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IBM Discovers How to Store Data in a Dozen Atoms January 13, 2012 
Researchers at IBM's Almaden Labs have created a 12-atom magnetic memory bit, in a continuation of work on atomic-level memory storage first posited in 1959 by American physicist Richard Feynman. Disk drives currently use about 1 million atoms to store a single bit of information, according to IBM.
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And Now for Something Completely Different: Nanostuff Lets Computers Remake Themselves October 18, 2011 
Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new nanomaterial that can reconfigure itself by directing the flow of current. This could lead to computers that can reconfigure their internal circuitry as needed. The hybrid material combines different aspects of silicon- and polymer-based electronics to create nanoparticle-based electronics.
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Researchers Rev Up Electric Nano-Motors September 06, 2011 
Researchers at Tufts University announced Sunday they've created an electrical motor many thousands of times smaller than the width of a single human hair, a breakthrough they claim could eventually lead to innovations in healthcare and technology. The microscopic motor is the size of a single molecule and is electrically charged.
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At 100, IBM Still Wants to Change the World June 16, 2011 
On Thursday, IBM rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange in celebration of 100 years since its founding. The company evolved from a pre-World War I alliance of firms manufacturing tabulating machines and clocks into a global computer giant that helped to usher in the modern age. IBM boasts an impressive number of patents and has improved many technologies over the years.
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Energy-Harvesting Tech Could Boost Power for Cell Yellers May 09, 2011 
The phrase "In the beginning was the Word" may soon take on a whole new meaning for cellphone users, if work being done by a researcher at South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University pans out.The scientist, Sang-Woo Kim, has been working on converting sound into electricity. Among other things, the technology might harness cellphone users' voices to charge their devices' batteries while they're talking, Woo has speculated.
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Butterfly Wings Offer Guiding Light for Nanotech Innovation January 25, 2011 
The Morpho butterfly's highly evolved wings are so unique that scientists at Simon Fraser University have teamed up with NanoTech Security to reproduce their iridescent blue coloring for a new anti-counterfeiting technology. A clever pairing of nanotechnology and entomology used nanoscale microscopic holes that interact with light to reproduce the butterfly's shimmering signature.
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E-Skin for Robots Could Lead to Touchy-Feely Prosthetics for Humans September 14, 2010 
Robots can be made made strong, robots can be made tireless, but a big problem with robots so far is that they can't be made to have a sense of touch as humans do. The same issue challenges designers of prosthetic limbs. Imitating the motor movements of joints and muscles is one thing, but imitating human skin with all its myriad ways of detecting sensation is quite another.
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Net Neutrality Will Score a Net Win in Congress April 09, 2010 
The DC federal court of appeals didn't actually bring about the death of Net neutrality. Hopefully, all it's done is bring about the death of the phrase "Net neutrality." I write about technology, and I'm already tired of hearing those words and writing them. Not the concept behind it, mind you, or the implications for broadband development.
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Extreme HD: IBM Makes MRI Tech 100 Million Times Sharper January 13, 2009 
Scientists at IBM Research, along with researchers the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, say they have developed and demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging technology with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI. Results of the demonstration were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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IBM, Academics Seek to Create a Computer That's More Like Us November 20, 2008 
IBM and five universities are receiving funding from a government agency to build a supercomputer -- but not just any supercomputer. They've been tasked with building hardware and software that mimics the human brain. "There are no computers today that can even remotely approach the robust and versatile functionality of the brain," said Dharmendra Modha of IBM Research.
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Intel Talks Up Our Wire-Free, Robot-Ruled Future August 22, 2008 
Intel outlined an ambitious vision of future technologies Thursday at this year's Intel Developer Forum held in San Francisco. In his keynote address Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, spoke about and demonstrated several technologies he said would be part of an evolution that closes the gap between humans and machines by 2050.
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Researchers Sound Nanotube Cancer Alarm May 21, 2008 
Nanotechnology may be considered one of the most promising new technologies emerging today, but it's also the source of considerable concern about potential risks to the environment and human health. A new study published Tuesday in Nature Nanotechnology, adds further evidence that there's good reason for that concern.
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The Perils of Nanotech, Part 2: Reining In Runaway Research March 11, 2008 
Advances in nanotechnology have given flight to some seemingly fanciful, and also alarming, projections and fictional scenarios. Yet the applications of nanotech are so diverse and far-reaching that scientists agree that the widespread ability to manipulate matter on the nano scale -- one-billionth of a meter -- opens up possibilities to completely transform every sector of the world's economic systems.
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The Perils of Nanotech, Part 1: Dancing in the Dark March 04, 2008 
There's probably no field of applied scientific research with applications as diverse and implications as profound as nanotechnology. Advances are coming fast and the research environment is heady as billions of dollars each year go into nanotech research and development.
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Nokia Tinkers With Morphing Phone Concept February 25, 2008 
Imagine what you'd get if you crossed Gumby with a smartphone, and you've got some idea of what a new, nanotech handset from Nokia could be like. The new Morph, which was jointly developed by the Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge in England, is a flexible and stretchable device that can be folded into pocket size and used as a handset, or unfolded and opened up to display more detailed information.
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The New Battery Tech That Could Let You Talk for Days January 18, 2008 
A new technology using silicon nanowires boosts the ability of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to store a charge by as much as a factor of 10, according to research conducted at Stanford University. The findings are published in the December 2007 issue of Nature Nanotechnology.
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