 IBM Cools 3-D Chips with Water June 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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In IBM’s labs, tiny rivers of water are cooling computer chips that have circuits and components stacked on top of each other, a design that promises to advance Moore’s Law in the next decade and significantly ... | |
 New, flexible computers use displays with any shape June 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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The shape of things to come in the computer world will be anything but flat, predicts Queen's University Computing professor Roel Vertegaal, who is now developing prototypes of these new "non-planar" devices ... | |
 Toyota's Crown Hybrid Lets You See in the Dark May 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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Considering that nighttime driving is often the most dangerous, the new Toyota Crown Hybrid could help make the roads safer by giving drivers a kind of nocturnal vision. | |
 Cambridge researcher creates revolutionary vehicle suspension design April 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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A new form of suspension that promises to revolutionise the experience of people who drive heavy goods vehicles has been designed by a Cambridge academic. | |
 'Fluidhand': Each finger can be moved separately April 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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It can hold a credit card, use a keyboard with the index finger, and lift a bag weighing up to 20 kg – the world’s first commercially available pros-thetic hand that can move each finger separately and has ... | |
 One virtual step for man, one real leap for mankind April 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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Imagine being able to take a step back in time and walk through the streets of ancient Pompeii hours before the eruption of Vesuvius. In April 2008, European researchers will demonstrate that walking through ... | |
 Boston Dynamics: Quadruped Rough Terrain Robot Prototype March 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 88 vote(s)
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Boston Dynamics has released a prototype of an all-terrain robot, BigDog. The quadruped robot is equipped with a computer featuring sensors that aid its movements over harsh terrain. The robot is powered by ... | |
 Stanford researchers developing 3-D camera with 12,616 lenses March 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 78 vote(s)
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The camera you own has one main lens and produces a flat, two-dimensional photograph, whether you hold it in your hand or view it on your computer screen. On the other hand, a camera with two lenses (or two ... | |
 Silicon Light Bulbs to Compete with Fluorescent Bulbs March 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 73 vote(s)
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Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1880, and, since the 1920s, the incandescent light bulb has remained largely unchanged. While that's a testament to Edison's ingenuity, it's also a bulb that uses up ... | |
 Laser remote makes watching TV even lazier March 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Modern-day remote controls can be complicated. But, thankfully, researchers are making TV the relaxing, mindless pastime that it was always intended to be with a new easy-to-use remote control. The controller ... | |
 Researchers design copper connections for high-speed computing February 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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As computers become more complex, the demand increases for more connections between computer chips and external circuitry such as a motherboard or wireless card. And as the integrated circuits become more ... | |
 Knee brace generates electricity from walking February 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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A new energy-capturing knee brace can generate enough electricity from walking to operate a portable GPS locator, a cell phone, a motorized prosthetic joint or an implanted neurotransmitter, research involving ... | |
 Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision January 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 102 vote(s)
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Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual ... | |
 Solar Cells with 60% Efficiency? January 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 156 vote(s)
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Nuclear Engineer Lonnie Johnson, best known for his invention of the super soaker squirt gun, has recently designed a new type of solar energy technology that he says can achieve a conversion efficiency rate ... | |
 Tongue movements allow quadriplegics to control computers August 02, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Using the pressure waves in the ear caused by tongue movements, researchers have designed a technique for interfacing with computers. For the millions of people living with spinal cord injuries, this hands-free, ... | |
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