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  • An Incandescent Light Bulb as Efficient as an LED?

    The team refers to their approach as “light recycling” because their material takes in the unwanted wavelengths of energy and converts them into visible light wavelengths.

  • Google's Project Tango to Debut in Lenovo Smartphone

    3D mapping gives Tango-enabled devices the ability to know where they are and how they move through space.

  • LEGO-Inspired PopUp House

    The house is constructed by snapping together sections of insulated wooden blocks, then screwing them in place.

  • Samsung Refrigerator Brings IoT to the Kitchen

    The company aims to make the refrigerator a food, music, television and smart home "hub."

  • Ford Tests Autonomous Vehicles on Snowy Roads

    The vehicles are equipped with high-resolution 3D maps.

  • Sensor Can Tell Chemical Makeup of Materials, Products

    The basis for this material analysis method is that each type of molecule vibrates in a unique way, and these vibrations interact with light to create a unique optical signature.

  • Demonstrating Graphene's Fitness for Wireless Wearable Devices

    Researchers attached graphene-enabled antennas to a mannequin’s arms and found the devices could "talk" to each other.

  • Color TV: How One Man's Obsession Produced a Technology Revolution

    Although analog color TV is now obsolete, the story of its development shows how one man's commitment can drive technology and create an entire industry.

  • Hyundai Tests Fully Autonomous Fuel Cell Vehicle in U.S.

    Hyundai received approval from Nevada to begin testing a fully autonomous fuel cell electric vehicle on public roads.

  • GM to Invest $500 Million in Lyft

    An element of the partnership is joint development of a network of on-demand autonomous vehicles.

  • ASTM Standard Offers Guidance on Chemicals in Products

    E3027 covers how to perform an analysis of alternative chemicals that is now a regulatory requirement in some U.S. states.

  • Nissan, BMW to Deploy EV Charging Stations

    Charging stations will offer a dual-port 50 kW fast-charging station with both CHAdeMO and SAE Combo connectors.

  • Supercapacitor Thread Developed That Can Power Phones

    Advances mean that thread capable of storing and supplying enough power for common devices, and being manufactured at industrial scale, may be a reality.

  • Stretchable Sensor Made from Chewing Gum, Carbon Nanotubes

    To make their sensor suppler, a team member chewed a piece of gum, washed it with ethanol and let it sit overnight.

  • Sensor Detects Toxins That Leach from Plastic

    For residents in countries that have not banned DEHPs, the device provides a way to ensure there aren’t harmful levels of contamination in packaged food and drinks.

  • Baidu to Launch Self-Driving Cars, Buses by 2020

    AutoBrain, the core of the company’s autonomous driving technology, includes positioning, smart decision-making and control, detection and highly automated driving maps.

  • Modest Global Economic Improvement for 2016, Says IHS

    U.S. growth to remain solid, with increases in consumer spending, housing activity and nonresidential capital spending all contributing to growth.

  • Smart Camera Could Further Automate Home, Cars

    TeraDeep uses an accelerator-embedded hardware system so that video footage can be processed locally, privately and quickly.

  • System Turns Waste Paper into New Paper Without Water

    PaperLab can generate 14 A4 sheets per minute and will debut in Japan in 2016.

  • Wheelchair "Hacked" to Be Operable by Eye Movements for $100

    ALS sufferer developed Eyedrivomatic to overcome reliance on others to move him in his wheelchair as he loses the ability to control its joystick.

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