Welcome to Techfuture. This page was previously called Laks Tech. Here you will find a wide variety of technology resources and information.
National Institute of Standards and Technology - http://www.nist.gov/
MIT Technology Review
Technology Review is a site published by MIT which covers emerging technologies. technologyreview.com
California Institute of Technology - http://www.caltech.edu/
AntOptima - http://www.antoptima.com/ - logistics company in Lugano, Switzerland
Icosystem - http://www.icosystem.com/
Natural Selection - http://www.natural-selection.com/
Atac Technology - http://www.atac.com.tw/
Polymer Vision - http://www.polymervision.com/ - Rollable Displays
Emerging technologies (wiki)
FUJIFILM Dimatix - http://www.dimatix.com/ - Piezoelectric printheads and fluid dispensing micropumps
Accenture Technology Labs - http://www.accenture.com/Global/Services/Accenture_Technology_Labs/default.htm
Cambridge Consultants - http://www.cambridgeconsultants.com/
Tech-On! - http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/ - Tech News from Asia. Part of Nikkei Business Publications.
VirtuSphere - http://www.virtusphere.net/index.htm - immersive virtual reality.
Humanity Online - http://www.humanityonline.com/ - virtual personalities
Kongsberg - http://www.kongsberg.com/
Cooligy - http://www.cooligy.com/
Interactive Displays
PlayMotion - http://www.playmotion.com/
The MagicBoard - http://iihm.imag.fr/demos/magicboard/
Multi-Touch Interaction Research - http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/
Affineon Technologies - http://www.affineontech.com/
Socialight - http://socialight.com/ - location-based social networking
Near Field Communication
NFC Forum - http://www.nfc-forum.org/
Also see Nearfielder
Mobility
Bionic Dolphin - http://www.bionicdolphin.com/ - Variable Attitude Submersible Hydrofoil
WheelSurf - http://www.wheelsurf.nl/
The Power of One Solar Car - http://www.xof1.com/home.html
The Buckeye Bullet - http://www.buckeyebullet.com/ - Ohio State University's electric land speed vehicle.
Also see the Buckeye Bullet Blog - http://buckeyebullet.blogspot.com/ Nuytco Deepworker - http://www.nuytco.com/products/deepworker.html
MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory - http://mvl.mit.edu/
Space Tech
MIT Bio-Suit - http://mvl.mit.edu/EVA/biosuit/index.html
DCS Corp - http://www.dcscorp.com/default.aspx History of Space Suits - MIT - http://web.mit.edu/16.00/www/aec/spacesuit.html
NASA Robonaut - http://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/
Virgin Galactic - http://www.virgingalactic.com/
Scaled Composites - http://www.scaled.com/ - Burt Rutan's spaceship company.
Also see Rutan Aircraft Factory - http://www.rutanaircraft.com/
Aurora Flight Sciences - http://www.aurora.aero/
GoldenEye-100 UAV - http://www.aurora.aero/tactical/GoldenEye-100.html - Vertical Take Off & Landing aircraft for low-cost, clandestine RSTA (reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquistion).
Future Force Warrior - http://www.natick.army.mil/soldier/wsit/
Electric Power Research Institute - http://www.epri.com/
Pay By Touch - http://www.paybytouch.com/ - biometric payment solutions
FireEye - http://fire.me.berkeley.edu/fireeye.html - head-mounted displays for firefighters.
moteiv - http://www.moteiv.com/ - wireless sensor networks
2-D carbon - graphene
Analogix Semiconductor - http://www.analogix.com/ - 10 Gbps SerDes
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich - http://www.ethz.ch/index_EN
Techfuture News
2008-06-06 - (bbc) - IBM aims to cool chips with water
2008-02-13 - (bbc) - Nanowires allow 'power dressing'
2008-02-07 - (bbc) - Knee dynamo taps 'people power'
2007-10-23 - (bbc) - Super-strong body armour in sight
2007-10-23 - (bbc) - Coming of age for 'future fibres'
2007-08-07 - (bbc) - Smart fabrics hit the catwalk
2007-06-11 - (bbc) - Smart clothes to monitor health
2004-12-06 - (bbc) - When technology gets personal
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