HEADLINES ARCHIVE
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.
"PoWiFi" Could Power the Internet of Things
In their proof-of-concept experiments, the team demonstrated that the PoWiFi system could wirelessly power a grayscale, low-power Omnivision VGA camera from 17 feet away.
Smartphone Functionality for Eyeglasses?
The technology is based on lightguide optics, which enables the manufacture of displays on either glass or plastic in the form of light elements with a thickness of just one millimeter.
"Cyber Sexism" Putting Girls Off Engineering Careers
One quarter of the photos reviewed at stock image sites that portrayed engineers showed females.