Graphene spintronics crowned latest Moore's Law extender contender

Re: Wow.

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

FTFY.

"This seems to be contradictory... Unless he just talking about processors when he says nobody has tested it in a practical device?"

It's unclear from the short snippets in the article and little surrounding context but spintronics is a broad field arguably more united under an umbrella buzzword than anything else. Existing applications have largely concerned essentially magnetic storage - hard drives and FeRAM. Another branch is more attracted to the possibilities of exploiting the electrical properties more for use as a switching element. It's vaguely similar to HP's hyperbole regarding the memristor - the first proposed application is as nonvolatile memory but use to implement logic gates has already been posited.

But - superhero or Supervillian?

But with a name like Professor Dash, he's bound to fall victim to one of his own well-intentioned but over-ambitious experiments.

Personally I'd cut him some slack.

Re: What happened to Johann Johannson?

"Many (most) of our (I'm in the USofA) learned articles are now published by people that have names that appear to come from far away."

Blame the US policy of having universities with huge tuition fees and an educational system that works against ordinary Americans. Unfortunately the practice of overpaying administrative staff (and having far too many of them) is spreading over here, where the highest paid vice chancellor rules some dim former poly.