Latest World Headlines: Shaw Capital Management | With shortages looming at car dealerships and factories, the global auto crisis deepens Scots academics build mechanical arm for fast memory

Latest World Headlines: Shaw Capital Management | With shortages looming at car dealerships and factories, the global auto crisis deepens Scots academics build mechanical arm for fast memory By Jack Clark (@mappingbabel), ZDNet UK, 28 March, 2011 16:28... More

Latest World Headlines: Shaw Capital Management | With shortages looming at car dealerships and factories, the global auto crisis deepens Scots academics build mechanical arm for fast memory By Jack Clark (@mappingbabel), ZDNet UK, 28 March, 2011 16:28 http://www. zdnet. co. uk/news/emerging-tech/2011/03/28/scots-academics-buildmechanical-arm-for-fast-memory-40092291/ NEWS Academics have developed a low power memory technology with application for smartphones, cameras and other consumer gadgets. Read this History of storage: Cuneiform tablets to flash Read more The ‘mechanical arm’ storage technology, developed by scientists at Edinburgh University, Seoul National University and Konkuk University in South Korea, uses a tiny cantilevered arm to deliver charge to gate electrodes in storage devices. “We’ve come up with a new way to do the [electrode] charging which consumes very little power,” researcher Eleanor Campbell, who worked on the technology in Edinburgh’s chemistry department, Less