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Comment Re:interconnects (Score 1) 142

Not really.. The graphene isn't used for transistors, but CNT is (carbonnanotubes: folded graphene). It is very unlikely that CNT will ever be used for scaling in transistors (16 nm) because of the k vector and phonon effects. Copper just scales linearly with size, but CNT gains too much resistance (k vector, phonons, edge/connect effects) at the lengths where this can be used in future transistors. Getting the CNT or graphene on SiOx isn't such a problem though. If you apply the right fields you can bend the material easily enough. Though the material properties are extremely difficult to control cost-efficiently for mass production (millions of exactly the same transistors for processor components)

Comment Re:first graphene production (Score 1) 142

In research the 'scotch tape technique' is still used as the easiest method to generate graphene and graphite sheets. The scientific term is exfoliation of HOPG (Highly Orderdered Pyrolitic Graphite) and basically comes down to pulling apart two scotch tapes from each other and/or placing the tape on a SiO layer. Other methods include bottom-up synthesis on metals (difficult to fix the amount of layers) or SiC wafers (expensive, difficult to control). For flexible displays SAMSUNG is currently just printing large 30 inch sheets of graphene (with a support polymer).
Biotech

Monitor Your Health 24x7 With the WIN Human Recorder 66

kkleiner writes "Japanese venture firm WIN Human Recorder Ltd is set to bring a health monitor patch to market that is capable of keeping tabs on all your vitals. The HRS-I is a small (30mm x 30mm x 5mm) lightweight (7g) device that adheres to your chest and relays the data it collects to a computer or mobile phone via wireless connection. While the HRS-I only directly monitors electrocardiograph information, body surface temperature, and movement (via accelerometers), it can connect to sensors for heart rate, brain waves, respiration and many other important health indicators. WIN is selling the HRS-I for around ¥30,000 (~$330) and providing monitoring software for around ¥10,000 (~$110)."
Role Playing (Games)

Looking Back At Dungeons & Dragons 189

An anonymous reader sends in a nostalgic piece about Dungeons & Dragons and the influence it's had on games and gamers for the past 36 years. Quoting: "Maybe there was something in the air during the early '70s. Maybe it was historically inevitable. But it seems way more than convenient coincidence that Gygax and Arneson got their first packet of rules for D&D out the door in 1974, the same year Nolan Bushnell managed to cobble together a little arcade machine called Pong. We've never had fun quite the same way since. Looking back, these two events set today's world of gaming into motion — the Romulus and Remus of modern game civilization. For the rest of forever, we would sit around and argue whether games should let us do more or tell us better stories."

Comment Why doubt? (Score 1) 541

If President Obama can recieve a Nobel prize for things he promised to do, within a year of when he started, then Linus Turvalds, who helped built the crucial basis for technology that will last as long as computers exist, should've gotten a prize almost twenty years ago.

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