Five reasons why we won't see IBM's holographic display in five years - video

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk






IBM has released its prediction of five key technologies for the next five years, and on the whole they are pretty sound: fuel cell batteries are here and making headway in a number of markets, the smart grid will take existing technologies and apply them to wide area power systems, sensors will be everywhere (absolutely!) and smart algorithms can take

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World's smallest Christmas card in nanotech

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk



Researchers at the University of Glasgow have built what they claim is the world's smallest Christmas card etched on a piece of glass. 

"We decided that producing this Christmas card was a simple way to show just how accurate our technology is," said Professor David Cumming of the School of Engineering. "The process to manufacture the card only took 30

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EU project to build a molecular computer

Nottingham University part of collaboration
By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk


The University of Nottingham is the UK's representative in a major new European project to build a computer that uses molecules as switches rather than transistors.
The four year AtMol project stats on the 1st January with ten research groups in Europe working together with the IMRE Institute from A*A*STAR

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First video of working invisibility cloak

R&D project demonstration
By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

A video by Fractal Antenna Systems of Waltham, Massachusets (just down the road from Analog Devices) is showing that the 'invisibility cloak' is becoming a realistic project.
The company has been working on the system for two years using fractal antennas and resonators to make an 'object', or wearer, disappear into the background.

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Top five postings on The Embedded Blog

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

As we approach the end of the year, it's time to look back on what have been the most popular stories on The Embedded Blog in 2010.


True gesture multitouch for large LCDs
Open Android API to drive NFC 
TI's 1GHz Cortex A8
The battle of names with iPad and iNemo
USB3 moving into digital cameras

But there has to be a mention of a story from 2009 that is still

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Nottingham researchers etch the periodic table on a hair - video

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk


Not strictly an embedded story but great nonetheless - researchers at the Nottingham Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Center have etched a tiny periodic table onto a hair belonging to chemistry Professor Martyn Poliakoff. This is part of their collection of Periodic tables at  The Periodoc Table of Videos.



  
Related articlesThe Smallest Periodic Table in

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Moving multicore to embedded is key to US competitiveness

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

The rapid advances in information technology that drive many sectors of the US economy could stall unless there is significant fundamental research and development of parallel computing, says a new report by the National Research Council -- which will drive the move to embedded multicore systems.Better options for managing power consumption in computers will

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Google multi-source deal drives down cost of 100G optical transceivers

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk


10X10 Multi-Source Agreement established to encourage broad adoption of 100G networks based on 10G signaling specificationsGoogle has teamed up with leading suppliers Brocade, JDSU and Santur to form a Multi-Source Agreement (the 10X10 MSA) for low cost, low power, pluggable 100G optical transceivers based on 10 optical lanes at 10G.“The 10X10 MSA is exciting

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NFC Forum Publishes Four Technical Specifications; Brings Total Number of Available Specifications to 15 | Business Wire

NFC Forum Publishes Four Technical Specifications; Brings Total Number of Available Specifications to 15 | Business Wire: "NFC Forum Publishes Four Technical Specifications; Brings Total Number of Available Specifications to 15"By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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Renesas and green Hills team up for virtualisation for real time control

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Renesas Electronics and Green Hills Software are to jointly develop basic software supporting CPU virtualisation technology for real-time control applications as well as a software development environment.
Through the collaboration, Renesas Electronics will develop added functions necessary for the efficient operation of virtualization software enabling

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