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3D laser structuring Technology / Engineering May 29, 2007 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 24 vote(s) \| No comments yet Small structure, big impact. Micrometer-fine patterns in surfaces endow components with amazing properties: Plastic dashboards, for example, can be made to look like leather; sharkskin ribs on an aircraft’s fuselage ...

New process generates hydrogen from aluminum alloy to run engines, fuel cells Technology / Engineering May 16, 2007 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 660 vote(s) \| User comments: 1 A Purdue University engineer has developed a method that uses an aluminum alloy to extract hydrogen from water for running fuel cells or internal combustion engines, and the technique could be used to replace ...

Bat flight generates complex aerodynamic tracks Technology / Engineering May 10, 2007 \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 26 vote(s) \| No comments yet Bats generate a measurably distinct aerodynamic footprint to achieve lift and maneuverability, quite unlike birds and contrary to many of the assumptions that aerodynamicists have used to model animal flight, ...

Scientists Unveil Internet-Controlled Robots That Anyone Can Build Technology / Engineering April 25, 2007 \| User rating: 4 / 5 after 33 vote(s) \| No comments yet Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new series of robots that are simple enough for almost anyone to build with off-the-shelf parts, but are sophisticated machines that wirelessly connect ...

Harnessing new frequencies: Far infrared can be used faster wireless Technology / Engineering March 28, 2007 \| User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 27 vote(s) \| No comments yet Modern technology uses many frequencies of electromagnetic radiation for communication, including radio waves, TV signals, microwaves and visible light. Now, a University of Utah study shows how far-infrared ...

Low-cost, Home-built 3-D Printer Could Launch a Revolution Technology / Engineering March 05, 2007 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 120 vote(s) \| No comments yet The Altair 8800, introduced in the early 1970s, was the first computer you could build at home from a kit. It was crude, didn't do much, but many historians would say that it launched the desktop computer revolution. ...

New analog circuits could impact consumer electronics Technology / Engineering February 16, 2007 \| User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 46 vote(s) \| No comments yet Advances in digital electronic circuits have prompted the boost in functions and ever- smaller size of such popular consumer goods as digital cameras, MP3 players and digital televisions. But the same cannot ...

Research cracks puzzle of why the bumble bee can fly so well Technology / Engineering January 31, 2007 \| User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 47 vote(s) \| No comments yet New research has cracked the old puzzle of why bees and other insects are so good at flying, paving the way for aircraft just a few centimetres wide to be built.

CSIRO demonstrates world's fastest wireless link Technology / Engineering December 06, 2006 \| User rating: 2.4 / 5 after 58 vote(s) \| No comments yet The CSIRO ICT Centre today announced that it has achieved over six gigabits per second over a point to point wireless connection with the highest efficiency (2.4bits/s/Hz) ever achieved for such a system.

Engineers probe spiders' polymer art Technology / Engineering October 30, 2006 \| User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 18 vote(s) \| No comments yet A team of MIT engineers has identified two key physical processes that lend spider silk its unrivaled strength and durability, bringing closer to reality the long-sought goal of spinning artificial spider silk.

IBM researchers develop next-generation chip-cooling technologies Technology / Engineering October 26, 2006 \| User rating: 4 / 5 after 60 vote(s) \| No comments yet At the BroadGroup Power and Cooling Summit in London, IBM researchers presented an innovative approach for improving the cooling of computer chips, an increasingly urgent need given the large amount of heat ...

Sending secret messages over public internet lines can take place with new technique Technology / Engineering October 10, 2006 \| User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 40 vote(s) \| No comments yet A new technique sends secret messages under other people's noses so cleverly that it would impress James Bond--yet the procedure is so firmly rooted in the real world that it can be instantly used with existing equipment ...

Rice's single-pixel camera takes high-res images Technology / Engineering October 02, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 75 vote(s) \| No comments yet For all their ease and convenience, there are few things more wasteful than digital cameras. They're loaded with pricy microprocessors that chew through batteries at a breakneck pace, crunching millions of ...

Imaging technology restores 700-year-old sacred Hindu text Technology / Engineering September 19, 2006 \| User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 69 vote(s) \| No comments yet Scientists who worked on the Archimedes Palimpsest are using modern imaging technologies to digitally restore a 700-year-old palm-leaf manuscript containing the essence of Hindu philosophy.

Engine on a chip promises to best the battery Technology / Engineering September 19, 2006 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 84 vote(s) \| No comments yet MIT researchers are putting a tiny gas-turbine engine inside a silicon chip about the size of a quarter. The resulting device could run 10 times longer than a battery of the same weight can, powering laptops, ...

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3D laser structuring Technology / Engineering May 29, 2007 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 24 vote(s) \| No comments yet Small structure, big impact. Micrometer-fine patterns in surfaces endow components with amazing properties: Plastic dashboards, for example, can be made to look like leather; sharkskin ribs on an aircraft’s fuselage ...

New process generates hydrogen from aluminum alloy to run engines, fuel cells Technology / Engineering May 16, 2007 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 660 vote(s) \| User comments: 1 A Purdue University engineer has developed a method that uses an aluminum alloy to extract hydrogen from water for running fuel cells or internal combustion engines, and the technique could be used to replace ...

Bat flight generates complex aerodynamic tracks Technology / Engineering May 10, 2007 \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 26 vote(s) \| No comments yet Bats generate a measurably distinct aerodynamic footprint to achieve lift and maneuverability, quite unlike birds and contrary to many of the assumptions that aerodynamicists have used to model animal flight, ...

Scientists Unveil Internet-Controlled Robots That Anyone Can Build Technology / Engineering April 25, 2007 \| User rating: 4 / 5 after 33 vote(s) \| No comments yet Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new series of robots that are simple enough for almost anyone to build with off-the-shelf parts, but are sophisticated machines that wirelessly connect ...

Harnessing new frequencies: Far infrared can be used faster wireless Technology / Engineering March 28, 2007 \| User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 27 vote(s) \| No comments yet Modern technology uses many frequencies of electromagnetic radiation for communication, including radio waves, TV signals, microwaves and visible light. Now, a University of Utah study shows how far-infrared ...

Low-cost, Home-built 3-D Printer Could Launch a Revolution Technology / Engineering March 05, 2007 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 120 vote(s) \| No comments yet The Altair 8800, introduced in the early 1970s, was the first computer you could build at home from a kit. It was crude, didn't do much, but many historians would say that it launched the desktop computer revolution. ...

New analog circuits could impact consumer electronics Technology / Engineering February 16, 2007 \| User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 46 vote(s) \| No comments yet Advances in digital electronic circuits have prompted the boost in functions and ever- smaller size of such popular consumer goods as digital cameras, MP3 players and digital televisions. But the same cannot ...

Research cracks puzzle of why the bumble bee can fly so well Technology / Engineering January 31, 2007 \| User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 47 vote(s) \| No comments yet New research has cracked the old puzzle of why bees and other insects are so good at flying, paving the way for aircraft just a few centimetres wide to be built.

CSIRO demonstrates world's fastest wireless link Technology / Engineering December 06, 2006 \| User rating: 2.4 / 5 after 58 vote(s) \| No comments yet The CSIRO ICT Centre today announced that it has achieved over six gigabits per second over a point to point wireless connection with the highest efficiency (2.4bits/s/Hz) ever achieved for such a system.

Engineers probe spiders' polymer art Technology / Engineering October 30, 2006 \| User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 18 vote(s) \| No comments yet A team of MIT engineers has identified two key physical processes that lend spider silk its unrivaled strength and durability, bringing closer to reality the long-sought goal of spinning artificial spider silk.

IBM researchers develop next-generation chip-cooling technologies Technology / Engineering October 26, 2006 \| User rating: 4 / 5 after 60 vote(s) \| No comments yet At the BroadGroup Power and Cooling Summit in London, IBM researchers presented an innovative approach for improving the cooling of computer chips, an increasingly urgent need given the large amount of heat ...

Sending secret messages over public internet lines can take place with new technique Technology / Engineering October 10, 2006 \| User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 40 vote(s) \| No comments yet A new technique sends secret messages under other people's noses so cleverly that it would impress James Bond--yet the procedure is so firmly rooted in the real world that it can be instantly used with existing equipment ...

Rice's single-pixel camera takes high-res images Technology / Engineering October 02, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 75 vote(s) \| No comments yet For all their ease and convenience, there are few things more wasteful than digital cameras. They're loaded with pricy microprocessors that chew through batteries at a breakneck pace, crunching millions of ...

Imaging technology restores 700-year-old sacred Hindu text Technology / Engineering September 19, 2006 \| User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 69 vote(s) \| No comments yet Scientists who worked on the Archimedes Palimpsest are using modern imaging technologies to digitally restore a 700-year-old palm-leaf manuscript containing the essence of Hindu philosophy.

Engine on a chip promises to best the battery Technology / Engineering September 19, 2006 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 84 vote(s) \| No comments yet MIT researchers are putting a tiny gas-turbine engine inside a silicon chip about the size of a quarter. The resulting device could run 10 times longer than a battery of the same weight can, powering laptops, ...

3D laser structuring

New process generates hydrogen from aluminum alloy to run engines, fuel cells

Bat flight generates complex aerodynamic tracks

Scientists Unveil Internet-Controlled Robots That Anyone Can Build

Harnessing new frequencies: Far infrared can be used faster wireless

Low-cost, Home-built 3-D Printer Could Launch a Revolution

New analog circuits could impact consumer electronics

Research cracks puzzle of why the bumble bee can fly so well

CSIRO demonstrates world's fastest wireless link

Engineers probe spiders' polymer art

IBM researchers develop next-generation chip-cooling technologies

Sending secret messages over public internet lines can take place with new technique

Rice's single-pixel camera takes high-res images

Imaging technology restores 700-year-old sacred Hindu text

Engine on a chip promises to best the battery

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