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  • Nanotech talks to help very small business in SA

    Materials Australia and the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research will be hosting a series of seminars next week encouraging small businesses across South Australia to get involved with nanotechnology.

  • LED breakthrough gives a lifetime of light

    Irish researchers have developed ultra tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) that consume less than a nanoamp of power, allowing such LEDs that produce light for more than 80 years on a watch size battery.

  • IBM plays soccer with atoms in chip breakthrough

    IBM has figured out how much force it takes to move atoms, another tiny step in moving microchip technology forward.

  • IBM predicts five biggest tech trends

    IBM has released a series of predictions that they see as the five big new trends in tech for the next five years. These include programmable electricity meters, smart car sensors, smart shopping displays, phones as wallets and better nanotechnology techniques.

  • Breakthrough promises 40-hour laptop batteries

    Stanford researchers have made a discovery that could signal the arrival of laptop batteries that last more than a day on a single charge.

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    Discover the future of computing beyond Moore's Law. Will we have to change our entire approach to software and hardware design?

  • IBM microscope sees reactions in action

    A breakthrough for using electron microscopes from IBM is allowing scientists to observe the secret life of atoms.

  • Motorola looks to nanotubes for displays

    Motorola is conducting research in a new type of large flat-panel display which they claim has the potential of being cheaper than plasma or LCD (liquid crystal display) screens.

  • MIT, US Army open nanotech center

    Research at the center is geared toward creating battlefield armor for the 21st century, such as bacteria-killing materials and expanding fabrics that could be used as tourniquets.

  • Trained atoms--nanotech breakthough

    As interest in nanotechnology peaks, scientists are claiming a significant breakthrough with the ability to make atoms move one by one.

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