Very nice guide about applying thermal paste to the CPU: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=170&Itemid=1
Source: Dailytech
Second Sight Vision, a U.S. company located near Los Angeles, is becoming the pioneering enterprise in commercial electro-ocular implants. Starting as early as 2004, it began carrying out research a series of 15 implants. The implants are part of a trial that has been going on for over three years, with patients in the U.S., Europe, and Mexico. The trial is the first of its kind.
On Monday, two British citizens received the implants at London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital. The two men, both in their 50s, were completely blind before the operation. If successful, the operation should grant them limited vision allow them to navigate around obstacles and see objects. The operation to implant the artificial implants inside the existing ocular tissue takes about 3 hours. The retinas cost about $23,000 USD and are predicted to be approved for general use within three years.
Source: Dailytech
U.S. Department of Defense announces AFIRM with goal of using stem cell research to treat injured soldiers
Source: Dailytech
Enceladus’ possible sub-surface water could harbor the necessary chemicals for this process to occur, along with the heat to drive chemical reactions. It does seem a little more far-fetched than Earth’s life’s foundation, but stranger things have been known to happen in the universe.
Source: Dailytech
research is based on regrowing dentin in damaged teeth. Dentin is the substance underneath the white enamel of our teeth. Wired.com describes Dentin as being similar to adobe bricks made from mud and reinforced with straw fibers. In healthy teeth the dentin is reinforced by fibers of collagen. Once acids and decay erode the enamel of a tooth and gain access to the dentin the bacteria break the dentin down and you get tooth decay.
Wired explains that in a healthy tooth dentin is about twice as hard as pinewood. When a tooth decays the dentin takes on the consistency of rubber. Marshall believes that by coating a tooth with a layer of her solution a tooth can be remineralized. This would fix the erosion of enamel on a tooth and prevent bacteria from decaying the dentin underneath.
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Some stuff about the upcoming Windows: http://thebetaguy.com/exclusives/?postid=1029344029&title=microsoft-windows-7-exclusive
Source: Dailytech
Internet up to 10,000 times faster deployed, may see consumer use within a year or two
Source: BBCNews
Cool a video about a restaurant in Germany where food comes to you. Click the source link for the article.
Source: engadget
Toshiba just pushed its SpursEngine co-processor chip out the door for sampling. Derived from the Cell processor at the heart of Sony’s PS3
Source: Dailytech
Scientists with Virginia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Georgia claim to have developed the most cost-effective and efficient hydrogen production process yet. In the new process sugar, water, and a cocktail of 13 power enzymes are combined to yield carbon dioxide and hydrogen under mild reaction conditions.
Source: Dailytech
The University of Washington just made another breakthrough in solar power, that while humorous sounding, certainly offers serious gains. Researchers at the university studying solar cell configurations discovered that by implementing a popcorn ball design — tiny spheres clumped into bigger porous spheres — efficiency in cheap solar cells was near doubled.
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