All-in-one nanoparticle

Nanoparticles are being developed to perform a wide range of medical uses such as imaging tumors, carrying drugs, delivering pulses of heat. Rather than settling for just one of these, researchers at the University of Washington have combined two nanoparticles in one tiny package.

The result is the first structure that creates a multipurpose nanotechnology tool for medical imaging and therapy.

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Touchable Holography: New Projector lets you Touch 3D Objects

There were a lot of Emerging technologies presented at Siggraph 2009, one of them is Touchable Holography.

The University of Tokyo has recently announced that they have created the world’s first touchable hologram.

University of Tokyo researchers have developed a display, which makes it possible to even touch those images that appear to float in space in front of them.

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Super-Capacitor Wireless Charging Coming Soon

Research firm Strategy Analytics will be combining the two technologies wireless charging and super-capacitors to recharge any gadgets in a flash.

The Strategy Analytics predicts that wireless charging will quadruple its potential if combined with speed-charging, they could revolutionise the way we recharge our portable gadgets.

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The Pentagon War On Twitter

The U.S. Marine Corps is the latest American military service to change their policy on troop use of the Internet. The marines have now banned the use of Twitter and Facebook while on duty, using NIPRNET (the separate Department of Defense Internet, which also has access to the general Internet).

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Iron-based superconductors

For 22 years ceramic oxides of copper seemed to offer the only way to reach high-temperature superconductivity. Now, a new and unexpected route is being charted: through semimetal compounds of iron.

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Cloud computing hype clouds the picture

The hype surrounding cloud computing is seemingly more hype than substance at this stage, with potential adopters holding off because of confusion about its potential benefits.

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Two terabyte desktop drive arrives from Hitachi

Hitachi has pushed the envelope by shipping what it claims is the world's first 2T 7200rpm drive.Apart from capacity, the Deskstar 7K2000 provides "ultra-quiet operation", low power consumption and high performance.Hitachi has also revamped its mainstream hard drive family. The Deskstar 7K1000.C range will be available in capacities ranging from 160G to 1T.

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Plastic surgery is about to get a makeove

Professor Shinji Takeoka of the Department of Life Science & Medical Bio-Science at Waseda says that nanosheets have powerful features for tissue binding, such as high adhesiveness, flexibility, and transparency.

Applying nanosheets with poly-L-lactide (PLLA) to the incisions of mouse stomachs, the team found that these centimeter-long biodegradable nanosheets healed the incisions without scarring or tissue adhesion.

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Autonomy Is Next Step in Robotics

Manually controlled robots have established their value on numerous battlefields, mostly in reconnaissance and bomb detection and disposal activities. While that’s unlikely to change in the near-term, robot makers are looking ahead to the next generation of design: autonomous capabilities barely dreamed of a decade ago.

Helen Greiner, cofounder of iRobot Corp., a supplier of robots to the U.S. military, says there has been a “push toward getting not just teleoperated robots [in the field], but to make some functionally autonomous.” Making bots and unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) autonomous, she adds, is “one of the biggest requests we’re getting.”

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Alenia eyes 'son of Yak' for USAF light attack fighter

he US-based subsidiary of Finmeccanica has confirmed to Flightglobal that the M-346 is being considered for the company's response to the USAF's request for information, which was issued last week. The M-346 is also Alenia's probable candidate for the USAF's T-38 replacement contract, called T-X.

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Inertial Measurement Unit Gives Excalibur Reliability

Raytheon fired nine Excalibur Ia-1 precision-guided projectiles from a Paladin gun system. The test validates the increased reliability of the projectile's new Atlantic Inertial Systems inertial measurement unit (AIS IMU). Using the new IMU, Raytheon achieved a 100 percent success rate.

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Raytheon Contracted For Future Naval Air And Missile Defense Radar

his radar suite will consist of an S-band radar; X-band radar; and radar suite controller. The system will be scalable to meet the Navy's current and future mission requirements across multiple ship platforms.

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Final Modernization First Stage ICBM Rocket Motor Delivered

Northrop Grumman has delivered the final, first stage solid rocket motor for the Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) July 23 to the U.S. Air Force under the Propulsion Replacement Program (PRP). The delivery represents a significant milestone in the continuing modernization of the ICBM land-based arsenal.

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Space Fence Program Awards Contracts For Concept Development

Last month's award of three $30-million concept development contracts for the Space Fence program will yield an outcropping of risk reduction activities designed to improve the overall space surveillance network.

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AMDR Competition: The USA’s Next Dual-Band Radar

The US Navy’s Dual-Band Radar that equips its forthcoming 14,500t Zumwalt class “destroyers” and Gerald R. Ford class super-carriers replaces several different radars with a single back-end. Pairing Raytheon’s X-band SPY-3 with Lockheed Martin’s S-band VSR in this way allows fewer radar antennas, faster response time, faster adaptation to new situations, one-step upgrades to the radar suite as a whole, and better utilization of the ship’s power, electronics, and bandwidth.

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