Introducing the amazing buckypaper
News reports that a lab at Florida State University is about to unveil a buckypapers for the commercial market. What are buckypapers you ask? Why, only ridiculously tough (albeit lightweight) sheets of matter made from intertwined carbon nanotubes. In short, future stuff.
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If you haven’t heard about India’s Tata Motor Company, then I’ll give you the skinny: they are releasing a 100,000 rupee car – that’s US$2500, brand spanking new. Unveiled last night, the Tata NANO, will bring motoring within the reach of millions when it is launched in India later in 2008. It doesn’t have any [...]
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The MP4-21 from Shenzhen Sietek Industrial offers a new take on Apple’s clickwheel. The device supports MTV videos, WMA, MP3 and WMV audio files (with ID3 tags) and JPEG images, and has seven EQ modes. A 2.4-inch TFT screen that displays 262,000 colors, some kind of USB port, and a miniSD slot are built-in. [...]
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According to Harvard University, tiny gizmos of the future could be powered via a "silicon nanowire that can convert light into electrical energy."
The cable itself looks like what we a re used to seeing, but it is 100,000 times smaller, and made of silicon with three different types of conductivity arranged as layered shells.
This [...]
New Ipod Nano
My old Ipod nano broke (sad)
Guess what I’m getting tomorrow? (happy)
Fat Little iPod Nano
Here is the 3rd-gen Nano. Short and squat with a 2-inch display which boasts the same 320 by 240 resolution as the full-size fifth-gen iPod. This baby can play video as well as music. Pre-loaded games include iQuiz, Vortex and Klondike with more available later this month through iTunes — like Pac Man.
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