A team of electrical engineers from Stanford University and Toshiba have developed nanotube wires that can withstand data transfer speeds comparable to those of commercially available chips. In a paper published in the “Nano Letters” Journal, the researchers reported they ...

Researchers at Stanford University have developed silicon-based chips that can be mechanically stretched to cover an area up to 50 times larger than their original size. The technology, which was recently demonstrated at the International Electron Devices Meeting in Washington ...

For many years now, the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) held in Las Vegas, Nevada, has been the main place to hear about the next generation of consumer electronic technology. In recent years, the endless stream of product announcements at the ...

John Simpson, a researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Department of Energy, recently developed a super-water repellent (superhydrophobic) material. His invention may lead to the creation of a new class of water repellant products, such as windshields, eyewear, ...

The Performance Aviation Manufacturing Group (PAM) has created the Individual Lifting Vehicle (ILV) concept that is being developed as a kit in the United States. PAM 100B, which was constructed in order to demonstrate the ILV concept, achieved a maximum ...

The Vectrix electric scooter offers all the benefits of a gasoline-powered scooter with reduced carbon dioxide and smog-forming pollutants. It can reach a speed of 62 mph (100 km/h) and accelerates rapidly, reaching a speed of 50 mph (96 km/h) ...

2007 is approaching its finish line, bringing us one step closer to the future. This was a year packed with new technologies, new applications, important (and not-so-important, but certainly nonetheless interesting) discoveries and inventions. Here we present some of the ...

The San Francisco based Company Kovio has recently announced the development of a new process for printing transistors for memory and logic chips, as well as analog devices for radio transmitters. Since the technology uses commercial printing equipment such as ...

The Swiss Company Rinspeed has developed a new concept car called “sQuba”, which is the world’s first ‘green’ diving car. This innovative car is capable of driving on roads just like a normal car, yet it can also be turned ...

SkySails is a new alternative propulsion system for ships. This innovative system consists of a large automated towing kite designed to significantly decrease ships’ operation costs. The kite has a nominal power of up to 5,000 kW (about 6,800 HP), ...