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Engineers Develop New Magnetic Ink to Print Self-Healing Devices That Heal in Record Time
November 4, 2016
A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed a magnetic ink that can…
Engineers design ultralow power transistors that could function for years without a battery
October 21, 2016
A new design for transistors which operate on ‘scavenged’ energy from their environment could form the basis for…
Getting new Health Technology to patients quickly
September 2, 2016
A researcher from the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, has published a paper about…
Cooling breakthrough could improve performance of quantum computers
August 10, 2016
Quantum computing remains mysterious and elusive to many, but USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers might have taken…
What’s wasting power at home? Ask your app!
August 1, 2016
If you want to save on your monthly electric bill and reduce your greenhouse gas emissions at the…
A taste of vision: Device translates from camera to brain, via the tongue
July 8, 2016
A device that can convey visual information to a blind person via the tongue, patented almost 20 years…
Engineers Take First Step Toward Flexible, Wearable, Tricoder-Like Device
May 25, 2016
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the first flexible wearable device capable of monitoring…
Giving a voice to patients who can’t speak
April 19, 2016
A University of Iowa spinout company that invented a device allowing physically impaired patients to communicate with health care…
New smart chip makes low-powered, wireless neural implants a possibility
February 13, 2016
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a small smart chip that can be paired…
New technique greatly enhances digital microscopy images
January 27, 2016
Researchers from the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA have created a new technique that greatly enhances digital microscopy…
Creativity leads to measuring ultrafast, thin photodetector
December 21, 2015
Making an incredibly fast photodetector is one thing, but actually measuring its speed is another. Graduate student Haining…
Brown’s new VR display aids scientific, artistic exploration
December 3, 2015
On a recent Friday afternoon, a group of Brown geologists donned special glasses and stepped out onto the…
A new way to make X-rays
November 24, 2015
The most widely used technology for producing X-rays – used in everything from medical and dental imaging, to…
System Recognizes Objects Touched by User, Enabling Context-Aware Smartwatch Apps
November 13, 2015
A new technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research could enable smartwatches to automatically recognize what…
Sugarcoating, no — polymer coatings, yes!
October 20, 2015
The interplay of math and chemistry has long fascinated Malancha Gupta. An associate professor at the USC Viterbi…
Mini DNA sequencer’s data belies its size
October 15, 2015
A miniature DNA sequencing device that plugs into a laptop and was developed by Oxford Nanpore has been…
With This New Universal Wireless Charger, Compatibility Won’t be an Issue
October 15, 2015
A wireless charger that’s compatible with different consumer electronics from different brands is one step closer to becoming…
Enhancing movement with computational models
October 7, 2015
It’s not every day that graduate students get to test out their research on their advisors. But MIT’s…
New Frontiers of Cognitive Networking
September 28, 2015
Most of us use many devices — perhaps too many — throughout the day: A smartphone at home…
Researchers develop key component for terahertz wireless
September 18, 2015
Terahertz waves, operating at a much higher frequency than microwaves, could one day be used to carry data…
We are entering a ‘golden age’ of animal tracking
June 18, 2015
Animals wearing new tagging and tracking devices give a real-time look at their behavior and at the environmental…
New study shows how babies’ lives were saved by 3D printing
April 30, 2015
Kaiba was just a newborn when he turned blue because his little lungs weren’t getting the oxygen they…
New research points way to less vulnerable computer memory
January 19, 2015
Have you ever been working on a document on your computer and it suddenly crashes? Maybe the power…
Research in phonon scattering sheds more light on graphene as a replacement for silicon
May 12, 2014
New research in phonon scattering sheds more light on graphene as a replacement for silicon Pictured is an…
Breakthrough synthesis method to speed commercialization of graphene
April 7, 2014
Grafene consists of a single layer of carbon atoms. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Samsung Electronics announced a breakthrough synthesis…
The next generation of electronics is a press-on tattoo
March 18, 2014
Enterprising materials scientist John Rogers, inventor of novel technologies that combine electronics with human biology, discussed his research…
Two independent teams build heat cloaking device
February 11, 2014
(a) Temperature distribution in a uniform medium connecting a hot (bottom) and a cold region (top). (b) The…
Stretchable electronics: A gel that is clearly revolutionary
January 23, 2014
A transparent ionic gel, pictured here in front of a laptop computer, can transform electric signals into sound…
Staying cool in the nanoelectric universe by getting hot
January 23, 2014
Research hints that nanodevices in microcircuits can protect themselves from heat generation; could boost computing power without large-scale…
NETGEAR unveils two Award-Winning AC WiFi Range Extenders
January 9, 2014
NETGEAR Inc. (www.netgear.com), a global networking company has announced the availability of two new WiFi range extenders that…
- Breath to speech device
September 17, 2014 - Researcher creates virtual taste online using TOIP -taste over internet protocol
January 6, 2014 - Chromecast Review: running it from openSUSE
September 18, 2013 - Update: Flexible electronics could transform the way we make and use electronic devices
April 11, 2013 - Flexible electronics could transform the way we make and use electronic devices
April 9, 2013
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