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I just found an interesting ‘Technical Note’ authored by Western Research Laboratory (WRL), a research group that was founded by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1982. ‘Characterization of Organic Illumination Systems’, inspired by the work of Bill Bidermann, investigates claims that by inserting electrodes into a dill pickle, and energizing with modest alternating currents, caused the pickle [...]

Tinkercell is a computer-aided design (CAD) tool for synthetic biology. According to New Scientist, the package has a library of the components of life, from which users can pick different cells, membrane proteins, fluorescent proteins, enzymes and genes to create their organism. Tinkercell can then simulate the life form to see if it functions as expected. Features include :: [...]

Teaching Resources at Middlesex University (MUTR) is a UK-based online store with a mission to support technology teachers. They provide wonderful materials at affordable prices: from expancel, carbon nanotubes, SMAs, SMPs, photochromic and thermocromic materials, paper-making sets, to motors, solar panels, electronic components, as well as traditional materials such as paper, wood, and metal - [...]

SMART TEXTILES SALON September 25, 2009, Ghent, Belgium The programme is organised together with 80th Anniversary of the Department of Textiles at Ghent University and 6th International Conference on Textile and Polymer Biotechnology. The exhibition introduces the latest demonstrator and prototype developments in the field of smart textiles and intelligent wearable systems. The displayed items will [...]

A first hackteria workshop has been going on last week at NK, Berlin. First of all, it was great fun and we could get the project a big step further. go to the hackteria webpage for a detailed description. and see our pictures on flickr the topic of the workshop was to build your own little microscope using [...]

h a c k t e r i a & l a b h a c k i n g with Marc R. Dusseiller & Kaspar Koenig Saturday 30 May - Wednesday 3 June 2009, 12.00-18.00 daily Location: eNKa / ElsenStr. 52 (2.Hof) Berlin, Germany Telephone: +49 (0)176 20626386 Course Participation fee: 100 euros Registration is required for this workshop and [...]