Social Sciences
Mar 28, 2016
Scholar explores changing gestures of digital age
When we sit down to write, for the most part we now do it on a computer. Of course, that was not always the case.
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 7, 2016
Who (or what) is behind the wheel? The regulatory challenges of driverless cars
A legal opinion by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) set the internet alight in February.
Nanomaterials
Feb 29, 2016
Stretchable electronics that quadruple in length
EPFL researchers have developed conductive tracks that can be bent and stretched up to four times their original length. They could be used in artificial skin, connected clothing and on-body sensors.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Feb 8, 2016
Wirelessly supplying power to brain
Human and animal movements generate slight neural signals from their brain cells. These signals obtained using a neural interface are essential for realizing brain-machine interfaces (BMI). Such neural recording systems using ...
Engineering
Jan 6, 2016
Harnessing the energy of small bending motions
For many applications such as biomedical, mechanical, or environmental monitoring devices, harnessing the energy of small motions could provide a small but virtually unlimited power supply. While a number of approaches have ...
Engineering
Dec 28, 2015
Glove interface device powered by converting the user's biomechanical energy
Controlling machines remotely by simple hand movements will be possible thanks to Goldfinger, an innovative prototype of human-machine interface designed and built in collaboration between the Politecnico di Torino and the ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 27, 2015
Heads up: Cambridge holographic technology adopted by Jaguar Land Rover
A 'head-up' display for passenger vehicles developed at Cambridge, the first to incorporate holographic techniques, has been incorporated into Jaguar Land Rover vehicles.
Nanophysics
Aug 12, 2015
Flexible, biodegradable device can generate power from touch
Long-standing concerns about portable electronics include the devices' short battery life and their contribution to e-waste. One group of scientists is now working on a way to address both of these seeming unrelated issues ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 17, 2015
How artificial intelligence is changing economic theory
A century of economic theory assumed that, given their available options, humans would always make rational decisions. Economists even had a name for this construct: homo economicus, the economic man.
Optics & Photonics
Jun 23, 2015
Mirror-like display creates rich color pixels by harnessing ambient light
Using a simple structure comprising a mirror and an absorbing layer to take advantage of the wave properties of light, researchers at Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, have developed ...
