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The car batteries that we rely on today may be soon "driven" to extinction by recent discoveries. Engineers' old engine power-delivery problem has now been solved by means of the new supercapacitor. Post-doctoral researcher Jiyoung Oh together with research scientist Mikhail Kozlov from the NanoTech Instit... |
22 September 2008
04:59 GMT |
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I'm certain that most of the people reading this article have noticed at some point in time that some of the cables connecting the peripherals to a personal computer have some strange looking 'bumps' (see lower image). If you did, then you might have also asked yourselves what those things are and what... |
29 July 2008
08:43 GMT |
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How can one bond two DNA strands without breaking them? Well, by using a micro-sized DNA sewing machine of course! An article published in the Royal Society of Chemistry Journal Lab on a Chip has recently detailed an invention created by Japanese scientists which allows researchers to bond and manipulate individual D... |
14 July 2008
05:28 GMT |
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A huge colony of ants is reportedly chewing its way to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, destroying computer networks and even cars. The invasion may pose a security risk for the space center, which relies on electronics for its research, and the government agency has already called for exterminator suppor... |
16 May 2008
03:07 GMT |
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Electromagnetic coils, most commonly known as inductors, are amongst the simplest electric and electronic components. They basically consist of a simple metal electrically insulated wire looped into a cylindrical, toroidal or even disk-like shape, with the role of providing inductance in an electric circuit. Inductan... |
30 April 2008
06:41 GMT |
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Oscillators are extremely important for both electronic and mechanical devices. Quartz watches, computers, radios, clocks would be rendered inoperable without the help of oscillators. The basic idea is that oscillators are required to provide with a constant clock at a given moment. The clock of an oscillator is meas... |
12 April 2008
04:50 GMT |
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In a press release published yesterday, the company MTI Micro revealed that it would begin mass production of methanol fuel cells of handheld and portable electronic devices somewhere this year, so that by the beginning of 2009 they would become available for purchase. The company plans to replace all lithium ion bat... |
8 April 2008
10:10 GMT |
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Capacitors are similar in a way to batteries, but have different construction and characteristics. They store electric energy and release it when necessary; but unlike batteries, capacitors can be charged and discharged with a much higher frequency and may experience multiple charge-discharge cycles during operation.... |
4 April 2008
09:14 GMT |
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You have a relatively simple task. Pulling off a piece of wallpaper glued onto a wall with the help of adhesive. Instinct tells us that it should pull off easily, in a single piece, however reality is very different. You should consider yourself lucky if you achieve this task without tearing off the wallpaper in sev... |
31 March 2008
08:41 GMT |
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The device used in order to generate the pure spin current, produced at the Naval Research Laboratory, modulates and electrically detects pure spin in silicon semiconductors, mostly used in electronic devices. A silicon n-type layer enables the generation of a spin current, with the help of magnetic contacts placed o... |
6 December 2007
10:07 GMT |
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Here's a new one! While every single giant fish in the electronic industry is doing its best to fight against the monster pollution we're living in nowadays, the Americans are actually doing their best to do even more damage as usual, by shipping huge amounts of electronic waste overseas. They're clean... |
19 November 2007
05:26 GMT |
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Sixty years ago, at the Bell Laboratories, two scientists started a series of experiments which would result in the invention of the first working semiconductor transistor. The research was mainly triggered by the necessity of the replacement of the bulky vacuum electron tubes, which were used at the time, as element... |
17 November 2007
07:13 GMT |
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Here's a Chinese portable media player, which apparently doesn't copy any hot device of the same kind. The PF500 PMP from Sysbay International is trying harder to prove that there is even more room for class in the electronics industry.In this regard, the company has come out with a design line, which kind ... |
30 October 2007
09:31 GMT |
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Waste management began as a problem for the computer industry a few years ago and since then, big names representing powerful and well established companies decided to start their own electronic waste gathering programs in order to diminish the industry's environmental footprint.As this trend continues and grows... |
21 August 2007
09:18 GMT |
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A research team from the German Fraunhofer Institute developed an electronic system that is capable of working with no apparent power source apart from the energy generated by the human body. This kind of power generating system could have a lot of applications in the mobile computing industry alone, where battery li... |
20 August 2007
11:34 GMT |
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Who said technology (especially electronics) has to come packed in silicon-based boards and rare alloys? Well, a guy with an obvious sweet tooth decided to demonstrate that one could designe electronic circuits using only the "raw" materials found in a grocery store. Being two of the most favorite things in the world... |
14 July 2007
05:35 GMT |
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They're not really functioning cybernetic organisms, but they may be a new step towards taking this concept from the sci-fi productions and bringing it to the real world. A new generation of electronics was now created by combining semiconductors with biological viruses, in what could be considered an environmen... |
14 July 2007
04:52 GMT |
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Flexible electronics, also known as flex circuits or flex circuit boards, represent a technology for building electronic circuits by depositing electronic devices on flexible substrates such as plastic or even organic materials.A new generation of flexible circuit connectors could produce a new class of electronic ap... |
11 July 2007
11:11 GMT |
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The electronics industry is involved in a continuous race to make today's TV screens and cell phones more efficient, cheaper and of a higher quality. LCDs are one of the most popular types of commercially available displays, but a newcomer is about to challenge their position.Weijia Wen and colleagues at the Ho... |
6 July 2007
05:52 GMT |
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The problem of transporting electricity throughout large distances comes from the fact that conducting wires can break, snap in the wind, or when a tree falls on them, so every major storm knocks out most of the power grid, isolating important human communities.Trying to solve this problem, a team of students at MIT... |
9 June 2007
03:55 GMT |
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Digital paper, also known as interactive paper, is patterned paper used in conjunction with a digital pen to create handwritten digital documents. The printed dot pattern uniquely identifies the position coordinates on the paper. The digital pen uses this pattern to store the handwriting and upload it to a computer.... |
5 June 2007
04:27 GMT |
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A new type of wireless power-transmission device has been created by a team of Japanese scientists. It's flat, thin, flexible and can be placed anywhere, like on walls and desks. It's able to deliver electricity to electronics devices standing near it without using conductive cables.Takao Someya, a scienti... |
28 May 2007
11:08 GMT |
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Everybody loves pasta, especially the spiral kind. But on the nanoscale, they just don't taste the same. Carbon nanotubes and nanofibers that look like nanoscale spiral pasta have completely different electronic properties than their non-spiraling edible cousins.A team of engineers at UC San Diego, and Clemson U... |
19 May 2007
05:51 GMT |
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After designing some next-generation 3D chips, we see IBM experimenting with all sorts of materials in order to build more efficient and faster electronic components. As part of this experiment spree, IBM gets inspired by nature's wonders and plans on building chips with the aid of natural pattern-creating proc... |
4 May 2007
10:44 GMT |
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Optoelectronics is the science that studies the electronic devices that interact with light, in fact a subfield of photonics, that deals with light in both the visible and the invisible spectrum (gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet and infrared). It is based on the quantum mechanical effects of light on semiconducting ... |
4 May 2007
10:18 GMT |
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It seems that nanoscale objects can be controlled with the use of light.Based on the quantum mechanical effects of light, optoelectronics is the study and application of electronic devices that interact with light, and thus is usually considered a sub-field of photonics. In this context, light often includes invisi... |
28 April 2007
04:11 GMT |
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Olyaniline (PANI) is a conducting polymer of the semi-flexible rod polymer family, discovered in 1934 as anilin black, that can also exist naturally as part of a mixed copolymer with polyacetylene and polypyrrole in some melanins.A University of Texas at Austin researcher has modified this special plastic so that it... |
10 April 2007
09:55 GMT |
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Flexible electronics, also known as flex circuits or flex circuit boards, represent a technology for building electronic circuits by depositing electronic devices on flexible substrates such as plastic or even organic materials.Having the potential to bend, expand and manipulate electronic devices, these new types o... |
3 April 2007
05:09 GMT |
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It's been quite a long time since the Japanese company Casio has become a very strong name on the industrial market; electronic products from Casio have been pleasing customers all over the world for roughly three decades now, be those products luxury or sport watches, keyboards and all sorts of music/sound rela... |
21 March 2007
04:23 GMT |
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Micro-electro-mechanical systems, popularly referred to as MEMS, in small electronic devices often fail because of adhesion and stiction - the attractive force between the surfaces of interacting parts. University of Arkansas researchers have developed a surface-topography engineering method that reduces these forces... |
17 March 2007
08:46 GMT |
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Could you have ever imagined that the road to pleasing a woman has a pit-stop in her ankle area? Well, neither did I, but according to the people over at Stimulations Systems, the fastest way to take a woman to the pre-orgasmic plateau and hold her there for as long as desired involves the use of their little device,... |
4 March 2007
02:11 GMT |
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