I love the idea of using lighter than airships to move cargo and who knows, even provide passenger service.
[via neatorama]
Category: Technology
Monster CCD Sensor Has 111 Million Pixels
Wow. This is going to make one heck of a camera for a telescope. I can see a market for these with medium and large format camera users. A sensor this size would make a nice replacement for a film back on a 4×5 view camera.
Dalsa Semiconductor has fabricated an image sensor with more than 111 million pixels. The company claims the 4 x 4-inch charge-coupled device, configured as 10,560 x 10,560 pixels, is the world’s highest-resolution image sensor and the first to break the 100 million-pixel barrier.
EETimes.com – Record CCD image sensor has 111 million pixels
Epson A6 QXGA Electronic Paper
The technology of thin film displays marches on. I’ll take my place in line for a roll up computer monitor as soon as they hit the streets.
Epson announced that they successfully developed a A6 (7.1") QXGA (1536×2048) Electronic paper using the SUFTLA Technology (Surface-free technology by laser annealing) son poly-Si TFT-LCD.?
In order to realize electronic devices on plastic film, new technology has been developed that enables the transfer of thin-film devices from an original substrate to another substrate by using laser irradiation. This technology was termed SUFTLA, which stands for surface-free technology by laser annealing. A polycrystalline-silicon thin film transistor (poly-Si TFT) back-plane for liquid crystal displays (LCDs) with integrated drivers was fabricated using a low-temperature process (below 425/spl deg/C) and could be successfully transferred from a glass or quartz substrate to plastic film using this technology. This technology enabled us to fabricate an all-plastic substrate TFT-LCD having a display area of 0.7 in measured diagonally and a pixel count of 428/spl times/238. In addition, the operation of the integrated drivers and the displayed image could be confirmed for the first time in the world.
Initial Scientific Results of Hayabusa’s Investigation on Itokawa
It’s quite amazing that even after many problems the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s space probe Hayabusa has brought back some great science on the asteroid Itokawa.
Asteroid explorer Hayabusa observed asteroid Itokawa from the middle of September to the end of November last year. Hayabusa observed Itokawa form the altitude of 20 km to 3 km by using four observational instruments, and a lot of new results were obtained for the asteroid’s shape, geographical features, surface altitude variation, albedo, spectrum, mineral composition, gravity, and the main chemical composition, etc. These results are totally new information to understand the formation process of asteroid. It will be the important standard for all the future mission to asteroids to have revealed the detail features of the asteroid, which is a most common type in the asteroid belt. We introduce here the summaries of papers, which obtained excellent results of science.
Initial Scientific Results of Hayabusa’s Investigation on Itokawa
ESG Personal Flying Wings
Perfect for those long cross country stealth military insertions that some governments love so much. With this modern ‘bat suit’, once you exit the plane the wearer can glide up to 40 km before landing on the dime. This and a pair of jet boots and your about halfway to a new Olympic sport. Stunt planes are for wimps.
The iFISH
First there was the iDog and now Segatoys has another interactive music toy for your enjoyment.
The "attitude" of the iFISH is its most interesting feature. The iDOG is just a small dog that moves its head and makes noises every 30 seconds (I really had an overdose of iDOG), but the iFISH has been developped in such a way by Segatoys that it really reacts as a fish when you pick it up or when it’s touched… it moves very fast in all directions, so it’s really worth picking it up when it’s switched on.
So the iFISH needs more desk space than the iDOG because it spins around but it does a pretty good job at looking like it’s namesake.