Copyright 2008-2012 Tomzooi.nl Technical news Mon, 21 May 2012 08:35:39 +0200 Mon, 21 May 2012 08:35:39 +0200 Tomzooi.nl, Problems don't exist, only challenges en-en http://www.tomzooi.nl/ Website, en Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:08:44 +0200 As you might have noticed, Tomzooi is lately not being very active at adding new newsitems to the website. This is due to that I do not have all the time in the world and have a life of my own. For that matter, I am searching for news-writers to help me maintain this young website and boost it to th http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/109 Science, en Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:46:49 +0200 A month after the remarkable spacecraft named Phoenix landed on Mars, elated earthbound scientists reported Friday that their robot digging tool has uncovered chunks of real ice there - the first hard evidence that water exists on the Red Planet. And although it's ice that evaporates swiftly in t http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/107 Green energy, en Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:03:02 +0200 Now here’s an interesting solution to the problem of reducing emissions using the same fleet of cars we have, but by using different fuel. Airplanes need high octane fuel and the octane rating has until now been achieved by adding tetraethyl lead, but that will be outlawed from 2010. Ethanol achieve http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/105 Green energy, en Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:18:03 +0200 Toyota together with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co are currently developing Li-Ion battery's for hybrid car. Nowadays the breaking energy of hybrid cars is stored in heavier Ni-Mh batteries. The use of Li-Ion should mean there is more power and less weight in a car. Li-Ion is already frequen http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/103 Website, en Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:46:55 +0200 After a good 100 news and gallery items, it was time for a "minor update". Lately the design of the news-website has been revisited, and since today there are some other changes that you might have noticed. Tomzooi.nl has now incorporated the possibility of adding images to newsitems and i http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/101 Technology, en Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:57:21 +0200 By running water through stacked chips, researchers in IBM's lab in Zurich have been able to cool 3D chips a lot better. They used tiny cooling structures and slits no thicker than a human hair to create a cooling efficiency of 180 W/cm2 per layer for a stack with a typical footprint of 4 cm2. http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/99 Green energy, en Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:10:15 +0200 Origo Industries is set to reveal a new technology designed to capture and recycle a vehicle's CO2 emissions and produce fuel that can be used to re-power your car or even power your house. The system captures on-board CO2 emissions and stores it for recycling through a home-unit that uses algae http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/97 Green energy, en Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:21:17 +0200 OriginOil, a company that has set it's mind on producing petrol from algae has filed a patent of a growth system for algae. The system they have filed is to be used to grow algae's in large quantities in order to create petrol cost efficient enough. Algae oil is one of many bio-products destined to http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/95 Technology, en Sat, 31 May 2008 14:20:05 +0200 Het CanSat team 35, genaamd Lepidoptera is door naar de finale van de CanSat competitie opgezet door TU Delft. In dit team zit onder andere de persoon achter deze website. Hij heeft de elektronica ontworpen en gemaakt, en ook de constructie is mede door hem ontworpen. Het team is één van de 2 winnar http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/94 Technology, en Wed, 28 May 2008 11:09:21 +0200 Researches have created a compound material, consisting of a fiber reinforced polymer composites and a special resin. This resin fills in the hollow parts of the aircraft. If any damage occures, the resin will bleed out and go solid. This enables an instant repair with 80 to 90 procent of the origin http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/91 Green energy, en Wed, 28 May 2008 11:01:56 +0200 Researchers at TU Delft and the FOM Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter have found irrefutable proof that the so-called avalanche effect by electrons occurs in specific, very small semiconducting crystals. This physical effect could pave the way for cheap, high-output solar cells. The find http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/89 Science, en Mon, 26 May 2008 22:15:58 +0200 PASADENA, Calif. -- A telescopic camera in orbit around Mars caught a view of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suspended from its parachute during the lander's successful arrival at Mars Sunday evening, May 25. The image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconn http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/87 Science, en Wed, 21 May 2008 22:08:41 +0200 Nanotubes, the favorite child of nanotechnology, turns out to cause infections. Specific length of nanotubes have been tested on mice and seemed to cause infections must like those of asbestos. Although the infection cured within one to two month, it is not possible to say if there is increased risk http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/85 Technology, en Wed, 21 May 2008 21:53:20 +0200 A variety of scientists have managed to have bacteria DNA solve the Pancake Problem. The scientists edited the DNA in such order as with the pancake problem. Solving it would make the bacteria resistant to a type of antibiotic. The bacteria survived the test, so the problem was solved. This is th http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/83 Technology, en Tue, 20 May 2008 13:15:09 +0200 The company Shinoda Plasma announces to exhibit an 125 inch (3,17m) 1mm thick flexible lightweight display on the infocomm 2008 conference in Las Vegas. The display is an PTA (Plasma Tube Array) display. It is mainly developed for active advertising goals. http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/81 Technology, en Tue, 20 May 2008 12:23:55 +0200 A new laser projecting device, developed by QPC Lasers, has been demonstrated on the display week 2008. It can projects images and movies on surfaces just like conventional beamers. Only, it uses an RGB laser to project it instead of the conventional projecting method of a mercury lamp and a screen. http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/79 Green energy, en Thu, 15 May 2008 18:56:15 +0200 A company named Heliovolt has been able to produce thin solar cells with 12% efficiency. This doesn't same much compared to the record by SANYO that is over 20%, but Heliovolt managed to make the cells within 6 minutes. Thereby it is the fastest way too create thin solar cells. Further, for thin fil http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/77 Green energy, en Thu, 15 May 2008 18:45:53 +0200 Solar panels often use concentrators (lenses) to increase the level of light on the cells. The problem there though is that the temperature will increase a lot. There are temperatures possible up to 1600 degrees Celsius (2900 degrees Fahrenheit). This can cause the used metals to melt or a bad perfo http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/75 Technology, en Tue, 13 May 2008 20:37:00 +0200 Applied scientists at Harvard University in collaboration with researchers from the German universities of Jena, Gottingen, and Bremen, have developed a new technique for fabricating nanowire photonic and electronic integrated circuits that may one day be suitable for high-volume commercial producti http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/73 Technology, en Tue, 13 May 2008 12:03:40 +0200 Cambridge, MA (Embedded Systems Conference) - May 9, 2008 - E Ink® Corporation, the leading developer and marketer of electronic paper display technology, today announced general availability of its next generation segmented display cells (SDC). The SDC products are simple digit, icon and alpha-nume http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/71 Technology, en Thu, 08 May 2008 13:21:10 +0200 Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have developed an innovative mini peristaltic pump system to accurately administer tiny quantities of liquid such as medicines. What sets this pump apart from standard micro-pumps is its low-maintenance operation and the flexibility of working in bo http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/69 Website, en Thu, 08 May 2008 13:09:04 +0200 Today, Tomzooi has managed to get his image gallery up and running. Here we will from now on post images from the latest projects and other interesting stuff. Check it out! http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/67 Technology, en Tue, 06 May 2008 15:03:32 +0200 Electrical engineer Stephen Chou, the Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering along with graduate student Qiangfei Xia have found a way to improve defects on chips by melting the chip structures. Structures made on chips by today's manufacturing processes always have imperfections on the semicon http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/65 Green energy, en Mon, 05 May 2008 12:25:32 +0200 Sony has shown the first fuel cell that is viable for use in commercial equipment like mobile phones and other portable devices. It's a package of 50*30 millimeters that contains amongst all a fuel cell, a li-ion battery pack and a control circuit. According to the producer it is possible to watc http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/64 Technology, en Sun, 04 May 2008 21:40:20 +0200 The first electric sports car produced by Tesla Motors has rolled off the production line. The reviews of this all electric car sounds promising. Enormous torque, good looks and quiet, very quiet. Find more information and an interview in the source URL. http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/61 Website, en Sun, 04 May 2008 21:30:24 +0200 Yeah, finally! The long expected return of Tomzooi.nl is there. After a series of technical problems causing the Content Management System to fail, we are finally back. The problems are "solved" (the server is still not as it should be, but everything works again). Unfortunately it i http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/60 Science, en Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:14:24 +0100 A challenging goal in neuroscience is to be able to read out, or decode, mental content from brain activity. Recent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have decoded orientation1, 2, position3 and object category4, 5 from activity in visual cortex. However, these studies typically us http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/58 Technology, en Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:23:41 +0100 Scientists from the IBM company have find a way to suppress the noise in graphene. Graphene is a layer of single carbon atoms. It's a good electric conductor and therefore it is looked at as the replacement candidate of silicon, the material now used to make chips. The problem with graphene is th http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/56 HD-DVD&Blu-Ray, en Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:56:05 +0100 Toshiba pulls out the white flag on the Blu-ray/HD-DVD war. The company always supported the HD-DVD format, but after Warner Bros Studios decided to produce films in Blu-ray format, they say they had little chance left. http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/54 Green energy, en Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:32:11 +0100 Scientists have managed to know how bacteria create electricity by feeding themselves on organic material. They also have managed to increase the electrical output dramatically by adding vitamins to "the mixture". This was a big breakthrough because scientists always new bacteria create http://www.tomzooi.nl/pages/news/view/51