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Friday January 11, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines PC makers bet on gaze, gesture, voice, and touch Scientists design, control movements of molecular motor New carbon nanotube fiber acts like textile thread, conducts electricity and heat like a metal wire Artificial molecular manufacturing machine mimics nature Virus caught in the act of infecting a cell Latest News PC makers bet on gaze, gesture, voice, and touch January 11, 2013   Products that could make it common to control a computer, TV, or something else using eye gaze, gesture, voice, and even facial expression were launched at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, MIT Technology Review reports. The technology promises to make computers and other devices easier to use, let devices do new … more… Scientists design, control movements of molecular motor January 11, 2013   An international team of scientists has taken the next step in creating nanoscale machines by designing a multi-component molecular motor that can be moved clockwise and counterclockwise. Although researchers can rotate or switch individual molecules on and off, the new study is the first to create a stand-alone molecular motor that has multiple parts, said … more… New carbon nanotube fiber acts like textile thread, conducts electricity and heat like a metal wire January 11, 2013   Scientists from Rice University, the Dutch firm Teijin Aramid, the U.S. Air Force, and Israel’s Technion Institute have unveiled a new carbon nanotube (CNT) fiber that looks and acts like textile thread and conducts electricity and heat like a metal wire. In this week’s issue of Science, the researchers describe an industrially scalable process for … more… Artificial molecular manufacturing machine mimics nature January 11, 2013   An industrial revolution at the nanoscale is taking place in laboratories at The University of Manchester with the development of a highly complex machine that mimics how molecules are made in nature. The artificial molecular machine developed by Professor David Leigh FRS and his team in the School of Chemistry is the most advanced molecular … more… Virus caught in the act of infecting a cell January 11, 2013   The detailed changes in the structure of a virus as it infects an E. coli bacterium have been observed for the first time. To infect a cell, a virus must be able to first find a suitable cell and then eject its genetic material into its host. This robot-like process has been observed in a … more… New VIDEOS   Audi piloted driving at CES 2013 Visit KurzweilAI.net You are currently subscribed to the KurzweilAI.net newsletter as *|EMAIL|* To unsubscribe, please click here. To change your email preferences, please click here. *|LIST:ADDRESS|*.