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Driverless Cars Could Intensify Auto Use
The study estimates a 5-60% increase in car energy consumption due to people choosing to use highly automated cars in situations where they might have taken alternative transport.
Bosch Launches Cloud Network for the Internet of Things
Intelligently connected devices, served by a cloud network, are expected to be the basis for new IoT business models.
Portable USB Microscope Camera Analyzes Coatings
The microscope can be used in direct contact to the surface or at larger distances.
Airline Uses Renewable Biofuel for Regular Flights
United Airlines has started using sustainable aviation biofuels in commercial-scale volumes.
Cyborg Patch for Cardiac Care
A heart patch may offer a therapeutic alternative to heart transplants.
Spongy Polymer Expands for Spinal Repair
A polymer graft offers a non-invasive method for filling gaps in the spine left after tumor removal.
Battery Storage Bolsters Renewable Energy Grid
A hybrid renewable energy storage project will replace two-thirds of an island’s fossil fuel needs.
Prefab Structures Built within Days
Structures may vary in size depending largely on the client’s budget and available space.
Rainfall Collection Could Lower Potable Water Use by 25%
Capturing rainwater can help to reduce the demands on the water treatment system and ensure that it will still function properly during heavy rainfall events.
Laser-Based Aircraft Tracking Could Aid Relief Efforts
Hyperion could allow drones engaged in disaster monitoring and other humanitarian missions to send detailed images more rapidly back to the ground for analysis.
Device Eliminates Switching-Related Derailments
Repoint uses an arrangement of intermeshing rail ends combined with a lift-and-drop mechanism that provides a locking system with virtually no friction loss.
Chip-Embedded Carts Give Retailers Marketing Data
The sensors that are installed in carts and baskets emit a short wave signal via Bluetooth to a set of receivers located in the ceiling, which in turn send the information to the cloud.
Autonomous Vehicles Adapt to Infrastructure Challenges
Infrastructure owners can do a few things to make an autonomous car’s job easier, but the onus is on self-driving vehicles to adapt.
Wave Energy: Chasing the Big One
The U.S. Department of Energy is trying to nudge wave energy toward a design convergence with its Wave Energy Prize program.
Nanotexturing Used to Double Graphene's Light Absorption
Graphene is known for its electrical conductivity and mechanical strength, it also must harness light (and heat) effectively.
Europe’s Largest Floating PV Array Goes Up in London
The energy produced will be used to help provide low-cost power for a nearby water treatment facility.
Citywide Building Energy Model Created for Boston
Researchers have generated a model that estimates the gas and electricity demand of every building in Boston for every hour of every day of the year.
Airplane Lavatory Self-Cleans Using Far Ultraviolet Light
UV Lights are positioned throughout the lavatory so that it floods all touch surfaces—toilet seat, sink and countertops—once a person exits the lavatory.
Three-Quarters of Americans “Afraid” to Ride in Self-Driving Car
While only a small minority of Americans trust an autonomous vehicle to drive itself, AAA’s survey reveals that consumer demand for semi-autonomous vehicle technology is nonetheless high.
"Super Engine" Could Yield 50% Fuel-Efficiency Gains
The new engine combines two technologies—gasoline compression ignition and opposed pistons—that could fundamentally change the way internal combustion engines work.