News tagged with everyday appliances
Study pushes the button on intuitive design
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Queensland University of Technology researcher is looking for volunteers to take part in a study aimed at making contemporary appliances such as dvd players and mobile phones more usable for the elderly.
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Revolutionary technology enables objects to know how they are being touched (w/ Video)
A doorknob that knows whether to lock or unlock based on how it is grasped, a smartphone that silences itself if the user holds a finger to her lips and a chair that adjusts room lighting based on recognizing if a user is ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
May 04, 2012 |
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Teach your robot well (Georgia Tech shows how)
Within a decade, personal robots could become as common in U.S. homes as any other major appliance, and many if not most of these machines will be able to perform innumerable tasks not explicitly imagined by their manufacturers. ...
Mar 08, 2012 |
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NFC aid for the visually and hearing impaired
As the proportion of senior citizens grows, their special needs are gaining momentum. Human eyesight, for example, weakens with age. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has been developing new NFC-based applications ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Invoked computing: Pizza box is too loud! I can't hear the banana
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mention the buzz word ubiquitous to any technology futurists and they will know what that implies. Hardware as we know it will recede. More people will communicate with words and images embedded ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 22, 2011 |
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Clothing, food and electricity impact most on water footprint
Australians have been working hard to cut down their household’s daily water consumption, however a new study in the latest edition of Building Research & Information reveals that clothing, food and electricity are th ...
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Steve Jobs: From an appliance to cool, united by one philosophy
The deaths of CEOs rarely touch as many people as the sudden announcement that Steve Jobs had died on Wednesday.
Oct 10, 2011 |
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Future for incandescent light bulbs looking dim
So, how many members of Congress does it take to screw up a light bulb?
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 22, 2011 |
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Light bulb phase-out offers new role for unsung heroes of electronics revolution
With the United States' phase-out of conventional incandescent light bulbs set to start in a few months, an article in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) describes how the ban on 100-watt bulbs portends ...
Jul 13, 2011 |
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Tabula garners $108 million in support of its virtual 3-D reprogrammable chips
(PhysOrg.com) -- In what many are describing as a game-changer, Tabula Inc. has closed on $108 million in investment funds from Greylock, NEA, Benchmark Capital and others, to bring to market its 3PLD ABAX ...
Apr 18, 2011 |
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Low-cost wireless sensor networks open new horizons for the Internet of things
A new European project enables high effective networking based on cheap wireless sensors in a wide range of business applications -- from more comfortable and energy-efficient environmental controls to precision monitoring ...
Apr 12, 2011 |
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