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Revisiting 3D printing

I've done entries on personal fabrication and 3D printing ( printing organs ...). Until this point, these techniques have been applied mostly to software materials. Now it's been extended to printing 3D objects directly in metal . The current...

Published 10-29-2009 1:26 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Green IT, Manufacturing , Trends, 3D, Efficiency

NASA BIOsensor Helps Detect Biohazards

This news release from Ames Research Center describes an effort to use nanotechnology (Carbon Nano Tube) based sensors to "detect the presence of common and rare strains of microorganisms associated with water-borne illnesses". The article states...

Published 05-27-2008 9:21 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business Value Generation, Emerging Technologies, Energy, Government, Green IT, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Transportation, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Energy , Green IT, Government , Healthcare , Manufacturing , Transportation , Nanotech

The fourth element of electrical engineering

This month there is an article on the Memristor in IEEE spectrum . Anyone who knows anything about electronics is familiar with the holy trinity of electrical engineering: the resistor , the capacitor , and the inductor . In 1971, Leon Chua of UC Berkeley...

Published 05-03-2008 2:42 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Manufacturing, Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , Manufacturing

Nano train leaving the station!

NewScientist.com has an article and picture of a nanoscale "monorail" that can move along a nanotube track. It has carried a gold nugget a distance of 0.5 micrometers. The new device developed by researchers in Europe is made from two nanotubes...

Published 04-17-2008 8:35 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Manufacturing, Emerging technologies , Manufacturing , Nanotech

Another nanotech roadmap

Foresight Nanotech Institute , a leading nanotechnology think tank, and Battelle , a leading global research and development organization, have officially unveiled Productive Nanosystems: A Technology Roadmap . This roadmap is an attempt to map out the...

Published 02-05-2008 11:56 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Manufacturing, Vision, Emerging technologies , Manufacturing , Vision , Nanotech

Printing - it's not just for paper any more

I came across a couple of articles about using printing technologies in new and important ways: This article about the development of technologies to print OLED arrays really intrigued me. The possibilities to take advantage of our sense of sight would...

Published 11-08-2005 11:58 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Manufacturing , Trends

The next fad

Could it be that simplicity is the next big thing? Back in August, I did a couple of blog entries around Fads in IT. Could simplicity be the response to the current innovation fad that is winding down? There appears to be a small rush of books coming...

Published 10-06-2005 11:20 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Manufacturing , SOA , Trends

Scarcity vs. abundance (3rd in a series)

Currently, the market price of products are based on scarcity - supply and demand . I was talking with Jeff Wacker (another fellow who contributes to this blog) about nano-manufacturing and he made the point that when we are using layers of atoms, configured...

Published 09-30-2005 6:15 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Manufacturing , Nanotech

Personal fabrication at the nano-technology level (2nd in a series)

Hold your hand up and look at your finger nails. Count to 3. Your fingernails have just grown in length at the level where nano-fabrication works. For some reason, nano-technology discussions involve fingernails!?! In the last entry, I was comparing mass...

Published 09-29-2005 3:21 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Manufacturing , Nanotech

Mass customization vs. personal fabrication

For over a decade, we have heard about the inevitability of mass customization . It's been said that everyone wants everything their own way and companies need to align to this perspective if they want to survive. Now we've begun to see discussions...

Published 09-26-2005 9:23 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Manufacturing

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