Future Technology

 

Wearable Computers

 

wearable gear

Fossil's Wrist PDA

A Wearable PC (6/19/03)

Computing made pervasive

The Senseboard Virtual Keyboard

Building the Soldier of the Future
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR: Celebration School Issues Students

Wearable Java™ Computers


International Symposium on Wearable Computers

You Are What You Ware by Michael Stroud

IBM's: User System Ergonomics Research

The World's Smallest World Wide Web
Server is only slightly larger than a match box.
Videos

WIRED NEWS': Dress
Code (Page 8)
By Thomas A. Bass explains the connection between wearable computers and nanotechnology.

WIRED NEWS': Patients
, Heal Thyselves
by Lindsey Arent explains the connection between wearable computers, the future of health care and The Center for Future Health.

Nanotechnology

 

Major Pages


The Nanotechnology Group The Plastic Noodle


Books


Our Molecular Future The Investor's Guide to Nanotechnology and Micromachines

Companies

 

nanobac labs has developed therapeutic nanotechnology. Their technology, for the first time, has been shown to reverse arterial sclerosis. You can listen to journalist Douglas Mulhall speak about this in the 3rd hour of Jeff Rense's 03-25-03 radio show on his archives page.

News

Nanoparticles Clean Diesel (5/22/06: Wired Magazine's: Autopia) - also has other current alternative fuel news

Nanomedicine: James Baker designs nanoparticles to guide drugs directly into cancer cells, which could lead to far safer treatments. (4/06)


Finding Fat Before Heart Attacks (11/23/05)

Micro (mechanical) phones.pdf (Scientific American: 2/04)

Memorable Nanorings.pdf (Scientific American: 2/04)

Lasers operate inside single cells (Nature:
10/6/03)


Microcosmos (Wired Magazine: 6/03)

Scientists Develop Technique to Determine Molecular Structure of Heterogeneous Surfaces (1/21/03)

Nanotechnology: New Advances (
1/23/03)

Novel self-assembly processes for nanotech applications (1/10/03)

Nano-competence for hard thin films

Free-Electron Laser explores promise of carbon nanotubes

Surfactant curtails nanotube clumping in water

Nanotechnology could save the ozone layer

Researchers connect life's blueprints with its energy source


New research integrates microfluidics with nanotechnology
'Nano-lamp' discovered by coincidence
Nanocluster catalysts aim to clean up fossil fuels

New method for producing carbon nanoscrolls, an alternative to nanotubes

The Smallest Sight: Researchers Zoom In on the Nanoscale


How to make the smallest, most perfect, densest nanowire lattices

Australian overturns 15 years of nano-science doctrine

University of Toronto study charts new realm of physics

Atomic force microscope powerful new tool for measurement of particle attraction

New Measurements Show Silicon Nanospheres Rank Among Hardest Known Materials

Argonne researchers use electric field to manipulate tiny particles


Nanotech start-ups to fight terrorism on a small scale

Chemical force microscopy chooses materials for lightweight nanotube-based composites

There are challenges: Future computing challenges will make present computers seem as clunky as an old mainframe.

Nanotech may spark fierce ethical row (BBC)

Intel getting into micro-machines


A Printing Press for Micro-Devices By Pat Paquette


Foresight Institute

Foresight Update 9


Electronic Books


Softbook
Nuvomedia

Librius.com
Everybook

Eink


Speech Recognition


Speech-recognition core targets high-volume apps

Philips Giving Away New Voice-Activated Web Browser Free

A review of
Speech Recognition Software: Dragon Systems
Conversa: Another Speech Recognition Innovator

Dragon Systems Inc.

Robotics

 

Major Pages

 

USC Robotics Research Lab Robot Links

News, Reviews & Articles on Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [DARPA]


News, Etc.


New Software Tracks Swarms of Insects or Robots (9/30/06)

Robots Get Soft, Human-Like Skin (9/22/06)

Robot vehicles to drive for $2-million prize

Four Robotic Vehicles Finish Desert Race (10/9/05)

Hitachi Pal and Chum Robots (3/21/05)

Courier robots get traction in hospitals (7/6/04)

Fade to Black (business 2.0: 6/03)
Carnegie Mellon unveils storytelling robot receptionist

Invasion of the Centibots

Comdex: iRobot is real-life R2-D2

The new robot - give it a nice hand!

UW Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Eng. Videos


Robot Wars

Robot Race Takes to the Streets (5/22/06: Washington Post Video)

Rough ride for robots, but humans smiling: $1 million race ends without winners, but not without success (3/14/04)

Survival Research Laboratories - "For decades, these guys have been building radical robots and machines that fight each other. They say their work is partly about re-directing technology, away from practicality and the military urge. "The Flame Whistle" machine is a modified Being jet engine, "the loudest flame-thrower in history."'

 

Books

 

Turning the Corner: Energy Solutions for the 21st Century by Dohn Riley, Mark McLaughlin


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