An innovation in imaging tech could change everything about electronics as we know it: A super-cheap, super-simple camera that could let everything from robot fingertips to a surgeon's next-gen scalpel "see."READ»
Silicon Valley might consider changing its name if research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California Berkeley pans out. They've figured out how to bypass the operating capacity of silicon chips with indium arsenide.READ»
Nanosolar, a Silicon Valley thin-film solar startup, has been ridiculed for its reluctance to release any sort of information about its technology since it debuted in 2002. And now the company has proved all its detractors wrong, ...READ»
Kids these days--they just keep inventing new technologies to secure
our energy future. The latest comes from Milan Karki, an 18-year-old
resident of a rural village in Nepal. Karki has purportedly devised a
way to dramatically ...READ»
It's 2014. Instead of hiring workers to install solar panels on your roof, you spray solar ink all over the rooftop and sun-facing walls of your home. It's not science fiction--it could be reality in three to five years according to ...READ»
Circuits are usually made out of toxic chemical-filled silicon, but Professors David Thiel and MadhusudanRao Neeli at Australia's Griffith University think that plastic circuits could be cleaner and greener. The pair's Circuits ...READ»
"I know I'll offend wet advocates, but you can't
do everything with water," says Tim Maxwell, president of GreenEarth
Cleaning, which licenses a liquid-silicone-based dry-cleaning
technology. At the biennial World ...READ»
