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Embedded electronics -- cars get cooperative

Embedded electronics -- cars get cooperative

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed a groundbreaking middleware platform that could lead to thousands of new applications in a range of industries. Beginning with in-car electronics, the platform ...





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Sensor detects bad milk, blood coagulation and road stress

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 17, 2008 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Craig Grimes, a professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State, has created a very practical gadget.


Intelligent shoe performs pressure imaging

Intelligent shoe performs pressure imaging

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Martin Schepers of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, has developed a new intelligent shoe. It has four sensors that measure pressure and movement during walking, giving doctors a ...


A Cell’s Private Life: Researchers Peer Inside a Hidden Protein

A Cell's Private Life: Researchers Peer Inside a Hidden Protein

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- To understand the molecular machinery of the human body, scientists have to be able to observe the structure of cellular proteins. This has been particularly challenging for those proteins ...


Contact Through Silver Particles in Ink

Contact Through Silver Particles in Ink

Technology / Engineering

created May 06, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (13) | comments 1

Modern cars are full of sensors. The optimum quantity of air in the intake tract of a combustion engine is regulated by thermoelectric flow sensors, for instance. They measure which quantities of a gas or ...


Samsung Develops High-rez LCD Mobile Display that Automatically Adjusts Brightness

Samsung Develops High-rez LCD Mobile Display that Automatically Adjusts Brightness

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 27, 2007 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed a 2.1” LCD panel for high-end mobile devices that will provide qVGA resolution and comes equipped with sensors designed to adjust brightness to optimize ...


New vibration powered generator for wireless systems

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 04, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (27) | comments 0

A generator that is 10 times more powerful than any other similar devices has been developed by engineers at the University of Southampton.


Wireless networks that build themselves

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 07, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1

From traffic lights to mobile phones, small computers are all around us. Enabling these ‘embedded systems’ to create wireless communications networks automatically will have profound effects in areas from emergency management ...


A new avenue for MEMS-based sensor design

A new avenue for MEMS-based sensor design

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mr Pradyumna Thiruvenkatanathan, a second year doctoral student in Engineering, is the recipient of the best student paper award in the sensors and transducers sub-field at the IEEE Frequency Control conference. ...


New Hybrid Nanostructure

New hybrid nanostructures detect nanoscale magnetism

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

A key challenge of nanotechnology research is investigating how different materials behave at lengths of merely one-billionth of a meter. When shrunk to such tiny sizes, many everyday materials exhibit interesting ...


Metal-embedding method helps tiny sensors function in extreme environments

Technology / Engineering

created May 04, 2006 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

University of Wisconsin-Madison mechanical engineers have developed a method for fabricating "packages" of tiny sensors that measure temperature more accurately than bulk thermocouples. Inserted unobtrusively in critical ...



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