Technology

The University of California system adopted a policy on August 2nd that the default publishing of any scholarly article will be licensed openly to the University of California and also openly available to all the scientists. This has received a great amount of press for the valuable value it brings to open access journals as…

Carnegie Mellon researchers, Robert Xiao, Chris Harrison and Scott E Hudson have come up with a touchscreen system that can be used on any surface. They have used a projector coupled with a depth measuring system that enables any surface to be converted to a touch screen. More information here and the technology can be…

It is amazing that plants photosynthetic machinery is the only one that keeps the earth and human beings alive by fixing the carbon dioxide and generating the oxygen that is required for all the human activities. It is also surprising that the reaction that just uses sunglight, water and carbon-dioxide could be the most important…

On May 15th Dr McGeoch of Amherst University presented a paper about a test that was done to compare computers running conventional binary logic with computers using quantum computing chips. It is fascinating to see that the quantum computers have made the leap from just theory to actual machines. There were 3 tests done and…

Motors are universal in whatever happens in science or the real world. They are used everywhere there is a motion required. There are various kinds of motors : Servo motor: This is a brushless motor Stepper motor Induction motor Motors used to be dumb rotating machines but as the technology has developed, the motors have…

Tissue printing sounds very interesting since it bring forward the concept of custom made tissue that can be made in the lab and can cure disease. But, this is a tough problem. It is difficult to make tissue that functions normally and be very safe to put it back into human. However, there is one…

For most people the concept of robotics is scary. It means automatic machines that take engineers to program and then they operate like automatons performing repeated functions over and over again till they are stopped. If you are in the way of the operations, then it means destruction to you! However, a new company “rethink…

Almost all versions of computers need to be backed up. The two that have been very robust and offer good backup and cloning solutions are: Reflect Disk Imaging: http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp Paragon Backup & Recovery Free Edition: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express/download.html These are the ones that offer very good flexibility as well as allow you to make bootable disks.

The army comes up with cool new technology that is obviously great for tires but this material could also make up instrumentation that will be light and flexible. An unbreakable spectrophotometer! {youtube}2wAvxQfusWU{/youtube}

Microfluidics involves complicated design and mechanics of fluid motion. Microfluidics enables many reactions to take place in miniscule volumes. This enables efficiency as well as minitiaturization with the consequential advantage of speed and low waste of reagents. However, one persistent problem has been the pumps that are required to pump liquid through these minor chambers….