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Digital Microfluidics
herrd0kt0r writes "A brilliant team of researches at Duke University have been working on digital microfluidics, with potential applications in biotech labs-on-a-chip, optical routers/switches, wavelength division multiplexers and the like. Essentially, this team has developed a solid state device capable of moving very small drops of fluid over very small distances with very little power. From their website they remark that "[m]icrofluidic processing is performed on unit-sized packets of fluid which are transported, stored, mixed, reacted, or analyzed in a discrete manner using a standard set of basic instructions."
Their site includes eight .mpgs demonstrating their microfluidics tech in real-time. Be sure to take a gander at this video showing programmable flow of droplets as well as this one showing droplet splitting and formation."
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Hi! Is this first post?
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Although we're probably not going to see microfludic processors any time soon, printers are all about moving small quantities of ink.
Has anybody noticed that MANY of SLashdot's articles are getting progressively worse? I remember, that a few months ago, that many, if not all articles, had about 400 minimum (-1 t o 5). Now, an article is lucky to break the 100 post mark.
/. had propeirty material that posters posted. Slashdot, instead, backed down from the 'policy'
/. that said "Comments are owned by Editor". The article still exists in Slashdot archives, but as SLashdot's search does not work (half-assed), I am not able to find it.
WHat I see, unlike the lies of "bad is dying", is that Slashdot is dying. The evidence to prove that Slashdot is, in fact, dying, is the following:
1: The Censoring (and deletion) of posts. MS claimed that
"All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective companies. Comments are owned by the Poster."
Deleting posts set a precident on
2: The INFAMOUS bitchslapping (applying -1 modpoints to a whole thread) of the The first Slashdot troll post investigation [slashdot.org]. And as said on Kuro5hin [kuro5hin.org], "The editors of slashdot seem to be hell-bent on censoring the comment."
However, posts still flourished in slashdot, even though all other "article sites" watched while Slashdot editors made blunder after blunder. However, point 3 is what is burying Slashdot...
3: Bans of known "Trolls", ip bans on "abusive users", and only 10 Anonymous Coward posts from each class C subnet. Slashdot is CENSORING the same group that they compalin to when the big media censors all of us. The sad part is that this act is running off more legitimate users than trolls. Wait 10 minutes after an article has been posted and read at -1... All the trolls use http proxies and post anonomously to avoid Slashdot's censoring attacks.
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I was pondering the relatively uninteresting nature of some of the posts today and then WHAMMO !!! It hit me ...
.dreams
... ?? methinks not ....
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