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Video camera that records at the speed of thought

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers who created an ultra-fast, extremely high-resolution video camera have enabled dozens of medical applications, including one scenario that can record 'thought' processes travelling along ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Algorithms provide a model of railway efficiency

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've noticed that Dutch trains experience less delays or that waiting times are shorter on the Berlin underground you can thank a team of European researchers whose advanced algorithms ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 03, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Robots use their hands to 'think'

Action-centred cognition is a groundbreaking concept in robotics where robots learn to 'think' in terms of what actions they can perform on an object. This new trend in cognition theory opens exciting new ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 18, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Robots learning from experience (w/ Video)

Software that enables robots to move objects about a room, building up ever-more knowledge about their environment, is an important step forward in artificial intelligence.

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

New probe promises to reveal brain's mysteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dozens of potential applications await a new neurological probing platform developed by European scientists. The new system offers the promise of new cures for neurological disease and a better ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 11, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Robot, object, action!

Robotic demonstrators developed by European researchers produce compelling evidence that ‘thinking-by-doing’ is the machine cognition paradigm of the future. Robots act on objects and teach themselves ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 29, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Single photons step into the slow light

(PhysOrg.com) -- European experts in nanotechnology, optoelectronics and quantum physics have advanced the generation, detection and manipulation of single photons in semiconductors. Their discoveries bring ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bio-inspired computer networks self-organise and learn

(PhysOrg.com) -- Powerful computers made up of physically separate modules, self-organising networks, and computing inspired by biological systems are three hot research topics coming together in one European ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanospheres stretch limits of hard disk storage

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new magnetic recording medium made up of tiny nanospheres has been devised by European researchers. The technology may lead to hard disks able to store more than a thousand billion bits ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 15, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Adaptive software -- a late bloomer

Adaptive software is the largely unfulfilled promise of mobile technology, but now a new platform developed by European researchers promises to finally deliver software that reconfigures itself depending on ...

Technology / Software

created Aug 20, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Designer optoelectronics - quantum mechanics for new materials

European researchers have combined computer modelling of quantum mechanics and precision fabrication processes to create novel transparent conductive oxides made to order for a wide range of scientific and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 27, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Innovation, reinvented

A carmaker reports that design time on a new model dropped from six months to just one, thanks to new tools for innovation and collaboration developed by European researchers. The way companies get and develop good ideas ...

Technology / Software

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Virtual island could revolutionize tourist trade sector

Three-dimensional versions of Mediterranean islands will be updated virtually automatically with current information from a range of public and private databases. The European research project may launch a ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Complex software systems -- heal thyself

(PhysOrg.com) -- Software underlies modern life, keeping everything from mobile phone networks functioning to planes in the air, but ensuring increasingly complex systems stay free of faults has become an ...

Technology / Software

created May 03, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 9

The internet of cars

(PhysOrg.com) -- An internet of cars promises a road system designed around cooperative technology enabling each element of the traffic system -- cars, drivers, traffic lights, signs -- to cooperate proactively ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 8 | with audio podcast