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How to Draw Your Own Circuits

Paper computing may be the way of the future, says Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab assistant professor Leah Buechley. She and her team recently presented their latest innovation, a kit for sketching and drawing circuits on a very special type of paper, using a very special pen. The kit contains a fe...

28 December 2011
04:37 GMT

Transistor Connects Humans and Machines

Ever since computers were invented and developed, numerous scientists and science-fiction authors alike have been fantasizing about connecting the two. We are not talking about cyborgs necessarily, but about allowing humans to interact with machines directly, at a cellular level, without the need for cumbersome perip...

20 May 2010
09:50 GMT

Circuit Evolution Achieved for the First Time

Emulating the way the human brain solves complex problems has been a long-standing goal in the field of electronics, and an international collaboration of scientists may have just set the foundation for doing just that. Usually, in digital computers, circuits that process information are static. This does not happen ...

26 April 2010
05:20 GMT

New Type of Advanced Computer Closer to Reality

Experts at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) have recently reaffirmed their role as leading experts in the field of electronics. Last summer, they created an integrated circuit capable of working at 1.5 degrees Kelvin above absolute zero. Those temperatures are colder than most places in the Universe, ...

28 September 2009
04:05 GMT

BYU Experts Learn to Spell with DNA

Manipulating DNA strands individually and precisely is one of the most sought-after technologies in science today, simply because this would open up tremendous, new research possibilities in fields ranging from medicine to computing. In the latter, circuits made from nanomaterials combined with DNA could lead to amaz...

16 September 2009
22:01 GMT

Graphene and Gallium Arsenide Make the Perfect 'Couple'

Undoubtedly, the electronic circuits that will make up the appliances of the future will be a long way away from the equipment we see today. New materials, new technologies, a combination of organic and inorganic molecules, and a higher degree of miniaturization will change the aspect of circuit boards forever. Effor...

16 September 2009
10:36 GMT

New Polymer Allows for Printing Organic Circuits

Undoubtedly, one of the innovations that will make the computers and electronics of tomorrow run faster and better will consist of printed circuits. Experts have already devised organic circuits that are cheap, efficient and printable, but the trouble is that, unlike their inorganic counterparts, they require two mat...

24 August 2009
03:00 GMT

New Advancements in Quantum Mechanical Devices

Experts from the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) have recently announced that they managed to create a new type of circuit that behaves in a quantum mechanic manner. They say that the innovative device does not have the regular two levels of energy, but that it boasts a full five of them. Details of ...

12 August 2009
19:31 GMT

The Age of Cellular Circuits Is Here

Seemingly tired of regular circuits, electronics experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Boston University have created the first cellular circuit in the world, made up entirely out of specially engineered cells. These cells have the ability to record and store the recent events that took place...

29 May 2009
08:53 GMT

Carbon Nanotubes More Suited for Electronics than Metal

Physicists working on ways of building more and more integrated circuits on smaller electronic devices are aware of some simple and undeniable truths, such as that, below a certain point of miniaturization, the forces that are negligible in large-scale electronics have become so strong that they influence the outcome...

21 March 2009
06:17 GMT

Discovered 'Quantum Dance' to Revolutionize Computing

Scientist have known for a long time that atoms placed in various specific conformations have the potential to make electrons around them dance in a “quantum” way, but have until now failed to create such an alignment. But the February 13th edition of the journal Science hosts a new scientific study that ...

19 February 2009
04:54 GMT

Flexible, Washable Electronics Made with Elastic Circuit Connectors

Flexible electronics, also known as flex circuits or flex circuit boards, represent a technology for building electronic circuits by depositing electronic devices on flexible substrates such as plastic or even organic materials.A new generation of flexible circuit connectors could produce a new class of electronic ap...

11 July 2007
11:11 GMT

Spin Valve Made of Graphene Could Produce New Memory Devices

Graphene may very well be the material of the future and is currently of high scientific interest due to its unusual electronic properties, explains Allen Goldman, a scientist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.Along with Masaya Nishioka, also at the University of Minnesota, he created a spin valve made o...

10 July 2007
09:00 GMT

Microscopic Lifeforms Could Slowly Eat Away the Internation Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) is supposed to be one of the cleanest places on Earth. The problem is that it's not on Earth. Filth can severely damage a ship, and that's not good news for future Mars explorations taking up to four years.Unfortunately, aboard the ISS there are some unwanted passenger...

21 May 2007
10:08 GMT

Clothes That Remember Your Shapes

Despite the incredible variety of clothes today, in terms of shape, size, texture, color, it seems that we never find the right clothes anymore. While many shopping addicts love wandering from mall to mall and store to store, most people have a really hard time finding the right clothes.Don't you hate it when ...

30 April 2007
08:56 GMT

Nanoscale MRI Could "See" Individual Atoms in 3-D

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), formerly referred to as magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) or, in chemistry, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), is a non-invasive method used to render images of the inside of an object. It is primarily used in medical imaging to demonstrate pathological or other physiological alter...

24 April 2007
05:27 GMT


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