News tagged with electric pulse

Siemens Sets New Record for Wireless Data Transfer using White LEDs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Siemens have broken their own record for wirelessly transmitting data over white LED light. They’ve now achieved rates of 500 megabits per second (Mbps), shattering the previous ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Device connected to tongue designed to help blind perceive images

An experimental device that uses the tongue instead of the eyes to "see" could be on the market next year, and a blind Fresno, Calif., teen hopes to be among the first to take one home.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Color sensors for better vision

CMOS image sensors in special cameras -- as used for driver assistance systems -- mostly only provide monochrome images and have a limited sensitivity to light. Thanks to a new production process these sensors ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Single Neuron Can Change the Activity of the Whole Brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- The pulsing of a single neuron can switch a brain’s waves from the equivalent of a big ocean swell to ripples on a pond, according to new research from Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 2

Magnetic Vortex Switch Leads to Electric Pulse

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Arkansas have shown that changing the chirality, or direction of spin, of a nanoscale magnetic vortex creates an electric pulse, suggesting that such a pulse might be of use ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

The sweet spot? Doctors test targets for Parkinson surgery

Doctors may be able to tailor a specialized form of brain surgery to more closely match the needs of Parkinson patients, according to results from the first large-scale effort to compare the two current target areas of deep ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

De-multiplexing to the max: 640 Gbits/second

Sliced light is how we communicate now. Millions of phone calls and cable television shows per second are dispatched through fibers in the form of digital zeros and ones formed by chopping laser pulses into bits. This slicing ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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