Philips’ advanced liquid crystal technology shapes the light from LEDs. The size, shape and direction of the beam of light from one specific light source can be electrically adjusted to create different lighting atmospheres.






Philips scientists envision a future of eco-friendly and aesthetic lighting solutions for consumers. Their R&D work in the area of OLED lighting will bring light to walls, ceiling, furniture, windows and most surfaces. The lighting effects that will be created by this new technology are revolutionary.
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Purdue researchers demonstrate their method for producing hydrogen by adding water to an alloy of aluminum and gallium. The hydrogen could then be used to run an internal combustion engine. The reaction was discovered by Jerry Woodall, center, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering.
Jerry Woodall explains what he calls the Aluminum Enabling Hydrogen Fuel Economy in this very interesting presentation.

Avant-garde technologies, social mutations and cultural turmoil...

New York vampyres, Mexican freaks, Silicon Valley nerds, Guatemalan gangsters, London fetishists or Japanese otakus, the Brainsushi agency is specialized in documenting contemporary phenomena that foresee the world of tomorrow.

Much of our electronics could soon be replaced by photonics, in which beams of light flitting through microscopic channels on a silicon chip replace electrons in wires.

Photonic chips would carry more data, use less power and work smoothly with fiber-optic communications systems.
The trick is to get electronics and photonics to talk to each other.

Now Cornell University researchers have taken a major step forward in bridging this communication gap by developing a silicon device that allows an electrical signal to modulate a beam of light on a micrometer scale.

BMW technology has come a long way. Now, together with politicians and the energy industry, we must turn our vision of sustained mobility into reality," says Professor Burkhard Goschel, Board Member of the BMW Group.

The records were set at the high-speed Miramas Proving Grounds in France in September 2004.
With these records, the BMW Group has shown that hydrogen is able to replace conventional fuel without requiring the driver to make the slightest compromise in terms of dynamic performance.

The single-seater H2R Record Car uses a 6.0-litre 12 cylinder power unit producing in excess of 210 kW, that races to 100 km/h in just six seconds and has a top speed of 302.4 km/h.

NEC Corporation, Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan (President: Futoshi Shirai, "TAO"), and Japan Science and Technology Agency President: Kazuki Okimura, "JST") have jointly succeeded in realizing the world's longest 150-km-long single-photon transmission, far surpassing their previous record of a 100-km-long transmission announced in July, 2003.

NASA made public J-Track 3D, a JAVA applet that is providing a plot in 3-dimensions showing the realtime position of 500 satellites around the globe.

Strategic Move Will Add 39 Minutes to Each Roku Day, Giving Company Advantage

In a step designed to further propel Roku to yet even higher heights, the company announced today that effective immediately all employees are switching to Mars Time.

The planet Mars has an extra 39 minutes each day compared to Earthís so-called ìstandardî 24-hour clock. With these extra 39 minutes, Roku engineers can write more code and add more capacitors to schematics.

Rokuís marketing team will use the extra time to run more ads, issue more press releases, and take more orders.

The world's smallest globe with a resolution 100 times higher than previously possible

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation has created an electron beam (EB) lithography (*1) system that enables the fabrication of extremely small three-dimensional (3D) structures with sizes measured in nanometers (A nanometer is a billionth of a meter).



NTT demonstrated the 3D nanopatterning and nanofabrication by exposing a small sphere to the EB to form the world's smallest globe.

This highly advanced technique promises to become the technological foundation of nanotechnology (*2), which is expected to give rise to many new industries and new markets.

Les scientifiques de líEcole polytechnique fÈdÈrale de Lausanne viennent de mettre au point une technique rÈvolutionnaire qui pourrait dÈboucher sur des applications trËs prometteuses en mÈdecine et en chimie.

De par sa rapiditÈ, cette nouvelle mÈthode devrait considÈrablement accÈlÈrer les diagnostics et la crÈation de mÈdicaments. Une dÈcouverte dont l'importance n'a pas ÈchappÈ ‡ la revue allemande de rÈfÈrence ´ Angewandte Chemie ª qui en a fait sa couverture.