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Revolutionary sensor system protects ports, bridges and distribution centres

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Özlem Durmaz Incel, researcher at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, has developed a spectacular new method that enables wireless sensor networks to function up to ten times more efficiently. Networks ...


Sensor in artery measures blood pressure

Sensor in artery measures blood pressure

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- High blood pressure can be a trial of patience for doctors and for sufferers, whose blood pressure often has to be monitored over a long time until it can be regulated. This will now be made ...


Ground speed sensor technology developed for motor vehicles

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Hitachi, Ltd. announced the development of a compact and low cost speed sensor technology for motor vehicles which provides accurate measurement of relative velocity using an mm–wave radar (77GHz band). The technology enables ...


Bridging the gap between wireless sensor networks and the scientists who use them

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new, simpler programming language for wireless sensor networks is designed for easy use by geologists who might use them to monitor volcanoes and biologists who rely on them to understand birds' nesting ...


SRNL, automakers to develop high-performance wireless sensors networks

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Several industries use wireless sensors, which can monitor chemical processes or equipment activity and then transmit the data over a wireless network. Still, many facilities that could benefit from the use of wireless sensors ...


Drinking water watched by Queensland's seventh sense

Drinking water watched by Queensland's seventh sense

Technology / Engineering

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

One of the major sources of drinking water for south-east Queensland is now under the watchful eye of Australia's largest integrated intelligent wireless sensor network.


Handheld DNA detector

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A researcher at the National University at San Diego has taken a mathematical approach to a biological problem - how to design a portable DNA detector. Writing in the International Journal of Nanotechnology, he describes a math ...


Flies' eyes could enhance robot vision

Flies' eyes could enhance robot vision

Technology / Engineering

created May 09, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 0

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 ...


NIST Micro Sensor and Micro Fridge Make Cool Pair

NIST Micro Sensor and Micro Fridge Make Cool Pair

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 15, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 2

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have combined two tiny but powerful NIST inventions on a single microchip, a cryogenic sensor and a microrefrigerator. The combination offers ...


Micron Demonstrates Leading Imaging Technology with Industry's First 1.7-Micron Pixel CMOS Sensor

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created May 16, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Micron Technology, Inc., today publicly demonstrated functionality of the industry’s first 1.7-micron (µm) pixel image sensor at Imaging Sensor 2005, a technical symposium organized by Nikkei Electronics in Tokyo, Japan.


Sony develops new back-illuminated CMOS image sensor

Sony develops new back-illuminated CMOS image sensor

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 11, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sony Corporation today announced the development of a back-illuminated CMOS image sensor (pixel size: 1.75µm square pixels, five effective mega pixels, 60 frames/s) with significantly enhanced imaging characteristics, ...


Japanese professor creates baseball-playing robots

Japanese professor creates baseball-playing robots

Electronics / Robotics

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(AP) -- Look out Ichiro Suzuki and Daisuke Matsuzaka. A pair of baseball-playing robots that can pitch and hit with incredible results have been developed in Japan.


Measuring distances in microseconds

Measuring distances in microseconds

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Standard laser devices are fast enough for measuring the size of a room, but they need to be faster for outdoor mobile applications. Researchers have brought these scanners up to speed -- ...


Asthma monitoring on the Web

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 22, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

An inexpensive web-enabled device for measuring lung function in patients with asthma and other disorders is being developed by researchers at Texas Instruments, in Bangalore, India, and co-workers. Writing in the International Jo ...


New Southampton clean room to push the boundaries of technology

Scientists to work on non-volatile 'universal memory' devices in new clean room facility

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The University of Southampton’s Southampton Nanofabrication Centre, which opens next week (9 September), will make it possible to manufacture high-speed and non-volatile 'universal memory' devices for industry ...