a sliver of wood coated with tin that shows promise for becoming a tiny, long-lasting, efficient and environmentally friendly energy source -- someday a way to power personal digital devices?
Using pavement squares designed to replace concrete paving slabs, Pavegen squares generate energy as people walk across them. Light a building? Power an exhibition?
Another page for the COST Web site with a link to Foresight 2030 reports, including the overall summary report. While not museum-specific, there is much to ponder broadly relative to technology, innovation and changing conditions in the world.
With gigabytes of flash memory becoming steadily cheaper, a 1k nonvolatile memory unit has little practical use. But as a proof of concept, the chip shows it should be possible to surpass the limitations of flash memory in packing density, energy consumption per bit and switching speed.
the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2021 assessment, which projected an increase in the most intense categories for hurricanes, 4 and 5.