News tagged with sensing devices


Smart clothes for better healthcare

Smart clothes for better healthcare (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Comfortable smart clothes that monitor the wearer’s heart, breathing and body temperature promise to revolutionise healthcare by reducing hospital visits and allowing patients to lead more ...


Sensoring the World Wide Web

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

CSIRO scientists will lead an international initiative to develop standards for sharing information collected by sensors and sensor networks over the Internet.





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New Gas Sensor Based on Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

New Gas Sensor Based on Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Argonne Center for Nanoscale Materials staff in the Nanofabrication & Devices Group together with collaborative users from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have fabricated a miniaturized gas sensor using ...


White-space sensing device approved by FCC for further development

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of engineers at Singapore's Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) has created a white-space sensing device that has received approval for further development by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).


HP Enables Better, Faster Decision Making with Breakthrough Sensing Technology

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

HP today announced new inertial sensing technology that enables the development of digital micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometers that are up to 1,000 times more sensitive than high-volume products currently ...


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Intel wants a chip implant in your brain

Technology / Hi Tech

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (35) | comments 49

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chip maker Intel wants to implant a brain-sensing chip directly into the brains of its customers to allow them to operate computers and other devices without moving a muscle.


New fluorescent sensing material created

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 29, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

U.S. and Chinese scientists have created a type of fluorescent sensing material that could lead to rapid detection of explosives in security screening.


Palladium Nanoparticle Electrodeposition on Nanotubes Results in New Flexible Hydrogen Sensors

Palladium Nanoparticle Electrodeposition on Nanotubes Results in New Flexible Hydrogen Sensors

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 27, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

In comparison to current hydrogen sensors, which are rigid and use expensive, pure palladium, Argonne's new sensors are flexible and use single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) as supports to improve efficiency ...


GE Scientists Developing Wearable RFID Sensors to Detect Airborne Chemical Agents

GE Scientists Developing Wearable RFID Sensors to Detect Airborne Chemical Agents

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric, today announced a $2 million award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to develop wearable RFID sensors ...


New research may lead to revolutionary new devices

New research may lead to revolutionary new devices

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Dr. Jiwoong Park of Cornell University, who receives funding for basic research from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), is investigating carbon nanostructures that may some day be used in ...


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StellarWindow turns your laptop into a virtual planetarium

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 05, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (12) | comments 1

If you enjoy looking at the stars, but get a little impatient trying to figure out which way to hold your star map to identify the constellations, a new software program may make things easier. Called StellarWindow, ...


Super Sensitive Gas Detector Goes Down the Nanotubes

Super Sensitive Gas Detector Goes Down the Nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When cells are under stress, they blow off steam by releasing minute amounts of nitrogen oxides and other toxic gases. In a recent paper,* researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...



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