interesting Lab notes


Lab Notes, research from UC Berkeley's College of Engineering:
-Electronic Nose That Knows: a gas sensor (seen here) that's fabricated using a cannibalized inkjet printer-New Lab for DIY Web Services: Google, Microsoft, and Sun kicked down $7.5 million for research aiming to leverage the power of statistical machine learning so that one person can create the next eBay, Amazon, or even Google, by him or herself.-Solar's Big Future with Small Tech: ultra-thin, cheap, and flexible solar cells made from nanocrystalsLink

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