Impact Lab

Flexible Transistors Printed on Rolls

January 17, 2002

Rolltronics Corporation and its partner, Iowa Thin Film Technologies, envision building integrated circuits in a process as simple as printing a newspaper.

The two companies recently demonstrated the world’s first working silicon transistors made using a radical new “roll-to-roll” manufacturing technique. In this process, a continuous sheet of flexible polymer is unrolled from one spool, covered with circuit-board-like patterns of silicon, and collected on another spool.
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Science & Technology News

Plasma Antennas

January 16, 2002

Sometimes you can uncover great information, even it is being created by the true slumlords of the Internet. Plasma antennas are radiofrequency antennas that employ plasma as the guiding medium for electromagnetic radiation. Conventional antennas employ either metal or dielectric materials, such as teflon, to support antenna currents necessary for radiating electromagnetic fields. More Here
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Science & Technology News

Methanol-Powered Micro Fuel Cells

January 16, 2002

Tiny little power plants, micro fuel cells, will soon be powering everything from cell phones to laptop computers to a host of other handheld devices. Even the best lithium-ion cell-phone batteries provide only about four hours of talk time while these micro fuel cells could provide up to 20 hours. No recharging batteries here, you just swap out methanol cartridges.
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Historical Perspectives

Aluminim Organic Capacitor

January 16, 2002

It sounds like an oxymoron, but a new aluminium organic capacitor developed by Micromark can sustain its capacitance at unusually high operating frequencies. Applications include low voltage, high current power supplies for equipment such as desktop PCs and set top boxes.
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Hot Issues

Microinsurance To Reduce the Vulnerability of Poor People.

January 16, 2002

Spawned by a microfinance industry that was created to assist the less fortunate, microinsurance has carved out a specific market niche. This site is a thought leader in this emerging market. Insurance is a good tool to help reduce the vulnerability of poor people.
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Science & Technology News

Trends in Japanese Youth

January 16, 2002

Young consumers in Japan are opening their wallets to both prestigious brand-name imports and low-priced goods at the same time. Leading brand-name goods from overseas are enjoying booming sales.
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Uncategorized

Maptech’s GPS Handheld Mapping System

January 16, 2002

Maptech has developed a very creative full-functioning chartplotter program for your Pocket PC. This innovative new Pocket Navigator is a wireless GPS system for the Pocket PC that produces high resolution Aero, Marine, and Land maps for the entire world. So the next time you’re lost in the middle of North Dakota ….well, you’d just better ask for directions. Even true genius can’t explain North Dakota. More Here

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Science & Technology News

Three Wheeled Roadster

January 15, 2002

The Merlin Roadster is definitely a hot looking car. It comes equipped with a 88 cubic inch V-twin engine that pushes it past the 100 mph mark. It also get a cool 60 miles per gallon. This little sportscar will hit dealers this summer with a pricetag of $23,900.
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Health & Fitness

Useless Web Site of the Month

January 15, 2002

Useless yes, but it’s still a lot of fun. The site is intended to teach people about the dynamics of movement by making a skeleton move like humans do. Its all about kinematics – the science of movement. You’ll enjoy the experience. Here it is!
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Breakthrough Thinking

Time Magazine Invention of the Year

January 15, 2002

Time magazine has called it the invention of the year. This outrageously expensive piece of furniture vibrates all to pieces of your body that need vibrating. The H.9 Shaiatsu massage chair will only set you back a cool $3,500. More Here
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Historical Perspectives

The Norwegian Leonardo Project

January 13, 2002

In 1502 Leonardo da Vinci did a simple drawing of a graceful bridge with a huge span of 240 meters. It was a design commissioned by Sultan Bajazet II to span the Golden Horn, an inlet at the mouth of the Bosporus River in what is the modern nation of Turkey. It was never built. When Vebjørn Sand saw the design in an exhibition on da Vinci’s engineering genius in 1996, he was overwhelmed by the beauty of the design. His great gift to the people of Norway was his ability to communicate this vision to the public sector.
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Science & Technology News

Air Keyboards

January 13, 2002

For those who think there’s a future in playing air guitar, two companies have prototyped invisible keyboard technologies. Samsung’s Scurry and the Senseboard are both a couple virtual keyboards that use sensors on the back of your hands to track the movements of your fingers. However, they’ll never be real useful for those of us that have to look at the keys.
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