Transparent transistors made of nanotubes

(A) The thin film transistor array on a glass substrate. Inset: A magnified transparent transistor. (B) Scanning electron microscope image of the network of SWNTs. Image credit: Eun Ju Bae, et al.

What shown above is the thin film transistor array on glass substrate which one of the usage part can be used in creating devices which need to have display. So, from this research and development, what I think is the television, handphone, ipod, e-book, etc will only as thin as a plastic only. So, you have a device, one thick plastic, transparent transistors build from nanotubes with no conventional transistor anymore. It's very brilliant invention, but according to the researchers, it's a starting points for them to invent a real transistor.

Want to know the process of transistor, how its made of, etc, read further and click HERE.

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.

Electronic paper

(Credit : Plastic Logic)

I had discussed this topic previously, under E-book title which what I stated is "advance invention which used only 0.08 mm thick of plastic" but not show the photos of that plastic, and in photo above, you can see the book what I meant before. Before this I was thought to come out with that an invention, which I got an idea after I read a book, wrote by Harun Yahya, entitle "matter - the other name for illusion" (you can download that book via this website : http://www.harunyahya.net/). That book was changed me a lot of how we should understand who we are, how we seeing actually, it's matter is reality or fake, etc. From how we seeing, basically, a photon go through our eyes, then convert to electrical signal, send to our brain to interprete that electical signal as images. What confusing scientists here is how we want to know everything we seen outside are real or fake. No one can answer this question. For those who want to know more about this complicated of what God was created, good for you to read that book.

Go to what we discussed earlier, this plastic logic e-book maybe will transform conventional book to e-book later on. To undertand more e-book function, the ideas, etc, you can click HERE.

Shirts can charge your mobile phone and other devices

You walks, you moves, everything about your movement will create an electricity if you don piezo electrical materials shirts. The power would be fed into flexible batteries that would also be woven into the shirt. Can you imagine that its could charge your mobile phone, portable music players and other small electrical appliances. Research leader, Dr Adam Best predicted the first power shirts - or flexible integrated energy devices - could be developed within five years. For further reading, click HERE.

20 things you didn't know about living in space

It's not easy to stay on space, in International Space Station, ISS. Most people maybe do not ever think what are the differences while living on earth and on space. Discover magazine explore 20 things you didn't know about living in space. Check it out HERE.

Nano-Tex

Before this I'm always thinking to do a research to produced textiles with have functions to resists spills, repels and releases stains. But, my dream was done and already commercialized, by Nano-Tex company. From their website, we can see a lot of an advance in fabrics to give better comfort for all users. Check it out here.

Dr. Nanok Farewell

Hehe..friends, here is two photos of Dr Nanok farewell, and the other photos you can ask me k. The quality of these photos are not quite good, blur, maybe problem with camera setting. Anyway, we wish Dr Nanok will success in whatever he will do after this, insyaAllah.

Virgin Galactic video

Before this, I was wrote an article about Spaceport - A reality of a journey to space, and maybe some of you wondering how we can travel to space journey from that spaceport, what aircraft that they will be used, how big that aircraft, etc. And here some update for that questions, a virtual graphic video how Virgin Galactic aircraft will bring spaceflight participants enjoy travelling to space. To enjoy this video, click HERE.

Wishing Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

In the next a few days, we will celebrate Eid ul-Fitr or Hari Raya Aidilfitri and in this great moment, I wish Selamat Hari Raya to all muslims over the world generally and Malaysian's muslim specifically. In this blessing month also, I like to ask forgiveness for all wrongdoings I have done, physical or emotional from all people who know me.

Predictions For A Technological Future

Elevetor to space-how its will be build and construct, do you believe that, premised to be build in 2018-2025. That is one example, other examples like Jet airtaxi's, Anti-gravity discovered, quatum computing, etc. And a lot of other weird assumptions was quoted by Brian Yap, a well-known futurist.

Some look like funny, some we can't imagine, some we think impossible, and many more assumptions. That are what I felt after read all his predictions. But, I think, it's useful for scientists and researchers as a reference for what our world will would like in the next near future.These premiss maybe can be used in our research proposal. Here, I quote a few interesting predictions for a technological future stated by him.

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.

Textiles revolution

In the next decades, we will see a shirt that act as a mini-computer, embedded with electronic devices which can harness power via solar process to recharge cell-phone, laptop, mp3 player,besides sensors to measure heart beat, respiratory patterns, temperature, posture, breathing rate and electrocardiogram, and added with other functionalities like no-cease, no fade, no shrink, etc. This dream come so closer to us now. It's not something weird anymore. Here I will quote a few developments in textiles industry which was successful produced.

1. Smart Fabrics Monitor Physiological Signs

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

This technology maybe not so needed by a country like Malaysia, and maybe very appreciated at 4 seasons countries. This technology was developed by German company, WarmX, a line of clothing which includes tiny silver fibers are woven into the knitted fabric and supplied with electricity by a small rechargeable battery. The knitted fabric is warmed directly on the skin creating a warm feeling even the temperature outside is very low.

The WarmeX clothing can get wet and continue working, they can even be washed in low temperature in a washing machine without a problem. The undershirt is made from a mix of Polycrolon Microfibre, superfine merino wool, cotton and acrylic. The silver fibers woven into the knitted fabric reduce the spreading of bacteria and body odors.

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.

More details, click here.

4. No-Contact Jacket

Lately, we always heard about a girl disturbed by unscrupulous people. And, this technology invented specially for women that repels an assailant trying to grab the wearer with a powerful but non-lethal 80,000 volt shock while it's active. The jacket insulation protects the wearer from the delivered electrical charge, which causes the assailant to experience a painful, uncomfortable shock, disorientation, and loss of balance, enabling the woman to escape.

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

Nice shirt dude. What is amazing form this shirt? It can trace Wi-Fi detector, if you are a hunter for hotspots while walking along on the street. For folks at certain areas, maybe its a good innovation which you can detect Wi-Fi more easier compare to use key-chain or cell phone or rather to switch on your laptop to check whether if there is any wi-fi internet access about. How its work? The shone glowing bars on the front of the shirt dynamically change as the surrounding wi-fi (either 802.11b or 802.11g network) signal strength fluctuates. It's made of 100% cotton and you can easily take away the small display and 3 AAA battery connector when washing the shirt. And, maybe some people will ask how to wash this shirt. There are a few tasks you need to do to able you to wash this shirt. Here, there are :

Washing Instructions :

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.

Further details, click here.

Non-shrink. Colourfast. Non-fade. Crease-resistant

This an article is included to show what is the development in textiles industries. What peculiar about this shirt are non-shrink, non-fade and the most important one is crease-resistant. So, the shirt can also be worn unironed for a casual look. The high-quality Egyptian cotton has been used to tailor-make theses shirts.

This T-shirt lets UVA rays pass through

What special about this shirt is an ability to filters out dangerous UVB rays, but allows the UVA rays responsible for giving you a tan to pass through. So, you do not need any additional sun screen underneath. The fabric used is called SunSelect®.

Tour to Human Heart

On very pleasant evening, you and your mum were in a garden in-front of your tidy house. Suddenly, your mum was afflicted by heart attack and immediately sent to hospital. What is actually heart attack? A heart attack (also known as a myocardial infarction) is the death of heart muscle from the sudden blockage of a coronary artery by a blood clot. Coronary arteries are blood vessels that supply the heart muscle with blood and oxygen. Blockage of a coronary artery deprives the heart muscle of blood and oxygen, causing injury to the heart muscle. Injury to the heart muscle causes chest pain and pressure. If blood flow is not restored within 20 to 40 minutes, irreversible death of the heart muscle will begin to occur. Muscle continues to die for six to eight hours at which time the heart attack usually is "complete." The dead heart muscle is replaced by scar tissue.

For some people, maybe they have goes through a situation like above. So maybe you wonder what really happen inside our heart. The other common things we have heard about heart are bypass operation, mitral valve problem, etc but we are not so familiar with all sort of that problems. To know more about our heart, the structure inside, circulation of blood and more, you can watch this tour of our heart HERE.

Invitation to join Team Cringely to Moon and win the Google Lunar X Price

Anyone, ardent, clamour to explore lunar space. Come and join this team. Your dream maybe will be a reality. How to join, what you can contributes, and want to know more about Team Cringely, please read HERE. The prize of this competition is AS 20 millions. I challenge anyone from Malaysian to take over these tangled and tedious opportunity and proof Malaysia Boleh.

Latest update- our astronaut

Latest info dug from Kickdefella blogs about our astronaut, just to share the truth and I think its funny then but we need to appreciate what our government was done to have an 'astronaut' actually.

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!

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

Japan develop next-generation network.

A research group in Japan will develop optical technology that will replace the Internet Protocol as the global standard in communications, a report said Sunday. It will aim to develop and commercialise in around 2015 a network that can transfer data at 10 gigabits per second, 10 times faster than the next-generation network due to be launched in Japan this year, the report said.

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.

Car run with water

Denny Klein and his water powered car - is it for real?

Several years ago in 1995, Stanley Meyer- an inventor from Ohio, claimed that he was succeed to formulate a water fuel cell, which was demonstrated on his dune buggy, powered by water alone. But, in 1998, Meyer was passed away,and many say he received threats from oil companies and was poisoned after refusing to abandon his technology. More details can read here.

Latest, Denny Klein also from Ohio, has introduced the world’s first water powered car. His technology run on a combination of water and gasoline, and he avow its possible to develop a system powered purely by water. His car can move for 100 miles using 4 ounces of water, without losing power.

Klein’s “Aquygen” is water or H2O broken down and turned into HHO gas – a process that scientists previously considered impossible to implement. A small device was demonstrated to emit a flame hotter than the surface of the Sun; A flame so intense it can burn a hole through charcoal and turn a brass ball to glowing liquid metal within seconds. While steel, lead, and other metals slice on contact, the tip of the welder remains only slightly warm to touch. Klein says that people don’t believe him, even though it’s a natural electrolysis process. It requires a greater amount of water than the amount of HHO gas produced, but the resulting gas combines the atomic power of hydrogen and the chemical stability of water. “No other gas will do this” –he says. A representative from Klein’s company said that the fuel production cost is estimated at around 70 cents per hour, with 1,500 liters of Aquygen produced in an hour.

The technology is still undergoing various government and independent tests, and company managers say it will be ready to hit the market in about 2 years. In response to the reports, many critics argued that the story is a complete hoax, saying that the energy required to convert H2O to HHO is greater than that provided by burning Aquygen. Others have raised concerns about the long term impact of such an energy source on the car engine.

Hopefully in next two years, water or 'Aquygen' will be ready to used as f'uel' globally and nobody will die anymore to complete this research.

Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor-Astronaut or spaceflight participant?

The Expedition 16 crew members pose for a portrait at the Johnson Space Center. From the left (front row) are Russia's Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, flight engineer and Soyuz commander; astronaut Peggy Whitson, commander; and Malaysian spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor. From the left (back row) are European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Léopold Eyharts, astronaut Garrett Reisman and astronaut Dan Tani, all flight engineers. Source : NASA

It's suffice if I say that we do not produced a true astronaut yet, NASA only called our astronaut as Malaysian spaceflight participant, so what that meant? Why NASA call him as spaceflight participant, and at Malaysia, in newspapers or on our mainstream television stations are busy to show an advertisement about we will have an astronaut in next two weeks (assumed our first astronaut will launch on October 10). The truth, its only like a present from Russian company to rejoice of 18 fighter jets, Sukhoi 30-MKM sold to Government of Malaysia, estimated around RM3.4 bilion. Everyone have an oppurtunity to travel to space, if you have a lot of money and good health, physical and mental, at a tag prices of AS 20 millions. A few person were celebrated as spaceflight participants are Dennis Tito ,Mark Shuttleworth , Greg Olsen and Anousheh Ansari.

Anyway, we could wish all the best to our first astronaut, the first citizen of Malaysian who will landing on ISS and hopefully come to earth in full motivations and could draw a new history in next decades, success to launch our own astronout with MAS spaceship to ISS.

As reference, China was successfully sent a man into the first time in 2003, plans to launch its own moon probe before the end of the year, followed by India in the first half of 2008. Japan kick-started the Asian lunar race on September 14, when it successfully launch its first lunar orbiter. While China and India have raised the possibility of a manned lunar mission within the next decade.

Generate power like photosynthesis

There is another amazing invention which could produced 'fuel' from water, a little bit different with what we had mentioned before in this weblog, saltwater to 'fuel'. In this technology, Martin Demuth (researcher at Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry in Mülheim an der Ruhr) has proposed a class of semiconductors, made of titanium disilicide (TiSi2), which can split water into hydrogen and oxygen and then stores the gases produced. The concept is simple, put water on semiconductor, then beam its directly to solar energy (photon). The hydrogen gases stored thus can be used as a 'fuel'.

More details, click here.

A new look at proton (atom)

Figure 1: The HERMES experiment (HERA measurement of spin). This photo shows that the entire experiment is mounted on rails and can be moved out of the ring of the particle accelerator (HERA). At the bottom left of the photo a piece of tube from the accelerator can be seen through which the electrons move (to the right

Paul van der Nat, Dutch researcher- for the first time was successful to demonstrate that the spin contribution of quarks to the proton can be studied by examining collisions in which two particles (hadrons) are produced.

Quarks can't stand or found alone, it's only exist in group with other quarks. Composite particles made of quarks are called hadrons. Although individual quarks have fractional electrical charges, they combine such that hadrons have a net integer electric charge. Another property of hadrons is that they have no net color charge even though the quarks themselves carry color charge and there are two classes of hadron, baryons and mesons.

To know more about particles, click here.

3-D printing

Can we envisage what will happen if we can print like say a ball, utensil, cup etc by our own need on the spot by using 3-D printer? How about a manufacturing factory related could adabt this situation? And how advance the materials could be produced by this printing machine? Can its printing a material from metal or only specific to plastic? And if its can print include metal, what should a company like paper-clips will sell? A digital file representing a physical product electronically and then can produce the object at a time and place convenient to them.

This invention was published in Inderscience publication International Journal of Technology Marketing, contrived by US researchers. No any photo available yet. So, we will wait and see how the printer look like soon. For more details, click here.

Supercomputer beyond petaflop

Tech giants IBM and Sun Microsystems, have announced petaflop supercomputers, equal to one billion megaflops. They indicated there is no barrier to more computer power, but the problem is how to manage and reduce the power usage and also to improve software. The Sun system will cost about $59 million, while the IBM supercomputer runs between $1.3 million and $1.7 million for each server in the system cluster.

To build a supercomputer, the dominant cost of the systems is memory, DRAM, which a typical supercomputer will require millions of DRAM chips. DRAM drops in price like crazy--the average selling price of DRAM dropped 35 percent from December to April. But millions of chips are millions of chips. The cables aren't cheap either. In fact, they cost more than the silicon inside switching systems.

And in Asia, China is building three petaflop supercomputer by 2010 and Japan is building a 10 petaflop machine by 2011.

Spaceport- A reality of a journey to space

A design of world's first space terminal was unveiled on September 4 at Las Cruces, New Mexico, America. The construction will begin in 2008 on 100,000 square-foot, and projected to cost about $31 million. It was designed by URS Corporation and famous extensive experience in designing airport buildings,Foster + Partners.

The world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport is designed to convey the thrill of space travel while making a minimal impact on the environment. The low-lying, organic shape resembles a rise in the landscape, and will use local materials and regional construction techniques. A careful balance between accessibility and privacy is achieved, as visitors and astronauts enter the building through a deep channel cut in the landscape. The walls will form an exhibition area leading to a galleried level above the hangar that houses the spacecraft and on through to the terminal building. Natural light enters via skylights, with a glazed façade reserved for the terminal building, establishing a platform for spectacular views onto the runway.

Source : Spaceport

Cool gadget -The flashlight for life – without batteries

This is a cool gadgets, sell by Pro-Idee, functioned just by simply crank the lower end of the flashlight for 10 seconds and you will get the power of 10 minutes of LED light. The required power is generated by the flashlight itself. Do not need to buy batteries again and we can avoid creating toxic waste. This gadget very important in emergencies, and its unlike other dynamo flashlight, twist does not discharge if it has not been used for several months. The typical “white light” is visible at a distance of up to 1km (0.6mi). The 1.5F name-brand capacitor from Nichia can be recharged up to 100,000 times (if used twice daily, this equals a lifespan of approx. 137 years). Splash water resistant. Operating temperature from -20°C to +50°C. The sturdy polycarbonate handle comfortably fits in your hand in any weather (only weighs approx. 143g/5oz.).

Trap large-scale emissions by new carbon nanotube technology

A new technology invented by Dr. Zhu from Queensland University is to snare the gas emissions produced by a large factory like coal mining and power generation. His aims is to develop a carbon-nanotubes (CNT) membran for gas separation that will work like a sieve to separate high volumes of methane or carbon dioxides from other gases. According to Dr. Zhu, this technology is very exciting because its would trap moving gases 100 times faster than other gas separation techniques and could therefore be used by large-scale plants such as power stations.

Seems that a lot of debates of climate changes drive mainly by greenhouse gas emissions, this particular technology could used to reduce its and we could stay in green-earth in a next decade compared to no initiative taken to take care of our earth at all.

Source : Physorg

Scale down of Milky Way to nucleus.

View our universe at scale of 10(+23) meters or from 10 million light years to the tiniest particles of subatomic universe of electrons and protons at 10 (-16) meters (attometers) which hopefully will help us to get better picture of the huge size of our galaxy to diminutive size of the subatomic universe.

Click here to enjoy the journey from our galaxy to the tiniest of subatomic universe (quarks).

Antimatter engine- A way to Mars

A team of researcher is work out to build a propulsion system based on positrons to travel to Mars or other planets. Conventional propulsion system which used fuel or nuclear are not available/ effective to travel in months or years journey. Propulsion based on positron (anti-electron) is not new. It was proposed by a German engineer, Eugen Saenger, in 1953. This was the classic photon rocket, but the photons (gamma rays) had to be made to reflect in order to give thrust. Unfortunately there was no way to deflect the gamma rays, then or now.

For most people, what they have been seen in science fiction movies like star war, sunshine, etc think that its never be a real invention, impossible to achieve, but in science, everything can happen. And in my understanding like I have quote on the top of my website, human being are able to invent/create everything that they can imagine in their mind except soul.

To read more, click here.

LED from Salmon sperm

Researcher and scientists all over the world talk about eco-friendly, biodegradable materials, etc, and a new invention we can proud is LED from salmon sperm. What is salmon sperm and why they used it? Salmon sperm is considered a waste product of the fishing industry. It’s thrown away by the ton,” says Prof. Steckl, a leading expert in light-emitting diodes, is intensifying the properties of LEDs by introducing biological materials, specifically salmon DNA. Electrons move constantly — think of tiny particles with a negative charge and attention deficit disorder. It is through the movement of these electrons that electric current flows and light is created.

He thinks that besides salmon DNA, other animal or plant sources might be equally useful. Biological materials have many technologically important qualities — electronic, optical, structural, magnetic,” says Steckl. “But certain materials are hard for to duplicate, such as DNA and proteins.”

So began Steckl’s work with BioLEDs, devices that incorporate DNA thin films as electron blocking layers. Most of the devices existing today are based on inorganic materials, such as silicon. In the last decade, researchers have been exploring using naturally occurring materials in devices like diodes and transistors. “The driving force, of course, is cost: cost to the producer, cost to the consumer and cost to the environment” Steckl points out, “but performance has to follow.”

“The story continues,” says Steckl, again smiling. “I’m receiving salmon sperm from researchers around the world wanting to see if their sperm is good enough.” The next step is to now replace some other materials that go into an LED with biomaterials. The long-term goal is be able to make “green” devices that use only natural, renewable and biodegradable materials.

Can we imagine their long term goal, be able to make "green" devices that use only natural, renewable and biodegradable materials? So, if we can understand like I do what they mean, almost all gadgets do not need a batery to operate its which what they will do are manipulate proton to interact with photons.

Source : Cincinnati

Dark matter - a mystery never solved

What is the dark matter? How could we measure its? What tools that available to proved of its present? A lot of questions have been raising related to this issues, but no one can proved its yet including Nobel Laurate.

Nobel laureate,James Watson Cronin said that most of the universe -- 96 percent, to be exact -- is made of dark matter and energy whose composition we simply do not fathom. "We think we understand the universe, but we only understand four percent of everything," said James Watson Cronin, who won the 1980 Nobel for physics by proving that certain subatomic reactions escape the laws of fundamental symmetry.
According the most recent models, he said, 73 percent of cosmic energy seems to consist of "dark energy" and 23 percent of dark matter, the pervasive but unidentified stuff that holds the universe together and accelerates its expansion.

The remaining four percent consists of so-called "normal matter" such as atoms and molecules.

Stavros Katsanevas,head of France's national institute for nuclear and particle physics admit that we have an idea as to its parameters, but we still don't know what dark matter is made of,".Over the next decade, explained Katsanevas, scientists will be tackling three big questions besides dark matter: the origin of cosmic rays, the existence of gravitational waves, and the mass of neutrinos, which have provided the first solid evidence of phenomena beyond what is called the Standard Model of particle physics. He also described the panoply of tools and international mega-projects designed to shed light into the universe's darker corners.

What interest me here is although we have done a lot of research and studies for more than 2 thousand years , but we only know a mere 4 percent only of universe. And, in 4 % we claimed we're understood, can we make sure its all correct? What is the tiniest particles we have discovered, it's nucleus, proton, quarks, hudron or medson? In this fact, we need to feel timid of God's power, we actually don't have nothing, everything that we have known are so little compared to gracious of God, our Majesty in this universe. God encompass everything in this universe, a little knowledge given to human being is a manifestation of Allah to show His power and tend all peoples feel afraid to Him.

Source : Physorg

USB 3.0 to come in 2008

The new USB 3.0 will come in the next year which can operate ten times faster than current generation and capable of transferring large files of 25GB and more quickly. The concept of using this USB is same like USB 2.0, plug and play capabilities and has other ameliorates like low power consumption and improved protocol efficiency. Take an advantage in optical capabilities growth, it also designed to be enable to transfer data at rates of up 4.8 Gbps.

The art of creating creatures

I'm very interact with this presentation, demonstrated by Theo Jansen at TED talks, Montorey California.What keep me in line is how he can create such a creature like take,lifelike kinetic sculptures,can move and even survive on their own, which built from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. For me its very fantastic, brilliant.

Japan to moon mission?

I'm still dubiety whether human being can travel to moon like what U.S was done before, which U.S claims that they were succeed to land their astronouts like Neil Amstrong and their collegues for the first time on the surface of the moon. The distance between our earth's surface to moon is 237,500 miles, a journey that is expected to take about three weeks. If U.S claimed was true, so why they can't take a new journey to other planets? Ok, we let this history goes by its way and we focus for the other countries which running to explore a new dimension of space.

The news from Japan more convincing which they were make it to launch the biggest lunar mission since the US pollo flights 40 years ago. It was launched at Tanegashima island, aboard a H-2A solid-fuel rocket. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) said the probe's engines and navigation equipment appeared to be working normally. The craft - nicknamed Kaguya after the moon princess in a Japanese fairy tale - is scheduled to twice orbit Earth before travelling 237,500 miles to the moon, a journey that is expected to take about three weeks.

In the mission, which Jaxa described as the largest in scope since Nasa's Apollo programme, Kaguya's main satellite will go into orbit about 60 miles above the moon's surface, and two smaller satellites will be put into polar orbit. The probes will collect data that Japanese scientists hope will settle the long-running debate over the moon's origins and evolution. The orbiter, which is carrying 14 state-of-the-art pieces of equipment, will map previously unexplored polar areas, and a high-definition TV will send back what scientists believe will be dramatic images of the moon and of the Earth as it rises over the moon's horizon.

China also plans to send its Chang's probe to the moon later this year, which will use stereo cameras and spectrometers to construct 3-D images of the moon's surface and analse its dust. Chinese space officials plan to collect samples of dust in subsequent expeditions and reportedly hope to put a man on the moon in the next 15 years.

India, meanwhile, is expected to launch its unmanned Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter next year and may follow up with a manned expedition by 2020.

We hope from this space exploration will give a hope for human being to understand our galaxy better and utilized its to our own good.

Source : Guardian

The Most Powerful Microscope in The World

Latest development in microscope, we able to see an image at 0.05 nm and below resolution in near time. For now, it will delivered to the Berkeley National Laboratory in 2008 and will be fully operational in 2010. This machine was developed by the TEAM Project (Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected microscope), which supported by the U.S Department of energy. Later on, scientists can study in better understanding how atoms combine to form materials, how materials grow and how they respond to a variety of external factors.

Above, we can see "a high resolution TEM image of the dumbbell structure (0.14nm) of Germanium, which reveals that inter atomic distances can be measured with ultrahigh precision.
The intensity profile (insert) brilliantly proves that the contrast level in between the germanium dumbbell reaches the base level of the larger distances of the structure." (Credit: FEI Company)

Unmanned Aircraft form NASA

A lot of news we're heard about unmanned technologies. But most of them are in aircrafts, not so much in vehicles. This aircraft was built by NASA and named ‘Ikhana’ — used for imaging wildfires in California, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Images collected from the different sensors on board are transmitted via satellite to a ground station where they are analyzed and transmitted as a Google Earth overlay to fire experts.

The 6 Millions Ikhana aircraft, which has a wingspan of 66 feet and is 36 feet long, can collect data during flights lasting up to 30 hours without refueling. You can see above a picture of Ikhana flying over California. “With its sensor pod under its left wing, NASA’s remotely piloted Ikhana unmanned aircraft cruises over California during the Western States Fire Mission.” (Credit: Jim Ross, for NASA, August 9, 2007)

Matter-antimatter molecules of positronium observed in the lab for the first time

Matter-antimatter, how far we can infer its is existed? Should we believe antimatter cannot co-exist with matter for more than a very small measure of time because they annihilate each other to release enormous amounts of energy in the form of gamma radiation? How we can determine or measure of anti-matter if its cannot interact with any matter? How we can store it? A lot of question are in dubiousness and need an answers from physicists.

But, for the first time, a team of researchers at UC Riverside claim that they have succeed in created molecular positronium, an entirely new object in the laboratory. Briefly stable, each molecule is made up of a pair of electrons and a pair of their antiparticles, called positrons.

The researchers made the positronium molecules by firing intense bursts of positrons into a thin film of porous silica, which is the chemical name for the mineral quartz. Upon slowing down in silica, the positrons were captured by ordinary electrons to form positronium atoms.

When an electron meets a positron, their mutual annihilation may ensue or positronium, a briefly stable, hydrogen-like atom, may be formed. The stability of a positronium atom is threatened again when the atom collides with another positronium atom. Such a collision of two positronium atoms can result in their annihilation, accompanied by the production of a powerful and energetic type of electromagnetic radiation called gamma radiation, or the creation of a molecule of positronium, the kind Cassidy and Mills observed in their lab.

Study results appear in the Sept. 13 issue of Nature.

Source : Physorg

Electricity from orbiting solar-powered lasers

Electric from solar harnessed on earth, common thing, but solar harnessed from sun in orbit is very brilliant. This technology came from Japan, by the researchers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the Osaka University Institute of Laser Engineering.

Relying on plates made from a special ceramic material containing chromium (which absorbs the sunlight) and neodymium (which efficiently converts sunlight to laser light), the newly developed lasers demonstrated an impressive 42% solar-to-laser energy conversion efficiency, outperforming previous technology by a factor of four.

The researchers say the new laser technology will play a key role in JAXA’s “Space Solar Power Systems” (SSPS) project, which aims to put space-based power systems in orbit by the year 2030. By mounting the system on a satellite in stationary orbit 36,000 km (22,400 mi.) above the equator, sunlight would be collected and converted into a powerful laser beam, which would then be aimed at a terrestrial power station and used to generate electricity or produce hydrogen.

Compared to earthbound solar power stations, this new technology not subject to night-time darkness and cloudy conditions, and be able to make use of solar energy 24 hours a day.

E-book

Everyday, we discover a lot of new gadgets invented. We can't ran from this reality and need to well prepared to go-through in this century. Latest technology in e-book was invented by Sony, utilizes E ink display, which depicts text as clear as if it were on paper and the screen can be magnified up to 200% . Its weighs just under nine ounces and is super slim at less than a 1/2". The battery life boasts up to 7,500 pages per single charges.

No more real book maybe in next 20 years, replaced by e-book. Although this e-book technology is lost to more advance invention which used only 0.08 mm thick of plastic, but its is the best e-book for now. New thick plastic e-book maybe ready in use in 2008.

Purify Water used Solar Bottle

This solar bottle was invented by Alberto Medo and Francisco Gomez Paz, took an idea from Solar Water Disinfection system at Milan's International Furniture Fair and were inspired by this effective but inexpensive method of purifying household drinking water.

This bottle work when water is filled into transparent PET bottles and exposed to six hours of sunlight, the UV-A radiation and increased temperature from the solar energy will effectively kill disease-causing pathogens in the water.

Although this invention look so impressive, but how about its price,it's affordable for people around the world who have meager-to-almost-nil supply of safe drinking water, or third class countries?

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Salt Water to 'fuel'

Amazing, interesting, surprise, startle and many more words we can use to impress and ingrain to this innovation, from abundant salt water to produce fuel. This idea can change the mindset of the researchers from all over the world to generate safe and eco-friendly resources for our new energy, besides coal, solar, etc. Although this invention is a coincidence from John Kanzius which tried to desalinate seawater with a device he had created to (supposedly) treat cancer, he found he could keep the water burning like a candle as long as it was exposed to the proper frequencies. How its work?

Radio frequency helps weaken the bonds holding together the water's constituents, releasing the bound hydrogen which burns when exposed to the frequency's energy field. At a temperature of around 3,000°F, the flame reflects a tremendous energy output. Rustum Roy-a professor of chemistry at Penn State University said this discovery is"the most remarkable in water science in 100 years" will now take up further research with the Departments of Energy and Defense to investigate its potential applications as a source of alternative energy.

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Quality of Research

What word is the most fit to opine the research qualities in my blessed and beloved country, less impressiveness, less interactive, or very pleasing enough, comparable to develop countries or what? This question is very subjective, some people think its equal with other researchers in the world, and for some peoples, a few researches maybe can be proud of, and the rests nothing. It's depend to the researchers instinct and feeling what were they contributed from their research.

How to Change Our Future Students Thinking

I have two experiment sessions today, and I really unsatisfied with their ability to write the report for last week experiment. And also I unsated with their brainstorm to solve calculation problems. In my deep heart, I have a dream to change the education and learning process at higher education institutions now with a good system. Today, learning system at higher education institute most likely as a factory, produce students to sell to companies, very rely to job. But, at the same time, we do not focus to bring forth our students to a level which able to thinking in creative, able to debate about latest issues, brave to give an idea, etc. Good system not work just give a lecture or give some technical skills, but it will come if the lecturer brilliant enough to play an important roles to encourage their students to work independently in their life.

I really hope that I can change their behavior to become an excellent student in all aspects like education, creative thinking,social, etc. And may my dream become true.