News tagged with innovative design

This 'mousetrap' may save lives: Students create mechanism to regulate IV fluids for children

Instead of building a better mousetrap, a team of Rice University freshmen took a mousetrap and built a better way to treat dehydration among children in the developing world.

Technology / Engineering

created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

3-D, after-the-fact focus image sensors invented

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the heart of digital photography is a chip called an image sensor that captures a map of the intensity of the light as it comes through the lens and converts it to an electronic signal.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Japan electronic giants eye chip merger: reports

Three of Japan's biggest electronics companies are to join forces in a chip-making venture, according to reports, days after a swathe of dire results from a sector struggling to compete globally.

Technology / Business

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

Accident app to reduce motorist stress and combat insurance fraud

A new smartphone app that will help to guide stressed motorists through the trauma of a car accident, while potentially saving millions of pounds in fraudulent insurance claims has been recognised for its ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Apple design chief faces new world without Jobs

Printed on the back of every iPod, iPhone and iPad is "Designed by Apple in California."

Technology / Business

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Flapping micro air vehicles inspired by swifts

Scientists have designed a micro aircraft that will be able to flap, glide and hover like a bird.

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 02, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Rugged nano computer for industrial applications

Siemens has launched an industrial computer about the size of a one-quart container: the Simatic IPC227D Nanobox PC.

Electronics / Hardware

created May 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Weather-sensitive architectural skins integrate form with function

Buildings typically provide shelter from the elements, but one Ryerson University researcher thinks structures ought to relate more to the environment instead. To this end, she has created architectural "skins," ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Software may speed journey from catwalk to consumer

(PhysOrg.com) -- The latest fashions could find their way from catwalk to consumers faster in the future, thanks to the work of a student at The University of Manchester.

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0