Air France and KLM have announced plans to conduct a six-month trial of a new zero-emission, compressed-air powered vehicle. The “AirPod” seats three, can do 28 mph, and goes about 135 miles on a tank of compressed air.
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Samsung Electronics showcased the “world’s first” carbon nanotube (CNT) based color active matrix electrophoretic display (EPD) e-paper device at a trade show in Korea last week. The A4-sized device resulted from a collaboration with Unidym, a specialist in CNT-based transparent electrodes.
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A recently launched nanotechnology publication is making all of its articles available for free download. Nano Research, launched in July, is touted as a peer-reviewed, international, interdisciplinary journal focused on all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
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How many of us leave our PCs running all day long, even when we’re not using them? Despite the fact that today’s desktop and laptop PCs and their OSes provide extensive power management functions, most PC users don’t bother to use them to shrink their systems’ carbon footprints.
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Caltech claims its researchers have “turned science fiction into reality” with their development of a single-chip “microscopic microscope.” Although it doesn’t have any lenses, the device is said to provide magnification comparable to that of sophisticated optical microscopes.
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