News tagged with frequency technologies

Researchers develop system to help prevent construction accidents and materials falling from buildings

(Phys.org) -- Construction management experts at the University of Calgary's Schulich School of Engineering have developed a system that employs remote sensing technology to improve safety on construction sites by using tracking ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Voice analysis aims to spot phone scams

Nagoya University researchers and Fujitsu Ltd. have developed technology they say can analyze suspicious phone conversations and detect bank transfer scams with a high degree of accuracy.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New generation of flexible graphene transistors

Making electronic components using graphene, a material composed of a single layer of carbon atoms, is one of today's major technological challenges. Researchers hope to harness the outstanding electron mobility ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sony develops low-power LSIs for wideband millimeter-wave wireless communications that achieve 6.3 gb/s

National University Corporation, Tokyo Institute of Technology and Sony have jointly developed a radio frequency (“RF”) LSI and a baseband (“BB”) LSI that enables millimeter-wave wireless ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Guilty verdict in theft of Motorola secrets for China

A former software engineer for Motorola was found guilty Wednesday of stealing trade secrets from the US technology firm just before she tried to leave the country for China, the Justice Department said.

Technology / Business

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

LED lights point shoppers in the right direction

Looking for an item in a large department store or mall can be like searching for a needle in a haystack, but that could change thanks to a hybrid location-identification system that uses radio frequency transmitters and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

UN sets stage for blazing fast new mobile devices

(AP) -- A United Nations telecom meeting has approved the next generation of mobile technology, which experts say will make devices 500 times faster than 3G smartphones and eliminate the wait time between the tap of a finger ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Technology tracks birds visiting feeders

To study bird feeding and breeding behavior, ornithologists used to tag birds with colored bands and then painstakingly track the birds' activity. But now, an existing technology repurposed for tracking birds ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Graphene mixer can speed up future electronics

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) have for the first time demonstrated a novel subharmonic graphene FET mixer at microwave frequencies. The mixer provides new opportunities in future ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists hope to create robot strawberry pickers

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's Measurement Institute, have developed an imaging technology which can identify the ripeness of strawberries before they are picked. The developers ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Wireless tags give physicians details and condition of orthopedic implants with the wave of a wand

Radio-frequency technology developed at the University of Pittsburgh that uses human tissue instead of air as a conduit for radio waves is the basis of the first electronic "tag" system designed to track and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NXP brings GaN technology mainstream

At IMS2011 this week, NXP Semiconductors N.V. is showcasing a live demo of its next-generation products based on Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Go-anywhere tracking of first responders with WIISARD radio-frequency system

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, are hoping that a device the size of a business card will one day reduce the toll of human lives in disaster situations.

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Portable breast scanner allows cancer detection in the blink of an eye

(PhysOrg.com) -- Professor Zhipeng Wu has invented a portable scanner based on radio frequency technology, which is able to show in a second the presence of tumours – malignant and benign – in the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Two for one: Radio chip and sensor combine to measure weather

RFID technology is on the advance. But, up to now radio chips primarily supply data for the identification of products. Researchers have now developed a transponder which measures temperature, pressure and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0