Here is an interesting article from PC Magazine talking about how sound waves can provide electricity. Dr. Sang-Woo Kim and his colleagues at Sungkyunkwan University’s Institute of Nanotechnology in Seoul say they have developed a new method of converting sound into electricity. They say a cell phone could be charged simply by talking into it while [...]
Curious about the difference between 2D and 3D transitors? Check out this video from Intel with Mark Bohr getting small to explain. The video gives a good visual on the difference. Mark Viquesney
We know that 3D is all the rage with movies and televisions. But with computer chips? Intel is anouncing the first mass scale production of transitors that are 3D instead of 2D. Tri-Gate transistors form conducting channels on three sides of a vertical “fin” structure, a major advance from the planar design of transistors in use [...]
This sounds too good to be true – but here it is from the NSF itself about a project for solar cells that can be sprayed on. Have you seen those big, bulky, breakable photovoltaic cells that now collect the sun’s rays? Well, what if solar energy could be harnessed using tiny collectors that could be [...]
Tom McGlew was telling me a story a few weeks ago. More on that story as I remind or inform people of who Tom is. Tom is the project manager of the NSF eSyst project and does a lot of work with Semi High Tech U. eSyst helps instructors move their electronics program from the [...]
Not only can you make phone calls and do math and look at a computer and play games (click here for other Xoom post), but you can also use the Xoom to perdict the weather! Check out the news item on CENT. Now if it has a temperture gauge. My phone says one temperture, and [...]
It is always interesting to look back at the end of the year. What new technologies are out there, what game changers are there, what happened. And while every year, there is something new or improved, it is the game changers that we write most about. Last year, about this time, common thought was the [...]
“Hi Mom. Can I call you back? I’m in the middle of a fire fight.” I cannot say that is something that will never happen, after all, the truth is always stranger than fiction, but I can see this phone call happening some point in the future. The solider would probably say, “Busy mom, I’ll [...]
For the past few years, a lot of people have theorized about what smart phones will be able to do. Some people are saying that smart phones would be able to detect harmful chemicals, or detecting danger heart arrhythmias. This will happen and is happening. Today in the main stream news, Britian doctors are working on an app [...]
Ever wonder how a computer works? Using the top-down approach, this block diagram takes you on a journey through the various stages of a microprocessor’s architecture. At the system level, the details of each component are concealed, all emphasis being placed on the task that each device performs. For starters, every microprocessor has an arithmetic [...]
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