http://eng-tips.nethawk.net/blog Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:34:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Scientists have created a flat surface patterned after the body hair of spiders that refuses to get wet. The surface also has the added benefit of being self-cleaning, since water does a pretty good job of picking up and carrying off dirt as it is being repelled. This makes the material ideal ... http://eng-tips.nethawk.net/blog/new-material-patterned-after-spider-hair-refuses-to-get-wet A car that runs on coffee is unveiled today - but it certainly won't take the grind out of commuting. And at between 25 and 50 times the cost of running a car on petrol, the invention won't please any motor industry bean-counters either. Nicknamed the Car-puccino, it has been created using ... http://eng-tips.nethawk.net/blog/the-cappuccino-car-that-runs-on-coffee Green IT means two different things. One is to make IT itself greener, and the other is to make other things greener. Let's focus on the former. As everyone knows, IT consists of hardware-such as servers, storage equipment, and network gear-and software. Up until now, energy efficiency has been focused ... http://eng-tips.nethawk.net/blog/energy-star-for-software Solar panels nowadays are flat, but folding them in origami-like ways could help dramatically boost the amount of power they could generate, scientists say. Research into solar or photovoltaic panels thus far have kept them flat largely to prevent them from casting any shadows that might diminish the amount of light ... http://eng-tips.nethawk.net/blog/solar-panel-productivity-boosted-by-origami   Lifestyle Hacking Panel: "Twenty-Somethings Meet Security" Tuesday, March 2 at 1 p.m. WHAT: IEEE Security & Privacy magazine will host a high-caliber panel at RSA exploring lifestyle hacking-- wherein twenty-something employees hack their way around security controls in the name of productivity. What should CSOs do ... http://eng-tips.nethawk.net/blog/lifestyle-hacking-panel-twenty-somethings-meet-security Lifestyle Hacking Panel: "Twenty-Somethings Meet Security" Tuesday, March 2 at 1 p.m. WHAT: IEEE Security & Privacy magazine will host a high-caliber panel at RSA exploring lifestyle hacking-- wherein twenty-something employees hack their way around security controls in the name of productivity. What should CSOs do ... http://eng-tips.nethawk.net/blog/rsa-media-alert-lifestyle-hackers-the-latest-insider-threat As seen in Smart Grid, ICT technologies will have new market, CleanTech. The US ICT vendors have a lot of business opportunities in the Japanese market. The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) is a Japanese government organization for promoting mutual trade and investment between Japan and the rest of the world. ... http://eng-tips.nethawk.net/blog/ict-vendors-opportunites-with-japanese-cleantech-market All-optical switching could allow dramatic speed increases in telecommunications by eliminating the need to convert photonic signals to electronic signals -- and back -- for switching. All-optical processing could also facilitate photonic computers with similar speed advances. Details of these materials -- and the design approach behind them -- were reported ... http://eng-tips.nethawk.net/blog/new-photonic-material-may-facilitate-all-optical-switching-and-computing -From ScienceDaily- Magnets that can readily switch their polarity are widely used in the computer industry for data storage, but they present an engineering challenge: A magnet's polarity must be easily switched when writing data to memory, but be difficult to switch when storing or reading it. These conflicting requirements are typically ... http://eng-tips.nethawk.net/blog/new-magnetic-tuning-method-enhances-data-storage -From ScienceMatters @ Berkeley- "Statistics is everywhere," says David Brillinger. A Berkeley professor of statistics, Brillinger's rich and varied career proves that concept in spades. Over the years, he has helped scientists grapple with topics ranging from neuroscience to marine biology, space debris to seismology, choosing the projects that pique his ... http://eng-tips.nethawk.net/blog/what-seismology-neuroscience-and-seals-have-in-common