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Solar LED lamps

Solar Cells with LEDs Provide Inexpensive Lighting

Technology / Energy

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Of the 1.5 billion people in developing countries who do not have electricity, many rely on kerosene lamps for light after the sun goes down. But now, researchers from Denmark have designed ...


JPL Develops High-Speed Test to Improve Pathogen Decontamination

Chemist Develops High-Speed Test to Improve Pathogen Decontamination

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A chemist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has developed a technology intended to rapidly assess any presence of microbial life on spacecraft. This new method may also ...


Do lava lamps and actual lava share similar characteristics?

Do lava lamps and actual lava share similar characteristics?

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 2

When Imre Jánosi's teenage daughter asked him how her new lava lamp worked, she probably expected a quick explanation. But her innocent question sent Jánosi, a physicist at Loránd ...


Physicists Find a World of Motion In the Mystery of Aging Glass

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists super-cooled a liquid into glass in order to observe the slowing of particles. It's a material that still perplexes researchers despite thousands of years of household and industrial use.


Study on effect of electricity on liquids bucks conventional science

Study on effect of electricity on liquids bucks conventional science (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether gazing into lava lamps or watching balsamic vinegar mix with olive oil, people have long been transfixed by the seemingly mystical way that droplets of one liquid find each other within ...


IBC 2009: Immersive Dome -- don't just watch, join the action

'Immersive Dome' -- don't just watch, join the action

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The "Immersive Dome" puts viewers at the heart of the action and lets them actively participate. Instead of the conventional surround sound, a three-dimensional aural experience awaits visitors. At IBC, the ...


World's smallest incandescent lamp

World's smallest incandescent (nano)lamp with carbon nanotube filament

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (12) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to explore the boundary between thermodynamics and quantum mechanics -- two fundamental yet seemingly incompatible theories of physics -- a team from the UCLA Department of Physics ...


Recently identified genetic heart disorder often deadly for young patients

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study that included young patients with a recently recognized rare type of cardiomyopathy (a disorder of the heart muscle) linked to a genetic mutation finds that progression of this disease may be rapid and often results ...


Vigilant windows

Vigilant windows

Technology / Engineering

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

Is someone sneaking around in front of the window trying to break in? Windows and doors are now being sensitized to suspicious movements: they can detect whether and how quickly something is moving. If it ...


Solarbulb

Solar-powered LED light made of bottles

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 20, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (23) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Solarbulb, a new lighting gadget from miniWIZ, doesn't exactly come with all parts included: you have to add your own water or soda bottle. The LED Solarbulb screws onto just about any ...


Spark Lamp

Solar-Powered LED Lamp Tracks Your Home's Energy Use

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 11, 2008 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (16) | comments 6

Designer Beverly Ng created the solar-powered LED Spark Lamp as a decorative way to reduce energy consumption - but, perhaps more importantly, to let homeowners know of their daily energy use.