TechnologiesUpdate
Human being are able to invent/create everything that they can imagine in their mind except soul. In this blog, I will give an update for latest information about science & technology.
7/26/2008
Come back
11/29/2007
Transparent transistors made of nanotubes
11/27/2007
New revolution in clothes
In this weblog, I talked a lot of clothes embedded with devices. Lattest development in this area, a group of European Researchers has been working to make this dream come true, which now doing wide-ranging testing of new wearable technology with applications in a variety of fields and with the potential of protecting and even saving lives. The vital innovation is that the technology facilitates a new form of human-computer interaction comprising small, easily accessible body-worn computers that are always on and always responsive.
According to Michael Lawo, technical manager of the wearIT(at)work project, The Open Wearable Computing Framework being developed essentially comprises a central, easily wearable and hardware-independent computing unit which gives access to an ICT environment. Some of the basic components include wireless communication, positioning systems, speech recognition, interface devices, and low-level software platforms or toolboxes allowing these features to work together.
More further, read HERE.
11/05/2007
Electronic paper
11/04/2007
Shirts can charge your mobile phone and other devices
20 things you didn't know about living in space
11/01/2007
Nano-Tex
10/11/2007
Virgin Galactic video
10/10/2007
Wishing Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri
10/09/2007
Predictions For A Technological Future
1. Nextgen communication (1000Mbps-10000Mbps) 2013-2020
2. Quantum computing 100 qubits 2010-2014
3. Petaflop personal computers and wearable computing 2016-2018
4. Open Source wins - Microsoft declares bankruptcy 2015-2020
5. Jet airtaxi's (5000 existing regional airports in USA, 450-550mph, park and fly) 2006-2008
6. Scramjets delivery cargo at 10-20 times speed of sound, skips outside of atmosphere (very efficient) 2015-2020
7. Protein engineering creates artificial ribosome 2014-2022
8. Billion CPU personal nanocomputers 2018-2025
9. Singularity AI : 1 billion times human intelligence accelerates technology development
2035-2050
10. Nanofactories create space vehicles with ion drives with 750 kWe/kg specific power, speed 0.5 AU per day and 9.8 m/s2 acceleration. Earth to Mars in 1 to 3 days, Earth to Saturn in 20 days 2020-2025
11.10,000 people living on lunar bases 2020-2025
12. Offworld economy larger than Japan's economy 2040-2050
13. High resolution direct visual feeds made in realtime and fed to retina, able to fool viewer for indefinite periods 2016-2025
14. Human cells interfaced with nanotech 2020-2030
15. Space elevator 2018-2025
16. Orbital space tourism 2012-2020
17. Antimatter storage for gram quantities or greater 2015-2020
18. Anti-gravity discovered 2010+
19. Nanotechnology weapons used in war, over 500 million dead 2025-2035
There are a lot of other predictions quoted by Brian Yap, and you can find out more here.
10/07/2007
Textiles revolution
Credit : Zephyr
This an innovative product was invented by the Zephyr Company, which has developed advanced fabrics that can monitor physilogical signs. The sensors that are woven into a person's clothes and can gather and transmit real-time physiological data, such as vital signs or other biomechanical information. Combining wireless connectivity and graphical diagnostic tools, Zephyr developed flexible sensors that are capable of detecting and measuring displacement, distance, force, strain and various other relevant data. The information can either be stored or immediately transferred to a nearby computer for analysis. Its can be worn around the chest.
There are 3 more products revealed by Zephyr company, i.e Impact SF- "a system which can detect and quantify impact", ShoePod- "measures ground reaction forces and ShoePod Diabetic- "detects those conditions that lead to foot ulceration, delivering sufficiently advanced warning to enable the prevention of the ulcer and the possible subsequent amputation".
More details click here.
2. Stretchable and Washable Electronic Devices
Everyone known that most of devices can't immerse into water. So, how we can grab a dream to come out with textiles embedded with a lot of devices and can be fling into washing machine. But now, it's not a problem anymore. A team of researchers from Gent University in Belgium led by Project Coordinator Jan Vanfleteren are currently developing in the framework of a project named SWEET (Stretchable and Washable Electronics for Embedding in Textiles). From their website, a few testing have demonstrated to show the ability of their devices operated in water and also can be used as stretchable thermometer. They also have develop a few stretchable materials like BioFlex which can be use for implant, stretchable watch, stretchable heater, stretchable waveguides and antennas and stretchable technology publications.
More details, click here.
3. Warming textiles
The power unit includes a 2200mAh Li-Ion rechargeable battery which is good for between 2.5 and 5.5 hours (depending on the heating level used). A full recharge takes about three hours and although the battery cannot be replaced by the user it should be good for at least 500 recharge cycles.
4. No-Contact Jacket
The inner layer of the jacket is made with a conductive fiber powered by a 9-volt battery, which builds a high-voltage but low-amp charge through a series of step-up circuits, much like the technology used in commercial stun guns. The wearer must arm the jacket to activate it by turning a small lock on an outer sleeve using a key, and then charge it by pressing a button, held in the palm, attached by a cord to the inside of one of the sleeves.
It's not available to purchase yet, but according to their website, its predicted to be sell around AS 1000.
More details, click here.
5. Lights Clothes.
Philips has developed Lumalive, a light emitting textiles which build up by multi-colored light-emitting diodes (LEDs) integrated into fabrics without compromising the softness of the cloth. it's run using rechargeable battery for 3 to 4 hours on one charge, and whole system including batteries and electronics, need to remove when to wash.
More details, click here.
Wi-Fi Detector Shirt
Carefully peel animated decal from front of T-Shirt
Unplug ribbon connector behind decal and remove decal
Unplug battery pack and remove it
You can leave the ribbon cable inside the shirt
Machine wash gentle cycle on cold
Hang to dryPlease Note: If you plug the connector into the battery pack backwards the shirt will not animate properly. It will not damage the shirt. Simply reverse the connector.
10/04/2007
Non-shrink. Colourfast. Non-fade. Crease-resistant
This T-shirt lets UVA rays pass through
10/03/2007
Tour to Human Heart
Invitation to join Team Cringely to Moon and win the Google Lunar X Price
Latest update- our astronaut
I post 2 questions to “someone in the know”, first, is it true that Dr Sheikh has officially been selected before 23rd July 2007 and second, is it true that he is merely a Space Tourist and not Angkasawan.
This is the replied that I got, “He was the first choice but confirmation only after Russian Medical Board made their assessment. PM only confirm on behalf of Malaysian. Russian recognised (Dr. Sheikh) as cosmonaut. By strict definition, memang out”.
So, I put to you that when our Prime Minister made the announcement early in September, he has lied to all Malaysian.“Malaysia on Monday unveiled its first astronaut, a 34-year-old doctor who will blast off on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and visit the International Space Station in September 2007.
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor was the winner of a nationwide hunt which drew tens of thousands of hopefuls. Army dentist Faiz Khaleed, 26, was chosen as the back-up astronaut, or “angkasawan” as they are known in the Malay language.
“I pray to God that he will ensure the success of your mission and raise the profile of Malaysia in the international arena,” Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said at a ceremony to announce the winning candidates (more)”.
Prime Minister announced that Dr. Sheikh as first Malaysian Astronaut but he is not qualified to be consider as one. He is qualified as Cosmonaut and that is only after huge sum of money being agreed to the Russian.
So, Dr. Sheikh as a space tourist should then be allowed to play congkat in space after all. He should be allowed to eat rendang and ketupat. He should be allowed to do what tourist did.
No wonder, Dr. Mazlan from Pusat Sains Negara has all sorts of weird and not so serious things that she wanted our Angkasawan to perform in the outer space. After all, we only spent few billion Ringgit of taxpayer money to purchase the Russian made aircraft so we can send someone to tour the space.
Bravo, that is truly Malaysia Boleh!
10/02/2007
Ferritin proteins yield ultrathin computer memory
An idea to construct ultrathin computer memory was successfully develop by Researchers from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology. From this invention, a series of manga and anime television programs -like Detective Conan which very popular at Japan, Malaysia are not a fiction anymore. It then will develop to ultrathin computer that, if coupled with ultrathin displays, could one day be used in devices like the high-tech eyeglasses that appear in Detective Conan. According to team leader and electronics engineering professor Yukiharu Uraoka, it also can be applied into clothing, but I do not so sure how its can work.
In this new method, ferritin containing metal molecules is applied to a substrate and allowed to self-assemble into a high-density, ordered arrangement. The ferritin is then irradiated with UV light, which completely destroys the protein and leaves behind tiny metal deposits on the substrate. In this way, the researchers bypassed the need for high-temperature processing, allowing for the creation of ultrathin memory chips that measure less than 1 micron in thickness.
Source : pinktentacle
10/01/2007
Japan develop next-generation network.
The optical network would allow as many as 100 billion devices to access it simultaneously and still enjoy extremely fast data-transfer speeds, the report said. Such features are important in the future when not only personal computers and mobile phones but also surveillance cameras, medical sensors and a range of other electronic devices are also likely to be connected to online networks.
This a good news to scientists exspecially in textiles industries, which aim to modernize textiles, embedded with a lot of devices and could monitor heart beat, temperature, etc.