Thursday, October 7, 2010

Nobel Prize honors super-strong, super-thin carbon

NEW YORK, (AP) --

It is the thinnest and strongest material known to mankind — no thicker than a single atom and 100 times tougher than steel. Could graphene be the next plastic? Maybe so, says one of two scientists who won a Nobel Prize on Tuesday for isolating and studying it.

Faster computers, lighter airplanes, transparent touch screens — the list of potential uses runs on. Some scientists say we can't even imagine what kinds of products might be possible with the substance, which hides in ordinary pencil lead and first was extracted using a piece of Scotch tape.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/10/05/international/i025338D19.DTL#ixzz11em8am7S

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene


Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Facebook identity management service


There are a lot of different consumer websites now offering login via facebook identity. Could be a good idea to have a single login but at the same time lose your personal data to facebook.