HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Process to Improve Data Storage Efficiency
Researchers developed a process that may reduce the energy required for big data and cloud memory storage.
NHTSA Seeks to Block Device Functions While Driving
Device manufacturers are encouraged to ensure that certain activities that inherently interfere with the driver’s ability to safely control the vehicle would be "locked out" while driving.
Smart Window Offers Privacy, Light Control on Demand
The researchers have created a smart window by sandwiching a polymer matrix containing microdroplets of liquid crystal materials and an amorphous silicon layer between two glass panes.
Flexible Graphene Antennas for Near-Field Communication
Graphene Flagship’s Italian partner CNR-ISOF’s has demonstrated the use of graphene to produce fully flexible near-field communication antennas.
Researchers Generate 3-D Virtual Reality Models of Unborn Babies
Parents may soon be able to watch their unborn babies grow, thanks to technology that transforms MRI and ultrasound data into a 3-D virtual reality model of a fetus.
Hybrid and Electric Vehicles to Be Required to Emit Audible Sound
Officials estimates that the sound requirement will help prevent approximately 2,400 pedestrian injuries each year in the U.S. once all hybrid and electric vehicles are properly equipped.
Turning the Living Room into a Wireless Charging Station
The proposed system would operate at microwave frequencies, at which the power transfer distance could extend well beyond the confines of a room.
Spinach Plants Engineered to Detect Explosives
This is one of the first demonstrations of the engineering of electronic systems into plants.
Smart bridge sensors
The project is designed to showcase the future of smart, sustainable, user-centered transportation infrastructure that helps to monitor structural and environmental health.
Sensor Technology Could Prevent Infant Deaths
The system involves a pressure sensor installed under the lining of a car seat. An Arduino circuit board connected to the sensor synchronizes with an app on a parent’s mobile phone.
Smartphone "Laboratory" Detects Cancer Biomarker
Although smartphone spectrometers exist, they monitor or measure only a single sample at a time, making them inefficient for many real-world applications.
Flexible Supercapacitor May Enable Phone Charging in Seconds
Researchers have developed a process for making flexible supercapacitors that can be recharged more than 30,000 times without degrading.
Fluorescent Dye Can Stockpile Energy
A fluorescent liquid dye, BODIPY, has stored and transferred energy in a rechargeable liquid battery.
WiFi Radio Advance Could Benefit IoT
The device has a range of about 50 meters and can transmit up to 300 kilobits per second.
Wearable Terahertz Scanner Made with Carbon Nanotubes
Applications in industrial as well as medical non-invasive imaging are envisioned for the flexible, portable device.
Smart Cities for the Golden Years
Smart City technologies have the potential to enable the disabled and elderly to remain independent for longer, and live healthy, mobile lives. Standards are being developed to help meet these goals.
Method to Dissipate Heat in Electronic Devices
An international team of scientists has modified the energy spectrum of acoustic phonons by confining them to nanometer-scale semiconductor structures.
Network Traffic Visualization Tool Could Help Thwart Cyber Attacks
Researchers have created a tool that allows for the visualization of network traffic so administrators can more readily grasp the "big picture" during a cyber event.
Traveling Over the Holidays? RFID Could Help
Improvements in baggage handling rates may not have to come at a significant cost.
Engineer’s Guide to Copper vs. Fiber
An efficient modular infrastructure is required to adapt to fast-moving business requirements, increasing port and cable densities, and rapid deployment needs. But which to use: copper or fiber?