 Portuguese team makes first paper based transistor July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Elvira Fortunato and colleagues from the Centro de Investigação de Materiais (Cenimat/I3N), at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, made the first Field Effect ... | |
 Superconducting motor to increase power density May 24, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 90 vote(s)
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The field of electric motors has recently entered a new era. The electric motors that you see today in everything from washing machines, toys, and fans use the same basic principles as motors from 50 years ... | |
Researchers redefine ultrathin display process July 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University has developed a new process for manufacturing high-performance flexible displays on transparent plastic. | |
 Flies' eyes could enhance robot vision May 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Robots with flies' eyes could take advantage of the insect’s vision system to better locate the edges and boundaries of objects. This ability could help robots perform a variety of tasks more quickly and accurately ... | |
Seeing through tooth decay August 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Dental caries afflict at least 90% of the world's population at some time in their lives. Detecting the first signs of this disease, which can be lethal in extreme cases, just got easier thanks to work by researchers in India ... | |
 Microorganisms act as tiny machines in future MEMS devices April 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 60 vote(s)
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The single-celled Spirostomum is a tiny brown worm that can contract its 500-micrometer-long body to 25% of its length in a millisecond, making this protozoan the fastest-contracting microorganism known. ... | |
 Future space devices inspired by spider legs September 07, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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Are spiders ideal space travelers? Not quite, but according to a new study, their legs may be. Scientists Carlo Menon and Cristian Lira have designed and built lightweight, bendable joints based on the micro-hydraulic ... | |
 Meet Robo habilis July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A European research project has brought the dream of human-like robots closer to reality by creating a human-like arm and hand controlled by an electronic ‘brain’ modelled on the human cerebellum. | |
 Computer scientist turns his face into a remote control June 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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New work at nexus of facial expression recognition research and automated tutoring
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 Robot Suit May Help You Achieve a Perfect Golf Swing October 31, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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Researchers have developed a vibrotactile feedback suit to help individuals learn new motor skills more quickly and accurately than by mimicking human teachers alone. Besides golf, dance and sports training, ... | |
 Elastic circuit connectors designed for rubber-band-like circuits July 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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Researchers from Belgium have devised a plan for making headway into the area of flexible, washable electronics. These integrated electronics, which could be incorporated into clothing and biomedical applications, ... | |
 Tactile sensor acts as a human finger in minimally invasive surgery June 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Researchers have designed a millimeter-sized sensor that has many of the tactile abilities of a human finger: it can sense the magnitude and the position of an applied force, slippage of a grasping tool, and ... | |
 Vehicles That Talk to Each Other Know What Lanes They're In December 18, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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A standard GPS receiver has an average 2D-positioning accuracy of about 13 meters. While this precision is high enough to direct you to your hotel, it’s quite a bit lower than the accuracy required to determine ... | |
The robot that climbs in the pipe June 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Industrial pipe systems are inaccessible and narrow. The pipes can be vertical and have junctions. Just as challenging, leakage points in the water system must be located, the condition of oil and gas pipelines must be checked ... | |
 Autonomous lenses may bring microworld into focus August 02, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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When Hongrui Jiang looked into a fly's eye, he saw a way to make a tiny lens so "smart" that it can adapt its focal length from minus infinity to plus infinity-without external control. | |
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