Squint no more: A smart window awaits your command

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Switchable windows are just beginning to enter the market place, first on airplanes but inevitably homes, cars and offices because of energy-saving potential. The smart windows shade against light electronically via microscopic polyiodide crustals pressed between plastic planes which can change from clear to dark in response to an electric charge. National Jets is using the technology with glass on the outside and the smart plastic planes on the inside. InspecTech Aero Service has engineered the electrochromic panes under license from Research Frontiers.

Product development, Aircraft Parts, Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing, Paint and Coating Manufacturing, Paints and allied products, Aircraft parts and equipment, not elsewhere classified, Glass Coatings, Management, Usage, Product Announcement, Marketing, Product enhancement, Windows, United States. Department of Energy, Coatings industry, Airplanes, Aircraft equipment and supplies industry, Aircraft parts industry, Smart materials, Glare, Aircraft canopies, Glare (Optics), InspecTech Aero Service Inc., Research Frontiers Inc., REFR

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Through the looking glass, to holographic data storage

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Researchers from Canada and Spain have made a glass-type material that may, in the future, store immense amounts of data in a very small space. The new medium is holographic, a space saving advantage knows of for over 40 years. Unfourtunately, manufacturers have not been able to develop a holographic device that is affordable for the common consumer, but the new glassy material devised by Dr. Maria Luisa Calvo may change all that.

Computer Storage Device Manufacturing, Memories & Storage Devices, Computer storage devices, Forecasts and trends, Computer peripherals industry, Holography

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Consumers may soon be drawn to magnetic memory chips

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Researchers are working on a magnetic memory chip, called M-RAM, that does not need a constant source of power. Unlike the D-RAM, the M-RAM stores its bits magnetically, instead of as charges, which keeps information from leaking away when there's no power. I.B.M. and Infineon Technologies have an agreement to develop M-RAM products. Another advantage of M-RAM is its potential for being scaled down significantly.

Computer memory, United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Memory management, Dynamic random access memory, DRAM (Dynamic random access memory), Magnetic media, Magnetic storage media, Memory (Computers), Storage capacity, Wolf, Stuart, De Boeck, Johna

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