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Just in time for Black Friday: students turn iPhone into barcode scanner

Just in time for Black Friday: students turn iPhone into barcode scanner

Technology / Software

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Comparing prices over the Internet has become a common practice for consumers. Now, just in time for Black Friday, a group of Missouri University of Science and Technology students is putting ...


IBM Researchers Lower Language Barrier With Text Translator

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

IBM Researchers are helping to break the language barrier with the advent of technology dubbed "n.Fluent" -- smart software that translates text between English and 11 other languages. IBM employees use it to instantaneously ...


Measured -- The time it takes us to find the words we need

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 18 hours ago | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The time it takes for our brains to search for and retrieve the word we want to say has been measured for the first time. The discovery is reported in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Ac ...


Donate your text messages to science: Texto4Science project

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created 19 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Université de Montréal researcher has a special request for Canadian texters: "Everyone young and old, students and workers, artists and business people, no matter who you are, send me your text messages," ...


Google said Teracent can pick and choose from thousands of creative elements of a display ad in real-time

Google buying display ad startup Teracent

Technology / Internet

created 19 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Google is acquiring Web display advertising startup Teracent, the Internet giant announced on Monday.


Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling

Space & Earth / Environment

created 23 hours ago | popularity 3.2 / 5 (11) | comments 9

(AP) -- A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month's ...


Mammogram guidelines spark debate over health bill

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.


Study: kids watching hours of TV at home daycare

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In a new study, the amount of television viewed by many young children in child care settings doubles the previous estimates of early childhood screen time, with those in home-based settings watching significantly more on ...


Robotic clam digs in mudflats

Electronics / Robotics

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

To design a lightweight anchor that can dig itself in to hold small underwater submersibles, Anette (Peko) Hosoi of MIT borrowed techniques from one of nature's best diggers -- the razor clam.


Three of a kind

Three of a kind: Revealing language’s universal essence

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- On the surface, English, Japanese, and Kinande, a member of the Bantu family of languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have little in common. It is not just that the vocabularies ...



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