News Schmooze: Goodbye Segway, hello flying exoskeleton
News But just to put things in perspective, you might want to try strapping yourself into a mechanical exoskeleton with enormous helicopter blades whirring past your head as you fly along at 80 miles an hour.
[January 18, 2002, 13:25]
BT turns to fruit flies for network tips
News But there's not a central system that dictates which cells will develop into exoskeleton and which into bristles. The telecommunications company has found that the way a fruit fly grows its exoskeleton has useful lessons for a company trying to...
[April 15, 2002, 10:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This much overlooked insect has lessons for the cellphone industry: the cells on its back work out whether to be bristles or exoskeleton for themselves, based on what chemical signals they get from their neighbours while the fruit fly is growing up.
[April 22, 2002, 11:38]
Intel readies massive multicore processors
News One idea, proposed in a paper released this month at the Programming Language Design and Implementation conference in San Diego, involves cloaking all of the cores in a heterogeneous multicore chip in a metaphorical exoskeleton, so that all of the...
[June 14, 2007, 13:32]
