Quantum Computing: A New Era Of Molecular Circuit Chips ... Details are available at "Molecular Memories -- With the Help of Rotaxanes." John G. Spooner recently spoke with Stanley Williams, director of the HP lab, about molecular grid technology...
Will Diatoms Lead To Faster Computer Chips? ... You can see above a picture of a diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana. "With a hard outer shell of silica shaped like a hatbox and marked with pores -- [it] is 3 to 4 microns in size, making it among the smallest diatoms." (Credit: University of Washington) Here is a link to a larger version...
Chips In Human Brains To Control Prosthesis ... Here is the introduction of the ANBA report. The Syrian-Lebanese Hospital, in the southeastern Brazilian city of São Paulo, is going to perform the first surgery in the world for implantation of robotic arms into a human being, to be moved by brain signals...
2010 Camaro Performance Chips ... The Diablo Sport name was founded in 2000 and has continued to be a leader in the Performance chips and tuners industry since...
Saving Energy With Probabilistic Chips ... Let's start with a paragraph of this Georgia Tech news release. The research team led by Dr...
Putting Chips Inside Our Brains ... This research work has been led by Justin Sanchez, an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Florida and director of the Neuroprosthetics Research Group (NRG). You can see on the left a picture of the electrodes that he plans to put in his neuroprosthetic chip (Credit: NRG)...
CAD Software Leads To Faster Chips ... The figure above shows the placement solutions offered by the UCLA's Multilevel Global Placement Tool (mPL) after different runs. You can see that cells are distributed more evenly from level to level...
Best Cookies: No Bake Rocky Road Chocolate Bars ... Here’s a rocky road that you’ll be more than happy to travel on. You’ll love how quick and easy they are to make, but I bet they won’t last long...
3-D Flexible Computer Chips ... Here is a short description of this technique picked from a University of Wisconsin-Madison news release. A team led by electrical and computer engineer Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma and materials scientist Max Lagally have developed a process to remove a single-crystal film of semiconductor from the substrate on which it is built...
IBM Researchers Think Three-Dimensional Chips Are Possible ... The Economist tells us how IBM will build its 3-D chips. The plan is to stack high-performance circuit layers so intimately that they can be thought of as a single chip built on many circuit layers...
RFID Chips Everywhere ... This opens the possibility to embed these chips into virtually anything, from bank notes to plane tickets...
Building Nanowires To Connect Future Chips ... The figure above summarizes the chemistry used to produce these metallic nanowires (Credit: University of Alberta). This research project has been led by Jillian Buriak, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Alberta and senior research officer at the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT)...
Lasers Blink Through Silicon Chips ... Here are some short quotes from this news release. Ray Chen, a professor of electrical engineering, and graduate students Wei Jiang, YongQiang Jiang and Lanlan Gu [from his research group,] created a chip made of silicon "photonic crystals" whose complex internal structure slowed light traveling through the chip...
A Plasmonic Revolution For Computer Chips? ... Let's start with some technical explanations. Surface plasmons are density waves of electrons -- picture bunches of electrons passing a point regularly -- along the surface of a metal...
EU May Issue Passports With Embedded Data Chips ... The chips would also be implanted in visas given to non-EU citizens, making it easier for governments to keep track of foreigners as they travel through borderless Europe....
Fish & Chips ... Here are some details about the current status of the project. Where salmon swim once they've hatched -- their exact path up the Pacific Northwest coastline to Alaska -- is a question that's long puzzled scientists working to better manage North American fishing stocks...
Chocolate Covered Potato Chips ... The same principle holds true with chocolate covered potato chips and if you’ve had a pretzel dipped in chocolate you know how well salty and sweet go together... A specialty chocolate shop is certain to have a wide selection of chocolate covered potato chips alongside the nuts and pretzels...
Storing Light In Chips ... Researchers at Stanford University have come up with a scheme to store light pulses under ordinary conditions using photonic crystal -- semiconductor chips that contain regularly spaced holes or rods of a different material...
A New Kind Of Light ... The chips -- 18 million of them -- are already on display in the $37 million Nasdaq sign in Times Square... More notable, the chips are penetrating blue-collar tasks like illuminating traffic lights, brake lights and exit signs....