Electronic tattoo display runs on blood
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 21, 2008 |
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Jim Mielke's wireless blood-fueled display is a true merging of technology and body art. At the recent Greener Gadgets Design Competition, the engineer demonstrated a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen ...
Robot Discovers Itself, Adapts to Injury
Nov 16, 2006 |
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Nothing can possibly go wrong ... go wrong ... go wrong ... The truth behind the old joke is that most robots are programmed with a fairly rigid "model" of what they and the world around them are like. If a ...
Intel Research Chip Advances 'Era Of Tera'
Feb 12, 2007 |
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Intel researchers have developed the world's first programmable processor that delivers supercomputer-like performance from a single, 80-core chip not much larger than the size of a finger nail while using ...
Nokia introduces seven new mobile phones
Jun 13, 2005 |
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Easy-to-use menus, stylish designs at the heart of new handsets for WCDMA, GSM and CDMA markets Today, at the Nokia Connection events in Helsinki and Singapore, Nokia introduced seven new handsets under th ...
Prototype for one-metre wide, eco-friendly car unveiled in Britain
Apr 25, 2006 |
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The prototype of a revolutionary new type of vehicle only one metre wide specially designed for cities has been developed by a team of European scientists. The vehicle combines the safety of a micro-car and ...
Robot with a Biological Brain: new research provides insights into how the brain works
Aug 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A multidisciplinary team at the University of Reading has developed a robot which is controlled by a biological brain formed from cultured neurons. This cutting edge research is the first ...
Engineers Unveil Futuristic Unmanned 'Crusher' Vehicle
Apr 29, 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) in the School of Computer Science's Robotics Institute is unveiling a unique unmanned ground vehicle that offers new strength, mobility ...
Robot walks on water
Jul 11, 2007 |
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Water striders, insects that walk on the surface of the water, may never set foot on land in their lives, and yet they’re not swimmers. Over the past million or so years, this insect—sometimes called a water ...
Stealth Inkjet Printer Startup Could Rock Industry
Mar 23, 2007 |
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Silverbrook Research has developed the Memjet, a nanotech-fueled, consumer inkjet printer that can print sixty pages a minute for under $200. And it works.
Dutch robot Flame walks like a human
May 22, 2008 |
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Researcher Daan Hobbelen of TU Delft has developed a new, highly-advanced walking robot: Flame. This type of research, for which Hobbelen will receive his PhD on Friday 30 May, is important as it provides ...
A projector the size of a sugar cube
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 12, 2006 |
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No larger than a sugar cube, the video projector is ready to hand at all times. Instead of the conventional microarrays, it contains just a single mirror which can be rotated around two axes. This makes it ...
Vivid on-line videos demonstrate Superbot progress
Feb 21, 2007 |
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Wei-Min Shen of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute recently reported to NASA significant progress in developing "SuperBot," identical modular units that plug into each other ...
Robot carries out operation by itself
May 19, 2006 |
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For the first time, a robot surgeon in Italy has carried out a long-distance heart operation by itself.
Philips showcases production-ready Lumalive textile garments
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 24, 2006 |
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Philips Research intends to impress the visitors at this year’s IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) with a world-first demonstration of promotional jackets and furniture featuring its innovative Lumalive technology. ...
Living Safely with Robots, Beyond Asimov's Laws
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "In 1981, a 37-year-old factory worker named Kenji Urada entered a restricted safety zone at a Kawasaki manufacturing plant to perform some maintenance on a robot. In his haste, he failed ...
