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From: John Larkin on 13 Apr 2010 00:19 http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=DFFJECICZMUC5QE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN?articleID=224202619 MIT does one of these silly press-release scientific breakthroughs about once a week, and EE Times prints them all. They are turning themselves into Popular Mechanics. John
From: miso on 13 Apr 2010 01:00 On Apr 12, 9:19 pm, John Larkin <jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=DFFJE.... > > MIT does one of these silly press-release scientific breakthroughs > about once a week, and EE Times prints them all. They are turning > themselves into Popular Mechanics. > > John More MIT nonsense: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125866561 I guess it takes a MIT degree to figure out you can make wifi antennas out of household items. I think the MIT boys need to get out a bit more. There is this thing called the google that can surf the internets. NPR never had a clue about technology reporting, but this has to be a new low. Besides the cantenna, just how many world records did they set at the wifi shootout before giving up the contest? The first shootout used a horn antenna made out of chicken wire.
From: Robert Baer on 13 Apr 2010 01:30 John Larkin wrote: > > > http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=DFFJECICZMUC5QE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN?articleID=224202619 > > > MIT does one of these silly press-release scientific breakthroughs > about once a week, and EE Times prints them all. They are turning > themselves into Popular Mechanics. > > John > ...i am still waiting for that flying car shown on a cover of Popular Mechanics.
From: Martin Brown on 13 Apr 2010 03:31 John Larkin wrote: > > > http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=DFFJECICZMUC5QE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN?articleID=224202619 > > MIT does one of these silly press-release scientific breakthroughs > about once a week, and EE Times prints them all. They are turning > themselves into Popular Mechanics. > > John In this instance you are being unfair to them. What they have achieved in the lab is clever and a very significant step forward in the art. Even their rivals admit that. But it is still a long way to go before we will see any products that can use synthetic photosynthesis long term. It is EE Times that has bastardised the original article. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/belcher-water-0412.html I just wish they would include links or a bibliography to the original papers so that it was made easier to find the original scientific journal articles before MITs press office has mangled them. Actually published in J Am Chem Soc 2010 Feb 10; 132(5) 1462-3 Using M13 viruses as a scaffold to keep the various molecules in the right places is a cunning ploy in these self assembling nano materials. Just because *you* don't understand it does not make it dumb. If you had complained about the AkzoNobel nano paint press release on Invisulux invented by Prof Olaf Proli you might have had a point: http://www.liveyachting.com/akzonobel-in-the-netherlands-creating-invisible-nano-paint-for-superyachts Youtube interview with him is online at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PScoIztHsGM Regards, Martin Brown
From: Jim Thompson on 13 Apr 2010 10:48
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:19:31 -0700, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > > > >http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=DFFJECICZMUC5QE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN?articleID=224202619 > > >MIT does one of these silly press-release scientific breakthroughs >about once a week, and EE Times prints them all. They are turning >themselves into Popular Mechanics. > >John Any more "silly" than John's alma mater's "contribution to science... http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7018383469?Study%20Suggests%20Spanking%20Children%20Could%20Make%20Them%20Aggressive ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | The only thing bipartisan in this country is hypocrisy |