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Lucky folks over at iLounge got a hold of Apple's new iPhone 3G and found out that it sports an extra, not mentioned in the official specs list - a second proximity sensor, bringing the total number of sensors found on the device to three.iLounge wasn't counting the accelerometer, of course. The website not... |
13 June 2008
09:58 GMT |
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Measuring small variations in weak magnetic fields can prove rather difficult at times, especially when other stronger magnetic fields are present. Take for example the magnetic sensors used in the automotive industry. They are used to measure a whole range of parameters, including temperature variations, minute air ... |
9 June 2008
06:50 GMT |
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They haven't yet entered the market, but the smart textiles are continuously improving, going beyond measuring body temperature and heart activity, which may seem obsolete now. New mini-biosensors integrated in the fabrics can analyze body fluids, like a drop of sweat, delivering more information on the wearer&#... |
31 March 2008
04:36 GMT |
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Sony has made today an important step towards the big boys' playground where Canon and recently Nikon are playing the full-frame game. The Konica-Minolta inheritor has today announced the development of its first 35mm full-frame CMOS sensor. An impressive one, we might add. With no less than 24.81 effective mega... |
30 January 2008
09:10 GMT |
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Don't you believe that your body knows how your gut content tastes like? A team from the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine has detected the same receptors for sweet taste in the tongue, T1R3 and the taste G protein gustducin, in the human intestines. These two sweet-sensing proteins ar... |
22 August 2007
06:35 GMT |
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A new microscopic imaging technique makes use of the smallest nanoscale applications created by man to take snapshots of incredibly tiny biological structures, like viruses and proteins, smaller than an individual cell.The new method would be able to perform this task with unprecedented resolution with the help of a... |
28 June 2007
05:06 GMT |
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Many of today's cars are equipped with state-of-the-art driver assist technologies, like cruise control, anti-lock brakes, automatic transmission and adaptive headlights, designed to do things beyond the natural abilities of human drivers, thus relieving him of some manual operations during complex driving situ... |
27 June 2007
09:01 GMT |
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It seems that the days of repairing the car in the backyard are gone. Dad will no longer spend the week-ends working on the family car, getting full of oil and grease. Already, most cars have most of engine parts encapsulated and hard to access without the proper tools and knowledge, but a new intelligent system is ... |
20 June 2007
09:10 GMT |
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The history of aviation, though short (only a bit more than a century) has known the greatest advances in terms of design technology, building materials and performances of civilian and military aircraft. The first planes were made of wood, cardboard and cloth, now they are built using the latest development in arti... |
19 June 2007
12:25 GMT |
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The highest resolution available today for the 35mm standard is a performance achieved by Canon in the form of the 1Ds Mark II, which should have a successor in the nearby future. But the 16,7MP sported by the full-frame CMOS sensor are nothing compared to what Canon has cooked up. It might not be yet available for p... |
5 June 2007
10:09 GMT |
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A new technology is developing sensors that could precisely locate any passenger aboard a plane who tries to use chemical or bacteriological agents to take over the plane. They are so accurate that they immediately identify the seat where the substance is released.Terrorist activities around the world have increased... |
23 May 2007
05:08 GMT |
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NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in the US, has presented a prototype network that is the first capable of remote synchronization of light waves from two "frequency combs"-advanced laboratory tools for precisely measuring frequencies of light.It's a flexible network design that can be t... |
14 May 2007
04:29 GMT |
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A newly developed sensor may be installed on future submarines to allow them to navigate using electric fields just like most marine and freshwater fish do, using the sensor called lateral line.Fish usually have all the senses that humans use, although in various ratios. Most of them have eyes that have color visio... |
5 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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News about earthquakes and the damage they produce are becoming more frequent as the media now reach almost all "four corners" of the Earth. An earthquake is the result of the sudden release of stored energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. At the Earth's surface, earthquakes may manifest t... |
17 April 2007
02:55 GMT |
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September 11, 2001 - New York, USA; July 7, 2005 - London, UK; September 2, 2004 - Moscow, Russia; March 11, 2004 - Madrid, and the list could go on...The terrorist attacks have made the whole world see the real threat of international terrorism in a different light. Researchers from many countries have concentrated... |
10 April 2007
08:51 GMT |
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Last year, Georgia Institute of Technology researcher Zhong Lin Wang demonstrated that zinc oxide nanowires produce current when flexed with an atomic-force microscope. Now Wang has harnessed that nanogenerator effect in an array of nanowires that could produce as much as 4 watts/cubic centimeter. "We are creating a... |
10 April 2007
05:20 GMT |
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Samsung Electronics, one of the leaders in advanced semiconductor technology, announced recently an 8.4 megapixel CMOS image sensor (CIS) with a 1.4 pixel design at Samsung's fourth annual Mobile Solution Forum.The new CIS chip provides a high signal to noise ratio (SNR), a key measure of overall image quality. ... |
27 March 2007
04:31 GMT |
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In the current war against terrorism, a new weapon has emerged. Employing lasers and tuning forks, a team at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has made a chemical sensing technique that even overpasses current defense and homeland security chemical detection requirements. The Quartz Laser Photo-Acoustic Sensi... |
21 March 2007
10:53 GMT |
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Researchers link motor ability, from playing a physical game to a piano, as partly innate and partly the result of practice, which is just persistence. The innate part to achieve skilled performances is based on the brain's architecture, a trait genetically determined. A team at the Salk Institute for Biological... |
2 March 2007
09:32 GMT |
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