kudos to Amanda:
the people at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have come up with something pretty sweet—a 3-D sugar printer.
Really cool. Makes me want to go out and build one myself:
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Creating 3D sugar structures
Published by January 18th, 2008 in biopolymers, hipness, link and state of the art. 0 CommentsEuropean CO2 emissions
Published by January 14th, 2008 in energy, hipness and state of the art. 0 CommentsCapGemini has released an interesting report on the EU’s Climate Change Objectives at the end of last year (pdf).
I know I am misinterpreting this and am going way overboard, but whenever I see streamlined graphs like these I want to draw lines in there too… and with the help of skitch this was very easy:
Don’t you love graphs in presentations, papers or wherever, too? Please post examples 
OLED technology on its way to the market?
Published by January 12th, 2008 in future technology. 4 CommentsFound over at fscklog, the clip above shows the new optimus maximus keyboard which has tiny 48*48 pixel OLED screens inside each key — and comes with a perfect configuration software. Think perfect customization for any application and/or task at hand.
Alles [auf] Zucker!
Published by November 24th, 2007 in biopolymers, polymer classes, preparative, science link and technologies. 0 CommentsThe title off a german 2004 comedy about a disgrunteld jewish journalist actually lines out german chemist Peter Seebergers work on glycane chemistry at ETH Zürich. While the movie is bristling with witty fast-paced dialogue, Seeberger took a lesson from Merrifield and managed to build the worlds first automated polyglycane synthesizer bringing a faster pace to glycane chemistry. With the importance of glycanes in cell cell interaction this opens new avenues in medicinal chemistry as the tedious step by step synthesis of these sugar polymers can now be accomplished in days instead of months.
More info here on
I am looking forward to seeing what comes of his work.
