Bill Gates pointed it out at TED, that we need revolution in Energy, batteries more than anything else. He talked about building advanced Zero emission Nuclear reactors that would feed on today’s Uranium waste to power the world for decades. Google with it’s Google Energy, is trying a similar approach. Update: BloomEnergy is now Live, details at the end The future is all about generating your own cheap electricity in greener ways, and a US startup Read further »

Gordon Moore might not have thought that this day would come when his popular “Moore’s law” will see some serious irrelevance. “number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years” Over the years scientists and chip industry evangelists have argued that Moore’s law is still valid as we enter the era of Multi-core processors. But, the latest revelation from IBM can give the the Moore’s law a permanent backseat. Read further »

Since the time we first saw birth of transistor we have seen it reducing in size. It used to be couple of inches fabricated as vacuum tubes. These 62 years of evolution has brought them to size of 32 nm. But what comes now is something that every researcher dreamed of: A single-molecule transistor. This is hell small piece of electronics. The transistor is basically benzene molecule attached to gold contacts, behaves just like a silicon transistor. The molecule’s different energy states can be manipulated by varying the voltage applied to it through the contacts. And by manipulating the energy states, researchers were able to control the current passing Read further »

One of the most innovative Technology of this year demonstrated to public was Wireless Power i.e. transmitting power without use of any type of wires. This concept has already taken flight and is being used in commercial applications TED Talks and also in a Sony prototype. Imagine the world where all the wires just go off, all the clutter will be cleared. If you have no idea of this, watch this video first. How it works: Basically, power is fed to a ring made of magnet wire. When electricity is passed from this loop, it creates Electro magnetic field. Read further »

Computing had been limited by the problems limited by heat dissipation. It’s hard to make high-performing CPUs but much harder to dissipate the heat. Now, a Japanese team unveils the first diode that allows a heat current to travel in one direction restricting the backward flow, thereby becoming new solution for heat dissipation in high-end mobile computing and pave ease to Overclocking computing. Wataru Kobayashi at Waseda University in Japan and a few friends have built a rectifier that allows a heat current to travel in one direction but not the other. For some time, it was believed that thermal rectifiers would be possible Read further »

Earlier, back in the  90s when I first dated the Internet, I found credit cards were easy to exploit. It was as easy as getting a software that auto-generates numbers that could be used to make purchase online. Thank god, those things no longer work, other wise it would have been chaos. Well what you are about to read could be HARMFUL to us, again. WARNING: Do not proceed if you intend to exploit this. The sole purpose of the original author of the hack is for educational purposes only. Magnetic spoofers have been around for a while. The one you see in movies,  a kid hacks CCs with a piece of hardware, is very much possible. We’re getting close to that kind of magic with Read further »

The pursuit to produce smaller and smaller microchips for everything from automobile systems to mobile communications devices has led IBM to turn to one of the very building blocks of life for help with the process—DNA molecules. With chip makers such as IBM and Intel aiming to shrink the manufacturing process to 22 nanometers and smaller, the push is on to develop ways to improve performance and energy efficiency. Scientists with IBM Research and the California Institute of Technology are working on ways to use DNA molecules as the basis for building tiny circuit boards. As shown in these images from IBM Research, the DNA can be put into various shapes and used as a sort of scaffolding, where millions of nanotubes can be deposited onto the sticky DNA and then Read further »

Intel said Thursday that it would acquire Wind River, which makes software for embedded devices, in a deal valued at $884 million. With the move Intel is making a move to diversify into software and away from its dependence on the PC and server markets. The chip giant said in a statement that it will pay  $11.50 a share in cash for Wind River, which closed at $8 on Wednesday. The purchase is interesting on a few fronts: Wind River bolsters Intel’s embedded software strategy; The purchase indicates that Intel thinks its future growth is in embedded devices such as smartphones, in-car systems and mobile Internet devices; And “Intel everywhere” is going to Read further »