Archive for the ‘Ideas’ Category

MIT Genius Stuffs 100 Processors Into Single Chip

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Forget dual-core and quad-core processors: A semiconductor company promises to pack 100 cores into a processor that can be used in applications that require hefty computing punch, like video conferencing, wireless base stations and networking. By comparison, Intel’s latest chips are expected to have just eight cores. With a revolutionary new ...

Future Tech: Visible Light Communications

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

Visible Light Communication uses light emitting diodes (LEDs), for the dual role of illumination and data transmission. Using the visible light spectrum, which is free and less crowded than other frequencies, wireless services can be piggy-backed over existing lighting installations. With this leading edge technology, data ...

An Artificial Leaf Invented Which Can Solve Power Crisis

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

[caption id="attachment_535" align="alignright" width="300" caption="An important step toward realizing the dream of an inexpensive and simple “artificial leaf,” a device to harness solar energy by splitting water molecules, has been accomplished by two separate teams of researchers at MIT"][/caption] Scientists have created the world's first practical artificial leaf that can ...

Silent Sound Technology: An End To Noisy Communications

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

You are in a movie theater or noicy restaurent or a bus etc where there is lot of noice around is big issue while talking on a mobile phone. But in the future this problem is eliminated with "silent sounds", a new technology unveiled at the CeBIT fair on Tuesday that transforms ...

IBM To Build Next Generation Chips Using DNA

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

In future DNA wouldn’t just control human evolution but also computing evolution, if IBM succeeds to use DNA in development of next-generation microchips. [caption id="attachment_378" align="alignright" width="232" caption="IBM scientists are using DNA scaffolding to build tiny circuit boards; this image shows high concentrations of triangular DNA origami binding to wide lines ...

Scientists Extract Images Directly From Brain

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Pink Tentacle reports that researchers at Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed a system that can "reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor." According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while ...