Always Innovating is developing a $49. tiny flying video camera called the MeCam, due out in 2014.
The camera streams live video to your smartphone, allowing you to stream or upload videos. A nanocopter with 4 spinning rotors houses the camera, with an ARM Cortex-A9 processor, 1GB of RAM, WiFI, and Bluetooth.
The MeCam launches from the palm of a hand and hovers instantly. It streams… read more
Researchers have a new tool for studying interactions between proteins and nucleic acids: a nanoscale optical ruler than can detect small changes in the size of a given piece of DNA.
This work is reported in the inaugural issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
The device uses gold nanoparticles, which emit light at well-defined wavelengths of light, influenced by the exact physical and chemical environment, such as DNA… read more
An international team of researchers has built a nanoscale biosensor that detects food-borne bacteria.
The biosensor has a mix of gold and silver nanorods with antibodies to capture Salmonella bacteria. The Salmonella bacteria then cause the dye molecules to produce an enhanced fluorescence signal, even with a small number of bacteria present.
Food-borne pathogens cause approximately 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths in the United States… read more
An endoscope that can provide high-resolution optical images of the interior of a single living cell, or precisely deliver genes, proteins, therapeutic drugs or other cargo without injuring or damaging the cell, has been developed by researchers from Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley.
The researchers attached a tin-oxide nanowire waveguide to the tapered end of an optical fiber to create a novel endoscope system. Light… read more
Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers have discovered that a short organic chain molecule with nanometer dimensions conducts electrons in a surprising way: it regulates the electrons’ speed erratically, without a predictable dependence on the length of the wire.
In research on oligophenyleneethynylene (OPE) nanowires, researchers found that as they increased the length of the OPE wire from one to four PE units, the electrons moved across the wire faster, slower,… read more
Picture, if you will, an information infrastructure that encourages censorship, surveillance and suppression of the creative impulse. Where anonymity is outlawed and every penny spent is accounted for. Where the powers that be can smother subversive (or economically competitive) ideas in the cradle, and no one can publish even a laundry list without the imprimatur of Big Brother. Some prognosticators are saying that such a construct is nearly inevitable. And… read more
A new imaging technique is giving scientists their first three-dimensional view of the human genome,
The finding, by Erez Lieberman Aiden, a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, working with Nynke van Berkum, Louise Williams, and a team of researchers from the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, suggests that how DNA is packed into cells may be at least… read more
University of Michigan researchers have developed nanoemulsion vaccines–made up of tiny soybean oil droplets suspended in water, studded with bits of pathogenic organisms, and swabbed into the nose–that may be the vaccines of the future.
Previously proved effective against influenza and anthrax, they have now been shown to generate immunity to smallpox and HIV in mice.
General Fusion says it can build a prototype fusion power plant within the next decade and do it for less than a billion dollars, using using relatively low-tech, mechanical brute force and advanced digital control technologies, instead of expensive superconducting magnets or powerful lasers.
Neurosurgeon Andres Lozano at the University of Toronto is testing electrical stimulation of the hypothalamus as a novel treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
A global race is under way to reach the next milestone in supercomputer performance, many times the speed of today’s most powerful machines.
But the fastest American machines are used primarily for military applications at the nation’s weapons laboratories. Many scientists and technology executives in the United States are concerned about losing out in crucial markets like oil and gas exploration, automobile design and manufacturing unless they, too, have… read more
Palm Computing co-founders Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky will announce today the creation of Numenta, a technology development firm that will conduct research in an effort to extend Mr. Hawkins’s AI theories, described in his book “On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines.”
Hawkins is demonstrating a pattern-recognition application using a version of his software. It allows a… read more
MagiQ Technologies plans to offer a cryptogaphy system using quantum key distribution in 2003.
Keys to the code are transmitted as a stream of photons, sent over a fiber optic cable. Security is based on quantum physics: observing the transmission would alter the photons, rendering their information useless to any eavesdroppers.