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Computing with a wave of the hand

Computing with a wave of the hand (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created 6 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- The iPhone’s familiar touch screen display uses capacitive sensing, where the proximity of a finger disrupts the electrical connection between sensors in the screen. A competing approach, ...


City Tech physicist thinks small and big with CERN Large Hadron Collider research

Physics / General Physics

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New York City College of Technology Physics Professor Giovanni Ossola thinks both small and big. He is currently developing a new tool that will lead to more precise computations involving the actions of particles (the smallest ...


Glasgow's joking computer

Glasgow's joking computer

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 13 hours ago | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Glasgow Science Centre in Scotland is exhibiting a computer that makes up jokes using its database of simple language rules and a large vocabulary.


Staying Power: Senate Hearing Focuses On Energy Storage

Staying Power: Senate Hearing Focuses On Energy Storage

Technology / Energy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 6

Thursday's Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing featured testimony from experts about the power industry's need to develop systems capable of storing large amounts of electricity if the nation's ...


Vacuum flask

Scientists Create Material More Insulating than the Vacuum

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (44) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- With its complete lack of atoms, a vacuum is often considered to be the best known insulator. For this reason, vacuums are regularly used to reduce heat transfer, such as in the lining of ...


Researchers develop drug interface to save lives

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A drug information interface system developed by two University of Alberta researchers has been shown to help in dealing with visual and motor impairments, which can make sorting, holding and indentifying pills a challenge ...


Solar power coming to a store near you (AP)

Solar power coming to a store near you

Technology / Energy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 20

(AP) -- Solar technology is going where it has never gone before: onto the shelves at retail stores where do-it-yourselfers can now plunk a panel into a shopping cart and bring it home to install.



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