February 2012
12 posts
January 2012
19 posts
“The future will look very different as we strip the information-carrying...”
– The High Cost of Low Bandwidth - Bill Davidow - Technology - The Atlantic (via infoneer-pulse)
KickSat.org →
unexpectedtech:
I’m Zac Manchester, a graduate student in Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. Over the last several years a few collaborators and I have designed, built, and tested a very tiny and inexpensive spacecraft called Sprite that can be built and launched into low Earth orbit for just a few hundred dollars each!
My goal is to bring down the huge cost of spaceflight, allowing...
December 2011
15 posts
Watch“Pensat per”: Miba, museu d’idees i invents
November 2011
17 posts
10 billion bits of data per second →
smarterplanet:
Developed by Jelena Vuckovic, associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, and Gary Shambat, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering, the nanoscale light-emitting diode (LED) can send data at 10 billion bits per second.
Vuckovic had earlier this year produced a nanoscale laser that was similarly efficient and fast, but that device operated only at...