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Navigating the shopping center

With a GPS receiver in your smartphone, you can navigate your way over highways and streets with certainty. But once you get inside a building, it provides no further assistance. That’s why Fraunhofer ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Power consumption cut by 50% with Panasonic's 32-bit microcomputer

Panasonic Corporation has successfully developed a new series of 32-bit microcomputers with built-in flash memory which contribute to energy-saving and system cost reduction of in-car electronics, office equipment, ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Microsoft co-founder slams Bill Gates in new book

Bill Gates plotted to grab Microsoft shares from his cancer-stricken business partner Paul Allen, the software firm's co-founder has claimed in a new memoir.

Technology / Business

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Renesas Technology Releases SH7206, First SuperH™ Microcomputer Incorporating New SH-2A CPU Core

Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the release of the SH7206, the first product incorporating the new SH-2A CPU core from the SuperH™ family of 32-bit RISC (reduced instruction set computer) microcomputers. The SH ...

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created Aug 26, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Panasonic Develops 8-bit Microcomputers With Built-in Universal VBI-Data Slicer

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., best known for its Panasonic brand products, announced today it has developed two types of 8-bit microcomputers each including a built-in Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI) data slicer ...

Technology /

created Jul 01, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wireless power could revolutionize highway transportation, researchers say

A Stanford University research team has designed a high-efficiency charging system that uses magnetic fields to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet apart. The ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (27) | comments 66 | with audio podcast

Science magazine honors web site that makes physics come alive

Physics professor Wolfgang Christian learned about the wonder of science when he was very young. Among the toys Christian's engineer father introduced to his son were electric trains, magnets, and lenses.

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Going with the flow: Researchers find compaction bands in sandstone are permeable

When geologists survey an area of land for the potential that gas or petroleum deposits could exist there, they must take into account the composition of rocks that lie below the surface. Take, for instance, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers produce world's first programmable nanoprocessor

Engineers and scientists collaborating at Harvard University and the MITRE Corporation have developed and demonstrated the world's first programmable nanoprocessor.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

'Ask A Biologist' website wins prestigious SPORE prize

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has chosen Arizona State University's "Ask A Biologist," an online resource for children's science education, to receive the Science Prize for Online ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 25, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Jambox a boombox for the smart gadget era

Jawbone has packed the monster sound of a boombox in a pocket-sized "Jambox" that wirelessly adds home-theater sound to mobile gadgets from smartphones to tablet computers.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Robot climbs walls (w/ Video)

Wielding two claws, a motor and a tail that swings like a grandfather clock's pendulum, a small robot named ROCR ("rocker") scrambles up a carpeted, 8-foot wall in just over 15 seconds - the first such robot ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Detecting proton collisions at unprecedented levels of energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- CERN has been able to take the first measurements of collisions between the highest-energy particles ever generated. These collisions were performed at CERN's new LHC accelerator and recorded ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 76 | with audio podcast

Toshiba launches portable fuel-cell for mobiles

(PhysOrg.com) -- For people fed up with their mobile telephone or iPod batteries running out, Japan's Toshiba Corp. announced Thursday the launch of a portable fuel-cell that can power up digital gadgets on ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Microscopic version of the CT scan reveals secrets of bone formation

A new version of the computerized tomography (CT) scan, which revolutionized medical imaging during the last 25 years, is giving scientists precious new information about how Mother Nature forms shells, bones, ...

Chemistry /

created Sep 29, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0