Rare-earth element material could produce world’s smallest transistors

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — A material from a rare earth element, tellurium, could produce the world’s smallest transistor, thanks to an Army-funded project.
Computer chips use billions of tiny switches called transistors to process information. The more transistors on a chip, the faster the computer.

A project at Purdue University in collaboration with Michigan Technological University, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Texas at Dallas, found that the material, shaped like a one-dimensional DNA helix, encapsulated in a nanotube made of boron nitride, could build a field-effect transistor with a diameter of two nanometers. Transistors on the market are made of bulkier silicon and range between 10 and 20 nanometers in scale.

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The Mini Street Arcade Console – Pandora Treasure Box

In this video we take a look at the Mini Street Arcade also know as the pandoras treasure, Its basically a pandora’s box clone with no arcade stick attached it uses Use or wireless controller. Its supports Sega genesis,FBA,NeoGeo,MAME,CPS1,CPS2,CPs3 and PS1. Unfortunately, it’s overpriced for what you get and I just can’t recommend it to anyone. Powered by the Allwinner H3 quad-core CPU with 1GB of ram.

Windows 10X in images: Microsoft’s new OS is gorgeous

Microsoft is finally letting the public play with Windows 10X via a new emulator that’s designed to let developers test their apps on the upcoming OS. It’s our first real look at Windows 10X, and first impressions, even this early on, is that it’s looking good. Aesthetically, Windows 10X is everything I’ve ever wanted from a clean and consistent UI in Windows. It’s seriously pretty, minimalistic, and fun to use.

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Someone Built a Distraction-Free Cellphone With a Working Old-School Rotary Dial

The smartphone changed the world, but it wasn’t all for the better. Mobile devices are packed full of endless productivity-killing distractions, and the ability to actually make a phone call almost seems like an afterthought now. A frustrated Justine Haupt came up with an unorthodox solution: she designed and built a mobile phone with a rotary dial that looks like it’s 40 years old.

There’s an entire generation that probably won’t be able to make sense of Haupt’s Rotary Cellphone or why it has a bizarre circular wheel affixed to the top. For the rest of us who suffered through a time when placing calls meant spinning a plastic wheel, Haupt’s creation seems like it was brought to Earth from a parallel dimension where mobile phones took an entirely different evolutionary route, and where technologies like touchscreens never came to fruition.

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