Fire BAD!
Posted on 06/06/2017 9:40:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
Technology Ping!..............
How will this make our lives better?
It will infiltrate everything, and you won't even notice it.
One small step to the flux capacitor!
So if you isolate it on the gate of a FET, you can use it as a photo switch. Photo switch and amplifier in one!
Elsewhere if has been written “This new capacitor has the potential to enhance wireless capability for information processing, sensing and telecommunications.”
So they can change the capacitance based simply on brightness, a capacitor dimmer switch.
Off the top of my head, would make it possible to make very low-noise optical tuned parametric amplifiers.
I haven't seen enough technical data to really be sure, but such devices could have significant effects in many areas of technology.
It's amazing how rapidly technological miracles become woven into the fabric of everyday life and essentially forgotten, except that they are used all the time.
For example, the computing and communications power in an iPhone, gigahertz information processors and multi-gigahertz radios, is amazing enough. But to run it for hours on a tiny battery, with minimal heat generation, is even more amazing.
Yet hundreds of millions of people who use the technology and benefit from it are completely unaware of it, take it for granted, except to complain about what it costs.
The same could be said for many other things, such as optical fibers, superalloys that make things like miniature earphones and tiny high-power motors possible, miniature TV cameras, etc.
This provides a direct optical to electronic interface so that results of optical calculations could be transmitted to electronic display devices or for further computation. It is actually a big deal.
I wonder when we will read "Arabic Institute of Technology has developed . . ." (cough)
I’m glad you’re on our side.
Don’t hold you breath.
Well, the guy is no Eisenstein...
I need a techno-geek to translate this into simpleton English.
“Yet hundreds of millions of people who use the technology and benefit from it are completely unaware of it, take it for granted, except to complain about what it costs.”
In a way I feel sorry for those people. There is a joy and awe that they are missing out on due to their unawareness. It’s similar to someone not being able to appreciate great works of art, literature, music.
It will make it far easier for the NSA to monitor us.
Fire BAD!
Scientists in Israel have developed a solid-state device that changes its capacitance according to the brightness of light falling on it.
This can be used in measuring devices for solar, optical or other light based research...................
I’m in for two of them for my Les Paul if they enable me to dial in Mike Bloomfield and Peter Green.
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