A Step Toward the Quantum Internet
14 May 2010aPhysicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, led by Gerhard Rempe, have created a system based on a single atom that they're calling a "quantum optical transistor." The transistor could someday serve as part of a quantum computer or as a node of a quantum data network.
"We're doing what people in the Bell Laboratories did in the 1950s," says Eden Figueroa, one of the physicists involved in the project. "They were inventing the transistor, and people thought they were crazy. But 50 years later, everyone is using a laptop." Now, he says, "we're inventing the quantum transistor that may be used in computers 30 years from now."
Their process relies on a complex light manipulation technique called electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). In EIT, one beam of light controls the properties of another, much as the gate voltage controls current through a regular transistor. The researchers demonstrated EIT through the mediation of a single atom, which is a first; previously the technique was applied to hundreds of thousands of atoms in a gas.
Posted: May 17th, 2010
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DIY: LED Data-Lit Cube
LED Cube A. Housing B. Multi-colored LED C. Arduino microcontroller D. Perfboard John B. Carnett
Time: 1 Hour
Cost: $95
Easy: 3/5
JoinAfrica’s WIFI Blanket
Paul English, the cofounder of travel search engineAKayak.com, wants to blanket all of Africa with free and low-cost Wi-Fi. It’s a "big, big project," one that will consume the next decade of his life, English tells FastCompany.com.
JoinAfrica aims to bring a world of information to a continent whose population only has 8.7% Internet penetration right now. At the core of JoinAfrica is the belief that providing basic Internet is as essential to society as clean water and clean power.
Posted: May 14th, 2010
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Web 3.0
Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.
Posted: May 13th, 2010
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The Japanese Knowledge Economy
A deep analysis of the current economic and business climate from the perspective of an IT developer and entrepreneur working in Japan.
: read the PDF analysis here by Dominiek ter HeideA:
Posted: May 6th, 2010
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Categories: myninjaplease,web,business,weaponry,fo' real?,development
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Hawking: Don’t Talk to Aliens
"To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational," Hawking said. "The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like."
Stephen Hawking, since 1995, the man who has discovered more than 450 planets orbiting distant stars says beware of extraterresterial intelligent life.AFrom two-legged herbivores, yellow lizard-like predators, to glowing fluorescent aquatic animals they are probably out there, and they will probably take our resources if found.
Posted: April 25th, 2010
at 3:55pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: myninjaplease,life,web,science,10th dan
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Panoramic Wifi Camera
Panoramic Wifi Camera at Light in Sight, NTT/ICC 2008 Curated by Yukiko Shikata
The Panoramic Wifi Camera takes 'pictures' of spaces illuminated by wireless radio signals, in much the same way that a traditional camera takes pictures through visible light. In effect, it is a camera which captures the invisible. Wireless radio networks are increasingly part of our daily lives throughout the developed world. The camera reveals the topology of this electromagnetic ecology, or 'Hertzian space', showing that even our own bodies cast their 'shadows'. Wifi uses wireless radio signals in the of 2.4 Ghz range which behave similarly to light waves, in that they are reflected off almost all solid objects. When we perceive colours, we see the light that is reflected off an object into our eyes. The Panoramic Wifi Camera allows us to perceive the radio environment in a similar manner. The Panoramic Wifi Camera is constructed from home-made directional antennae, which are placed in a careful array, each at a slightly different angle. This array rotates slowly, scanning, to build-up an image of a space. The work is a powerful example of how artists are creating new methods of visualising the intangible and atemporal environment which we exist within.
Stop Chasing Followers
Are you making a difference?
Posted: April 22nd, 2010
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