Open Network Libraries starts up to encourage the use of Open Source tools such as Koha in a diverse community of librarians:
http://onl.org.nz/
Twitter bots seem to be heavily used by the right-wing US parties to create artificial waves of pro-party messages. Detection available:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19649-twitter-tool-roots-out-disguised-mass-postings.html
Firefox 4 release pushed out to "early 2011" following delays in the feature complete beta which will not be available until November:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/27/firefox_4_slips/
The world's smallest game console - not much bigger than a CR1632 battery and fits under a joystick button:
http://hackaday.com/2010/10/27/smallest-gaming-console-ever-ever/#more-29804
Nanowire transistors capable of being switched into 4 distinct states and retaining data are made on flexible substrates:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3064
And finally. The Ig Noble Prize for Engineering goes to Dr. Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse & co for their whale snot collecting helicopter:
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/novel-idea-for-collecting-whale-snot-via-rc-helicopter-wins-nobel-prize.html
Vik :v) Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. http://diamondage.co.nz
2 comments:
Hi there,
I'm based in Christchurch and want to get my hands on a Reprap printer.
Are you the guys for that?
tom.scott@taitradio.com
Cheers
Tom
Hi Vik,
The November 2009 blog post http://blog.reprap.org/2009/11/bugs-brew-pla-direct.html
is very interesting because I am interested in organic batteries and one researcher in Sweden uses Cladophora cellulose with a very dense surface area. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/nl901852h
If the direct PLA one-step approach could be performed by inserting the gene that produces that fiber into bacteria, it could be used as a gel to print batteries.
The conductor in the battery used and other organic batteries is polypyrrole (PPy). This too, could be extracted from the biosynthesis of melanin, as it is a mixed copolymer of the most common melanin. If these pathways using bacteria (cheaper?) or yeast could be GPL'd, the RepRap would be able to print organic batteries extremely cheaply and perhaps stack low-capacity thin batteries and use them for residential backups(I'm hoping for 20kwh batteries, but that may be a bit too far). Nonetheless, I look forward to your thoughts.
Giovanni
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