From the Labs: What’s Next for Consumer Tech

[Guest]

Before products hit the shelves, technologies they’re based on spend years in the labs. These discoveries and experiments are coming up in tech.

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[burnley14]

I really want the graphene transistor technology to take hold, but I have a really hard time believing it is possible. Although if it were a couple decades ago I never would have believed what we can do with silicon today either . . .

Just a note: refrigerator doesn't have a "d" like in the title on page 4.

 

[magruder13]

My school is in here twice!!!

Lets go University of Illinois!!!

I can't wait to start researching while I get my masters.

 

[magruder13]

My school is in here twice!!!

Three times **

 

[chickenhoagie]

[citation][nom]magruder13[/nom]My school is in here twice!!!Lets go University of Illinois!!!I can't wait to start researching while I get my masters.[/citation]
aww yeah gotta love illinois! top 10 most corrupt locations in the world with a massive amount of debt goddd i love living in good ole illinois..well at least champagne is nice..

 

[mayankleoboy1]

where the transistor was able to suck more heat than it produced,

cant be done. against the second law of thermodynamics.

 

[bogcotton]

[citation][nom]mayankleoboy1[/nom]cant be done. against the second law of thermodynamics.[/citation]
I'm not quite sure what your understanding of the second law of thermodynamics is... Funnily enough, I am actually putting off thermal Physics revision with my book in front of me by opening this article and typing this!

The second law basically states that it is impossible to construct a machine whose only effect is to transfer heat from a cooler to a hotter body.

This transistor wouldn't be doing this, so long as the surroundings are of a higher temperature.

It is in fact possible to build a heat pump which actively pumps heat from a cooler to a hotter body, if you search sterling heat pump, you will find a lot of examples of this. It isn't in violation of the second law as it also requires work to be done on it.

 

[Guest]

there was a good discussion going until this guy came along and screwed it up. Tom's, get your act together and boot these advertisers out of here.

 

[dconnors]

[citation][nom]pk[/nom]there was a good discussion going until this guy came along and screwed it up. Tom's, get your act together and boot these advertisers out of here.[/citation]

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[arkportw]

we are getting extremely tired if asking for details or fix it issues ,then never getting any responses.So please do not delete this same message..
1. my desktop icons refuse to work?????? and how to fit it,we have a good Anti Virus program,scans show no viruses ,then since this is the only issue with the desktop and the icons not working ,can it be fixed ,since ni responses came out of the wood works????>

 

[arkportw]

well the message was that bbei 77 had a response to my issue ,but no comment was available????????.Why waste my time >,.

 

[JonnyDough]

When it comes to cooling, I'm still waiting for FRACTAL designs from heat-sink makers. It should make them 10x better easy!

 

[JonnyDough]

Why not just use compressed nitrogen for fridges? When compressed into a liquid, gasses (such as the inert nitrogen) become very very very cold.