Tag: technology

Is This Your Next-Gen Submersible Drone? The Harvard RoboBee

Harvard Microrobotics Lab develops first insect-size robot capable of flying and swimming...

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Hyperlink Hypertension: Does Internet Use Elevate Blood Pressure?

Of 134 teens described by researchers as heavy Internet users, 26 had elevated blood pressure....

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Loveletters Straight from the Smart(phone). Why email response takes SO LONG

How the volume of incoming email affects behaviors of recipients and the length of time it takes them to reply to emails...

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Meet the Algorithm that Will Take Your Job: Machine Learning Advances

A new way of doing machine learning that enables semantically related concepts to reinforce each other....

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Make Better Music 78 :The Recording Process (Part Three)

Music is more about making people connect emotionally with your message than being impressed by your playing ability...

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Self-Propelling Healing Powder Stops Internal Bleeding

First self-propelled particles capable of delivering coagulants against the flow of blood to treat severe bleeding...

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Avoiding That Long Dark Moment Waiting for ‘PIN OK’. Service Technology Improvements

Dining technology use is no measure of value, Clemson researchers find ...

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Alan Parsons ‘Sleeve Notes’ Talks at Abbey Road

A fascinating insight into technical and personal experiences at Abbey Road Studios....

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More Free Energy! Sun-Tracking Small Solar Cells

Inspired by art, lightweight solar cells track the sun ...

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Make Better Music 77: The Recording Process (Part Two)

Style should transcend technique, but it cannot replace it...

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They’re Floaty Light! Levitating Glowing Nanodiamonds

Researchers use laser to levitate glowing nanodiamonds in vacuum ...

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Sunshine on a Rainy Day : Splitting Water Molecules for Clean Energy

Rice University researchers demo solar water-splitting technology ...

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Energy for You, Energy for Your Car : Storing Fuel in Coffee Grounds

Scientists have developed a simple process to treat waste coffee grounds to allow them to store methane...

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Staging a Skyfall : How to Bring Down a Satellite

Controlled Skyfall - How to get rid of a satellite after its retirement ...

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Want more Female IT Professionals? Make Computer Rooms Less Geeky

University of Washington set about working out how to make IT classrooms less daunting...

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I Dream of Wires: A history of modular synthesis (Film)

Robert Fantinatto and Jason Amm's I Dream of Wires draws out the turning points in the history of modular synthesis and the music it continues to generate...

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Seeking (and finding) the Soft-Bodied Jumping Robot

By seamlessly blending soft and rigid body parts -- a structural innovation used by animals and insects -- a team of Harvard scientists has created a new kind of durable, soft-bodied jumping robot...

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Next-Generation Hydrogel Sprayskin : Stretchy Scabs!

A new protein-based hydrogel sprayskin that, when exposed to light, mimics many of the properties of elastic tissue....

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Could Your Phone Detect Your Pregnancy?

Small add-on devices could turn a smartphone's built-in optical components into biosensing technology to monitor diabetes, test for pregnancy, monitor hazardous gases among other applications...

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Could Virtual Reality Treat Alcoholism?

Researchers said they are optimistic about the potential for virtual reality as a therapy for alcohol use disorders....

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We Can Heal That For You Wholesale : Injectable Medichines

Electronic devices that can be injected directly into the brain, or other body parts, and treat everything from neurodegenerative disorders to paralysis...

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Environment, Phone-Churn, and a Landfilled Goldmine

Where frequent upgrades are encouraged and recycling schemes not actively pursued, valuable materials integral to phone manufacture are lost, causing damage to the environment...

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Fighting to be treated fairly on the internet

A revolutionary power shift from internet giants such as Google to ordinary consumers is critically overdue...

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Smartphone or Dumbphone? Phone bans = Higher Grades

New technologies are typically thought of as improving productivity, however this is not always the case...

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The Rise if the Robopets. Or not.

When engineers work on robotic dogs, they work on social intelligence, they address what people need from their dogs: companionship, love, obedience, dependence...

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Wooing the M-Shopper. Retail goes Mobile

Low spenders in particular shop more often and place larger orders after adopting mobile....

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Transforming the Office with Liquid Crystal Smart Windows

A novel liquid crystal technology allows displays to flip between transparent and opaque states ...

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Child Safety? There’s an App for That

Health professionals can and should unite with industry to optimize children's already frequent use of mobile devices to help promote their health and well-being...

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10x the Speed! Boosting Wifi with Photodiodes

The system can potentially send data at up to 100 megabits per second....

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Official: Smartphones Make You Stupid(er)

The cognitive effects of 'being in search mode' on the Internet may be so powerful that people still feel smarter even when their online searches reveal nothing...

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