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“Why Silicon Valley innovation has stalled”

Aşağıdaki yazi Peter Thiel‘in “Bize uçan arabalar vaadettiler, 140 karakter verdiler…” şikayetiyle başlayıp neden güncel internet ürünlerinin buyuk kısmının inovasyonu sınırlandıran bir sürecin sonuçları oldugundan bahsediliyor. İnovasyon ve teknoloji alanında kafa yoran pek cok kişinin katılacağı bir analiz.

Ürün geliştirme, temel problemler ve bu problemlere sonuç üretecek uzmanlardan ve bunları ekonomik fırsatlara dönüştürecek girişimcilerden değil, trendler ve gelip geçici yüzeysel teknolojilere yaslanan şişirilmiş yaygaraci yatırım ve girişimci kültüründen beslendiği sürece benzer tartışmalarin yapılması doğal görünüyor.

Konuyla ilgili yazı: Pando Daily: “Why Silicon Valley innovation has stalled”

Bionic eyes become a reality

Today while I was giving a glance on Engadget, I have find an interesting article: “Bionic lens to debut in the next half-decade

I have always thought since my childhood that having bionic eyes is pretty intriguing. Any one who have watched 6 million Dollar man would probably think alike.

Dante Cesa of Engadget, the author of the mentioned article that according to Professor James Wolffsohn from Aston University in the United Kingdom imagines that within the next decade, the cure to near- and farsightedness will not only exist, but will actually be within reach. Beyond the concept what makes that this is possible is because they are also working with some opthology companies to commercialize the whole concept.

Without any doubt this is a good news with people with eye problems and for blind people. The possibility of combining the bionic lenses/eyes with other type of computer technologies would also make a great contribution and would yield to new advances for people with eye-problems or for professionals like doctors, pilots who might receive additional information about what they see. The potential is endless and advances in nanotechnology and nanoscale fabrication techniques would make possible the creation of these kind of advanced bionic eyes.

Bionic eyed modern Cyclops would replace all concepts previously appeared on comics or movies like Terminator, Bionic Woman

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Lithium Ion batteries 10 times longer with nanotechnology

While reading gas2.org I found out about a research held at Stanford University that made it possible increasing the capacity of lithium-ion batteries by 10 through usage of silicon nanowires.

Yi Cui, who was the head of the research team says: “Given the mature infrastructure behind silicon, this new technology can be pushed to real life quickly.

This is good news. Lithium-ion batteries are used widely nowadays and such a boost in their capacity due to nanotechnological achievements would probably help arise of lots of applications in different fields like energy storage, mobile device batteries, electric-powered automobiles etc.

They managed to increase the capacity of batteries by storing lithium inside tiny silicon nanowires. As they soak up, lithium nanowires inflate four times their normal size but unlike other shapes, they don’t fracture.

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