12-01 :: January 2012

nanotimes News in Brief T

he European Commission’s President, José Manuel

Durao Barroso, has presented the electric vehicle HIRIKO, which has been developed by a Basque enterprise consortium. Urban, with four-wheel traction and direction, a haptic stee- ring wheel and foldable when parking, HIRIKO is a giant step ahead in urban mobility thanks to its management system, as per demand, that complements the public transport.

http://hiriko.com

Margaret Blohm is the Nanotechnology Advanced Technology leader at GE Global Research. In this video, she is discussing some of the exciting work in Nanotechnology and the plans to commercialize that technology at GE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKcc4hMQbNY

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