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Hardware Mar 27, 2007

Memjet Customers, Roadmap Start Taking Shape

PC OEMs and camera makers could be among the customers for Memjet's revolutionary inkjet printers that were first disclosed last week. Meanwhile, the company has already started talking about taking the Silverbrook technology ...

Engineering Feb 23, 2007

Chain Mail Fabric a Perfect Fit

Contemporaries of the ancient Greeks might find something familiar within the walls of the Micro and Nanotechnology Lab at the University of Illinois. In constructing a new type of smart fabric, researchers Jonathan Engel ...

General Physics Dec 14, 2006

Plucking comet dust from Stardust collectors

Ever since NASA's Stardust spacecraft delivered a payload of comet dust to Earth on Jan. 15, 2006, scientists by the hundreds have been clamoring for samples.

Oct 12, 2006

New motor first to be powered by living bacteria

A new motor designed by scientists from Japan offers the best of both worlds: the living and the non-living. The group built a hybrid micromachine that is powered by gliding bacteria which travels on an inorganic silicon ...

Condensed Matter Aug 22, 2006

Researchers test carbon fiber to make tiny, cheap video displays

Engineers who develop microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) like to make their tiny machines out of silicon because it is cheap, plentiful and can be worked on with the tools already developed for making microelectronic circuits. ...

Condensed Matter May 23, 2006

Researchers Invent Way to Mass Produce Microscopic Plastic Components

Plastic parts in kitchenware, children’s toys, and even automobiles are generally mass-produced with a molding process. But mass producing complicated plastic micro components, so small you can only see them with a microscope, ...

Mar 27, 2006

New 3D Magnetic Tweezers

Professor Gwo-Bin Vincent Lee, from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, and his colleagues have manufactured three-dimensional, micromachined magnetic tweezers to manipulate DNA molecules. Their method was published in ...

Feb 9, 2006

UM Team Devises Way to Use Metal in Micromachines

In the world of microtechnology, entire "machines," so tiny the naked eye can't see them, can be manufactured to create things like sensors that deploy car air bags. But conventional micromachine fabrication technologies ...

Feb 3, 2006

Seeing stardust: New image shows speck of comet dust from NASA mission

This photo from NASA shows a mote of comet dust embedded in a tiny wedge of aerogel extracted from the Stardust collectors that returned to Earth Jan. 15. The comet dust was extracted by University of California, Berkeley, ...

Feb 3, 2006

New Medical Device Combines Wireless and MEMS Technology

Winning a thumbs-up from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, CardioMEMS Inc. has launched its EndoSure sensor, which makes testing safer and more convenient for aneurysm patients.

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