News tagged with light touch

Will carbon nanotubes replace indium tin oxide?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Up until now, George Grüner tells PhysOrg.com, most of the studies regarding the properties - and uses - of carbon nanotubes have been restricted to the visible spectral range. “We, however, were interested in the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2 feature

Introducing the Light Touch interactive projector (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- UK-based company Light Blue Optics has introduced an extremely compact projector that converts any flat surface into an interactive touch video screen.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Organic light-emitting diode screens ready to go mainstream

It's not yet lights-out for LCD and plasma, but OLED displays are finally ready to begin pushing those technologies out of the limelight.

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 6

Transparent Carbon Nanotube Films Likely Successor to ITO for Commercial Applications

(PhysOrg.com) -- Will the legacy of Nobel prize winner Richard Smalley finally be fulfilled? Ever since his pioneering work in the mid 1990's on the synthesis of carbon nanotubes, companies have been struggling ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 12 weblog

Gadget Watch: Control a PC with body motions

(AP) -- Don't trash your keyboard and mouse just yet. But three companies at the International Consumer Electronics Show demonstrated depth-sensing cameras that let you to control your computer by moving ...

Technology / Software

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The secrets of tunneling through energy barriers

Electrons moving in graphene behave in an unusual way, as demonstrated by 2010 Nobel Prize laureates for physics Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, who performed transport experiments on this one-carbon-atom-thick material. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 10

Link between light touch and Merkel cells solves 100-year mystery

Light touch - the sense that lets musicians find the right notes on a keyboard, a seamstress revel in the feel of cool silk, the artisan feel a curve in material and the blind read Braille - truly depends on the activity ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0