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- Nanotechnology-based flexible actuators
- In 'Nanotube paper flexes on demand,' nanotechweb.org reports that French researchers are using multiwalled carbon nanotubes MWCNTs reinforced with polyvinyl alcohol PVA to develop ultra-lightweight actuators for aerospace applications. The scientists have developed a paper-like sheet which bends when the material is electrically stimulated. As said one of the lead...
- Tags: Nanotube, Researcher, Carbon Nanotube, Polymer, Aerospace, PVA, Membrane Filtration, Nanotechnology, Aerospace & Defense, Emerging Technologies, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
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- Build a Mac Pro equivalent workstation for 1/3 the cost
- Conventional wisdom tells us that a digital content creation and CAD professional had to fork out $6000 to $10,000 dollars for a high-end 8-core dual-processor workstation, but this is Real World IT where I say screw conventional wisdom. I've put on my mad scientist hat again and brewed something up...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Apple Macintosh, Memory, Wisdom, Dual Processor, Intel Corp., Mac Pro, FBDIMM, Series Motherboard, Chipsets, Serial ATA, Workstations, Mice, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, Storage, Peripherals, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- How LCD makers inflate their contrast ratio scores
- How LCD makers inflate their contrast ratio scoresFrank SSony provides both static (which they call on-screen) and dynamic contrast ratios in their specs. But I notice retailers aren't as forthcoming when they advertise them--you're less likely to see the static contrast ration in a newspaper ad.Kind of, sort of, like...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Digital rights management (DRM), Sony Corp., OK Here, LCD, contrast ratio, Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services
- Discussion threads 2007-12-23
- How LCD makers lie to you about viewing angles
- I was in a large computer store looking at computer LCD monitors and a lady was asking about which one was the better one to buy. A man presumably her family told her that the ones which indicated TFT Thin Film Transistor were the ones to buy. I then interjected that...
- Tags: Monitor, LCD Monitor, TFT, Photograph, Image, LCD, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- A plastic as solid as steel
- A new composite plastic built layer by layer has been created by engineers at the University of Michigan. This plastic is as strong as steel. It has been built the same way as mother-of-pearl, and shows similar strength. Interestingly, this 300-layer plastic has been built with 'strong' nanosheets of clay...
- Tags: Atom, Polymer, Material, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Matte or glossy LCD screens - Which do you prefer?
- Matte or glossy LCD screens - Which do you prefer?Headache inducing glare...... is the reason I prefer Matt screens. I find that no matter how I position the gloss screen I get reflections, glare or me looking at the screen They make great mirrors (may be popular with ladies? ;-)...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Matte, LCD, glossy LCD screen, glare, LCD screen
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
- IPOD Video Converter (exe)
- Ipod video Converter is a powerful easy to use Video Converter tool for Ipod devices. With Ipod Video Converter you can convert from one of the supported video types to mp4 format or H264 format. You can convert from AVI,MPEG,MPG,ASF,WMV,MPE,3GP, FLV,MKV,MOV QuickTime,MP4,NUT,Ogg, OGM, Wav,MPEG-2 (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3), AIFF, Raw audio, Raw DV,...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Codec, Video, Ipod Video Converter, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Digital Music, Digital Video, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-03-23
- YouTube to advertisers: $25,000 please, at least
- I heard Suzie Reider, YouTube CMO, declare at Ad-Tech NYC last month that marketers won’t be “messing up” YouTube (see “YouTube on marketers: Won’t be ‘messing it up’”). Reider also put forth “acceptable” ways to be part of the YouTube “community”: sponsor the YouTube “front door,” or buy a PVA,...
- Tags: Metrics, Social Media, Social Networking, Self-Promotion, Marketing, Amateur Content, YouTube, Video, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Advertising, Google, Suzie Reider, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- Not on YouTube: Video sales
- Suzie Reider, CMO of YouTube, was but one of four panelists at Ad:Tech’s “Online Video Revolution: A Marketer’s Dream or a Consumer-Generated Mess?" Tuesday. Not surprisingly, however, her “broadcast yourself” musings stole the thunder from Akami, CNN and Isobar co-panelists.Reider put forth an unflappable confidence in the YouTube formula, as...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Business Models, Advertising, Google, User-Generated Content, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
- YouTube on marketers: Won't be 'messing it up'
- If Suzie Reider, CMO, YouTube, has her way, marketers won’t be “messing up” YouTube anytime soon. Reider reasserted YouTube’s clip culture philosophy at an AdTech panel in NYC this morning: “The Online Video Revolution: A Marketer’s Dream or a Consumer-Generated Mess?" Reider began her remarks by stating Google-YouTube’s straightforward...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Culture, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, Social Networking, Social Media, Suzie Reider
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
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