News tagged with plastic sheet

In new mass-production technique, robotic insects spring to life

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

'Cell assay on a chip': solid results from simple means

(PhysOrg.com) -- The great artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci once said that "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) research engineer Javier Atencia ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

'Flying carpet': Princeton team's plastic sheet can hover above ground (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A thin sheet of plastic has been making headlines at Princeton as a magical flying carpet, after the publication of a paper describing experiments by the team with their prototype sheet of ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 01, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 8 | with audio podcast weblog

Films for facades

Films instead of walls. This is an idea that fascinates architects all over the world. The Eden Project in Southern England, the National Aquatics Center built for swimming events at the Olympics in Beijing ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Rice students invent slingshot-driven test for Air Force

What do you get when you combine a slingshot, a fish tank, a stack of 2-by-4s and five engineering students determined to help the United States Air Force?

Technology / Engineering

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Fly to space for $320!

Ok, at 100,000 feet it’s not really “space” but for $320 USD JP Aerospace is offering a very affordable way to get your research experiment, brand statement, artwork or anything you can imagine (and ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

From ventriloquist's dummies to turkey dinners, 3-D printing is heading home

When the ventriloquist Jeff Dunham wanted to make a new dummy for his show, he designed the character's head on his home computer and then printed it out in his workshop.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Stable electrodes for improving printed electronics

Imagine owning a television with the thickness and weight of a sheet of paper. It will be possible, someday, thanks to the growing industry of printed electronics. The process, which allows manufacturers to ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hyperspectral imaging: Shedding new light on wound healing

(Phys.org) -- Clinicians who treat severe wounds may soon have powerful new diagnostic tools in the form of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) devices, calibrated to new NIST standard reference spectra, which will ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A computer screen you can fold

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Toronto researchers have discovered a better way to make flat-panel displays that could one day lead to computer screens you roll up like a newspaper and wallpaper that lights ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Transparent, flexible '3-D' memory chips may be the next big thing in small memory devices

New memory chips that are transparent, flexible enough to be folded like a sheet of paper, shrug off 1,000-degree Fahrenheit temperatures — twice as hot as the max in a kitchen oven — and survive ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Graphene and DNA: 'Wonder material' may hold key to fast, inexpensive genetic sequencing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Look at the tip of that old pencil in your desk drawer, and what you'll see are layers of graphite that are thousands of atoms thick. Use the pencil to draw a line on a piece of paper, and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Bringing dinosaur tracks back to light

The 600 footprints from the Jurassic period displayed beneath a domed exhibit center at Dinosaur State Park tell only part of their story.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The gecko walks on sticky pads

As sticky as a gecko. Wageningen UR Veni-researcher Marleen Kamperman tries to stick with plastic material full of microscopic rods.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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