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hese tiny silicon gas turbines may someday provide longer lasting power for personal electronics. (Photo courtesy MIT)

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Does what it says on the tin, believe it or not.

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"Hewlett-Packard researchers have designed a faster, more energy-efficient chip by packing in more transistors--without shrinking them." Further up and further in.

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"Silicon wafers covered with matching patterns of Lego-like teeth and holes could aid the development of 3D electronics, say UK researchers." A bit of hard technology innovation in the local

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"The first order of business? Developing a completely open source model, called the TuxPhone, which anyone with soldering skills can replicate. DIYers will be able to download the schematic, orde

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"The advance will make it possible to use laser light rather than wires to send data between chips, removing the most significant bottleneck in computer design." Another shot in the arm for

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Does our planet harbour as yet undiscovered lifeforms based on silicon instead of carbon? It's an old (and somewhat cranky) idea, but some respected astronomer dude is writing a book about the possibi

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"A new silicon chip capable of manipulating the spin of a single electron could ultimately allow futuristic quantum computers to be built using conventional electronic technology." Blimey. L

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Does what it says on the tin.

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Make silicon while the sun shines...well, it'll probably be a good thing for us consumers, but I'd offload those chip-manufacturer shares if I were you. Link via FutureWire.

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Using ultraviolet light would be far more energy-efficient, say UCL boffins.

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Yet more paranoia from the US government. These guys must see an enemy every time they open a wardrobe or go to the corner shop.

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Microscale Velcro...I couldn't not link this story, could I? ;)

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The smaller we make them, the more we have to understand about the way they're made.

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Small is beautiful (and faster and more efficient), but it's hard work making tiny things properly.

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Soon, soon I will have my neural implants

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Not just good for games consoles, apparently

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Big Blue strikes again

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High speed data-processor makes its debut

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Synthetic biology

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NACHIP's core achievement was to develop a working interface between the living tissue of individual neurons and the inorganic compounds of silicon chips.

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IBM succeeded in creating a ring oscillator, a test circuit used to evaluate the performance of new materials and semiconductor manufacturing techniques, out of a combination of the CMOS circuitry use

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Kwabena Boahen, an associate professor in the Department of Bioengineering, leads a research group that is trying to mimic the functions of the brain’s complex neural system using silicon chips.

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A new plastic that could rival silicon as the material of choice for some electronic devices has been developed.

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