Nanassi - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Is Leopold Bros. ready for this? (Score 1) 132

by Nanassi on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @05:00AM (#20908639) Attached to: Slashdot Anniversary: Ann Arbor, MI, US

I would suggest some way of sending CmdrTaco money so he can rent out a place for all of us. This party is going to be amazing: there may even be geeks making eye contact. ;-)

Submission + - Tangible display makes 3D touchable 2

Submitted by moon_monkey on Sunday July 01, 2007 @05:40PM

moon_monkey writes: Researchers in Japan have developed a display that makes 3D objects solid enough to grasp. The system, created by engineers at Japan's NTT, combines a 3D display with a haptic glove, making 3D items that look real but also feel solid to touch. Two cameras are used to image an object, to make the 3D image. A computer also uses this to render a solid representation. It could be used to inspect products remotely, or even to shake hands with someone on the other side of the world, the researchers say

Creating Power From Wasted Heat 186

Posted by Zonk on Saturday February 17, 2007 @08:31PM from the that's-borg-technology dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Today, about 90 percent of the world's electricity is created through an indirect and inefficient conversion of heat. It is estimated that two thirds of the heat used by thermoelectric converters are wasted and released. But now, researchers from the University of California at Berkeley have found a new way to convert this wasted heat into electricity by trapping organic molecules between metal nanoparticles. So far, this method of creating electricity creation is in its very early stage, but if it can scale up to mass production it may lead to a new and inexpensive source of energy."

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