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Cellphone powers back pain chip in Taiwan

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Taiwanese researchers have developed a chip to treat backpain that is powered by mobile phone, a member of the team said Friday.


Selling chip makers on optical computing

Selling chip makers on optical computing

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chips that transmit data with light instead of electricity consume much less power than conventional chips, but so far, they've remained laboratory curiosities. Professors Vladimir ...


EU drops Qualcomm antitrust probe

Technology / Business

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- European Union antitrust regulators on Tuesday dropped a monopoly abuse probe into wireless chip maker Qualcomm Inc. after mobile phone companies withdrew complaints about high royalty fees.


Intelligence inside metal components

Intelligence inside metal components

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Up to now, extreme production temperatures made it impossible to equip metallic components with RFID chips during the operating process. At Euromold in Frankfurt (Dec. 2-5), Germany, Fraunhofer researchers ...


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Intel wants a chip implant in your brain

Technology / Hi Tech

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (34) | comments 49

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chip maker Intel wants to implant a brain-sensing chip directly into the brains of its customers to allow them to operate computers and other devices without moving a muscle.


IBM scientists create rapid disease diagnostic chip (w/ Video)

IBM scientists create rapid disease diagnostic chip (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

IBM scientists have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip, that requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, easy to use, and can test for ...


Observers wary of 'truce' between Intel, AMD

Technology / Business

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Can Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, Silicon Valley's version of the long-squabbling Hatfields and McCoys, really get along?


Researchers create 'fly paper' to capture circulating cancer cells

Researchers create 'fly paper' to capture circulating cancer cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Just as fly paper captures insects, an innovative new device with nano-sized features developed by researchers at UCLA is able to grab cancer cells in the blood that have broken off from a tumor.


Novel connector uses magnets for leak-free microfluidic devices

Novel connector uses magnets for leak-free microfluidic devices

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Like other users of microfluidic systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology researcher Javier Atencia was faced with an annoying engineering problem: how to simply, reliably and most of all, tightly, ...


'No muss, no fuss' miniaturized analysis for complex samples developed

'No muss, no fuss' miniaturized analysis for complex samples developed

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The goal of an integrated, miniaturized laboratory analysis system, also known as a "lab-on-a-chip," is simple: sample in, answer out. However, researchers wanting to use these microfluidic devices to analyze ...


Turning heat to electricity

Turning heat to electricity... efficiently

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (63) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency. But new research points the way ...


LLNL licenses carbon nanotube technology to local company

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has exclusively licensed to Porifera Inc. of Hayward a carbon nanotube technology that can be used to desalinate water and can be applied to other liquid based separations.


Engineers Will Create Planetary Rover From Retinal Implant Test Robot

Engineers Will Create Planetary Rover From Retinal Implant Test Robot

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The research, led by Wolfgang Fink, will aid both people with visual impairments and scientists involved in planetary exploration.


Research helps overcome barrier for organic electronics

Research helps overcome barrier for organic electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic devices can't work well unless all of the transistors, or switches, within them allow electrical current to flow easily when they are turned on. A team of engineers has determined ...


Samsung Develops Advanced Packaging Technology to Achieve a 0.6mm-thick 8-chip Package

Samsung Develops Advanced Packaging Technology to Achieve a 0.6mm-thick 8-chip Package

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the world's thinnest multi-die package, one that measures a mere 0.6mm in height. Designed initially for 32 gigabyte (GB) densities, the new memory ...