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Large Improvement in Graphene Photosensitivity Realized
alphadogg sends in a writeup in NetworkWorld about promising new research with graphene. From the article: "Two Nobel Prize winning scientists out of the U.K. have come up with a new way to use graphene – the thinnest material in the world – that could make Internet pipes feel a lot fatter. University of Manchester professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov ... write in the journal Nature Communications of a method of combining the carbon-based material with metallic nanostructures to use as photodetectors that could greatly increase the amount of light optical communications devices could handle. This advance in graphene light harvesting and conversion into electrical power could lead to communications rates tens or even hundreds of times faster than today's, the researchers say."
Thank god for this. The slow bandwidth to Twitter is killing me. When one my friends goes out to lunch, or has a particularly noteworthy bowel movement, I want to know about it in nanoseconds, not milliseconds, goddamit.
Comcast is simply being a good steward for the planet in this case. Whilst other companies fritter away bandwidth at an appalling rate, Comcast recognizes and respects that bandwidth is a non-renewable resource. Once you use up bandwidth, it's gone forever. This new research reminds me of nothing so much as an announcement of a new model Hummer that gets even WORSE mileage.
Don't be in such a hurry to use up all the bandwidth, leave some for your grandchildren!