Found 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.
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OLED technology on its way to the market?
Published by January 12th, 2008 in future technology. 4 CommentsAlles [auf] Zucker!
Published by November 24th, 2007 in biopolymers, polymer classes, preparative, science link and technologies. 2 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.
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I am looking forward to seeing what comes of his work.
Nobel Prize Chemistry 2007
Published by October 10th, 2007 in ancient technology and nobel prize. 1 CommentThis year’s nobel prize in chemistry goes to Gerhard Ertl who did fundamental research on chemistry at solid surfaces.
This year it seems to be the year of “nobel prizes only go to people born in the 1920s and 30s.”
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Nobel Prize Physics 2007
Published by October 9th, 2007 in nobel prize and state of the art. 2 Comments…and the Nobel prize in physics for the year 2007 goes to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg; both discovered “Giant Magnetoresistance,” independently and almost at the same time — Grünberg was a bit faster with filing the patent.
I don’t really have the background to explain this effect in detail, but as much as I have understood is the importance of it for our daily lives: high-density hard-drives would not be possible without this effect. And thus I would like to thank both Fert and Grünberg for their discovery and congratulate them on their well earned Nobel prize.
Further scientific background can be found at the web pages of the Nobel foundation.
- The version for “the public”
- and that for “the real uber-physicists”
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