Miniaturized information storage in atomic-scale antiferromagnets. The binary representation of the letter ‘S’ (01010011) was stored in the Neel states of eight iron atom arrays.
After five years of work, IBM announced on Thursday that its researchers have been able to reduce from about one million to 12 the number of atoms required to create a bit of data. (video)
Continue reading… “IBM creates a bit of data using only 12 iron atoms”
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Clumsy medics are at the center of a media storm in Mexico after they drop a human heart being rushed to a transplant patient by police helicopter.
Futurist Thomas Frey: After spending the past three days scouring the showroom floors at CES, watching people become overwhelmed by what they saw, I tended to be more underwhelmed by what I didn’t see.
Continue reading… “25 Technologies I Didn’t See at CES”
PowerTrekk
A Swedish company, myFC, has figured out how to power smartphones using a system that includes some water, a tray, a little round container, and an eyeglass case styled cover. The company is introducing its PowerTrekk system to Americans at the CES show in Vegas. PowerTrekk describes its charger as a pocket size, lightweight gizmo for users “who spend time away from the electricity grid.” Translation: If you are hiking over the weekend with no Starbucks or friend’s flat in sight, your phone can still get charged. (Videos and pics)
Continue reading… “PowerTrekk uses water to charge mobile phones”
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It’s no surprise how often we use our cell phones. Whether e-mailing, Facebook status updating, or Angry Birds slinging, it seems that we always need to recharge. Cell phone battery life technology has lagged other advancements, such as high resolution displays, faster processors, and larger storage, all of which demand more power. Charging a phone more than once a day has become the norm for many users. In fact, many people have even resorted to carrying around a spare charger or large external battery packs. These tips should help alleviate the problem:
Continue reading… “Top Ten Tips to Make your Cell Phone Battery Last Longer”
Researchers are a step closer to finding a reliable power source for the bug-borne sensors.
Scientists have been pushing hard to outfit robobugs, or some may call then insect cyborgs, with tiny electronic sensors–saying these insect-machine mash-ups could prove invaluable in applications ranging from search-and-rescue to espionage. (Video)
Continue reading… “Cyborg insect power breakthrough”
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Broad Group, a Chinese construction company, is known for putting up buildings with record speed. How fast? According to Gizmodo, the company owned by Xian Min Zhang, most recently, constructed a 30 story, 183,000-square-foot hotel in 15 days — 360 hours.
Continue reading… “Amazing time-lapse video of a 30 story hotel built in 15 days in China”
Bullet
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student has invented the first “self-balancing” electric unicycle. (Video)
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It’s not easy being a kid in today’s world. Everywhere you turn it seems like adults are out to make you look like a spoiled, entitled brat.
Continue reading… “Parents disturbed by bratty kids tweets about Christmas gifts”
Rotating dome house
Usually, when someone asks for the remote, it’s because they want to undertake some serious TV channel surfing. But in one unique home located just 90 minutes north of New York City, playing with the remote control will set the entire wooden house spinning on its axis. (Pics and video)
Continue reading… “Dome house rotates to take advantage of sun’s energy”
In 1997, when “Seinfeld” first introduced “Festivus” to mainstream America, the writers of the show probably had no idea that 14 years later not only would it still be celebrated every Dec. 23, but that it would fit so well in an online world. In the online world “airing of the grievances” is pretty much a regular pastime. (video)
Continue reading… “Festivus thrives online 14 years later”
This was the year of big data. Data graphics continue to thrive and designers are putting more thought into what the data are about, and that’s a very good thing.
Continue reading… “15 of the best data visualization projects of 2011”
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