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Ferromagnetic materials can retain a magnetic charge that is “written” to them using a magnetic field. The magnetic charge can later be “read” from the material allowing us to store data on the material. This is how most hard drives, magnetic tape and many other forms of data storage media work. Ferroelectric materials can retain [...]

eZ430-Chronos Wireless Watch Development Tool – [ti.com] The eZ430-Chronos is a highly integrated, wearable wireless development system based for the CC430 in a sports watch. It may be used as a reference platform for watch systems, a personal display for personal area networks, or as a wireless sensor node for remote data collection. EZ430-Chronos – [...]

WBAN wireless networks operating in compact devices that are worn in clothing or embedded into the body will collect and communicate a variety of data, including bio-medical telemetry, personal statistics, haptic feedback control data, cosmetic appearance control data and short range interface I/O with other systems. Groundbreaking Study of Wireless Body Area Networks Made Possible [...]

By using a mathematical algorithm that “unfolds” the cortex and maps brainwave signals, a fairly simple sensor headset can translate the signals into computer commands that can control physical objects. Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves – [ted.com] So the device that you see is a 14-channel, high-fidelity EEG acquisition system. It doesn’t [...]

Red Storm is a massively parallel processing supercomputer developed by Sandia Labs and Cray for the Department of Energy to do advanced simulation and modeling in nuclear weapons research. It is now being rededicated to national security problems including cyber defense, vulnerability assessments, situational awareness and more. NNSA Dedicates National Security Computing Center at Sandia [...]

Intel’s promise to deliver computers with thousands of processing cores takes a big step forward with the announcement of a 48 core CPU that they call the Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC). It claims to use better power management, high speed internal communications and provide good software compatibility. Single-chip Cloud Computer – [intel.com] Overview Intel Labs [...]

FutureGrid is a high speed network connected to clusters of high performance computers and linked to Teragrid. TeraGrid is the worlds largest distributed cyber-infrastructure that integrates high performance computers, data resources and experimental facilities. While TeraGrid is designed to provide computing resources, FutureGrid is oriented toward developing tools and technologies. What is FutureGrid? – [teragrid.org] [...]

Sandia computer scientists successfully boot one million Linux kernels as virtual machines – [sandia.gov] Computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., have for the first time successfully demonstrated the ability to run more than a million Linux kernels as virtual machines. The achievement will allow cyber security researchers to more effectively observe behavior [...]

Songdo (formerly known as New Songdo) is an evolutionary city being built in South Korea. It has been designed from the ground up with built in ubiquititous technology and computer networking. The financial backers supporting this new techno-utopia seem to hope it can become an economic hub to rival Hong Kong as well as set [...]

Another short but brilliant post by Eric Drexler, well worth reading several times over as short as it is. A Telescope Aimed at the Future – [metamodern.com] Our time is also unique in that growing computational capacity can enable us to simulate systems that have not yet been built: New aircraft typically fly as expected, [...]