News tagged with tiny sensor

Engineers use droplet microfluidics to create glucose-sensing microbeads

Tiny beads may act as minimally invasive glucose sensors for a variety of applications in cell culture systems and tissue engineering

Technology / Engineering

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mind reading machines on their way: IBM

Century-old technology colossus IBM depicted a near future in which machines read minds and recognize who they are dealing with.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Butterfly wings inspire design of water-repellent surface

Researchers mimic the many-layered nanostructure of blue mountain swallowtail wings to make a silicon wafer that traps both air and light.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New graphene discovery boosts oil exploration efforts, could enable self-powered microsensors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to harvest energy from flowing water. This discovery aims to hasten the creation of self-powered microsensors for ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Improving DNA sequencing: Sponge-like biosensor crams enormous power into tiny space

Vanderbilt University engineers have created a "spongy" silicon biosensor that shows promise not only for medical diagnostics, but also for the detection of dangerous toxins and other tiny molecules in the ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Satellite data reveal seasonal pollution changes over India

Armed with a decade's worth of satellite data, University of Illinois atmospheric scientists have documented some surprising trends in aerosol pollution concentration, distribution and composition over the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 08, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Intruder alert: 'Smart Dew' will find you!

A remarkable new invention from Tel Aviv University — a network of tiny sensors as small as dewdrops called "Smart Dew" — will foil even the most determined intruder. Scattered outdoors on rocks, fence posts ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 16