Wood chips (of the computer variety).
Science Daily peers into the smoke clouds to see the truth behind biodegradable computer chips make from wood: Portable electronics — typically made of non-renewable, […]
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Mobile phone microscope saving lives (and eyes) in Africa
Nature has more on a cell phone gizmo that’s changing how medicine is done in remote places: In a study in Science Translational Medicine on […]
Programmable solids. Any shape you like.
Science magazine is shaping up for a flexible future, with a whole new kind of 3D LCD screen: The moving images we see on a […]
Screen light too bright, can’t get to sleep at night (now, eyes won’t focus right).
I don’t normally go to Business Insider for science news, but they’ve actually got a pretty good rundown of recent research into the problems with […]
Clean suit filters pollution out of the air. (And hooks you up to the internet.)
Dezeen, the design magazine, gives the specs on a high-tech suit that cleans the air around the wearer: Designers Borre Akkersdijk and Eva de Laat […]
Brain-to-brain communication via EEG over the internet.
Science Daily breaks the news that telepathy – brain communication through machines – is not only possible, but scientists have already done it across 5,000 […]
Hemp really IS a super-material… in circuitry, that is.
Laboratory Equipment reveals recent findings (as cannabis becomes easier to research) that the marijuana plant might make better supercapacitors than the “wonder material” graphene: David […]
E-smell delivered across the Atlantic
Live Science hails a bold new step in connectivity as researchers in New York City successfully transmitted a smell to Paris… via the internet: NEW […]
Science Art: Man-Made Producers of Noise, by Van Valkenburgh, Nooger & Neville, 1959.
From Basic Electronics, Part 5, a manual used by the U.S. Navy to train people in the basics of aerials, transmitters, frequency modulation and all […]
SONG: “Starter Home”
SONG: “Starter Home.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Home Tweet Home: High-Tech Solutions for House and Apartment,” New […]
This home really speaks to me. Over the internet…
The New York Times looks inside the house of tomorrow, which is staying in touch with its owner via Twitter: So it is with Tom […]
Laser-powered “optochips” could make tiny tech.
PhysOrg explains that circuits using lasers are already around, but tend to be too bulky to fit into your average TV set or smartphone. That […]
NATO creates electronic-stopping beam.
The Telegraph is comparing it to a James Bond movie – a ray that makes any electronic devices in range stop working: Scientists from the […]
Graphene makes *different* computer chips.
University of California, Riverside, researchers have made a very small breakthrough in the way computers work… one that might lead to big changes soon. They’re […]
Paint your own circuits with electronic pens.
PhysOrg gives new meaning to “magic marker” with these pens that draw flexible circuits in whatever shape you like: London-based Bare Conductive Ltd. makes electrically […]