http://innovationguy.com Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:24:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Original Article from EDN Magazine Online (Link) By Matthew Miller -- EDN, 2/28/2008 Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a textile-based generator that could enable garments to convert the wearer's movement into electricity to power personal electronic devices. The researchers coax billions of zinc-oxide nanowires to grow radially from a ... http://innovationguy.com/2008/03/22/reblog-fiber-based-energy-harvester-turns-garments-into-generators/ Originally this was posted over at Roland Piquequaille's Emerging Trends Blog. (Link)  U.S. researchers have used a new technique named cryo-EM (short for ‘Electron cryomicroscopy) to capture images of a virus at a resolution of 4.5 angstroms — less than half of a nanometer. As said the lead researcher, ‘This is ... http://innovationguy.com/2008/03/16/reblog-3-d-images-of-a-virus-at-half-nanometer-resolution/ Clean Edge has finished their Report Entitled "Clean Energy Trends 2008". You can get your pdf copy here. An excerpt: Further proof of clean tech's move from marginalized to mainstream is abundant. A growing number of governments announced plans to generate electricity from renewables. Corporations continued to jump on, if not ... http://innovationguy.com/2008/03/16/clean-edges-clean-energy-trends-2008/ Original article is here over at Roland Piquepaille's "Emerging Technology Trends". I think this is a fairly significant line of work. Directly harnessing electricity generated at the microbe level stands to be a while new class of energy harvesting. It will take years before bacteria can generate enough energy ... http://innovationguy.com/2008/03/11/reblog-electricity-generated-by-bacteria/ I was browsing around google images today. I always enjoy seeing what comes up visually with certain search terms. I was looking at "innovation" this time. Actually a word a do a lot of searching about and thinking about. I ran across ... http://innovationguy.com/2008/03/08/real-time-journalism/ It you work in a materials business like I do you probably have noted the emergence of eco-friendly or green products pushed in the marketplace. Working in a company that has had a eco-slant for quite some time now it is interesting to see the up-tick in awareness in ... http://innovationguy.com/2008/03/07/green-plus-profits/ I was checking up on one of my grad school friends today (he writes for Nobel Intent over on ArsTechnica)  as I like reading his articles.  Next to one of his articles was another post on Mount St. Helens and the changes over time in the magma dome there.   ... http://innovationguy.com/2008/03/05/perspective-and-project-timing/ While browsing TEDTalks in anticipation of the 2008 installment, I ran across this gem by Richard St. John. I thought it was one of the most concise statements of what I have heard from many people I respect. Richard aggregated this view by interviewing 500 successful ... http://innovationguy.com/2008/03/04/success-in-8-words-3-min/ I finally had a few minuted to breath and think today and what a timely arrival was the latest email from TEDTalks in my inbox. I have heard a great number of mentions on "cradle to cradle" design over the past couple of years. Most of ... http://innovationguy.com/2007/10/08/tedtalk-william-mcdonough-cradle-to-cradle/ I have visited slideshare quite a few times in the past, but really didn't capture it's full potential until today. I was originally linked into this presentation on "Death by Powepoint" by Alexi Kapterev. I then looked at the associated links ala youtube style. It was interesting ... http://innovationguy.com/2007/08/13/slideshare/