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ZDNet Author Biography: Roland Piquepaille lives in Paris, France, and he spent most of his career in software, mainly for high performance computing and visualization companies, working for example for Cray Research and Silicon Graphics. He left the corporate world in 2001 after 33 years immersed into it. In 2002, he started a...; more about Roland Piquepaille »

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Ready for a virtual beer?: If you're attending SIGGRAPH 2007 next week in San Diego, don't miss a demonstration done by Australian and South Korean researchers. They will pour virtual beer during the conference. They say that 'the physics of bubble creation in carbonated drinks like beer is complex,' but add that their fluid special...; Tags: fluid, beer, bubble, roland piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-08-04
Even air bubbles can be amnesic: When scientists do experiments, they obviously pay attention to the initial conditions involved. But in experiments on how fluids break up from underwater nozzles, physicists from the University of Chicago have discovered that the initial conditions didnt matter. Its even appropriate to talk about amnesia of air bubbles. As they...; Tags: nozzle, university of chicago; Blog posts 2006-10-06
Non-spherical 'armored' gas bubbles: Gas bubbles are perfectly spherical because this shape offers a minimal surface for any given volume. Even when two bubbles are merging, the results is a larger sphere. But now, researchers from Harvard University have found a way to build stable 'armored' bubbles with non-spherical shapes. They can obtain peapod-,...; Tags: bubble, particle; Blog posts 2005-12-15

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The cleantech bubble--true or false?: There is a serious cleantech investment bubble in the making. That's the view of an opinionator on our sister site, CNET. Steve Tobak warns, they're blowing smoke, and smoke gets in your eyes. A counter view--from an involved cleantech VC--is that there is much more to be done,...; Tags: clean technology, steve tobak, harry fuller; Blog posts 2008-08-07
Teaching language to robots: For a project scheduled to end in 2011, Plymouth University researchers will build two robots using software allowing them to interact with each other to exchange learned information like humans. The team will use language-learning techniques designed for children. According to The Engineer, the goal of the project is to...; Tags: project, concept, neck, belpaeme, robots, emerging technologies, roland piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-08-07

Sensors to detect oral cancer in saliva: According to the American Cancer Society ACS, there will be about 35,000 new cases of oral cancer in the U.S. this year. The ACS also estimates that 'when oral cancer is identified in its early stages, patient survival rate is almost 90 percent, compared with 50 percent when the disease...; Tags: university of california at los angeles, team, researcher, protein, sensor, molecule, cancer, protein sensor, dr wong, team management, management, roland piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-08-06
When Google disowns you: When Google disowns youThis is a real danger in general with the "Cloud"PaaS, SaaS,Cloud, or call it what you want, this is only one of the major problems that can creep up when you pass your data and applications on to a third party service provider. You put your business...; Tags: productivity, open source, databases, storage encryption, long-term data usability, namesecure, google inc.; Discussion threads 2008-08-06
News to know: LinuxWorld; Cisco; Microsoft; Yahoo: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'? Sam Diaz: LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest. Larry Dignan: IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista A new data center?...; Tags: apple iphone, linuxworld, larry dignan, yahoo! inc., microsoft corp., cisco systems inc., cloud computing, help desk, data centers, corporate communications, it operations, storage, hardware, data management, marketing; Blog posts 2008-08-06
World's first wind-powered vehicle race: The Aeolus Race will be run in Den Helder, a sea port in the Netherlands, on August 23, 2008. Six European teams will participate to this competition with wind-powered vehicles WPVs. The track is a 5.3 kilometers seawall on the boundary between land and the sea. The students' team at...; Tags: team, vehicle, aeolus race, ventomobile, team management, management, roland piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-08-05
News to know: Vista x64; Apple; Phishing; Facebook: Notable headlines: Jason Perlow: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Windows Vista Ed Bott: You've got Vista x64 questions, I've got answers Jason O'Grady: Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 software (updated 3x) Infinite Loop: Steve Jobs:...; Tags: facebook, microsoft windows vista, apple inc., intel corp., vyatta, mauku, phishing, service-oriented architecture (soa), sales strategy, cyberthreats, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), spam, security, spam and phishing, web services, enterprise software, software, sales, operating systems, microsoft windows, larry dignan; Blog posts 2008-08-05
Toward more efficient fuel cells?: A very short report from the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS, 'A cool fuel cell,' says that Spanish researchers have developed a new way to operate solid oxide fuel cells, which could potentially provide electricity on an industrial scale, at near room temperature. This new super-lattice material...; Tags: fuel cell, ion, oxygen, oak ridge national laboratory, material, solid oxide fuel cell technology, fuel cells, emerging technologies, roland piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-08-04
News to know: iPhone Dev Camp; So long computer science; Intel: Notable headlines: Andrew Mager: Touring iPhone Dev Camp 2 Live: Day 2 from the iPhone Dev Camp 2 Hands full? Get the iPhone arm Video: Spectrum ZX game montage Dion Hinchliffe: Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam ...; Tags: apple iphone, comcast corp., yahoo! inc., computer science, broadband, computer, intel corp., robots, corporate governance, digital cameras, federal government, monitors & displays, broadband internet, network technology, emerging technologies, business operations, corporate law, consumer electronics, personal technology, government, hardware, components, telecommunications, networking, larry dignan; Blog posts 2008-08-04
DGenR8 VST (exe): DGenR8 VST uses virtual analog synthesis to re-create the sound of classic beat boxes such as the Roland TR series. It has 11 tweakable voices: Bass Drum, Snare Drum, Rim Shot, Clap, Ride Cymbal, Crash Cymbal, Open and Closed Hi Hats, and Low, Mid, and High Toms. This version is...; Tags: experimentalscene, telecommunications; Software downloads 2008-08-04
Robot buoy to track oil spills: Yesterday, Japan Today reported about a prototype of robotic buoy developed at Osaka University to fight sea pollution in the event of an environmental disaster caused by an oil spill. The current prototype, dubbed SOTAB (short for 'Spilled Oil Tracking Autonomous Buoy') is a 110-kilogram GPS-equipped robot. The cylindrical buoy...; Tags: oil, buoy, robots, emerging technologies, roland piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-08-03
Massively parallel x-ray holography: An international group of scientists has produced some of the sharpest x-ray holograms of microscopic objects ever made. According to one of them, they improved the efficiency of holography by a factor of 2,500. In order to achieve these spectacular results, they put a uniformly redundant array next to the...; Tags: technique, hologram, image, camera, roland piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-08-02
A robot that really will make you smile: And I mean it -- literally. An article from Vaughan Today, Canada, reports about robots which help straighten smiles. According to this paper, 'Dr. Kevin Davis and his team are the first and only in Canada to offer SureSmile, a high-tech, digital method of producing precision braces.' Davis says that...; Tags: brace, vaughan today, robots, emerging technologies, roland piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-08-01
News to know: Apple patch; IBM; PC upgrades; EDS; Yahoo: Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple finally ships DNS flaw fix, patches 16 other Mac OS X holes Nate McFeters: Black Hat talk on Apple encryption flaw pulled Black Hat Sneak Preview Larry Dignan: IBM plans building spree: To build $360M...; Tags: google inc., facebook, larry dignan, pc, yahoo! inc., apple inc., electronic data systems corp., ibm corp., firewire, sales strategy, desktops, consumer electronics, personal technology, sales, hardware; Blog posts 2008-08-01
OmegaTable, a 24-million pixel VR display: After the LambdaTable unveiled in 2007, the University of Illinois at Chicago's UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory EVL will develop the OmegaTable, a new virtual reality display. It will be a modular, multi-sensory touch tabletop for interactive, visual data exploration in 2D and autostereoscopic 3D (3D without special glasses). EVL received...; Tags: 3d, 2d, pixel, computer, omegatable, lambdatable, productivity, virtual reality, emerging technologies, roland piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-07-31
News to know: 64-bit Windows; JavaFX; Net neutrality; Apple: Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Suddenly, 64-bit Windows is mainstream Dear Adobe, can we please have a 64-bit Flash player? Larry Dignan: JavaFX SDK preview launches: Can Sun play the RIA game? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft launches new search...; Tags: apple iphone, larry dignan, broadband, apple inc., net neutrality, microsoft windows, 64-bit, network technology, operating systems, software, processors, semiconductors, hardware, components, networking; Blog posts 2008-07-31
Generating electricity with polymers?: After yesterday, here is another story about using plastics as a power source. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are using ionic polymers immersed in a river to generate 'clean' electricity for the city of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania. If the project is successful, the city's downtown 'could one day get 20...; Tags: river, polymer, university of pittsburgh, vandergrift, lisa weiland, roland piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-07-30