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Minimising downtime by decentralising control

Technology / Software

created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When complex, computerised control systems encounter a malfunction in any part of the process they control, the whole operation often grinds to a halt while the problem is diagnosed and fixed. Software developed ...





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Simple and secure networked home

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 18, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people will only start to control equipment remotely in their homes when they believe it is simple and safe to do so. A newly developed control system provides personalised answers.


Evolution of new brain area enables complex movements

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new area of the cerebral cortex has evolved to enable man and higher primates to pick up small objects and deftly use tools, according to neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Pittsburgh's ...


Mini robots to undertake major tasks?

Mini robots to undertake major tasks?

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created Feb 24, 2006 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

From cell manipulation to micro assembly, micro robots devised by an international team of researchers offer a glimpse of the future.


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 ...


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LG Pioneers Tomorrow's Home Today

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created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

LG Electronics Initiates First LnCP Consortium for Standardization of Home Networks LG Electronics (LG) is leading the international expansion of groundbreaking "Home Network" technology, connecting all home a ...


Measuring conductance of carbon nanotubes, one by one

Measuring conductance of carbon nanotubes, one by one

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A single batch of carbon nanotubes -- molecular carbon cylinders that may one day revolutionize electronics engineering -- often includes more than 100 types of tubes, each with different ...


Building the smart home wirelessly

Technology / Engineering

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

Like the paperless office, the smart home has been a long time coming, but a report published in the International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, suggests that radio tags coupled with mobile communications device ...


Efficient Parking Guidance System – Networked via GPRS

Efficient Parking Guidance System – Networked via GPRS

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 28, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The world’s first parking guidance system to dispense with wires and underground connections turned in a stellar performance during its first 100 days of operation. In service in Munich (Germany), the system ...


Roadkill study could speed detection of kidney cancer

Roadkill study could speed detection of kidney cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Large-scale data mining of gene networks in fruit flies has led researchers to a sensitive and specific diagnostic biomarker for human renal cell carcinoma, the most common type of kidney cancer. In the journal ...


Color touch-screen remote to control, share and distribute content

Color touch-screen remote to control, share and distribute content

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created Jan 26, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Philips is applying its Connected Planet vision to the area of home entertainment content control with the introduction of the RC9800i color touch-screen remote control, enabling consumers to easily manage ...



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