Would you believe me if I told you that you were looking at six vials of silver? Or that the only source of illumination was the ambient light in the room and camera flash. From my reading, the synthesis is pretty straight forward and you can almost acquire all the necessary materials without contacting Sigma…provided you know where to look. Next week I hope to make some of my own as the ones shown here were donated to me for my Portal to the Public activity at the Pacific Science Center.
And here you though pencil lead was only good for writing. As it turns out, when you take graphite and whittle it down to a two-dimensional structure, the stuff becomes pretty amazing. Terahertz amazing, as in the stuff is predicted to allow us to replace silicon-based microelectronics with parts that are 100-1000 times faster. It [...]
Today Apple announced their latest and greatest device, their answer to the netbook and ereaders, bundled nicely in a ~242x190mm package with an impressive 13.4mm depth: the iPod Touch XL. They decided to go with another name, and I now understand why they didn’t go with the much cooler sounding Slate or iSlate: the device [...]
