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Philips electronic skin technology enables new chameleon-like ambience designs

Philips electronic skin technology enables new chameleon-like ambience designs

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Philips Research has developed a novel color e-paper technology that opens up new design opportunities for personalizing electronic devices. This means that the color and appearance, of the ...


New algorithms for computerized, large-scale surveillance

New algorithms for computerized, large-scale surveillance

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A recent AFOSR-funded technology should enable the Air Force to achieve advances in object and target detection technology by using sophisticated algebraic theories called groups, rings and fields.


Web searches for religious topics on the rise

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Religion is not just for churches, synagogues or mosques anymore -- it's a topic that is being actively searched for online, according to researchers at Penn State.


Solar pannels whose energy helps pump water into a water tower in the village of Safo Nassarawa near Maradi in Niger

World Bank musters $5.5 billion for solar projects

Technology / Energy

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The World Bank announced Wednesday 5.5 billion dollars would be invested in solar energy projects in five countries of the Middle East and North Africa in a bid to combat climate change.


Dating the Bronze Age

Dating the Bronze Age

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) research has shown that an area of desert in north-western China was once a thriving Bronze Age manufacturing and agricultural site. The new findings ...


Fujitsu Succeeds in World's First Operation of 100W-Class Amplifiers Employing Carbon Nanotubes for Next-Generation Mobile Base

Fujitsu Announces World's First Operation of 100W-Class Amplifiers Employing Carbon Nanotubes

Technology / Semiconductors

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Fujitsu Laboratories today announced that, using carbon nanotubes as heat-dissipation material in amplifier transistors, Fujitsu has become the first to achieve the successful operation of high-frequency, ...


Toshiba Develops High Performance CMOS Device Technology for 20nm Generation LSI

Toshiba Develops High Performance CMOS Device Technology for 20nm Generation LSI

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a breakthrough technology for steep channel impurity distribution that delivers a solution to a key problem for 20nm generation CMOS ...


GSM

GSM system about to be compromised

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (19) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists in California and elsewhere are deliberately setting out to compromise the mobile phone system used by around three billion people. The system uses Global System for Mobile ...


Roe of marine animals is best natural source of omega-3

Roe of marine animals is best natural source of omega-3

Medicine & Health / Health

created 3 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The roe of hake, lumpsucker and salmon is the best dietary source of Omega 3, according to a study carried out by researchers at the University of Almería (UAL). The scientists analysed the eggs, or ...


Breakthrough in monitoring tropical deforestation announced in Copenhagen

Breakthrough in monitoring tropical deforestation announced in Copenhagen

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Tropical forest destruction accounts for some 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But quantifying these emissions has not been easy, particularly for tropical nations. New technology, developed by a team ...


Toshiba develops essential technology for spintronics-based MOS field-effect transistor

Toshiba develops essential technology for spintronics-based MOS field-effect transistor

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed MOSFET cell based on spin transport electronics, or spintronics, an advanced semiconductor technology that makes use of the spin and ...


Space technology optimises windmill efficiency

Space technology optimises windmill efficiency

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A French start-up company from ESA's Business Incubation Centre in the Netherlands has developed a small instrument to measure wind speed and direction from the ground up to heights of 200 ...


Researchers create cell phones for sign language

Researchers create cell phones for sign language

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers and colleagues have created cell phones that allow deaf people to communicate in sign language, the same way hearing people use phones to talk.


Researchers examine correlation between political speeches, voting

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Although politicians are often criticized for making empty promises, when it comes to their voting records, their words may carry more weight than previously thought, according to findings by two Penn State information technology ...


3-D microchips for more powerful and environmentally friendly computers

3-D microchips for more powerful and environmentally friendly computers

Technology / Semiconductors

created 2 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Not so long ago our computers had a single core which had to be boosted for performance - making each machine into a great central heating system. Beyond 85° C, however, electronic components become unstable. ...