Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Thu Mar 1 16:46:33 NZDT 2007

Today Index

An IR camera which projects a processed image back onto the patient's arm allows easier IV needle insertion:
http://www.gizmag.com.au/go/6860/

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign produces a material similar to microscopic chainmail with 0.5mm links:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn11220-microscopic-chainmail-could-link-wearable-gadgets.html

An interesting addon for Firefox that lets you zoom image sizes with text, and zoom images for closer inspection:
http://imagezoom.yellowgorilla.net/

A bug in Vista is causing users to have to reactivate the OS when they change device drivers or some hardware. You have 3 days to comply:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/3C047397018A1F49CC2572900017A59B

Ubuntu's "Feisty Fawn" release is now frozen for anything other than bugfixes. 3D Desktops were not considered stable enough for default use:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Ubuntu_Feisty_Fawn_a_step_closer/0,130061733,339273880,00.htm

A usable graphene transistor is developed that is only 10 nanometres wide and one atom thick:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn11276-atomthick-carbon-transistor-could-succeed-silicon.html

And finally. Chinese scientists implant brain electrodes to develop the first remote-controlled pigeons. Presumably the US will develop hawks..:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/02/cyborg_flying_r.html

News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.