Month: December 2014
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Smartphones Influence Development Of Brain Areas Related To Sense Of Touch
According to a study by EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) and the University of Zurich, the use of smartphones creates a specific impression on the brain area dedicated to the touch. With this data, scientists will be able to study the evolution of the plasticity of the somatosensory cortex using data from use of the smartphones.…
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A Revolutionary Battery Prototype To Double The Electric Car Range
An experimental lithium-ion battery developed by a US start-up can store twice the amount of energy as compared to the current electric car batteries. Based on a solid electrolyte, this innovation could help extend the range of electric cars beyond 300 kilometers. Recently, OEDC, a startup based in Hayward (California, USA), has recently become known after raising…
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Infrared Curtain: A Cost Effective Technique To Transform Any Automobile Screen To Touchscreen
Continental, a German equipment manufacturer, wants to make touch technology in automobiles a common thing. Using a technology combining infrared rays and photodiodes, a conventional screen may be converted into a touchscreen at a much lower cost. Continental expects to commercialize the system within two years. Although the touchscreens are now a part of our daily…
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Carefree Traveling Through This Ingenious But Simple Security System
A team of American researchers has developed a new revolutionary security system. No need to search you at the airport, you can pass the security in seconds! Thanks to the highly sensitive touch sensors, the machine detects the dangerous objects in record time. We tell you more about this innovation that will make your travel safer and…
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Future Smartphone Screens Will Be Inspired By Vegetable Leaves And Cobwebs
Nature has often inspired the creations of man. Today these are spiders and their webs that have particularly stirred the curiosity of a team of researchers. These physicists are expecting to improve the smartphone screens or renewable energy devices using resistance and elasticity of silk thread created by these little beasts. We tell you more about this stunning…
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BMW’s Innovative Technology Will Enable Driver To park His Car Using His Watch
BMW is working on a standalone system where a driver would use a connected watch to direct his car to go park itself and come back to the same place when asked. Fans of the television series K2000 will recall those scenes where the hero uses his watch to communicate with his high-tech car which…
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This Amazing Self-Powered Glass Changes Colour With Change In Lightning Condition
In Singapore, a team of Nanyang Technological University has developed an electrochromic glass that can darken or lighten according to the lightning conditions without the need for an external power source. It is even able to store some energy … Currently the tinted windows found on the market are permanent and do not adapt to changes…
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SmartEyeglass Attach: Sony’s Kit To Convert Any Glasses Into Smartglasses
Sony, the Japanese manufacturer, has just introduced a device for converting any pair of standard glasses into smartglasses. This is a kit comprising of an electronic module and a 0.23 inch OLED screen that can be set on the spectacles to be transformed into smartglasses. The device will enter production starting from the next year. Although Google Glass…
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Hector: This Bio Inspired Hexapod Moves Swiftly Like A Real Insect
Hector is a small insect robot built by a research team from the University of Bielefeld in Germany. It very closely mimics the behavior of real insects where each leg can adapt itself to the surface and moves swiftly. Hector is an autonomous hexapod, its acronym stands for Hexapod Cognitive autonomously Operating Robot. Basically, the robot was designed with…
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Wind Tree: A Tree Shaped Windmill That Is Also Energy Efficient
The energy provided by the wind is free, environmentally friendly and inexhaustible but current wind turbines are often considered too noisy, too large and change the view of landscape. A Parisian start-up has developed a tree-shaped windmill system whose leaves act as mini wind turbines, capable of providing power and autonomy. We present to you this…
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Breakthrough In Photography: This Device Captures 100 Billion Frames Per Second
Since its invention in 1839, capturing the motion has always been one of the obsessions of photography. In 1878, for the first time a trotting horse was captured on a film and in 1887, the trajectory of a bullet going at supersonic speed. Today, a new techniques are being developed to capture the events taking place in the duration of…
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Researchers Develop A Non-Intrusive Mechanism To Detect Aggressive Drivers
Researchers from Madrid Polytechnic University have developed a novel mechanism to detect rash driving. The procedure is non-intrusive and only requires measuring the speed and acceleration of the car. The trials show that new method has 92% accuracy. We tell you more about this promising innovation. Each year there are 1.3 million deaths worldwide, as…
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This Fully Autonomous Robot Will Soon Conquer Unexplored Ocean Depths
Scientists have developed a fully autonomous underwater robot, capable of exploring the seabeds without human help. This invention could be used in many areas and map the unexplored depths. We tell you more about this little interesting piece of technology! Researchers from the University of Okayama, in collaboration with industrial partners, have developed an autonomous robot submarine equipped…
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International Study Reveals 269,000 Tonnes Of Plastic Waste In World Oceans
An international study provides the first estimate of the amount of plastic wastes in the world oceans. Bad and good news: there are almost 269,000 tonnes of such wastes and this would be “a minimum”– but the micro-wastes (small sized plastic) would be significantly less than previously expected. Published in the journal Plos One, this international study (by…
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BitDefender Demonstrates Smart Watches Can Be Hacked Within A Second
The security solutions provider BitDefender has shown that it is easy for a hacker to intercept the data exchanges between a smartphone and smartwatch with which it is connected. The weak link is the six-digit supposed to secure Bluetooth pairing between both devices. 80 billion! This is the number of connected objects that should circulate in the…