale assembly line, Arto Lindsay unavailable for comment

Wooden Level Eleven PC gets inspiration from Thermaltake Level 10 chassis

Admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 06:11:00 +0000

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Wooden Level Eleven PC gets inspiration from Thermaltake Level 10 chassis

Wooden Level Eleven PC gets inspiration from Thermaltake Level 10 chassis

Admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 06:11:00 +0000

Let’s face it — if you had a never-ending stack of cash and a computer room with no particular size constraints, you too would own a Thermaltake Level 10 enclosure. Regrettably, both financial and square footage constraints do indeed play major roles in most of our lives, including one Jeffrey Stephenson . This fine gentleman is quickly becoming the Ben Heck of wood-grained mods , this time cranking out a lovingly crafted iteration of the aforesaid chassis, but with that special wooden flair

Bayer Didget blood glucose monitoring system does double-duty as a DS game

Admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:45:00 +0000

Until we reach the time when tattoos make checking blood glucose levels cool, we’re going to need another way to keep kids with diabetes healthy. And hey, kids love videogames, right

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Bayer Didget blood glucose monitoring system does double-duty as a DS game