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5 reasons electronics show is still relevant

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The International Consumer Electronics Show wraps up in Las Vegas Friday, and despite the annual hype, the cavalcade of shiny tech didn't reveal any jaw-dropping creations that will dramatically change the way people digitally ...





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High-tech innovations needed to help prevent economic crisis in health care and improve quality

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 22, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The United States should develop a comprehensive strategy on the growing need for technological innovations to help prevent the impending economic crisis in health care and to improve the quality and convenience of care, ...


What Comes After Hard Drives?

What Comes After Hard Drives?

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (34) | comments 36

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today's computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles, and camcorders. ...


Quantum technologies move a step closer with the demonstration of an 'entanglement' filter

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated an optical device that filters two particles of light (or photons) based on the correlations between their polarisation that are only allowed in the seemingly ...


New technology being developed for use in Jordan desalination plant

Technology / Engineering

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

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev are developing technology to scale up a novel method for achieving very high recoveries in desalination by reverse osmosis to be used in a Jordanian desalinization plant.


Breakthrough vaccine to treat chemo-resistant ovarian cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 08, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 0

Cancer Treatment Centers of America announced today its plans to launch a new cancer vaccine therapy that expands treatment options for thousands of women with advanced stage ovarian cancer. This innovative treatment will ...


Toshiba develops new MRAM device which opens the way to giga-bits capacity

Toshiba develops new MRAM device which opens the way to giga-bits capacity

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 06, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (44) | comments 2

Toshiba Corporation today announced important breakthroughs in key technologies for magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM), a promising, next-generation semiconductor memory device.


Panasonic Develops High Energy Lithium-ion Battery Module  with High Reliability

Panasonic Develops High Energy Lithium-ion Battery Module with High Reliability

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Panasonic Corp. has developed a 1.5 kWh battery module from 18650-type (18 mm in diameter x 65 mm in length) lithium-ion battery cells, which are widely used in laptop computers, to provide energy storage ...


Commercial yeasts upgraded with an enzyme for biofuel production

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eckhard Boles, co-founder of the Swiss biofuel company Butalco GmbH and a professor at Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany, has discovered a new enzyme which teaches yeast cells to ferment xylose into ethanol. Xylose ...


IBM Research Unleashes Powerful Speech Software

Technology / Software

created Aug 18, 2008 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM today announced the availability of state-of-the-art speech recognition software to clients and partners exploring the development of real-world consumer and business solutions.


Researchers make progress in optimizing solid oxide fuel cells

Technology / Energy

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

While our standard of life increases, so does the worldwide energy demand. In this vein, the application of technologies based on fuel cells is put forward as an alternative to the massive consumption of fossil fuels. One ...



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