News tagged with prototype system

Ford collaborates with Microsoft for in-car health and wellness research

Ford, Microsoft Corp. and Healthrageous are researching how connected devices can help people monitor and maintain health and wellness

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nokia showcases indoor 3-D mapping phone solution (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nokia is showing off a prototype that location enthusiasts consider the next step in indoor mapping. Nokia has built a Location Extension Protocol on top of the Bluetooth 4.0 specification, ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Mask-bot: A robot with a human face

Robotics researchers in Munich, Germany, have joined forces with Japanese scientists to develop an ingenious technical solution that gives robots a human face. By using a projector to beam the 3D image of ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Blood vessels from your printer

Researchers have been working at growing tissue and organs in the laboratory for a long time. These days, tissue engineering enables us to build up artificial tissue, although science still hasn't been successful ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hog waste producing electricity and carbon offsets

A pilot waste-to-energy system constructed by Duke University and Duke Energy this week garnered the endorsement of Google Inc., which invests in high-quality carbon offsets from across the nation to fulfill ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Researchers develop prototype to detect fake websites

(PhysOrg.com) -- Do you go online to pay bills, shop, transfer funds, sign up for classes, send email or instant messages or search for medical information? If so, then this pertains to you.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

SKR researchers develop a 32-inch Android-based multi-touch display

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at SKR have developed a prototype of a multi-touch 32" display screen that runs on the Android operating system. The screen, which runs off of a standard Android terminal, is ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog

Touch-screen steering wheel keeps drivers focused on the road

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from the University of Stuttgart, University of Duisburg-Essen and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence have created a prototype automotive steering ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 11 | with audio podcast report

Nokia dismisses Microsoft takeover report

Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop on Wednesday dismissed as "baseless" a report that Microsoft had agreed to purchase the Finnish company's mobile business.

Technology / Business

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Voice-based phone recharging

(PhysOrg.com) -- The noise that we produce can be a lot of things. It can be a valid means of communication. It can be an annoyance when you are trying to get to bed at night. It can be a migraine waiting ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 10, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 8 | with audio podcast weblog

Nation's quake-warning system needs work, scientists say

Americans have been lulled into a false sense of security that they are prepared for a devastating earthquake, according to a report issued Wednesday by the National Research Council.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Good-bye, blind spot' -- man and machine always in view

Particular care must be taken in a production hall where robots and men work together, where even minor carelessness could result in serious accidents or stop production. At the Hannover Messe trade fair that ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Imaging system controls baking process on production line to improve sandwich bun quality

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) may possess the secret to baking perfect buns every time. Its researchers have developed a production-line system that automatically inspects the quality of sandwich ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers produce world's first programmable nanoprocessor

Engineers and scientists collaborating at Harvard University and the MITRE Corporation have developed and demonstrated the world's first programmable nanoprocessor.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

When the playroom is the computer

For all the work that's gone into developing educational media, even the most stimulating TV shows and video games leave kids stationary. Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory are hoping to change that with ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast