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IBM Brings Vacuum Technique To Chips
News Researchers at IBM have come up with a way to create vacuum spaces between copper wires in semiconductors, an insulating technique that will allow these chips to increase in speed and performance and reduce power consumption.
[May 3, 2007, 9:10]
Project Vacuum
Downloads Project Vacuum is designed to work with the REALbasic IDE to merge all external code items into a single project file. It will merge all external classes, modules, and windows into the main project and save the resulting file as xml.
[July 12, 2003, 16:27]
Squeezed-Vacuum Assisted Quantum Teleportation
White Papers Further, we propose a teleportation scheme based on photon counting on the output fields of a squeezer that combines the mode whose quantum state is desired to be teleported and one mode of the two-mode squeezed vacuum playing the role of the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Warming PC Sound With Vacuum Tubes
News Putting vacuum tubes in a PC might sound a little like adding a hand crank to a Porsche, but at least one company thinks it might be the future of computer audio. Taiwanese components company AOpen, part of the Acer Group, is selling a PC audio...
[December 23, 2002, 14:21]
Large And Powerful Vacuum
Member Review What can I tell you? I too wanted to break away from MS operating systems and the corporate control that comes with it, so I sprang for a copy of SuSE Linux since it was rated higher than the rest in a recent PC Magazine.
[January 7, 2004, 12:58]
Offshoring Difficult In A Political Vacuum
Talkback It is hard to separate political from economic risks in calculating offshoring trends. From the European perspective,a search for offshore locations is increasingly including negative domestic reactions not only to a potential for job losses...
[July 3, 2007, 15:19]
Election Leaves Power Vacuum In MP's Tech Group
News The influential All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG) has been left with a power gap following the unseating of North East Milton Keynes MP Brian White in Thursday’s general election. White, a former IT systems analyst who acted as...
[May 6, 2005, 14:30]
'Minesweeping' Robot Keeps Carpets Clean
News The Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner has a new mission: to seek and destroy. IRobot came out with a new line of robotic vacuum cleaners on Monday that, according to the company, feature longer battery life, overall improved performance and an ability...
[July 13, 2004, 8:45]
Dyson Innovation Network Yields Revolutionary Products
White Papers In 1993 the company introduced the Dyson DCO1 Dual Cyclone, the first vacuum cleaner with constant suction. The company wanted to take vacuum cleaner performance to the next level with revolutionary new Ball technology to maintain fast development...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
My Friend, The Robot
News Future robots might not look like C-3PO of "Star Wars" fame or Rosie on "The Jetsons", but they are becoming more personal than even their creators might have realised.iRobot chief executive Colin Angle often fields questions about the Roomba...
[May 26, 2006, 12:40]
Back In The World Of Infinite Free Energy...
Blog Comment A vacuum is not inert and featureless, but alive with throbbing energy and vitality. The presence of the electron will distort this irreducible vacuum activity, and the distortion in turn reacts back on the electron.
[April 23, 2007, 0:33]
New Aibo To Lead The Way In Robotic Vision
News Evolution Robotics' technology could also find applications in areas as diverse as useful household appliances such as robotic vacuum cleaners, and in supermarket checkouts where it could automatically recognise groceries, according to the company...
[September 5, 2003, 16:35]
Flat Screens Exploit Electron Emission Technology
News The two plates are positioned just a few nanometres apart, with a vacuum between them. They drift across the vacuum and collide with the fluorescent-coated glass plate, causing light to be given off. Canon and Toshiba have formed a joint venture to...
[September 14, 2004, 16:20]
The Transistor Turns 60
News Since the 1930s, Bell Labs had been looking to replace vacuum tubes with an electronic switch. Inside were more than 17,000 vacuum tubes. This was the very first transistor, invented at Bell Labs in December 1947.
[December 17, 2007, 12:25]
Am I Mad, In A Coma, Or Have I Gone Back In Time?
Blog These vacuum spaces, sized 20 nanometers across and spaced 40 nanometers apart, act like molecule-sized versions of the vacuum tubes that once helped insulate mainframe computers and televisions. As for the copper wires and tiny insulating voids...
[May 3, 2007, 9:43]
Chip Designers' Dream Team: 10GHz Or Bust
News There were many who said we couldn't build the optics -- that we couldn't produce a source that would generate sufficient EUV [Extreme Ultraviolet] flux -- and then the whole system had to operate in a vacuum.
[February 15, 2001, 14:36]
Robots: Our Plastic Pals Who Are Fun To Be With?
News Autonomous vacuum cleaners alone account for sales of more than 600,000 units per annum. These included such diverse devices as lawnmowers, autonomous vacuum cleaners, and robot toys. Machines incorporating robot technology are increasingly finding...
[November 10, 2005, 9:30]
IBM Bets On CIGS With Solar-cell Deal
News It's a break with the most common CIGS manufacturing process, called co-evaporation, in which active chemicals are immersed in a solution that gets removed in a vacuum. It does not require a vacuum, doesn't require as much energy to run, and can be...
[June 16, 2008, 8:49]
'IT Industry Is Ageist' Says Intel Chairman
News There will be a scarcity of expertise, but I wouldn't suggest people major in vacuum tubes, and there's a scarcity of vacuum tubes as well," added Barrett. Intel's chairman has criticised the IT industry for being ageist when it comes to...
[March 9, 2006, 16:35]
Q&A: The Future Of Display Technology
News That is a more cumbersome process than inkjet printing, because you need high-vacuum equipment in order to effectively deposit the light-emitting layer. But in the manufacturing side, the small molecules don't dissolve in solvents and they require...
[September 2, 2002, 9:33]
