2011: A year in technology
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Peigao Duan, a University of Michigan graduate student, holds a vial of bio-oil created from algae
Flexible thin film CIGS solar cell on polymer substrate developed at Empa (Photo: Empa)
Gemasolar CSP plant
IBM has unveiled two prototype computer chips that are said to emulate the human brain (Image: SyNAPSE)
Intel's Tri-Gate 3-D transistor
Artist's rendering of Kepler-20e (Image: NASA)
A negative-index metamaterial bends light in the 'wrong' direction could have several valuable applications
An artist's concept of a solar sail in Earth orbit (Image: NASA)
Solar Impulse at the Paris Airshow
The human brain is in the process of being synthesized (Image: Life Sciences Database)
Solar Impulse flies on the power of the Sun's rays (Image: Solar Impulse)
Inventor Jonathan Liow and the Solarball
Sunbox solar power charging system
A microscopic view of the carbon nanotube field-effect transistor used in the fabricated synapse (Images courtesy USC)
Scientists at Caltech created the world's first DNA-based artificial neural network
Enviromission Solar tower
Luminaid Solar Lantern
An image of the computer chip developed by MIT that mimics the activity of neurons in the brain (Photo: MIT)
Researchers at the University of Toronto set a new efficiency record for colloidal quantum dot solar cell
Solar Bikini - beachwear that can also power portable device like media players or mobile phones (Photo: Preston Noon)
2011 - a year in technology
Article Summary
We cast a wide net over all types of new and emerging technologies here at Gizmag.com - some save us time, some keep us connected, some help us stay healthy and some are just plain fun, but at the core of what we cover are those discoveries and innovations which have the potential to impact the fortunes of the human race as a whole and make a difference to the future of our planet. So with the calender having rolled over into another year, it's an ideal time to take a look back at some of the most significant and far-reaching breakthroughs that we saw during 2011.
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