Copyright Actuality Systems
Volumetric 3-D Display from Actuality Systems. Full color,
walk-around viewing with 100M voxels in ~25cm sphere.
2-D image slices projected onto rotating screen produce 3-D effect.

This section provides additional links to various leading edge technology sites in a wide variety areas ranging from electronics to robotics to nanotech.

• 3D Displays & Technology:
  • 3dcgi.com - "Your guide to cutting edge 3D graphics technology"
    • 3D Displays
  • Actuality Systems, Inc. - volumetric display
    • See virtual worlds in the round - New Scientist - June.5.05
    • 3D display aids medical research - optics.org - Apr.7.04
    • Crystal-ball display renders images in 3D - EE Times - June.26.02
    • Army Research Lab Places Order for New Perspecta Spatial 3D Platform from Actuality Systems - Actuality Systems PR - June.25.02
    • 3D display aids drug discovery - optics.org - Oct.29.01
  • Augmented Reality - Bauhaus University Media Facility
  • DDD - Dynamic Digital Depth - convert 2D to 3D for display on LCD with special filter.
    • Glasses Not Required: New software may bring 3D television into your living room - Technology Review - June.6.02
  • Deep Video Imaging Ltd - 2-layer LCD
  • DTI - 3D LCDs without glasses
  • Geowall Consortium - large display with 3-D stereoscopic projection used for analysis of satellite remote sensing and other geo data.
  • IO2 Technology Revolutionary Interactive Heliospace Free-Space Display
    • the Heliodisplay - Ohgizmo.com
      
  • Polymer Vision - flexible screens
  • Teleportec -video-conferencing with life-size images
    • See Arthur C. Clarke projected from Sri Lanka to a recent gala in his honor at the Playboy Mansion - EarthShipTV
  • LCD paint licked - Nature - May.1.02
  • 3dcgi.com - Your guide to cutting edge 3D graphics technology
    
    • 3dcgi.com - 3D Graphics Links
      
  • Toshiba 3-D Flat-panel display
    • Toshiba Achieves Breakthrough in Flatbed 3-D Display - JCNN - Apr.15.05
    • Japanese 3D display goes the distance: University of Tokyo scientists create a 3D display with an image depth of several metres - optics.org - April.12.05
  • Sharp 3D LCD
    • Sharp Debuts 3-D Display Laptop - Wired - Oct.13.03
      
    • Sharp's 3D monitors: Look, no glasses - CNET.com - Dec.20.02
    • Sharp display opens third dimension - optics.org - News - Oct.18.02
  • Holograms
    • MIT Spatial Imaging Group
    • HyperMedia Technologies - Holography
      
    • Holography Lasers and Holograms
    • Dynamic Display of Real and Virtual 3-D Holographic Images Using TI's DMD - SWMED
      • Holographic Movies Show Promise For Medical, Military Applications - ScienceDaily/UTSMC - June.15.05
        
    • caesar: 06/09/2005 - Mobile Holography and Laser Systems
      • Fast holography of faces: An ultrafast holography system captures the shape of live subjects - optics - June.14.05
        
    • Articles:
      • Scientist: Holographic television to become reality - CNN.com - Oct.6.08
      • Rewritable holograms promise 3D displays - New Scientist - Feb.06.08
      • Claro's Holographic Television System - gizmag Article
      • O Hologram, Where Art Thou? - Why holograms look so cool in the movies and so lame in real life. By Paul Boutin - Slate - Dec.2.04
      • 3D television: Researchers can now broadcast moving holograms - Economist.com - Nov.11.04
      • Holograms in Motion: The newest 3-D video displays herald an interactive future for imaging - Technology Review - Nov.02
    • Liti holo
      • Liti holo - hologram kits
  • X3D
    • 3D Tour of the Solar System - X3D
  • Stereoscopic Displays and Applications
  • 3DV Systems-Capturing Object Video - automatically separate objects by depth.
  • Dimension 3 - 3D glasses
  • Arc Science Simulations - large 3-D displays of maps, geographic info, etc.
  • 3D Animation, Holographic Projection And Holograms - Musion Systems Ltd, UK
    
  • Articles
    • How 3-D TV works - Cosmic Log/msnbc.com - Feb.2.09
    • Epson Develops New High-Resolution 3D LCD Display - PhysOrg - Aug.11.08
    • USC Lab Creates 3-D Holographic Displays, Brings TIE Fighters to Life - Wired.com - June.27.08
    • AIST develops 3D image projector - Pink Tentacle- Aug.16.07
      
    • New Scientist 3D plasma shapes created in thin air - New Scientist - Feb.27.06
    • The StereoMirror display - gizmag - Sept.14.05
    • Hitachi develops omnidirectional 3D display - EE Times - Feb.27.04
    • 3D Mars recreated from photos - BBC - Feb.24.04
    • Futuristic displays are coming into focus - CNET - Nov.12.03
      
    • Motorola Labs Announces Significant Progress in Carbon Nanotube Technology - Motorola - July.1.03
    • Crystalline materials could mean 3-D TV and ultrafast computers - Chemistry.org - Mar.28.02
• Other Display Technology
  • Canon, Toshiba seed venture for SED flat TVs - EE Times - Dec.5.03
  • Westaim iFireCorporation: EL Flatpanel Displays
  • Cambridge Display Technology
  • Iridigm - uses interference effect in gaps adjusted with micro-mechanical action to select colors.
    • Display start-up projects new image - CNET.com - Oct.31.02
  • Panorama Labs - use Faraday effect to rotate polarized light
    
    • Startup display company embodies magneto-photonics - EETimes.com - June.20.07
      Panorama Labs' Breakthrough Technologies to Brighten the Future of Digital Entertainment -
    • Digital50/Panorama PR - Feb.20.07
  • Seamless Display
  • Philips MiraVision
    • CES: The Waiting Game - PC Magazine - Jan.21.04 - picture
  • Articles:
    • Move Over Plasma TVs: Nano-Screens Are Coming - Technology Review - May.23.05
    • PhysOrg: Motorola Debuts First Ever Nano Emissive Flat Screen Display Prototype - PhysOrg - May.0.05
    • Display tech aims for a brighter future - CNET - Mar.24.05
    • Samsung develops World's largest (82-inch) TFT-LCD screen - gizmag.com
    • Slimmer tube TVs to challenge flat panels - CNET News - Nov.18.04
    • ViewSonic VP2290b - High-Resolution TFT - 3840x2400 (9.2 megapixel) - TrustedReviews - June.04
    • Philips Unveils Mirror: Pricey combo device lets you watch TV, data, or yourself -TVPCWorld.com - June.11.03
    • LCDs to outsell CRT monitors in 2003 - Computerworld - Mar.19.03
    • High-definition display uses white OLED, color filters - EE Times - Sept.30.02
    • Samsung assaults Japan stronghold with 40-inch LCD TV - EE Times - May.23.02
    • The future of computing is flat - BBC - Mar.10.02
    • IBM ships world's highest-resolution computer display - IBM News
    • Flat-panel prices keep sliding - CNET.com - March.15.01
• Other Electronics
  • Electronic paper
    • E Ink - flexible displays
      • Slim screen can be rolled but not folded - Nature - May.8.03
      • Start-up reveals the skinny on screens - CNET - June.6.02
      • Electronic paper sees color - optics.org - Sept.21.01
      • E-paper moving closer - BBC - Sept.8.01
    • Plastic Logic
    • Polymer Vision
      
      • Philips Paper-like Display Earlier Than Expected - GeekZone - Sept.6.05
    • Flexible displays ready for roll-out - optics.org - Mar.05
  • Projectors
    • Lasers Project the Big Picture - Wired - June.6.06
    • Holograms enable pocket projectors - TRN - June.30.04
  • AT&T Labs Speech Technologies - high quality text to speech; includes demos
  • DLP (digital light processing) - Texas Instr.
  • 'Laser vision' offers new insights - BBC - Apr.27.04
  • Microvision - microdisplays
    • Scanning the future - The Economist - July.31.03 - A new type of digital camera
    • New projector to fit on a chip - CNET.com - Feb.14.02
  • NTERA’s NanoChromics™ technology - NTERA Nano Technology - "Ink-on-paper readability", "Paper-white or crystal - clear backgrounds"
  • Personal Radar on the Horizon - Wired - Nov.00
  • Foveon Digital Cameras - RGB within a pixel. Carver Mead invention.
    • Release set for "sharper" digicam chip [Foveon] - CNET - Sept.23.02
    • Digital camera chip challenges film - BBC - Feb.28.02
  • Reconfigurable chips: Computing's Big Shift: Flexibility in the Chips - NY Times - June.16.03
  • Red laser projects virtual keyboard - optics.org - Mar.20.02
  • Vialta - Video Phone
  • This Is Your Business, Virtually - Wired - Jan.22.03 - large screen, hi-res video conferencing
  • The Walk-thru Fog Screen
  • Ultra high Resolution TV - 30M to 40M pixels
    • Just Like High-Definition TV, but With Higher Definition - NY Times - June.3.04
  • VR
    • The VirtuSphere: full body immersion Virtual reality at last - gizmag - Nov.11.05
  • Processors
    • What Is Grid Computing, Anyway? - Newsfactor - July.24.02
  • Storage:
    • Nantero - fast computer memory using nanotubes
      • A new type of computer memory - Economist - May.03
    • Holographic:
      • Turner Entertainment turns to holographic storage: The network plans to roll out the cutting-edge storage medium for fast restore - Computerworld - Nov.17.05
      • Holographic Memory - Technology Review - Sept.2005
      • Group aims to drastically up disc storage - CNET - Feb.3.05
      • Holographic storage enters blue era - optics.org - Feb.19.04
      • InPhase Technologies - Holographic memory
        • Holograms store 100 Gbyte of video - optics.org - Apr.17.02
  • Touch Sensitive Controls:
    • Boston Dynamics
    • MIT Touchlab
    • SensAble Technologies
    • University of North Carolina Nano-Manipulator
  • White & Hi-Performance LEDs
    • For sale at Holly Solar
    • Cyberlux Corporation - LED light accent equipment
    • Lemnis Lighting
    • Mule Lighting
    • LumiLeds - bright LEDs for LCD backlighting and other apps.
    • The LED Light.com - Source for White LED Flashlights,et
    • NICHIA
    • Super Bright LEDS
    • Vos Solutions - using LEDs for home lighting.
    • Articles:
      • Green Promise Seen in Switch to LED Lighting - NYTimes.com - May.29.09
      • Philips' 80-Story LED Lamp: Could This Bulb Change the Way Buildings Are Lit? - Popular Mechanics - May.7.09
      • White LED Breakthrough: Efficiency Doubles - Treehugger - Nov.20.05
      • LED Evolution Could Replace Light Bulbs - Excite News - Apr.14.05
      • Brighter LEDs challenge car lamps: Single LEDs are now bright enough to meet standards in the car industry - optics.org - Apr.5.05
        
      • Silicon LED Rivals Compound Competitors in Efficiency - IEEE Spectrum - Feb.1.03
      • Bright ideas [LED lighting] - Boston.com - Aug.25.03
      • LEDs vs. the Lightbulb : With their longer lifetimes and higher efficiencies, light-emitting diodes will transform the illumination industry and save billions in energy costs - Technology Review - May.03
      • Light bulbs being replaced by microchips [LEDs] - San Francisco Chronicle - Apr.15.03
      • Bright idea lights way for LEDs - CNET - Feb.27.03
      • Surgical lamp to use high-power LEDs - optics.org - Feb.26.03
      • Omron Develops "flat light source" Technology Aimed at LED Illumination - Mobilemag.com - Feb.25.03
      • Why LEDs Are Everywhere - Wired - Jan.03
      • The LED at the End of the Aisle - Wired - Sept.20.02
      • Lights switch to organic LEDs - optics.org - May.18.02
  • Organic LEDs
    • OLED-Info | Your source for Organic LED information
    • Universal Display Corporation
    • CDT - Cambridge Display Technology
    • OLED-Display.info & OLED-Display.net
    • Articles:
      • Flat-screen light bulbs switch on - BBC - May.15.09
      • Flexible, Affordable Light Source Can Printed - ScienceDaily - Oct.29.08
      • Flexible OLEDs could be part of lighting's future - PhysOrg - Oct.10.08
      • Organic LEDs Shine Invisibly: Long-lasting near-infrared LEDs could be used to make cheap, flexible night-vision displays and sensors. - Technology Review - Jan.30.07
  • Other Innovative Electronics
    • PC NoteTaker - "the Electronic Pen that uses regular paper"
• Amateur Lightwave Communications
  • Surfin': Communicating at the Speed of Light - ARRLWeb - June.22.02
  • Amateur Radio Laser Communications
  • W1VLF - Cloudbounce
    • Cloudbounce - Technical Information
  • Rudolf's laser comm site
  • K3PGP.Experimenter's.Corner
    • Laser projects
    • Optical Moonbounce
  • Don's light, lamp and strobe site!
  • Laser Communications - Brad Guth
  • Laser Links
• Other Communications Technology
  • GSM World - What is GPRS?
  • Vocera Communications
    • Your Trekkie Communicator Is Ready - Forbes.com - Mar.16.04
      
• Robotics & AI
  • News:
    • Android World
    • Robot Magazine
    • Robotics Trends
    • Roborama.info
    • Robot Dreams
    • Robotics Trends :: Robots and Robotics Technology News, Info and Analysis
    • Smart Mobs
  • A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation
  • ArtificialBrains.com - Artificial brains and artificial brain building
  • BigDog at Boston Dynamics: "The Leader in Lifelike Human Simulation"
    • New Scientist Robotic 'pack mule' displays stunning reflexes - New Scientist - Mar.3.06
    • Other BDI robots
  • Cyc - "world's largest and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine."
    • OpenCyc
    • Playing With Cyc: One of the world's oldest AI projects needs your help - IEEE Spectrum - July.08
    • Cycorp: The Cost of Common Sense - Technology Review - Mar.05
  • DPRG Dallas Personal Robotics Group
  • Evolution Robotics: Robot kits, programmable personal robots;
    • ER2 Showcase Robot
    • Evolution Robotics™ Announces New Linux and Windows Versions of Software Development Kit for ERSP™ - Evolution Robotics - Mar.31.03
    • Evolution Robotics™ Introduces Breakthrough Solution for Robot Navigation - Evolution Robotics PR - Jan.8.03
    • Robots for the masses - CNET.com - Jan.9.03
  • EyeBot - Univ. Western Australia
  • Flexbot
  • Gastrobotics at Univ. of South Florida
  • Hanson Robotics
  • Honda Humanoid Robot
    • New ASIMO
      • New ASIMO Announced - Honda - Dec.13.05
      • "Honda Debuts New ASIMO" - Honda - Dec.13.05
      • Humanoid robot gets job as receptionist - New Scientist - Dec.13.05
    • Honda Worldwide | HDTV | ASIMO (Research Model) - Running at 3km/h
      
    • Bipedal robot learns to run - New Scientist - Dec.16.04
  • Intelligent Autonomous Systems Engineeing Laboratory - Univ. West England
  • Intelligent Systems & Robotics Center - Los Alamos
  • International Robotics
  • iRobot Corporation
    • iRobot - Programmable Robot
      
    • iRobot Introduces the iRobot Create! - BotMag - Jan.10.07
      
  • KurzweilAI.net
  • Living Creatures
  • Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
  • MARS - Multiple Autonomous Robots at Univ. Penn.
  • modular robotics at PARC
    • PARC's Modular Robotics - PolyBot Demonstrations - Videos
    • PolyBot
    • Chain
    • The Shape of Bots to Come - Wired - Oct.7.02
    • Modular Robots : When a task or terrain varies, reconfigurable robots can change their shape to get the job done - IEEE Spectrum - Feb.2002
    • modular robotics: Links
  • Mondo-tronics' Robot Store
  • RiSE Robot at CMU
    • Tree-climbing robot - New Scientist Technology Blog - Mar.8.06
    • Video of the "RiSE: The Amazing Climbing Robot"
  • ROBODEX 2003
    • In pictures: Robots on show - BBC - Apr.5.03
  • Seegrid Corp: Perceptive Mobile Automation
    • SmartCaddy - robot vehicles for use in moving materials in warehouses. Uses its own vision system to find its way rather than via a tracking system implanted on the floor.
    • You, Robot -- He says humans will download their minds into computers one day. With a new robotics firm, Hans Moravec begins the journey from warehouse drones to robo sapiens - Scientific American - Jan.2005
      
  • Sony Robots
    • AIBO - Wikipedia - AIBO was discontinued by Sony in 2006
    • The Playground Experiment / Sony CSL Paris
      • Robo-pups created with curiosity in mind - New Scientist - June.22.05
        
    • Smart Mobs - Qrio robot running, throwing a ball, & dancing - Dec.18.03
      
    • 'Running' Robot Gets Off Ground - Wired - Dec.18.03
    • Sony's New Humanoid Robot SDR-4X II - I4U - Mar.24.03
  • The Automatic PoolTrainer
    • Lasers help pool players pot balls : Pool players can now hone their potting skills thanks to a laser-based interactive imaging system called James.- optics.org - Nov.2002
  • USC Robotics Lab Segway RMP videos
  • WowWee - Roboreptile, Roboraptor, etc
    • robosapienonline.com
  • ZMP
    • Nuvo - "he first-home-use-type humanoid robot in the world"
    • Pino
    • Pino robot teaches himself to walk, no lie - EE Times - May.22.02
  • Balancing / Walking Robots:
    • Flexible-jointed robot is no pushover - New Scientist - Dec.6.07
    • Robot unravels mystery of walking - BBC - July.12.07
    • Steve's LegWay - 2 wheel balancing robot
    • nBot, a two wheel balancing robot
  • naturalmotion.com
    • Computerized Characters Learn Movement Through 'Natural Selection' - Newsfactor - July.8.02
  • Rambling robots show human efficiency - New Scientist - Feb.17.05
  • Collaborative Robots
    
    • Polymorphic Robotics Laboratory
    • Puckish robots pull together: Air hockey helps joint techniques for work in space. - Nature - May.28.04
      
  • Home Robots:
    • Electrolux Trilobite
    • Kärcher RoboCleaner RC 3000
    • iRobot Corp. - Roomba
      • Roomba at Wikipedia
    • White Box Robotics
    • It Mulches, Too? Robotic Mowers Gain in Appeal - NY Times - July.31.03
    • Robot Vacs Are in the House - Wired - June.16.03
    • The New Pet Craze: Robovacs - Wired - June.16.03
  • Robot Competitions:
    • DARPA Grand Challenges
      • Urban Grand Challenge - robotic cars must navigate quickly through an urban environment:
        • Urban Challenge 2007: Reflections - Winds of Change.NET - Nov.5.07
        • Robots to race in suburbia - Cosmic Log - Aug.9.07.
      • Desert race - 2003-2004
        • Robotic vehicles vie for $1 million purse in Darpa race - EE Times - Mar.5.04
        • Smart Robot Autos Tough It Out - Wired - May.7.03
    • AUVSI - AUVSI and ONR's 5th International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition
    • NATCAR - autonomous race cars - student competitions.
    • RoboCup - Soccer
    • Human Out-Muscles Robots - Wired - Mar.9.05
  • Online AI
    • Intellibuddy, ENewsBar, and ENewsBlog: Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Muscles
    • Scientists make 'bionic' muscles - BBC - Mar.18.06
    • Methanol-powered artificial muscles start to flex - New Scientist - Mar.16.06
    • 'Living' robots powered by muscle - BBC - Jan.17.05
    • Small jolts move artificial muscle TRN - Oct.2.02
  • Articles
    • The AI Report - Forbes.com - June.09
    • Farms Fund Robots to Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers - Discoveries - June.22.07
    • Fujitsu Begins Limited Sales of Service Robots - gizmag - Sept.13.05
    • US robot builds copies of itself - BBC - May.11.05
    • Whatever happened to machines that think? - New Scientist - Apr.23.05
    • Tech Successfully Flies Smarter Rotary Wing UAV: Mini Helicopter Thinks for Itself "On the Fly" to React to Dangerous Situations, Now Transitioning to Military - Georgia Tech - Feb.8.05
    • Sharp unit to license IP from U.S. labs - EE Times - Mar.22.04 - AI filters and presents condensed versions of sports events.
    • A Grand plan for brainy robots - BBC - Mar.18.04
    • Invasion of the robots : From medicine to military, machines finally arrive - CNET News.com - Mar.10.04
    • UC Berkeley Researchers Developing Robotic Exoskeleton that can Enhance Human Strength and Endurance - UC Berkeley News - Mar.3.04
    • Giving robots a human face - CNN.com - Feb.3.04
    • Sandia Team Develops Cognitive Machines -- Machines Accurately Infer User Intent, Remember Experiences And Allow Users To Call Upon Simulated Experts - ScienceDaily - Aug.15.03
    • Talking computers nearing reality - CNET - July.9.03
    • Special Theme: COGNITIVE SYSTEMS - ERCIM News No.53, April 2003
    • Artificial Intelligence--A Science Fiction View - IEEE Intelligent Systems - 2002
    • ApriAlpha - Toshiba's New Personal Robot - I4U - Mar.22.03
    • Robots get cheeky - BBC - Feb.17.03
    • Robots try humble path to success - EE Times - Oct.4.02
    • Are you ready for angry robots? - ZDNet - June.21.02
    • Sony opens robot architecture to aid development - EE Times - Nov.9.02
    • Extreme Robotics - Technology Review - April.3.01
  • Neural Networks
    • Axeon Ltd. - "Vindax microprocessor architecture is an immensely powerful and highly developed parallel array optimised for machine learning techniques."
    • Recognetics - several NNW chips and boards.
    • Rat-brained robot thinks like the real thing- New Scientist - July.4.07
    • Is That a Pilot in Your Pocket? - Wired - Oct.23.04
  • Pattern Recognition/Vision/Sensor Fusion/Data Mining
    • Sensor Fusion at Univ. of Tokyo
      • Vision Chip Project
    • Centeye
      
      • Optic Flow
      • Bugs Taking Over Robot Guidance - Wired - Jan.14.04
        
    • Tyzx - 3D vision recognition systems
    • Face Recognition:
      • Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition
      • Machines that can see: Computing: Advances in computer-vision software are begetting a host of new ways for machines to view the world - Economist - Mar.5.09
    • Articles
      • Better Face-Recognition Software - Technology Review - May.30.07
      • Cyber detective links up crimes - New Scientist - Dec.4.04
      • Reality Mining: Browsing Reality with Sensor Networks - Sensors - September 2004
      • The Science of Word Recognition by Kevin Larson - July.04
      • By Fusing Images, Lehigh Professor Detects Concealed Weapons - Spacedaily - June.30.03
• Environment
  • Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment
  • Clean Edge - The Clean-Tech Market Authority
  • EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal
  • Tree of Life Web Project
  • National Geographic Wild World (Online Conservation Atlas)
  • The Conservation Bomb by Richard A. Muller - Technology Review - June.14.02
  • Look Ma, No Pesticides - Wired - Oct.5.02 - high-tech green houses
  • Skeptical Environmentalist
    • Bjorn Lomborg
    • Economist Editorial * article
• Materials
  • Carbon Nanotubes, Buckyballs, etc
    • Nantero - fast computer memory using nanotubes
      • Nantero-News
        
      • Nanotech Memory Chips Might Soon Be a Reality - NY Times - June.8.04
    • NanoOpto
    • Nanotubes:
      • Carbon Designs
      • Carbon Nanotubes - NASA Nanotechnology Gallery
      • Carbon Nanotechnologies
      • Helix Material Solutions - Nanoscale materials SWNT MWNT Carbon Nanotubes sales for research and industry markets
    • Center for Nanoscale Science & Technology - Rice Univ.
    • Fifth element makes the ultimate material
    • Articles:
      • Baytubes® carbon nanotubes enhance the properties of aluminum: Nearly as strong as steel, but half as heavy - Bayer MaterialScience - June.4.09
      • Future planes, cars may be made of `buckypaper' - Breitbart.com - Oct.17.08
      • It's Super Paper! - ScienceNOW - July.25.07
      • Nanotubes show their strength in numbers: Super-strong sheets could be used in future screens and surfaces - MSNBC.com - Aug.18.05
        
      • Researchers produce strong, transparent carbon nanotube sheets - PhysOrg.com - Aug.18.05
        
      • Move Over Plasma TVs: Nano-Screens Are Coming - Technology Review - May.23.05
      • Carbon TVs to edge out liquid crystal, plasma? - CNET - Dec.5.05
      • Nanotech on Display: South Korea's Samsung leads the race to perfect flat-panel TVs built with carbon nanotubes. Will they be nanotech's first commercial hit? - Technology Review - Nov.1.04
      • Yarn spun from nanotubes: Tiny tubes may yield ultrastrong fibres. - Nature - Mar.12.04
      • Motorola Labs Announces Significant Progress in Carbon Nanotube Technology - Motorola - July.1.03
      • Feeling the danger: Coatings made from a new class of nanomaterials can detect when their underlying structures are about to fail and cause an accident - Economist.com - June.19.03
      • Nanotubes hang tough - Nature - Oct.14.02
      • Nano-Welding Creates Tiny Junctions - ScienceDaily - Sept.24.02
      • Hand-held X-ray gun - Nature - July.16.02 (uses nanotubes)
  • LiquidMetal Technologies
    
    • Metallic glass: a drop of the hard stuff - New Scientist - Apr.2.05
    • New metal alloy is super strong - MSNBC - July.5.02
  • Testing Their Metal [Metal Rubber] - Technology Review - Dec.18.04
  • MatWeb - Online Materials Information Resource
  • NIST Chemistry WebBook
  • Liquidmetal Technologies
  • Luminex - scintillating optical fibers woven into fabrics
    • Fiber-optic dress goes down the aisle - Optics.org - Oct.02
  • Articles
    • Robust morphing materials take the strain - New Scientist - Mar.24.06
  • Spintronics
    • New Spin for Electronics - Computerworld - Sept.22.03
    • Semiconducting Materials Advance 'Spintronics' - Newsfactor - May.20.02
    • Spintronics - Scientific American - June 2002
  • High Temperature Superconductors:
    • Superconductors.org
    • American Superconductor
      • HTS Ship Propulsion Motors
      • AMSC and Northrop Grumman Announce Successful Load Testing of 36.5 Megawatt Superconductor Ship Propulsion Motor - American Superconductor - Jan.13.09
      • A Big Motor For The Electric Navy - Power and Control - Jan.14.09
    • Articles:
      • Superconductors Enter Commercial Utility Service: American Superconductor and Long Island Power Authority commission the grid's first transmission cable - IEEE Spectrum - July.08
      • Major breakthrough for electricity with 2G wire - gizmag - July.25.06
      • Nanodots may unlock power of superconducting wires - New Scientist Tech - Mar.30.06
      • Living up to the Hype: Superconductors - Science@NASA - Feb.5.03
  • Plastic Electronics
    • Philips demonstrates world-first technical feasibility of 13.56-MHz RFID tags based on plastic electronics - gizmag/Philps - Feb.7.06
  • Aerogels
    • Aerogels: Space Art Glass? in Future section
    • Aerogel Microspheres
    • Aerogel suppliers - Las Alamos
    • Aspen Aerogels - Manufacturers of aerogel powder, monolithic aerogel, vacuum insulated panels, the flexible aerogel blanket
      
    • Stardust - aerogel
      
    • Acoustiblok Inc.
      
      • New Aerospace Technology, 'Aerogel,' the Highest Insulating Material in Existence, Now Available to the Building Industry - Acoustiblok - Jan.12.09
    • Centerpoint Translucent Systems - Knoxville, Tennessee - Translucent Roofs !
      • Translucent roofing system uses aerogel to allow full spectrum, natural light into living spaces with comfort and energy efficiency - gizmag - Dec.8.05
    • A Solid That's Light As Air - Wired - Feb.23.06
    • Using the Right Bait to Catch a Comet - NY Times - Jan.20.04
  • Composites
    • Composites Engineering & Composite Design - Express Composites Group
      • Racing Technology Norfolk
    • Composites Unlimited - Composite Tooling - Manufacturing - Assembly
    • Scaled Composites - Burt Rutan
  • Articles
    • 16 Wild Materials and technologies from Inventables - Gadgets and Materials Science Research - Popular Mechanics - Jan.29.09
    • Blast-proof Fabric Defies Belief: Zetix Blast-Proof Fabric Resists Multiple Car Bombs, Makes Our Heads Explode - Gizmodo - Dec.6.07
    • Reversible Thermoelectric Nanomaterials - WorldChanging - Apr.6.05
      
    • Scientists discover better way to generate power from thermal sources - Eurekalert - Apr.5.05
    • Plastic on Steroids Artificial muscles pump up everything from military gear to drug delivery. - Wired - Mar.2004
    • Science plans 'non-stick' submarine - BBC - Oct.10.03
    • The New Diamond Age: Armed with inexpensive, mass-produced gems, two startups are launching an assault on the De Beers cartel - Wired - Sept.03
    • Nanoparticles generate white light - optics.org News - July.18.03
    • Nanoparticles reinforce steel - PhysicsWeb - July.18.03
    • Revolutionary Tungsten Photonic Crystal Could Provide More Power For Electrical Devices - Sandia/ScienceDaily News - July.9.03
    • Multifunctional Alloys Obtained via a Dislocation-Free Plastic Deformation Mechanism - Toyota - Apr.21.03
    • Space Age Metal: New Titanium Alloys Near 'Magic' Strength Threshold - Space.com - Apr.22.03
    • Amazing Magnetic Fluids [magnetorheological fluids] - Science@NASA - Apr.2.03
    • Crystal remembers sounds - Nature - Sept.23.02
    • The Right Stuff for Super Spaceships:Tomorrow's spacecraft will be built using advanced materials with mind-boggling properties.- Science@NASA - Sept.16.02
    • Amazing Magnetic Fluids - Science@NASA - Aug.23.02
    • Piezoelectric rackets add professional oomph - EE Times - June.10.02
    • Researchers lengthen carbon nanotubes - EE Times - May.14.02
    • Microscopic Nanotubes Could Make Ships Lightweight, Superstrong - Space.com - Feb.6.02
    • A Quickstep Into Spaceage Materials - Spacedaily - June.4.01
    • Spider scientists spin tough yarn - BBC - Jan.17.02
    • Plastic promises long-life steel - BBC News - Aug.21.00
• Refrigeration
  • Magnetic Refrigeration
    • Magnetic Refrigerator Successfully Tested - Ames Lab - Dec.7.01
    • Astronautics Corporation of America
  • Novel fridge cools with sound - BBC - Dec.4.02
  • Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration with Thermoacoustic Technology
    
    • 'Green' chiller technology rolled out for Earth Day - Penn State Live - Apr.22.04
  • Cool Chips - uses quantum tunnelling effect
    • Boeing Completes Evaluation of Borealis Cool Chips Technology - Boeing PR - Nov.30.01
    • COOL CHIPS Discloses APplication of Quantum Mechanics in High-Efficiency Nanotech Cooling Devices - Cool Chips PR - May.14.02
• Lasers & Other Photonics
  • ZEUS-HLONS (HMMWV Laser Ordnance Neutralization System)
  • VersaLaser
  • Fiber lasers hit 2 kW record mark - optics.org - June.7.02
  • Airborne Laser
  • Project Fact Sheets, Directed Energy - various Air Force laser projects
  • Record power for military laser - BBC - Feb.22.07
• Nanotechnology
  • NanoScout - Portal for the Nanotechnology Community
    
  • Articles:
    • The Next Giant Leap: The science of nanotechnology could lead to radical improvements for space exploration. - NASA - July.27.05
    • Nano's Safety Checkup: Concerns over particle dangers could slow nanotech growth. - Technology Review - Feb.04
    • Intel's Tiny Hope for the Future- The microprocessor giant is thinking even smaller: tiny sensor chips that network with each other - inside everything on earth. - Wired - Dec.03
    • Shifting Into Overdrive: What happens when mass storage leaves microchips in the dust. - Wired - May.2003
    • A Chip of Rubber, With Tiny Rivers Running Through It - NY Times - Oct.17.02
    • MEMs may help the blind see - optics.org - Sept.13.02
    • Beyond Alchemy & The Wright Bros. Nanosecrets of Everyday Things - Berkeley Lab Research Review - Fall.01
    • Micromachines - Economist.com - Mar.14.02
    • Nanotech: More science than fiction - Znet - Feb.11.02
    • Voyage of the Nano-Surgeons - Science@NASA - Jan.15.02
    • Foresight Guidelines on Molecular Nanotechnology
• Optics:
  • Varioptic - liquid lenses
  • PixelOptics
    • Super Vision Sans Bionics - Wired - Feb.8.06
  • Cloaking/Optical Camouflage
    • Optical Camouflage
    • 'Invisibility Cloak' Realized in Theory -- Tech-On! - May.8.08
    • Physicists draw up plans for real 'cloaking device' - New Scientist - May.25.06
  • Invisibility Cloak an Illusion - Wired - Mar.30.03
  • Engineers devise invisibility shield - Electron effects could stop objects from scattering light. - news @ nature.com - Feb.28.05
  • Near-Field Optics
    • NSOM Near Field Optical Microscopy spectrometry. JASCO guide to the history
      
    • A crash course in optical microscopy - MoNOS / Single-Molecule Optics
      
    • Olympus Microscopy Resource Center: Specialized Microscopy Techniques - Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy
• Rapid Prototyping
  • The Rapid Prototyping Home Page - Univ. Utah - lots of links
  • Rapid Prototyping Primer - Penn State
  • Cubic Technologies
  • Design Prototyping Technologies :: Rapid Prototypes & Stereolithography
  • Quickparts.com
  • Accelerated Technologies
    
  • POM Group
  • RepRap Project - Univ. of Bath
    
    • New machines could turn homes into small factories - University of Bath - Mar.17.05
  • Plastic Logic
  • Stratasys 1650 Fused Deposition Modeling Machine - Berkeley
  • Soligen Technologies
  • eMachineShop.com
  • Low cost systems
    • Fab @ Home
      
    • RepRap
    • Desktop Factory: 3D Printers
      • Beam It Down From the Web, Scotty - NY Times - May.9.07
    • The CandyFab Project - The Revolution will be Caramelized.
    • Five Ways to Print Your Own 3-D Objects [Slide Show]: Scientific American - June.08
    • Open-source Replicator? Home-built 3-D Printer Could Launch A Revolution, Engineers Say - ScienceDaily/Cornell Univ. - Feb.27.07
    • Desktop fabricator may kick-start home revolution - New Scientist - Jan.9.07
  • Articles:
    • Your Next House Could Come Out of a Printer - Popular Science - June.24.09
    • Beaming Up 3-D Objects on a Budget - New York Times - Apr.5.07
    • Desktop manufacturing: Fabulous fabrications - Economist - Mar.23.05
    • MIT Student Sees Clear Future in Desktop Printer for Low-cost Eyeglass Lenses - MIT - Feb.19.04
    • Want a PC this Xmas? Then print it -CNN.com - Sep.29.03
    • A Gadget Geek's Dream Come True: Punch 'Print' for Anything You Want - Small Times - July.25.03
    • Rapid prototyping - Chemistry.org: Science that Matters - Feb.19.03
    • 3D Printers Could Become Industrial Dynamos - Newsfactor - May.9.02
• Terahertz Applications
  • TeraView
  • Millivision Inc.: Millimeter Wave Technology - Imaging Systems
  • Articles:
    • Quantum teamwork produces T-ray beam - New Scientist - Nov.22.07
    • New T-ray Device to Explore Obscure Cosmic Radiation - Space.com - Jan.31.07
    • Breakthrough at Jefferson Lab: Terahertz Light ("T-rays") - Jefferson Lab - Feb.11.05
    • Diode emits practical terahertz pulses - optics.org - June.19.03
    • Taming the Terahertz: T-rays could be more versatile than x-rays - Technology Review - June.2.03
    • Space camera blazes new terahertz trails - ESA - Feb.11.03
    • Illuminating idea: Lab's T-light work may have uses in medicine, security - Jefferson Lab - Nov.15.02
      
    • Blinded By The Light At 20,000 THz - Spacedaily - Jan.31.03
    • Terahertz source seeks route to market : UK scientists unveil a convenient scheme for producing tunable terahertz radiation - optics.org - Nov.22.02
    • Tune in to terahertz - Economist.com - Aug.8.02
    • Start-up reveals terahertz advances - optics.org - July.02
    • Laser vision plugs gap - Nature - May.9.02
    • New 'T-ray' Space Camera Also Sees Through Clothes, Walls - Space.com - June.13.02
    • Polystyrene passes terahertz test - optics.org - June 2002
    • Laser chip emits terahertz waves - optics.org - May 2002
• Wireless Power Transmission
  • PowerBeam
    • PowerBeam moves electricity without wires -Space 2.0 Blog - June.30.09
    • PowerBeam Beams Wireless Electricity Into Devices - Space 2.0 Blog - Nov.6.08
• Ultrasonics/Audio/Acoustics
  • Acoustics, Ultrasound and Vibration Top Links
  • Here You Hear It, There You Don't - Business Week - Feb.17.03
    
    • American Technology Corporation
      
    • HyperSonic Sound
    • The Sound War: Focused beams of sound could direct music or speech to a single person in a crowd. Two inventors have staked competing claims to a potential audio revolution. - Technology Review - May.2004
    • The Sound of Things to Come [ Woody Norris's Hypersonic Sound - HSS] - NY Times Magazine - Mar.23.03
  • The Sonic Flashlight - Real Time Tomographic Reflection with ultrasound
    • 'Sonic Flashlight' Lets Doctors See Through Flesh - Scientific American - Dec,10.01
  • The sound of science - CNET News.com - Mar.18.04 - improved audio compression
• Biotech
  • Medgadget.com -- Internet Journal of Emerging Medical Technologies
  • The Methuselah Foundation
    • Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS): A practical way to cure human aging
      
  • Prosthesis Readies for Clinical Trials - IEEE Spectrum - Feb.08
    • Video - Dean Kamen's Artificial Arm - IEEE Spectrum - Feb.08 Dean Kamen's "Luke Arm"
  • Articles:
    • Electronic Contact Lens promises bionic capabilities for everyone - gizmag - Jan.22.08
    • The cyborgs among us - MSNBC/Cosmic Log - Feb.26.07
    • Jeepers Creepers, Bionic Peepers - Wired - May.5.05
    • Artificial vision gets resolution boost: US scientists design an optoelectronic retina with 2500 pixels per millimeter - optics.org - April.7.05
    • Embracing the Artificial Limb - Wired - Feb.18.05
    • Demo: Artificial Retina: An electronic device implanted in the eye could restore the sight of millions. - Technology Review - Sept.04
    • Neural Engineering's Image Problem: Despite a string of successes, implanted prostheses remain in the shadows - IEEE Spectrum - Apr.04 issue
    • Bionic Eyes Benefit the Blind - Wired - July.16.03
    • Getting a Closer Look at the Eye [Adaptive Optics for eye exams] - Wired - Jan.23.03
    • 'Star Trek device' could detect illness - BBC - Sept.20.02
    • Futuristic System Brings Vision To Blind; Saint Louis University Neurosurgeon Becomes First U.S. Doctor To Implant Artificial Eye Device - ScienceDaily Magazine - June.14.02
    • Tiny Capsules Float Downstream - Wired - Oct.29.01
    • New Device Improves Low Vision - Wired - Nov.28.00
• Long Bets - put your money for or against a tech development by a set time.
• Retro Tech
  • Retro Space Art
  • Modern Mechanix
    • Magazine covers
  • Popular Mechanics - Google Book Search - 106 years of Pop Mechanics
  • The Museum of RetroTechnology
  • Radebaugh: The Future We Were Promised - art deco future
  • Tales of Future Past
    
    • Future Space
  • Futuro House:
    • Futuro-House.net
    • 70s - The Futuro house
  • Retro Future
  • The Museum of Unworkable Devices
  • Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future : Smithsonian Institution
  • time-warp Archive of Vintage Technology Through the Decades
  • Predictions taken from The Ladies Home Journal - 1900 - WayBack - PBS KIDS GO!
  • Top 30 Failed Technology Predictions - The List Universe
• Disappointing Tech
  • Ten Technologies That Refuse To Die - Technology Review - Feb.2.04
  • 10 Technology Disasters - Technology Review - June.02
  • Bad Human Factors Designs
• Amateur Railguns
  • Amateur Railgun Production Journal
  • Jason Rollette Railgun Blog
    
  • Railgun-Rail gun-Railgun @ www.ezboard.com
    
• Construction
  • Antarctic Living: A Space House for an Icy Land - Space.com - Sept.15.04
  • Space Construction, Home of Fisher Space Homes and Built on Integrity
• Military Stuff:
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • THEL & MTHEL
    • Electric Lasers Shoot Mortars, Gain Strength - Defense Tech - Jan.16.07
    • U.S. Army's Tactical High Energy Laser Shoots Down Mortar Rounds, Again Showing Versatility of Northrop Grumman-Built System - Northrop Grumman - Aug.26.04
    • Northrop Grumman-Built High-Energy Laser Destroys Large-Caliber Rocket in History-Making Test - PrimeZone - May.6.04
  • Articles:
    • Truck-mounted laser shoots down spy drone - New Scientist - Jan.27.09
    • Airborne Laser lets rip on first target - New Scientist - Dec.15.08
    • THAAD Launch Declared A Success - KFOXTV.com - July.12.06 - includes videos
    • The electro-magnetic gun program gets US$14.7 million - gizmag - July.7.06
    • Officials Map Out Test Milestones for Airborne Laser - SPACE.com - Mar.22.06
    • Warfare at the speed of light [diode pumped high power lasers] - Oakland Tribune - Oct.19.03
    • 'Electric armour' vaporises anti-tank grenades and shells - Telegraph - Aug.19.02
• Super Hi-Res Imaging
  • Photos Richer in 144 Megapixels - Wired - Mar.16.05
• Agriculture/Environment
  • The Vertical Farm Project - Agriculture for the 21st Century and Beyond...
    • New Interest in Vertical Farms for Urban Areas - NYTimes.com - July.15.08
  • Envirolet Composting Toilets by SANCOR
  • Farming in the Sky - Popular Science - Sept.4.08
    
• Patent Info:
  • Free Patents Online Database
• Misc.
  • TeraGrid
  • High Voltage Labs -Oliver Hunt offers various HV amateur projects including devices to create high intensity EM pulses
  • Al Teich's Technology & the Future Toolkit
  • Ambient Orb Device - ThinkGeek - color glows proportional to a rating broadcast over wireless.
  • New Technology Home: Special Sites Listings
  • MAP - Mining Automation Program
  • Popular-Science.net
  • Self-cleaning glass - Wikipedia
    • Pilkington Activ™ - Self-cleaning glass
    • PPG SunClean Self-Cleaning Glass
  • Pursuit Dynamics - developing innovative high power pump with no moving parts.
  • SQUID Labs :: Engineering Design and Technology Innovation - clever tech designs like "smart rope"
    • Squid Labs: Suckers for Novelty - Wired News - Sept.21.05
  • Pop!Tech - The Impact of Technology on People
  • InnoCentive - matching researchers with people looking for solutions to problems
  • Articles:
    • Energy harvesting matures - EETimes.com - Dec.3.07
    • The Taming of the Screw: The humble screw has changed little in 2,000 years, until a stubborn engineer at Illinois Tool Works came up with a fascinating new twist. - Forbes.com - Sept.19.05 issue
    • Tech Company Gets Hypersensitive - Wired News - July.1.04
    • What ever happened to ... Virtual Reality? - Science@NASA - June.21.04
    • What's Next: Intriguing the Physicists, Radio Buff Shrinks an Antenna - NY Times - June.10.04
    • SensorNet Proposed As System To Protect Millions Nationwide - ScienceDaily - Mar.15.04
    • Piercing the Fog With a Tiny Chip [Radar transmitter/receiver chip] - NY Times - Feb.26.04
    • The Once and Future Nanomachine- Scientific American - Sept.2001
    • RFID Chips Are Here - The Register - June.27.03
    • The Evelyn Wood of Digitized Book Scanners - NY Times - May.12.03
    • Welcome to the Garden of Eden - BBC - March.16.01

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