Online service lets blind surf the Internet from any computer, anywhere June 25, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Visions of future technology don't involve being chained to a desktop machine. People move from home computers to work computers to mobile devices; public kiosks pop up in libraries, schools and hotels; and people increasingly ... | |
 Computer scientist turns his face into a remote control June 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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New work at nexus of facial expression recognition research and automated tutoring
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Major progress in technology needed for 25 percent renewable energy use to be affordable June 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Dramatic progress in renewable energy technology is needed if the United States desires to produce 25 percent of its electricity and motor vehicle fuel from renewable sources by 2025 without significantly increasing consumer ... | |
Microchip is helping restore vision to the blind June 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Last year, Wentai Liu watched as surgeons implanted a microchip he had designed into the eye of a blind patient. For Liu, a professor of electrical engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, ... | |
Hidden facial cheek fat compartments are key to youthful appearance June 24, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Rejuvenating newly identified fat compartments in the facial cheeks can help reduce the hollowed look of the face as it ages, according to new research by plastic surgeons at UT Southwestern Medical Center. | |
Researchers develop neural implant that learns with the brain June 24, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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Devices known as brain-machine interfaces could someday be used routinely to help paralyzed patients and amputees control prosthetic limbs with just their thoughts. Now, University of Florida researchers have taken the concept ... | |
 Cellular annoyance June 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Annoying mobile communications abroad
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Cooperative system could wipe out car alarm noise June 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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The persistent, annoying blare of an ignored car alarm may become a sound of the past if a cooperative, mutable and silent network of monitors proposed by Penn State researchers is deployed in automobiles and parking lots. | |
 Discovery by UC Riverside physicists could enable development of faster computers June 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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Roland Kawakami's lab proposes a simple technique for controlling electron spin and current flow
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Idle computers offer hope to solve cancer's mysteries through grid computing project June 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
A biomedical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin is using a concept called "grid computing" to allow the average person to donate idle computer time in a global effort to fight cancer. | |
Study Finds Men More Than Women Share Creative Work Online June 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A Northwestern University study finds that men are more likely to share their creative work online than women despite the fact that women and men engage in creative activities at essentially equal rates. | |
Designing semantic software by numbers June 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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A system for creating semantic software could transform application development from a cottage industry to an industrial-style production line. Semantic applications are the next frontier for information science, but creating ... | |
iTunes Store Tops Over Five Billion Songs Sold June 23, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Apple announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes Store. iTunes is the number one music retailer in the US and features the largest music catalog with over eight million ... | |
Abandoned farmlands are key to sustainable bioenergy June 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Biofuels can be a sustainable part of the world's energy future, especially if bioenergy agriculture is developed on currently abandoned or degraded agricultural lands, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution and ... | |
 Automated microfluidic device reduces time to screen small organisms for genetic studies June 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Genetic studies on small organisms such as worms and flies can now be done more quickly using a new microfluidic device developed by engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. | |
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