The Economist Technology Quarterly 2009/12/12
Here are some links/references from The Economist Technology Quarterly of December 12th 2009:
- Glue bones – Russel Stewart of the University of Utah, sandcastle worm glue. Bio-Chemistry.
- Electrical potential – biomimetics, electric eel's ability to generate powerful shocks, David La Van of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland, artificial protocells, report in Advanced Materials.
- Google wave – I'm already a beta tester, but, haven't used it much...
- Display Technology, electronic books readers, Amazon's Kindle DX, Barnes & Noble's Nook, Plastic Logic's QUE, E Ink's electrophorectic technology, LCD, OLED, SiPix, Qualcomm's mirasol (mirrors), micro-electro-mechanical display, Pixtronix's PerfectLight, Philips Liquavista, Entourage eDGE (340 €) and Pixel Qi dual-mode LCD.
- Nuclear's next generation – Supercritical water-cooled reactor (SCWR), Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR), Sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), Gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR), lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR), Molten-salt reactor (MSR).
- Agricultural automation, robotics, Tony Stentz of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Daniela Rus of the MIT's Distributed Robotics Laboratory, Vision Robotics.
- Biomedicine, MRI, non invasive surgery, ultrasonic excision, Mirabilis, InSightec.
- Bob Metcalfe, Ethernet.
Labels: e-readers, future, technology, The Economist