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Researchers Hope to Mass-Produce Robots on a Chip

Researchers Hope to Mass-Produce Tiny Robots

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (26) | comments 31

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny robots the size of a flea could one day be mass-produced, churned out in swarms and programmed for a variety of applications, such as surveillance, micromanufacturing, medicine, cleaning, ...


Mars Odyssey Alters Orbit to Study Warmer Ground

Mars Odyssey Alters Orbit to Study Warmer Ground

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's long-lived Mars Odyssey spacecraft has completed an eight-month adjustment of its orbit, positioning itself to look down at the day side of the planet in mid-afternoon instead of late ...


NYPD looking at futuristic weapons technology

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

(AP) -- The New York Police Department is looking into adapting futuristic technology that would allow officers' guns to recognize one another in an effort to avoid the type of friendly fire incident that left a cop dead ...





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Hitachi develops a 3mm thin-type finger vein authentication module

Hitachi develops a 3mm thin-type finger vein authentication module

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hitachi, Ltd. today announced the development of a 3mm thick thin-type finger vein authentication module. Finger vein authentication is a biometric identification technology which employs near infrared light ...


Counterfeit euros are detected with an optical mouse

Counterfeit euros are detected with an optical mouse

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The sensor of some optical mice can be used to easily and cheaply detect counterfeit euros, according to a study published by Spanish researchers of the University of Lleida (UdL) in the scientific journal ...


Star Trek-like technology offers noninvasive monitor for patients and athletes

Star Trek-like technology offers noninvasive monitor for patients and athletes

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How long will it take to develop Star Trek-like medical technologies? The gap between science fiction and reality is closing faster than many people may think.


Motion Detector That Also Has 'Eyes'

Motion Detector That Also Has 'Eyes'

Electronics / Hardware

created Aug 11, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

A new motion detector from Siemens can not only sense the body heat of suspicious individuals — it can also see them.


The minerals on Mars influence the measuring of its temperature

The minerals on Mars influence the measuring of its temperature

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A team of researchers from the CSIC-INTA Astrobiology Centre in Madrid has confirmed that the type of mineralogical composition on the surface of Mars influences the measuring of its temperature. The study ...


Scientists read minds with infrared scan

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 5

Researchers at Canada's largest children's rehabilitation hospital have developed a technique that uses infrared light brain imaging to decode preference - with the goal of ultimately opening the world of choice to children ...


OU researchers developing new tool to detect cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 26, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 4

Early cancer detection can significantly improve survival rates. Current diagnostic tests often fail to detect cancer in the earliest stages and at the same time expose a patient to the harmful effects of radiation. Led by ...


Panasonic develops a next-generation robust image sensor

Panasonic develops a next-generation robust image sensor

Electronics / Hardware

created May 14, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Panasonic today announced the development of a robust and lightfast image sensor for the next generation.


Nanotubes sniff out cancer agents in living cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 14, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

MIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells.


Improved sensor technology could someday keep tabs on terrorists by remote control

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology are designing a new kind of optical sensor to fly in unmanned air vehicles, or surveillance drones, tracking suspects on foot or traveling in vehicles identified as a threat.



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