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Welcome to Borealis!
Lots of companies under the Borealis umbrella:
Cool Chips plc (COLCF)
Chorus Motors plc (CHOMF)
Power Chips plc (PWCHF)
Roche Bay plc (RCHBF)
Avto Metals plc (AMTPF)
Faraway plc (Listing shortly)
Lots of info on RB, here;
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=BOREF
I shall hereafter be posting here on iHub!
HOT ELECTRONS FROM CATALYSIS
From:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/nanofocus/top/83/8315energy.html
MITCH JACOBY
Imagine being able to tap the energy released during exothermic reactions on surfaces. Usually, this energy is channeled into the surface, resulting in a slight temperature rise. According to a new study, however, the reactions can be used to generate a steady flow of electricity.
For years, scientists have known that energy liberated in reactions occurring on solid surfaces can be transferred into the solid, thereby generating short-lived energetic electrons. Carrying more than 0.5 eV of kinetic energy, these so-called hot electrons can zip around the interior of a material--often traveling several nanometers before losing the excess energy to their surroundings.
Generally, hot electrons cool off within mere picoseconds. Despite the short timescale, a number of researchers in the past decade have succeeded in detecting hot electrons. In most cases, though, the energetic particles were detected as tiny transient signals.
Now, a research team has constructed a nanoscale device known as a Schottky diode and used it to measure a continuous flow of hot electrons generated by catalytic surface reactions. Specifically, the group--which includes chemistry professor Gabor A. Somorjai and postdoc Xiaozhong (Eric) Ji of the University of California, Berkeley, and Anthony Zuppero and Jawahar M. Gidwani of San Francisco-based NeoKismet--measured a continuous current of 40 µamp produced via oxidation of carbon monoxide on a platinum electrode for more than half an hour (Nano Lett. 2005, 5, 753).
DOUBLE-DUTY DIODE
A novel diode design that features a 5-nm-thick platinum film, a thin layer of TiO2, and various other electrodes (yellow) and films mediates catalytic reactions and simultaneously enables a resulting flow of energetic electrons to be measured.
The essential features of the diode include a 150-nm-thick layer of TiO2 that supports a 5-nm-thick platinum film that serves as a catalyst and an electron source. As CO is converted to CO2, the exothermic reaction generates hot electrons at the Pt surface. If the Pt film is no more than a few nanometers thick, the electrons can migrate through the metal to the semiconductor (TiO2) interface and retain their high energy. Electrons with sufficient energy can cross the potential barrier into the semiconductor and be measured as a diode current. The team reports that, under the conditions used in the demonstration, for every four molecules of CO2 produced, they collected three electrons.
Using Pt/GaN nanodiodes in a related study, Somorjai and coworkers showed that the Pt films must be of high quality and less than 10 nm thick to collect hot electrons efficiently (J. Am. Chem. Soc., published online March 31 at dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja050945m).
Francisco Zaera, a chemistry professor at UC Riverside, remarks that "the study could open new avenues for generating electrical signals directly from catalytic processes and can be used, for example, to design new types of chemical sensors." The observations also raise interesting questions regarding the role of hot electrons in catalytic reactions, he adds.
Somorjai agrees emphatically. "In light of the large currents of hot electrons measured in the study, we need to revisit the influence of electron transport on surface bonding and catalytic activity at metal and metal oxide surfaces," he says.
And given the similarities between the catalytic nanodiodes and nanosized metal-on-metal-oxide catalysts, the tiny devices are poised to serve as new model systems.
Nano-Proprietary Hires New Senior Vice President
From:
http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=825
Nano-Proprietary has announced that effective May 1, 2005, Mr. John Ruberto will join its subsidiary company Applied Nanotech, Inc. as Senior Vice President - Government Business. Mr. Ruberto has previously been a consultant to the Company since November 2004.
Mr. Ruberto brings with him over 35 years of business leadership, corporate development, program management, and business development expertise encompassing executive and senior leadership roles with the aerospace and defense business units of United Technologies Corporation, GenCorp and Eagle Picher Industries. John also served as a Principal Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense where he managed all system acquisition responsibilities for many of our country's most important defense programs.
"With Applied Nanotech's impressive portfolio of intellectual property and 'can do' attitude, I am looking forward to being part of a team that can provide innovative solutions to challenging problems," said John Ruberto.
"We are pleased to add someone of John's caliber to our management team," said Marc Eller, chief executive officer of Nano-Proprietary. "As our technologies begin maturing to the revenue producing stage, it is important to bring in someone that has the contacts and experience to expedite the process to revenue growth," continued Eller.
In addition, Nano-Proprietary announced that it has received an unqualified opinion from its auditors, Sprouse & Anderson, L.L.P., related to its internal control over financial reporting. As required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Nano-Proprietary management has assessed its controls over financial reporting and concluded that they were adequate. The unqualified opinion by Sprouse & Anderson indicates that they agree with management's assessment. Nano-Proprietary will file an amended Annual Report on Form 10K to include this information, as required by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
http://www.nano-proprietary.com/
Tumor detection, data encryption to benefit from UH nanotechnology research
4/29/2005 8:10:23 PM
From:
http://nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=1876
Pradeep Sharma, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at UH, received the Office of Naval Research's Young Investigator Program ( YIP ) Award for his proposal on the "Novel Size-Effects in the Coupled Mechanical Deformation and Opto-Electronic Behavior of Quantum Dots and Wires." The total award of $262,471 for three years is intended to further propel Sharma's research.
"It's a proposal that will investigate new scaling laws for quantum dots due to mechanical strain," Sharma said. "Quantum dots are very small clusters of semiconductor material, and they exhibit some unusual and exciting opto-electronic properties. They have tremendous potential in future nanoelectronics."
Some examples of those nanoelectronics applications include next generation lasers and lighting devices, quantum cryptography, information storage and chemical sensors. On the medical side, this research may one day aid doctors in detecting and surgically removing cancerous cells in the body.
"Among many other applications, quantum dots can be used as biological labels," Sharma said. "For example, one can suitably tailor the size and bio-treatment of a dot so that it preferentially seeks and attaches to tumor cells. Then, simply by shining light on the body, one may optically detect and pinpoint precise locations of tumors."
Though Sharma is well aware of the possible products of his research, he maintains his work is largely fundamental and provides the basis for these potential uses rather than the actual technology itself. He estimates that his current quantum dots work will be put to practice in the nanoelectronics and medical arenas in the next five to 10 years.
The YIP program is designed to support and encourage the teaching and research of outstanding new faculty members in higher education, who have received a graduate degree. Sharma, who began teaching at the Cullen College of Engineering in January 2004, received his doctorate from the University of Maryland-College Park in 2000. Also benefiting from this award are two UH doctoral students who will have the opportunity to work with Sharma on his research for the next three years.
"This award is supposed to be a jump start for young professors, and historically, that's what it's done," Sharma said.
It may not impact NNPP directly now but it could some day and, in any event, it is nano related, of interest to me and I post it (and any others that will surely come along!) for present consideration and future retrieval through the iHub search function - one never knows what the nano future holds for NNPP!
From:
http://nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=1878
4/29/2005 8:13:49 PM
Nanobacteria in clouds could spread disease
Micro-organisms in clouds could play a crucial role in the spread of disease and in the formation of rain drops, scientists have claimed.
The radical theories about nanobacteria — micro-organisms considerably smaller than ordinary bacteria - in clouds are published in two recent articles in the Journal of Proteome Research by Dr Andrei P. Sommer of the University of Ulm, Germany, and Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe of Cardiff University, UK.
They say nanobacteria are now accepted as being widely prevalent in the terrestrial environment and that their evidence is compelling for the existence of these nano-organisms, even in the stratosphere. In humans, nanobacteria have now been identified on four continents, they add.
Dr Sommer and Professor Wickramasinghe further suggest that nanobacteria’s involvement in several serious diseases such as the formation kidney stones, heart disease, and HIV is also slowly being recognised by the scientific community.
"Experiments have shown that nanobacteria are excreted from the body in urine and their dispersal from the ground into the atmosphere and stratosphere appears to be inevitable," said Dr Sommer.
The scientists argue that their occurrence in clouds could play a crucial role in the global dispersal of infective agents, and might also play a prominent role in the nucleation of cloud drops.
"This happens because nanobacteria, lifted from the ground by winds, could transit between the high humidity region of the clouds and the relatively dry inter-cloud regions, leading to oscillations between a dormant state and one of activation," explained Professor Wickramasinghe. "Remnants of a sticky protein (slime) coating nanobacteria makes them act as extremely efficient cloud condensation nuclei, with a tendency to aggregate to clusters upon contact."
Their work corroborates the findings of Ruprecht Jaenicke, of the Institute for Atmospheric Physics at Mainz University, Germany, on bioaerosols (airborne contaminants) and proteins in the atmosphere reported in New Scientist (31 March) and Science (1 April). The contribution of nanobacteria to pathogenic bioaerosols, in the view of the authors, must overwhelm all other types of biological particles in the atmosphere.
Welcome to Axion Power - a company I visited about a year or so ago and have been following and posting messages about since (under another nick 'donpat') - here:
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=AXPW
There is a good bit of background material at that site.
I have now moved my attention to this site as Raging Bull has cancelled my posting privileges for alleged use of multiple aliases which is a very lame excuse - but what can I do about it except move on, which I have to this MUCH better place!
I shall continue here on IH what I started on RB.
An SEC SB-2 recent filing:
http://knobias.10kwizard.com/contents.php?ipage=3415877&repo=tenk&back=1
HIGHLIGHTS:
Development collaborators
The three key collaborators in our material and design evaluation activities are Dr. Brian Conway, a Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Ottawa and a recognized expert in the field of advanced batteries and electrochemistry, East Penn Manufacturing Company, Inc., one of the largest independent battery manufacturers in North America, and Sandia National Laboratories, an independent testing facility owned by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Dr. Conway has been actively involved in the development and testing of our e3 Supercell technology for several years. His prior testing of early research prototypes and his more recent testing of our Laboratory Prototypes demonstrated the principal performance characteristics of our e3 Supercell technology and provided substantial technical guidance to our scientific and engineering teams. We believe our technical consulting relationship with Dr. Conway will continue for the foreseeable future.
We have entered into a memorandum of understanding with East Penn that establishes the framework for a three-phase joint development and testing program that includes pre-commercial laboratory testing; pre-commercial product testing; and co-development of a series of Pilot e3 Supercells. We believe this joint development and testing program will, if successfully completed, advance our e3 Supercell technology from the material evaluation stage to initial product rollout. Our MOU with East Penn only provides a general framework for our planned cooperation and does not include a detailed listing of the tasks to be completed, a complete allocation of the anticipated costs or the specific terms of the future economic relationship between our companies. Instead, the MOU contemplates that each stage of the testing and development process will be described in a more detailed agreement that clearly defines the respective rights and responsibilities of the parties.
In cooperation with East Penn, we have negotiated the terms and testing protocols for an independent testing contract with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories. We are presently engaged in performing an in-house version of the proposed Sandia tests using our Laboratory Prototypes. When our in-house testing is completed, we will send the Laboratory Prototypes to Sandia for independent confirmation of our test results. We expect Sandia to complete its formal independent testing of our Laboratory Prototypes in the third quarter of 2005. Based on the results of that testing, we intend to finalize the designs for our first Application Prototypes and begin the procurement process for the necessary components.
........
Patents and intellectual property
In connection with the business combination, we purchased three issued U.S. patents from C&T:
· U.S. Patent No. 6,706,079 - Method of formation and charge of the negative polarizable carbon electrode in an electric double layer capacitor;
· U.S. Patent No. 6,628,504 - Electric double layer capacitor; and
· U.S. Patent No. 6,466,429 - Electric double layer capacitor.
We also purchased all of C&T’s patent applications, trade secrets, know-how and other intellectual property associated with the e3 Supercell technology. We have no duty to pay any royalties or license fees with respect to the future commercialization of the e3 Supercell technology and we are not subject to any field of use restrictions. We believe the C&T patents and patent applications, along with our trade secrets, know how and other intellectual property will be critical to our success.
..........
Staff and facilities
Our company has 25 full-time employees including a 10-member scientific research and support team, a seven member engineering team, a three-member management and business development team and four clerical employees. Over the next twelve months, we plan to hire five to ten additional employees for our engineering and manufacturing teams. We are not subject to any collective bargaining agreements and believe our relations with our employees are good.
.............
Technical and scientific advisory board
We have recently organized a technical and scientific advisory board that will be comprised of scientists and engineers with experience relevant to our company, our e3 Supercell technology and our proposed products. Members of the technical and scientific advisory board will work under the supervision of the technical committee of our board of directors advise us in their respective areas of expertise. We will place special emphasis on identifying and retaining members for our technical and scientific advisory board that have special expertise in electrochemistry, advanced battery design and power storage systems for hybrid electric vehicles. As of April 22, 2005, our technical and scientific advisory board members were:
Dr. Brian Conway, D.Sc., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of Ottawa. Dr. Conway is a recognized expert in the field of advanced batteries and electrochemistry who has been actively involved in the development and testing of our e3 Supercell technology for several years. His earlier testing of early laboratory prototypes and his more recent testing of our Laboratory Prototypes demonstrated the principal performance characteristics of our e3 Supercell technology and provided substantial technical guidance to our scientific and engineering teams.
Dr. Andrew F. Burke, Ph.D., Institute of Transportation Studies. Dr. Burke is a recognized expert in the field of electric and hybrid vehicle design, analysis, and testing. He was a key contributor on the US Department of Energy Hybrid Test Vehicles (HTV) project while working at the General Electric Research and Development Center. He continued his work on electric vehicle technology, while Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Union College and later as a research manager with the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL). Dr. Burke joined the research faculty of the Institute of Transportation Studies in 1994. He directs the EV Power Systems Laboratory and performs research and teaches graduate courses on advanced electric driveline technologies, specializing in batteries, ultracapacitors, fuel cells and hybrid vehicle design. Dr. Burke has authored over 80 publications on electric and hybrid vehicle technology and applications of batteries and ultracapacitors for electric vehicles.
My bottom line:
What do I think? Interesting - bears watching - I as of now have never owned any shares. In the hybrid car market there is a need for storage and this stuff could be the one. There are plenty of competitors and one, or very few, will succeed. Some use carbon nanotube electrodes which I personally find appealing (and note that Howard Schmidt a new Axion director is the head of the texas based Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory at Rice - with Smalley - which is deeply into CNTs - Carbon NanoTubes). I follow Schmidt at this site (using another nick 'donpatent'):
http://www.nanalyze.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1140
Axion is certainly at the heart of the action in electric storage which will impact our lives in a major way depending upon those most successful at it. The commercial market shall determine the ultimate winner(s).
T4M, that Canadian 'IDENTITY' outfit is located in Stoney Creek which is near Hamilton, Ontario and the local university is McMaster. The other university not too far away of considerable renown (for RIM and MSFT and many others with a computer inclination) is U of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. Those, along with the U of Toronto, are the ones that pop to mind who may have helped in establishing their tech.
OT:
I (donpat) got the boot from RB!
Too many aliases they said. Hooey I said...and good riddance. I posted there for years and bam....gone....The spammers and backslapping saps can have it - a waste of time! I shall now, for better or worse, converse here at ABEW, HISC, NNPP and T4M and at Nanalyze. I like the premium 'search' feature available here and may take out a membership to take advantage of that! Those who desire to chat with me or against me will find me at these locations.
Good posting to all!
FY06 Homeland Security Authorization Bill Headed to House Floor
Thursday April 28, 12:21 pm ET
Source: House Committee on Homeland Security
WASHINGTON, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Committee on Homeland Security approved the annual Homeland Security authorization bill for Fiscal 2006 just before midnight on Wednesday, April 27, after 13 hours of consideration.
H.R. 1817, the Homeland Security Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006, was approved unanimously by the full Committee. The bill is the result of extensive hearings and oversight conducted by the House Select Committee on Homeland Security in the 108th Congress, and by the permanent standing Committee on Homeland Security in the current 109th Congress.
"With this legislation, the Congress is underscoring the role of the Department of Homeland Security as a permanent pillar of our Nation's national security structure. The annual authorization process inaugurated with this bill, under which the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community already operate, will subject the Department of Homeland Security to ongoing Congressional oversight and evaluation of their programs. This is a necessary element of sustaining the Department of Homeland Security's national security mission," said Homeland Security Committee Chairman Christopher Cox (R-CA).
"Congress is providing comprehensive legislative guidance to help ensure the Department possesses the resources and authority to achieve its missions," he added. "Prevention of terrorism requires that intelligence and information sharing about terrorist threats be seamless, timely, and secure. This information must be delivered to those who need it in time to prevent harm to American towns and cities, to our people, and to the economy. This bill will help us accomplish that, and much more."
Key provisions of the authorization bill include authorization of overall DHS spending for 2006; the accelerated deployment of homeland security technology; compensation incentives to enhance recruitment of homeland security intelligence professionals; full funding for 2,000 new border patrol agents; reform of the color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System; and creation of an Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity to oversee a proposed National Cybersecurity Office.
Text of H.R. 1817 and comprehensive background information are available at http://homeland.house.gov .
Source: House Committee on Homeland Security
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050428/clth070.html?.v=4
Transcript of Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
April 29, 2005
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=4481
[snip]
So where are with our vision of homeland security if we stand back? We want a homeland security strategy that is sustainable over the long run, that balances the need for security with a need to preserve our freedom, our privacy, and our prosperity. We want to look ultimately to creating a security envelope, a worldwide security envelope, within which we have a high degree of confidence that people and goods are vetted, are not threats to our society or to our people, and therefore can move efficiently an effectively without paying high transaction costs.
We do not want a fortress state. We want a state that is open and robust and preserves the best of America while preserving American lives. We want to take a risk-based approach to the decisions we make. We want to look at consequence, vulnerability and threat as the template for all of the decision making we make at our Department. And I know businesses understand that, because you all have to make those judgments every day in your own operations.
And finally, we want to bind together this Department that has been stood up through a tremendous effort put into place by my predecessor, Governor Ridge, and his leadership team, who built it really from scratch. We want to now take it to the next level. We want to integrate ourselves, we want to be more efficient, we want to be more cost-effective.
And we're going to look the private sector, again, as we are conducting the current review that Tom mentioned, to get some advice and insights as to what we can learn to make us operate better as an organization.
WIRELESS SITE:
http://www.bioenable.co.in/wireless_products.htm
Tracking stuff reminds me of HISC!
All of it is right up our alley and begging for ZigBee input!
No reply from ABEW on this email this AM, yet:
Who is this company called "IDENTITY" that we are merging with? Their web site? When will a PR be issued on this? Why the merger? Strengths for ABEW?
Don (shareholder - aka 'donpat' on RB)
Here's an Indian one:
http://www.bioenable.co.in/abis-biometric/abis-biometric.htm
Who knows!?
This one?
http://www.identitysys.com/
I like it!(if it is the one)
T4M - I bet you can find out....
Who is this "IDENTITY" outfit we are merging with?
TIA
Regarding "C2", the name of the company to which the patents were assigned:
The inventors names:
Inventors: Curatolo, Benedict S.; (Valley View, OH) ; Cornelius, Thomas E.; (Westfield, IN)
The surnames of the 2 inventors each begins with "C" - thus two 'C's which converts to 'C2', at least in my thinking it does or could!
We are acquiring or have acquired a company with 'C2' in its name.
Paul - I'd be interested in hearing how you first got interested in or heard of HISC.
I found these patents today which I think are the ones HISC is acquiring or has acquired:
US patents
1 6,606,556 Security and tracking system
2 6,510,380 Security and tracking system
C2 Global Technologies, Inc
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fse...
United States Patent Application 20030182055
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fn...
The European site to access these patents:
http://v3.espacenet.com/results?sf=a&FIRST=1&CY=ep&LG=en&DB=EPODOC&TI=&AB=&a...
220 million float now - that's an improvement. Insiders, founders and managers used to own 630 million which with the 320 million float made for OS=950 million but it looks like the reduction of 450 million to make the OS=500 million came with the insiders reducing by 350 million and the float reducing by 100 million. Does that make sense?
Applied Nanotech, Inc. (ANI) is a subsidiary of Nano-Proprietary, Inc. and is headed by Zvi Yaniv - the CEO. ANI is involved in things nano related in nature such as thin form factor carbon nanotube (CNT) TVs. They also have interests in sensors for industrial and military applications and have an interest in nano bio as well.
Their R&D interests, at the moment:
Sensors and sensor arrays based on conjugated polymers and carbon nanotubes
Sensor Solutions for Defense Applications
Nano-Biosensors
Utilization of block co-polymer alignment for creating ordered arrays of metallic nanocylinders for photonic crystals
The improvement of the catalytic electrode for portable fuel cells by attaching platinum catalysts to carbon nanotubes
High efficiency carbon nanotubes transistors for vacuum nanoelectronics
Dispensing techniques utilizing one drop on demand (ODD) technology for microsystems utilizing nanomaterials
Nanotexturing for improving photovoltaic cells
Polymer nanoparticle composites for solar cells
NOx reduction with CNT supported noble metal catalysts
Metalic doping of carbon nanotubes for improving electron emission characteristics and lowering the threshold voltage
Applications of filter cathodic vacuum arc (FCVA) coating technology for obtaining hard nanofilms with improved erosion and strength characteristics.
One most recent development entered into with the UT Austin is a RAM memory chip investigation using light that is under a proof of concept evaluation.
T4M - Re AMEX
Is there any share price limitation to get on the AMEX?
I know NASDAQ SC is $4 to get on and $1 minimum to stay on once entered.
T4M - Hi!
What is your best guess on how high (or low!) ABEW can go and when?
Thanks
nanopatent
aka donpat (RB)
Nano news I want.
I'm a nano nut and thought CTKH was one too. Now I'm not too sure. They seem to have terminated R&D, have some low level very informal ties to Motorola, no nano involvement that I can see. Bottom line - I COULD DO BETTER!
T4M, when ABEW gets financing, on NASDAQ:BB, some more LOIs/MOUs/Deals, where do you see the share price in 3 months?
These guys are speaking my language!:
--By 2007, Intel and other computer makers will build UWB into computer motherboards, and the technology will blossom beyond the home office, Scherf says.
In the entertainment center, flat-panel and high-def television sets will use UWB to connect to cable and satellite set-top boxes.
"That's absolutely one of the main applications people are looking at, and that's got them so excited about UWB," says Steve Turner, UWB business development manager for TI's consumer networking group. "You've got all these flat-panel TVs hitting the market. You see them on commercials, and they never show you all those cables hanging down from the flat-panel to your receiver.
"With a wireless connection, that becomes reality."
Television sets aren't likely to have UWB built into their guts until the technology gains critical mass, Scherf says. But consumer electronics companies are already working on retrofitting devices for UWB connections using wireless "dongles" that plug into existing inputs.
"If we can get rid of all those cables and it's convenient to use, I think we've really got something here," said Mark Bowles, a founder of Staccato, a San Diego electronics firm.
Computer and entertainment center wiring currently tops 1 billion units a year, so the potential market is "bigger than cellphones," Bowles said.
UWB's backers are mindful that they can't afford the mistakes of Bluetooth and other pretenders to the Next Big Thing, Turner says.
"If you buy a new DVD player that's wireless and you've got a wireless TV at home, you want to come home, pull it out of the box, plug it in and have it work," Turner says. "It has to go out and find the other devices available, and only those devices. I don't want to find the television of the guy living on the other side of the wall from me."
Additionally, Hollywood must be convinced that video products will prevent theft and unauthorized copying.
"I don't think you'll really see the technology take off until those problems are resolved," Turner said. "But you've got a lot of people working on this from both the hardware and software sides. I think, ultimately, they will be."--
T4M - thanks for the link:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/8259193.htm
I have a 94 big Ford. The horn quit working. Wires were shot and hard to find the break - so they ran a new wire all the way. Cost = lotsa $$$$! Answer, IMHO, ZigBee/Airbee - no wires! There's one example - and in a car there are 100s more.
Intel is developing a chip for DLP (Digital Light Processing) projection TV in competition with TI, and Motorola is trying to get back into the TV business with a CNT (Carbon Nanotube) version - large screen/very thin/wall hanging.
I'm just learning. I read a bit on UWB and saw that it could transmit audio and video over short distances, like between components in a living room - TV, stereo, DVD, VCR, set top box etc. I thought ZigBee was low data rates - not high ones like for video signals - and low power/long battery life. But if ZigBee does use, or can use, UWB, all the better.
I visited Google:
Re RFID:
http://www.aimglobal.org/technologies/rfid/
Re What is RFID?
http://www.aimglobal.org/technologies/rfid/what_is_rfid.asp
What did I get out of this? RFID is locating things and tracking things like people/animals/cars/packages/equipment/products somewhat like bar codes but better since visual ID is unnecessary with wireless. Anyway, I'm learning! Some of it is one way, some two way. I'd like to see bar codes replaced - then individual item scanning is unnecessary - you roll your grocery shopping cart past the reader and all items are instantly scanned and you bag it and pay and leave. Less time standing around looking at chocolate bars!!! However, they say bar codes are here to stay. Pity.
RFID - 2 way - got an example? Is it 802.15.4 or what? What's "RFID" stand for? Radio Frequency what? Identification? What's that all about? You'll have to dumb it down, please! :)
TIA
IEEE 802.15 WPAN Low Rate Alternative PHY Task Group 4a (TG4a)
Monday, 5 April 2004
Overview
The IEEE 802.15 Low Rate Alternative PHY Task Group (TG4a) for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) has defined a project for an amendment to 802.15.4 for an alternative PHY.
The principle interest is in providing communications and high precision ranging / location capability (1 meter accuracy or better), high aggregate throughput, and ultra low power; as well as adding scalability to data rates, longer range, and lower power consumption and cost. These additional capabilities over the existing 802.15.4 standard are expected to enable significant new applications and market opportunities.
802.15.4a became an official Task Group in March 2004; with its committee work tracing back to November 2002. The committee will produce an alternate PHY specification for the applications identified in accordance with the project timeline.
http://tinyurl.com/yt3xg
Then click:
Zigbee proposal to 802.15.4a, Jan 04 - 04/028r0
Under:
--Miscellaneous Committee Presentations--
Save to your computer - then open.
I found the PowerPoint Presentation (PPT) interesting in the areas mentioned like toll booths and cars moving past at 80 mph etc.
Disregard previous message on Stock Enterprises
'stockenter' is the correct term! (I think!)
This is old(1995) but it has an interesting connection to eMagin, a company in OLEDs, that I follow.
Article:
[extract]
Joint Venture Members:
FED Corporation (Hopewell Junction, NY; private)
Analog Devices (Norwood, MA; NYSE;ADI)
BFGoodrich Avionics Systems (Columbus, OH; NYSE;GR)
Cetek Technologies, Inc. (Poughkeepsie, NY; private)
InfiMed, Inc. (Liverpool, NY; private)
Kaiser Electronics (San Jose, CA; private)
http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:UOaulwJZr6EJ:www.emagin.com/pressreleases/prsmart.htm++%22cerami...
FED, joint ventured with Cetek,
became eMagin:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:KzlvyvG2168J:biz.yahoo.com/e/030506/ema10-k_a.html++%22FED+Corpo...
eMagin:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=EMA
The email address is wrong, I think:
stockenter@aol.com
should be
stockcenter@aol.com
I tried, as a check, 'www.stockenter' and got nowhere; I put in the 'c' and connected! The email(with the 'c') worked too. Our info board here also needs updating (add the 'c')
I, too, would like to see the URL.
Thanks