Braille converter bridges the information gap May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A free, e-mail-based service that translates text into Braille and audio recordings is helping to bridge the information gap for blind and visually impaired people, giving them quick and easy access to books, news articles ... | |
 Space is 'current frontier' for engineer working on next-gen wireless technologies May 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1
Bhaskar Rao is a space explorer, though he is no astronaut. The electrical engineer from UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering explores the “space frontier” that has opened up with the emergence of MIMO ... | |
 Contact Through Silver Particles in Ink May 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Modern cars are full of sensors. The optimum quantity of air in the intake tract of a combustion engine is regulated by thermoelectric flow sensors, for instance. They measure which quantities of a gas or ... | |
 New cell-based sensors sniff out danger like bloodhounds May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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A small, unmanned vehicle makes its way down the road ahead of a military convoy. Suddenly it stops and relays a warning to the convoy commander. The presence of a deadly improvised explosive device, or IED, ... | |
Berkeley Lab researchers propose a new breed of supercomputers May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Three researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low-power ... | |
Intel, Samsung, TSMC Reach Agreement for 450mm Wafer Manufacturing Transition May 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Intel Corp., Samsung Electronics and TSMC today announced they have reached agreement on the need for industry-wide collaboration to target a transition to larger, 450mm-sized wafers starting in 2012. The transition to larger ... | |
First steps toward autonomous robot surgeries May 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The day may be getting a little closer when robots will perform surgery on patients in dangerous situations or in remote locations, such as on the battlefield or in space, with minimal human guidance. | |
 How to slash vehicle fuel use May 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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It is possible to slash fuel use by all vehicles on U.S. roads to pre-2000 levels within a few decades, but doing so would require immediate action on several challenging fronts, according to a new analysis ... | |
 Smart Miniature Pump May 06, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Medicines sometimes have to be administered in extremely small quantities. Just a few tenths of a milliliter may be sufficient to give the patient the ideal treatment. Micro-pumps greatly facilitate the dosage ... | |
Creativity essential for climate targets -- existing -- housing May 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
It is a great shame that the most creative professional group in the building trade, the architects, rarely apply themselves to existing housing. A large proportion of the Netherlands’ climate targets will after all have ... | |
 NTT Introduces Commercial RedTaction 'Firmo' Security Device May 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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NTT has developed a means to harness the Human Area Network to create Firmo. Firmo utilizes RedTaction which is a human body communication technology. It uses the surface of the human body as a transmission ... | |
 RFID testbed measures multiple tags at once and rapidly assesses new antenna designs May 05, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Researchers have designed a system capable of simultaneously measuring hundreds of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and rapidly testing new RFID tag prototypes. | |
Researchers use cyberinfrastructure to standardize water data collections May 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Like the popular children’s song “There’s a Hole in My Bucket,” in which Liza and Henry try to patch a leaking pail, researchers with the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego are plugging a hole in the data management ... | |
 Piecing together the next generation of cognitive robots May 05, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Building robots with anything akin to human intelligence remains a far off vision, but European researchers are making progress on piecing together a new generation of machines that are more aware of their ... | |
New software allows ISPs and P2P users to get along without getting too cozy May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services, which connect individual users for simultaneous uploads and downloads directly rather than through a central server, are reported to account for as much as 70 percent of Internet ... | |
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