News tagged with input system

Random noise helps make signals clearer

Scientists have shown the energy conditions, under which a weak signal supplied to a physical system emerges as a stronger signal at the output thanks to the presence of random noise (a process known as stochastic resonance), ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Controlling robotic arms is child's play

Move your arm and the robot imitates your movement. This type of intuitive handling is now possible thanks to a new input device that will simplify the control of industrial robots in the future. But that ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Build safety into the very beginning of the computer system

A new publication from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides guidelines to secure the earliest stages of the computer boot process. Commonly known as the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), this ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The next operating system

At the most basic level, a computer is something that receives zeroes and ones from either memory or an input device — like a keyboard — combines them in some systematic way, and ships the results ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Wired youth forget how to write in China and Japan

Like every Chinese child, Li Hanwei spent her schooldays memorising thousands of the intricate characters that make up the Chinese writing system.

Technology / Other

created Aug 26, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 6

'Quake' reveals how eyes and ears keep us balanced

(PhysOrg.com) -- An earthquake machine has been used by vision scientists to confirm that instead of working in isolation, our visual and middle-ear systems work together, to give us an improved sense of balance.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 29, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sony Bolsters Audio Line - 3D Sound Bars, New 5.1 Home Theater System

Sony introduced three new home audio solutions offering 3D capability.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 23, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Robot Technology Helping Humans in Daily Activities (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A French company called, Robosoft has developed a robot called Kompai that is specifically designed to help the elderly and disabled people. Kompai can navigate autonomously, talk and understand ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Mobile microscopes illuminate the brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- By building a tiny microscope small enough to be carried around on a rats' head, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, have found a way to ...

Biology / Other

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Gentle touch may aid multiple sclerosis patients

(PhysOrg.com) -- While gripping, lifting or manipulating an object such as drinking from a cup or placing a book on a shelf is usually easy for most, it can be challenging for those with neurological diseases such as multiple ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

iPod speakers: New offerings cute, compact, colorful

So many iPod speaker systems are available that finding the "best" could take a year. But you can sort speaker systems by style or function, so today's theme is cute and portable.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0