http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/new-technology-blog.html New technology blog from Blogspan, the place for information. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:32:41 GMT en-us http://www.Blogspan.org/images/blogs/new-technology-blog.jpg http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/new-technology-blog.html 100 100 http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/chinas-dangerous-web-domains.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/chinas-dangerous-web-domains.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:32:41 GMT A recent report by antivirus software vendor McAfee Inc. has found that some of the most dangerous domains on the Internet are in China. That may not be good for companies setting up Internet-based business ......... ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/porous-nanostructures-for-better-fuel-cells.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/porous-nanostructures-for-better-fuel-cells.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:35:25 GMT For 5,000 years or so, the only way to shape metal has been to "heat and beat." Even in modern nanotechnology, working with metals involves carving with electron beams or etching with acid. Now, Cornell scientists have developed a method to self-assemble metals into complex nanostructures. Applications include making more efficient and cheaper catalysts for fuel cells and industrial processes and creating microstructured surfaces to make new types of conductors that would carry more information across microchips than conventional wires do........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/standards-set-for-energy-conserving-led-lighting.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/standards-set-for-energy-conserving-led-lighting.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:35:25 GMT Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with national standards organizations, have taken the lead in developing the first two standards for solid-state lighting in the United States. This new generation lighting technology uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) instead of incandescent filaments or fluorescent tubes to produce illumination that cuts energy consumption significantly........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/discovery-of-faster-computers.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/discovery-of-faster-computers.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:35:25 GMT Physicists at UC Riverside have made an accidental discovery in the lab that has potential to change how information in computers can be transported or stored. Dependent on the "spin" of electrons, a property electrons possess that makes them behave like tiny magnets, the discovery could help in the development of spin-based semiconductor technology such as ultrahigh-speed computers........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/shape-to-cool-future-computers.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/shape-to-cool-future-computers.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:35:25 GMT Researchers at Purdue University are developing a miniature refrigeration system small enough to fit inside laptops and personal computers, a cooling technology that would boost performance while shrinking the size of computers. Unlike conventional cooling systems, which use a fan to circulate air through finned devices called heat sinks attached to computer chips, miniature refrigeration would dramatically increase how much heat could be removed, said Suresh Garimella, the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Mechanical Engineering........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/sticky-nanotubes-hold-key-to-future-technologies.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/sticky-nanotubes-hold-key-to-future-technologies.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:35:25 GMT Scientists at Purdue University are the first to precisely measure the forces mandatory to peel tiny nanotubes off of other materials, opening up the possibility of creating standards for nano-manufacturing and harnessing a gecko's ability to walk up walls. So-called "peel tests" are used extensively in manufacturing. Knowing how much force is needed to pull a material off of another material is essential for manufacturing, but no tests exist for nanoscale structures, said Arvind Raman, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/oncology-diagnostics-by-aviaradx.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/oncology-diagnostics-by-aviaradx.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:35:25 GMT Innovations on cancer diagnostics are what AviaraDx, Inc. brought to the market. ......... ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/waterman-award-to-uclas-mozart-of-math.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/waterman-award-to-uclas-mozart-of-math.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:06:56 GMT The National Science Foundation (NSF) is proud to announce that 32-year-old Terence Tao, a professor of mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles, will receive its 2008 Alan T. Waterman Award. Called a andquot;supreme problem-solver,andquot; and named one of andquot;the Brilliant 10andquot; researchers by Popular Science (October 2006), Tao's extraordinary work, much of which has been funded by NSF through the years, has had a tremendous impact across several mathematical areas. He will receive the award at a black tie dinner program at the U.S. Department of State on May 6........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/origami-space-flight.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/origami-space-flight.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:06:56 GMT Japanese scientists and origami masters hope to launch a paper airplane from space and learn from its trip back to Earth. It''s no joke. A prototype passed a durability test in a wind tunnel this month, Japan''s space agency adopted it Wednesday for feasibility studies, and a well-known astronaut is interested in participating.

In the picture above, a 2.8 inches long and 2 inches wide Space Shuttle-shaped paper plane is seen in a wind tunnel before a durability test at a Tokyo University ......... ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/fake-diamonds-help-jet-engines-take-the-heat.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/fake-diamonds-help-jet-engines-take-the-heat.html Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:54:28 GMT Ohio State University engineers are in the process of developing a technology to coat jet engine turbine blades with zirconium dioxide -- usually called zirconia, the stuff of synthetic diamonds -- to combat high-temperature corrosion. The zirconia chemically converts sand and other corrosive particles that build up on the blade into a new, protective outer coating. In effect, the surface of the engine blade constantly renews itself........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/skewered-pumpkins.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/skewered-pumpkins.html Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:54:28 GMT We encounter valves every day, whether in the water faucet, the carburetor in our car, or our bicycle tire tube. Valves are also present in the world of nanotechnology. A team of scientists headed by J. Fraser Stoddart and Jeffrey I. Zink at the University of California, Los Angeles, has now developed a new nanovalve. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, the researchers reveal what is special about it: In contrast to previous versions, which only function in organic solvents, this valve operates in an aqueous environment and under physiological conditions-prerequisites for any application as a gate for nanoscopic drug-transport agents, which need to set their cargo free at the right place and time........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2008/groundbreaking-technology-in-spam-prevention.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2008/groundbreaking-technology-in-spam-prevention.html Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:54:28 GMT According to Ferris Research, spam can cost over $500 per user a year. Even with spam filters in place, they claim it still costs $140 per user a year. It also results in lost productivity and higher IT ......... ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2008/transparent-toaster.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2008/transparent-toaster.html Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:07:57 GMT I know there are fancy toasters out there, but essentially most toasters work in the same way, whether you paid $10 for your little machine or $300. You set the timer, put the slice of bread in, and it pops out when done. If it''s not quite toasty enough, you put it back in. If it''s burned and inedible, you throw it out and start over with a new piece of ......... ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2007/proton-camera.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2007/proton-camera.html Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:36:14 GMT Lab researchers, working with Teledyne Imaging Sensors, have built the world's fastest camera, and it has just won an RandD 100 Award from RandD Magazine as one of the 100 most technologically significant products of 2007. Made from two bonded microelectronic chips, the "Camera on a Chip" can capture 2.8 million frames per second. A normal motion picture camera captures 24 frames per second........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2007/nanoscale-details-of-photolithography-process.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2007/nanoscale-details-of-photolithography-process.html Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:36:14 GMT Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made the first direct measurements of the infinitesimal expansion and collapse of thin polymer films used in the manufacture of advanced semiconductor devices. It's a matter of only a couple of nanometers, but it can be enough to affect the performance of next-generation chip manufacturing. The NIST measurements, detailed in a new paper,* offer a new insight into the complex chemistry that enables the mass production of powerful new integrated circuits........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2007/petfinder-goes-primetime.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2007/petfinder-goes-primetime.html Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:36:14 GMT Wanting to find the ideal pet for your wired home? Then go the hi-tech way of finding a pet with ......... ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2007/mit-creates-oil-repelling-materials.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2007/mit-creates-oil-repelling-materials.html Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:30:57 GMT MIT engineers have designed a class of material structures that can repel oils, a novel discovery that could have applications in aviation, space travel and hazardous waste cleanup. Such materials could be used to help protect parts of airplanes or rockets that are vulnerable to damage from being soaked in fuel, like rubber gaskets and o-rings........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/11-2007/fatigue-effects-in-silicon.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/11-2007/fatigue-effects-in-silicon.html Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:30:57 GMT Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a mechanical fatigue process that eventually leads to cracks and breakdown in bulk silicon crystalsa phenomenon thats especially interesting because it long has been thought not to exist. Their recently published* results have important implications for the design of new silicon-based micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) devices that have been proposed for a wide variety of uses........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/10-2007/control-your-seasonal-lighting-with-a-remote.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/10-2007/control-your-seasonal-lighting-with-a-remote.html Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:30:57 GMT Tired of climbing behind the Christmas Tree, or walking from outlet to outlet to turn on your seasonal lighting. Don't climb around any more, you need the INSTEON Wireless ......... ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/9-2007/the-ipod-touch-is-actually-a-pda.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/9-2007/the-ipod-touch-is-actually-a-pda.html Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:33:11 GMT Apple's marketing machine may be bunching in the new iPod touch with the other iPods, but the fact is that Apple's new iPhone-without-the-phone is a ......... ]]>