• Plastic logic reveals paper-thin flexible tablet computer

    Plastic Logic, Queen’s University and Intel® labs have collaboratively developed a flexible plastic computer tablet. Its called PaperTab, looks and feels just like a sheet of paper. It is fully interactive and flexible with a  high-resolution 10.7” plastic

  • LEON – microchips designed by ESA for future space missions

    In an attempt to become self-reliant, ESA designed LEON series microprocessor chips for their future space missions. Engineered to operate within spacecraft computers, withstand extreme conditions during launch and in space, manufacturing was done Atmel in France

  • Nanotech self-filling water bottle inspired by a beetle

    A water bottle which will fill itself by drawing water from atmosphere is what NBD Nano co-founder and biochemist Deckard Sorensen conceived in his mind. He got inspired by Namib desert beetle(genus Stenocara), which does something similar. Living in a desert where

  • Space weather could wreak havoc in gadget-driven world

    Advances in modern life have exposed humans to new weaknesses to space weather, which could disrupt communications, crash stock markets and cause months-long power outages, experts warned Saturday.Worst-case scenarios including scorched commercial satellites, GPS