That's the story I was thinking of also. Some men doctor the 'teddy' of one oif their children to remove an important part of the device's social conditioning protocols. This gives the child certain advantages in the conditioned society. For example (non-spoiler), the ability to create graffiti in an obsessively clean and organized society would be quite useful to some. Just have the 'teddy' stop admonishing the kid from drawing on walls and sidewalks as a child, turning its advice towards discretion of actions, for one.
You make some very good points about the issue, but there is another reason beyond stubborness that USB 3 sticks with copper - power. The USB connection is a powered device cable. This is a very important function. An optical cable would have to be a hybrid if we wanted it to be able to power and charge the devices linked to it, or worse, we'd need a separate charging cable. It's bad enough that the new EU cell phone standard connector is based on USB 2.0 tech and is therefore incompatible with the USB 3 mini connector.
I don't think it will challenge TV-sized media applications anytime soon due to the infrastructure and backplane developement that still needs to be done. On the small scale it would have to compete with electrowetting and e-ink based displays. This technology may provide a very cost-effective solution (no pun intended) for large-scale display applications.
I wonder how tightly the magnetic field needs to be controlled to maintain color accuracy as well as how closely the pixels can be placed together without the field changes in one pixel affecting those adjacent.
There are a hell of a lot more ways to create e-paper and paper-like displays so it is understandable that there is some confusion about who is doing what first. Next week is the Society for Information Display show, and there will be at least 20 e-paper developers displaying. Almost all of them will have color prototypes at their booth.
But seriously, current LCD, cholesteric LCD, plasma, e-paper, inorganic EL, DLP, LCOS, elecgtrowettting, and EL display tech is so mature and competitive that any new display tech better be f*cking perfect or it will never have a chance.
(shameless plug) My book, Cyberchild, is about medical microbots being developed for brain computing systems getting out of the lab and causing interesting things to happen in the outside world. (/shameless plug).
Introduced in 2002, the Wire-Free Electricity Base by Mobilewise was the first device to interrogate loads placed upon it in order to deliver tailored power. Sadly, there were no takers and it faded away.
Don't forget power. All of these devices are going to need massive batteries to be able to perform any real work for any amount of time. There is a reason autonomous robots like the Asimo have barrel chests or backpack-like protuberances. This will improve as time goes on, but it is a real restricting factor to the development of true androids.
We're currently developing a website for electronic engineering students, and our team has as many women on it as men. www.eeExperience.com. They are aggressive, knowledgeable, and positive. Those who dismiss women in tech don't know tech.
If you report on new items of interest to the community, ensure the information is valid, and report on it in a timely manner, you are a journalist serving that community.
I'm surprised nobody brought up the theory that this is a nuclear weapons test site from an ancient civilization!
The educated guesses all say "1,000's of A-bombs". Don't forget that Trinity was "only" about 10-15 kilotons. A thermonuclear bomb can generate upwards of 50 MEGAtons, well over 2 orders of magnitude of energy.
This is old news. The glass has been known for centuries under the name Libyan Desert Glass . I have a chunk I bought on eBay over a year ago.
But back to topic, books written in ancient Sanskrit describe bombs as powerful as the sun, and there are unexplained areas of radioactivity such as the one in Rajasthan, India.
Why couldn't Libyan glass be from an ancient thermonuclear bomb test site?
Let's be careful when talking about this tech, as it is a wire-building tech, not a power generation tech. This technology will be able to create the conductive structures needed in those next-gen fuel cells and batteries, but this is not microbial fuel cell technology.
Don't forget that none of this development is going on in a vacuum. Cholesteric LCD (www.kentdisplays.com), Iridescent display (www.qualcomm.com/qmt), and electrowetting display (www.liquavista.com) technology are all reflective bistable formulations. Any of these could leapfrog E-ink and make a better, cheaper E-book.
Unfortunately, at the present time it won't. Not by a long shot.
OLEDs oxidize rapidly, so rapidly that most OLED designers include a sheet of dessicant inside the packaging behind the panel. So rapidly that the "holy grail" of OLED manufacture is more to find a flexible truly waterproof (plastic is too porous) material to encapsulate the OLED with.
This also doesn't address the color shift with aging that will inevitably occur. Yellow walls are only nice when the color is intentional.
There is a movement in the power industry to require all devices to have a standby power draw of less than one watt. That action alone would significantly reduce waste.
My mother's friend, "Aunt" Nickie used to unplug her TV set every night for that very reason, when her husband brought home one of the neighborhood's first remote-control TV sets. She hated the idea it was using power even when "off". She leaves it on all the time now, of course.
Well, since it directly relates to the topic, my novel CYBERCHILD is a novel about the first use of microbots to implant a computer in the brain.
It doesn't work out completely as planned.;-)
You can check it out and download a free e-book (the paper version is on Amazon) version at smartalix.com/cyberchild.
There is no magic wand here. As Scotty (RIP) used to say, "Ya kanna change the laws of physics, Captain!"
As we try to cram more and more energy into a tiny metal (or plastic) box we must confront the facts. Unless we discover a radically new technology (such as solving the issues involved in commercial manufacture, packaging, and disposal of radioisotope-based power systems) we are confined to how much "oomph" we can shove into a cubic centimeter using a chemical reaction.
A high-capacity battery is basically a bomb that releases its energy slowly. Most of us have at least read about when a battery undergoes a "catastrophic thermal runaway event".
A fuel cell that can put out enough energy to be useful will run HOT. First-generation devices will be best suited for laptops and devices that one does not hold close to the body. Size is not the only hurdle to clear in this matter.
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Yeah, no. There is still energy transfer.
I believe Hapgood's crust-displacement theory explains the climate change at the turn of the ice age better than orbital wobble.
There's a podcast where Fossey talks about the device on the Electronic Component News website: http://www.ecnmag.com/audio/2011/01/tinkers/first-Commercially-Available-Chip-Scale-Atomic-Clock.aspx
That's the story I was thinking of also. Some men doctor the 'teddy' of one oif their children to remove an important part of the device's social conditioning protocols. This gives the child certain advantages in the conditioned society. For example (non-spoiler), the ability to create graffiti in an obsessively clean and organized society would be quite useful to some. Just have the 'teddy' stop admonishing the kid from drawing on walls and sidewalks as a child, turning its advice towards discretion of actions, for one.
You make some very good points about the issue, but there is another reason beyond stubborness that USB 3 sticks with copper - power. The USB connection is a powered device cable. This is a very important function. An optical cable would have to be a hybrid if we wanted it to be able to power and charge the devices linked to it, or worse, we'd need a separate charging cable. It's bad enough that the new EU cell phone standard connector is based on USB 2.0 tech and is therefore incompatible with the USB 3 mini connector.
(...after coal plants.)
Can this stuff replace the lead in batteries? One thrown-away car battery has more lead than a thousand ICs.
I don't think it will challenge TV-sized media applications anytime soon due to the infrastructure and backplane developement that still needs to be done. On the small scale it would have to compete with electrowetting and e-ink based displays. This technology may provide a very cost-effective solution (no pun intended) for large-scale display applications.
I wonder how tightly the magnetic field needs to be controlled to maintain color accuracy as well as how closely the pixels can be placed together without the field changes in one pixel affecting those adjacent.
E-ink had color flexible e-paper on display years ago.
http://www.eink.com/press/releases/pr86.html
There are a hell of a lot more ways to create e-paper and paper-like displays so it is understandable that there is some confusion about who is doing what first. Next week is the Society for Information Display show, and there will be at least 20 e-paper developers displaying. Almost all of them will have color prototypes at their booth.
http://www.sid.org/conf/sid2007/sid2007.html
But seriously, current LCD, cholesteric LCD, plasma, e-paper, inorganic EL, DLP, LCOS, elecgtrowettting, and EL display tech is so mature and competitive that any new display tech better be f*cking perfect or it will never have a chance.
(shameless plug) My book, Cyberchild, is about medical microbots being developed for brain computing systems getting out of the lab and causing interesting things to happen in the outside world. (/shameless plug).
Introduced in 2002, the Wire-Free Electricity Base by Mobilewise was the first device to interrogate loads placed upon it in order to deliver tailored power. Sadly, there were no takers and it faded away.
Don't forget power. All of these devices are going to need massive batteries to be able to perform any real work for any amount of time. There is a reason autonomous robots like the Asimo have barrel chests or backpack-like protuberances. This will improve as time goes on, but it is a real restricting factor to the development of true androids.
In 2003, a group of researchers at the U of Toronto unveiled a prototype photonic crystal gel technology for electronic paper. I looked it up again, but nothing has been published on it since.
We're currently developing a website for electronic engineering students, and our team has as many women on it as men. www.eeExperience.com. They are aggressive, knowledgeable, and positive. Those who dismiss women in tech don't know tech.
If you report on new items of interest to the community, ensure the information is valid, and report on it in a timely manner, you are a journalist serving that community.
I'm surprised nobody brought up the theory that this is a nuclear weapons test site from an ancient civilization! The educated guesses all say "1,000's of A-bombs". Don't forget that Trinity was "only" about 10-15 kilotons. A thermonuclear bomb can generate upwards of 50 MEGAtons, well over 2 orders of magnitude of energy. This is old news. The glass has been known for centuries under the name Libyan Desert Glass . I have a chunk I bought on eBay over a year ago. But back to topic, books written in ancient Sanskrit describe bombs as powerful as the sun, and there are unexplained areas of radioactivity such as the one in Rajasthan, India. Why couldn't Libyan glass be from an ancient thermonuclear bomb test site?
Let's be careful when talking about this tech, as it is a wire-building tech, not a power generation tech. This technology will be able to create the conductive structures needed in those next-gen fuel cells and batteries, but this is not microbial fuel cell technology.
Don't forget that none of this development is going on in a vacuum. Cholesteric LCD (www.kentdisplays.com), Iridescent display (www.qualcomm.com/qmt), and electrowetting display (www.liquavista.com) technology are all reflective bistable formulations. Any of these could leapfrog E-ink and make a better, cheaper E-book.
Pics of these technologies at the last Society for Information Display Show is here:
http://www.smartalix.com/Consumer/SID/page2.html
I saw a cooler set at Cebit. Better yet, it plugged into the phone so you could watch music videos.
MicroOptical has better stuff, IMNSHO.
Unfortunately, at the present time it won't. Not by a long shot.
OLEDs oxidize rapidly, so rapidly that most OLED designers include a sheet of dessicant inside the packaging behind the panel. So rapidly that the "holy grail" of OLED manufacture is more to find a flexible truly waterproof (plastic is too porous) material to encapsulate the OLED with.
This also doesn't address the color shift with aging that will inevitably occur. Yellow walls are only nice when the color is intentional.
There is a movement in the power industry to require all devices to have a standby power draw of less than one watt. That action alone would significantly reduce waste.
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Here's an excellent paper on the concept: http://www.eceee.org/library_links/proceedings/19
My mother's friend, "Aunt" Nickie used to unplug her TV set every night for that very reason, when her husband brought home one of the neighborhood's first remote-control TV sets. She hated the idea it was using power even when "off". She leaves it on all the time now, of course.
It doesn't work out completely as planned. ;-)
You can check it out and download a free e-book (the paper version is on Amazon) version at smartalix.com/cyberchild.
The next-gen spec for PoE is rated for over 30 W, so powering your computer from the Ethernet line isn't too far off.
...for if it does prosper, NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON.
That is exactly what is happening today. Bush is a traitor to the US, but the press has no balls, the Democrats no spine, and congress no brains.
Sadly, if this doesn't reverse, we are witnessing the death of America as we know it.
A high-capacity battery is basically a bomb that releases its energy slowly. Most of us have at least read about when a battery undergoes a "catastrophic thermal runaway event".
A fuel cell that can put out enough energy to be useful will run HOT. First-generation devices will be best suited for laptops and devices that one does not hold close to the body. Size is not the only hurdle to clear in this matter.
GaAs semiconducting devices are already being made in quantity - they're called LEDs.