Disappearing Guns for Submarines

Of silicon and submarines

allows biologists to analyse the physical properties of biological molecules using nano techniques (Moore, 2001), while on the other it exploits these very molecules as miniature machines. After all, the most successful nanomachines ever created are those operating inside every cell. The properties and construction of complex self-assembling biological molecules are providing scientists with im...

Indoor Air Quality in Submarines

The next generation of conventional submarines will be submerged for several weeks, creating a need for regenerative air purification methods and new air monitoring instruments. Submarine air is a complex mixture of compounds, where the most obvious contaminant is metabolically produced carbon dioxide. Normal eight-hour occupational exposure limits are not applicable on a submarine, instead spe...

Disappearing Hardware

F or many tasks today, the use of computers is not entirely satisfactory. The interactions take effort and are often difficult. The traditional, and still prevalent, computing experience is sitting in front of a box, our attention completely absorbed in the dialog required to complete the details of a greater task. Putting this in perspective, the real objective is the task's completion, not th...

Emerging Sounds for Disappearing Computers

Try this simple experiment one day: wear a couple of earplugs and try to conduct your regular everyday activities, for a couple of hours. How would you describe your feelings in that deafened state? You would probably feel a sense of isolation, from the world and from other people. So, absence of sound induces perceived isolation which may turn into felt oppression in some environments, such as...

Challenge for Air Indoor Quality on board Submarines