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A baseball cap that reads your mind

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It looks like an ordinary baseball cap. But when you put it on, the cap detects and analyzes the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from your brain. It can even tell you if you’re getting too sleepy when driving ...


Weather, waves and wireless: Super strength signalling

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A new study from the University of Leicester has discovered a particular window of time when mobile signals and radio waves are ‘super strength’ – allowing them to be clearer and travel greater distances, potentially interfering ...


Precision control of movement in robots

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A research team from the Department of Electricity and Electronics at the University of the Basque Country’s Faculty of Science and Technology in Leioa, Spain, led by Victor Etxebarria, is investigating the characteristics ...


Sharp Achieves the World’s Highest Power Density for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells

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Sharp Corp. has achieved the world's highest power density, 0.3W/cc, for direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) for mobile equipment. This new technology enables efficient power generation from a small cell volume. The use of ...


IBM Research Unveils Breakthrough In Solar Farm Technology

20 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 46 vote(s) | User comments: 3

IBM today announced a research breakthrough in photovoltaics technology that could significantly reduce the cost of harnessing the Sun's power for electricity.


LIDAR imaging detector could build 'super road maps' of planets and moons

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Technology that could someday “MapQuest” Mars and other bodies in the solar system is under development at Rochester Institute of Technology’s Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory (RIDL), in collaboration with Massachusetts ...


LG and Samsung Join Forces to Develop Mobile Digital TV Standard

May 14, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics, which together lead the global digital TV market, announced today that they will propose their jointly developed technology as the North American technology standard for mobile DTV.


Electronic voting system tested by Newcastle University

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An electronic vote capture and counting system, designed to overcome the problems which have dogged computerised voting systems throughout the world, notably the touch screen voting machines in the US and pilot schemes run ...


Undergraduates develop 'dirt-powered' microbial fuel cells to light Africa

May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | No comments yet

A team composed of Harvard students and alumni was among the winners of the World Bank’s Lighting Africa 2008 Development Marketplace competition, held in Accra, Ghana from May 6 to 8, 2008. The innovation, microbial fuel ...


Can you trust a robot to work safely with you in the kitchen?

May 14, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

Can robots and humans work safely together? This issue will be addressed thanks to a research grant of over £1 million from the European Commission (EC).


Gaining Independence Through Video Games

May 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Today’s video games serve a multitude of functions ranging from entertainment to exercise and even education. Now, three graduates from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Class of 2008 have created a game with an even more ...


DNA fingerprinting simplified

May 13, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | No comments yet

Agarose gel electrophoresis? Most teenagers wouldn’t have a clue what this scientific term means, but middle school student Andrew Trigiano knows the protocol inside and out. When Andrew was 12, his father ...


Solar Lily Pads Gently Floating And Gathering Energy on the River Clyde

May 13, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 20 vote(s) | User comments: 5

The preeminent Glasgow, Scotland based architecture firm ZM Architecture has big ideas for attracting solar energy in a very aesthetic manner. The proposed Water Lily Solar panels for the Clyde River in Glasgow ...


Small bioelectricity plants dirtier than large ones, says study

May 13, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | No comments yet

Small-scale community based bio-power plants produce higher levels of emissions per unit of electrical output than large facilities, according to new research presented at a major sustainable energy conference today.


What to do on the Web When the Economy Goes South? Web of Misery Holds the Answer

May 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

The economic downturn might have a positive effect on the rise of some Internet sites according to researchers at UC Riverside’s Sloan Center for Internet Retailing.


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