News tagged with speed sensor

Volkswagen announces 'Temporary Auto Pilot' with advanced features

(PhysOrg.com) -- Volkswagen, as part of the European wide research project HAVEit, has announced the Temporary Auto Pilot (TAP), a set of features added to a car that aids in speed control, lane-assist and ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

Revolutionary sensor system protects ports, bridges and distribution centres

(PhysOrg.com) -- Özlem Durmaz Incel, researcher at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, has developed a spectacular new method that enables wireless sensor networks to function up to ten times more efficiently. Networks ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Building mountains in a bottle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are preparing to launch a 10-year project to study water resources, gas exchange and carbon cycling in three man-made landscapes built in a half-acre laboratory at the University ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Progress and promise in DIAL LIDAR

For climatologists and environmental policy makers who need to determine the flux of greenhouse gases (GHG), there are three paramount questions: Where is it, how much is there, and how is it moving? A new ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Optics get magnetic powers

For decades, scientists have studied a class of materials called ‘multiferroics’ in which static electric and magnetic structures are coupled to each other. This allows capabilities such as controlling ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Swimming goes high tech with EPFL-developed inertial systems

Scientists from EPFL's Laboratory of Movement Analysis and Measurement have developed inertial systems, worn in a full-body swimming suit, which can analyse the strengths and weaknesses of elite-level swimmers during workout ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New agent improves kidney transplant survival in mice, likely to speed replacement of other organs

New research published online in the FASEB Journal details a new antibody, called "OPN-305" that may significantly improve survival outcomes for those receiving donated kidneys and other organs. OPN-305 works by preventing inflam ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Remote sensing places nature at our fingertips

When the crew of Apollo 17 snapped the famous Blue Marble photo of Earth in 1972, they gave humanity its first truly global perspective on the planet we all call home. The image helped spark recognition of ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Darpa seeks new power dynamic for continuation of Moore's Law

Computational capability is an enabler for nearly every military system.  But computational capability is increasingly limited by power requirements and the constraints on the ability to dissipate heat.  ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Warming in the Tasman Sea a global warming hot spot

Oceanographers have identified a series of ocean hotspots around the world generated by strengthening wind systems that have driven oceanic currents, including the East Australian Current, polewards beyond their known boundaries.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Self-guided bullet prototype can hit target a mile away

Take two Sandia National Laboratories engineers who are hunters, get them talking about the sport and it shouldn’t be surprising when the conversation leads to a patented design for a self-guided bullet ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 45 | with audio podcast

Using real-time road traffic data to evaluate congestion

A new project has shown that by using existing sources of information about traffic flow it is possible to create a minute-by-minute image of congestion in cities.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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