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Seven Guidelines for Continuous-flex Cables
Cables designed for continuous-flexing last longer when compared to traditional cables because they are specifically designed to stand up to common failure modes.
Moscow Adds Facial Recognition Cameras Throughout City
With 170,000 surveillance cameras situated throughout the city of Moscow, granting law enforcement officials views of nearly 95 percent of Moscow apartment buildings, the Russian government hopes to nab wanted criminals.
Engineering Bacteria to Create Devices
Researchers used a colony of bacteria and gold nanoparticles to create a working pressure sensor. A similar process could be used to create many more devices.
Solar Decathlon Tests Creative College Teams
Teams from the U.S., the Netherlands and Switzerland are in Denver where full-scale houses are on display that combine solar power, innovative architecture and high energy efficiency. $300,000 in prize money is at stake.
3 Reasons to Use PCB Panel Routing Techniques
Most PCBs are individually routed — meaning they’re not panelized. That doesn't mean that, sometimes, sending them to a PCB assembler in a panel isn't a good idea or even required.
Solar Cell Furnace Reflectors
Improve solar cell fabrication process efficiency with solar cell furnace reflectors. They provide for uniform IR radiation with low thermal impedance for both crystalline and thin-film segments of the business.
Smartphone Notifications Are Making Us Cranky
In a bad mood? Your smartphone may be to blame, according to recent research from Nottingham Trent University.
Could Smart Guns Help Reduce Gun Violence?
How would a smart gun prevent a potential shooter from following through? The obvious answer is that only the person, or persons, who are authorized to shoot a particular gun can fire it.
British Airways Using Wireless Tugs to Move Planes at Heathrow
The equipment replaces traditional diesel tugs, allowing a ramp agent to push an aircraft backwards from the gate remotely.
Start-Up Creates Wearable Air Quality Tracker
Interns for a Paris start-up that builds air quality and forecasting technologies have spent the last three years helping to build, design and test a device capable of tracking both indoor and outdoor air quality.
Watch: Maker Faires, 3D Scanning with Your Smartphone and 3D Printing for an Opera Set
Creativity takes center stage for this edition of your Engineering360 News Brief.
MIT Students Create the 'Personal Thermostat'
Four MIT students have produced a wristband that allows wearers to adjust their body temperature.
FAA Prohibits Drone Flights Near U.S. Landmarks
Effective October 5, 2017, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is prohibiting drones from being flown within 400 feet of a handful of national landmarks.
Flexible Semi-Transparent Solar Cells Fabricated Using Atomically Thin 2D Materials
The cells could be used for windows, smartphones, PCs or on human skin.
Life-Saving Drones
According to a study of 15 healthy individuals, the results obtained by the drone were as accurate as traditional monitoring methods such as pulse oximeters, respiratory belts and ECGs.
Breakthrough in Microchips that Mimic the Human Brain Developed
Using photonic circuits and phase-change materials, the chips could revolutionize the future of computing.
Twitter Expands Character Limit to 280
Have more to say and Twitter just doesn’t give you enough room with its 140-character limit?
Objects Able to "Talk" Using Stereophonic Device
Ever imagine what objects would say if they could speak? Well wonder no more thanks to researchers at NEC Corporation who have designed an acoustic augmented reality technology that gives a “voice” to typically voiceless objects for wearers of specially-designed wireless earphones.
A Control System for Quantum Computers
The era of quantum computers is coming soon. The sheer power of these machines is in direct proportion to the number of qubits. However, a probable break in the development is the difficulty in controlling a large number of qubits simultaneously.
Energy Harvesting System Generates Electricity by Attaching to Buildings or Clothes
The solar generator achieved a high temperature differential compared to other energy harvesters.