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[Brian Atkins]

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Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:00:07 -0400
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Engineers Teach Nature to 'Grow'
Computer Components
PhysOrg.com Nov. 1, 2007
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University of Maryland professor
Ray Phaneuf has developed a template
that nature can follow to produce
"self-assembling" structures. It
causes atoms to be arranged in a
defined pattern that can serve a
variety of purposes -- a
semiconductor in a laptop, a
component in a cell phone or a
sensor in a wearable device. The
templates are created...
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Fab at Home, Open-Source 3D
Printer, Lets Users Make Anything
Popular Mechanics November 2007
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Cornell University researchers have
developed a low-cost, open-source
fabbing system--Fab at Home--priced
at around $2400. It uses a 3D inkjet
printer that deposits droplets of
plastic, layer by layer, gradually
building up an object of any...
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Nanotech will replace disk drives
in 10 years, researcher says
Computerworld Nov. 1, 2007
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Nanotechnology will replace
magnetic disk drives in iPods,
laptops and servers within five to
10 years, making them more durable,
lighter and faster, according to
Michael Kozicki, a researcher at
Arizona State University. He's
developing ways to store data in
nanowires instead of as electrons in
cells. He's also researching ways to
stack...
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Tiny sensor detects a mouse heart's
magnetic pulse
NewScientist.com news service Nov. 1, 2007
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An atomic magnetometer not much
bigger than a grain of rice can
detect magnetic fields as weak as 70
femtoteslas -- about a billionth of
the Earth's magnetic field, using
optical magnetometry. The detectors
are even sensitive enough to detect
alpha waves from the human brain and
generate magnetocardiograms that
provide information similar to...
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World's smallest radio uses single
nanotube
KurzweilAI.net Nov. 1, 2007
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Physicists at the University of
California, Berkeley, have built a
radio using a single carbon
nanotube. The carbon nanotube works
as an all-in-one antenna, tunable
band-pass filter, amplifier, and
demodulator for both AM and FM in
the 40-400 MHz range. It detects
radio signals in a radically new
way: mechanically vibrating at the
frequency of...
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