The Tribot may look a little like something you'd find barring traffic at a construction site, but actually it's a sophisticated robot designed to gather data for climate and environmental research from difficult-to-reach ...READ»
Digital photography has leaped forward over the years for three reasons: improved batteries, larger and cheaper memory cards, and revolutions in sensor technology. And now researchers in Scotland are trying to improve the sensors even ...READ»
Organic light-emitting diode technology is literally the next display tech waiting in the wings to take center-stage, but there's a difficulty with the blue-light variety of OLED: they're not as efficient at converting electricity ...READ»
There's an increasingly large body of work on returning vision to people with damaged sight due to retinal failure: Recent advances in artificial retinas have been particularly amazing. But new research and an associated patent ...READ»
The 2009 meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will have an unusually creative side-act: scientists hitting the floor to dance. The aim is to express their research symbolically and the dance program is ...READ»
With conventional batteries nearly ousted, first by NiCad and now Li-ion rechargeables, you'd think the question of which battery to use would be pretty sewn up. Not so: now comes nickel-zinc technology to shake it all up again.The ...READ»
SmartHand is a European collaborative project to develop a next-generation robotic prosthetic limb, and as part of the project Swedish researchers have successfully demonstrated a neat psychological trick that makes wearers feel like ...READ»
It sounds like the stuff of pure science-fiction, but it's not: Japanese scientists have demonstrated a system that can display actual images of what you're thinking about on a screen.ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have ...READ»
Gordon Moore's 1965 observation of increasing integrated circuit power paralleling shrinkage in size was originally tentatively phrased: "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two ...READ»
HP just stumped-up with some news on its cheap, fully-flexible, "unbreakable" screen, which is the sort of display we've been expecting on gadgets for decades, courtesy of many a sci-fi movie. A flexible screen like this allows a ...READ»
Industrial-scale production of a self-cleaning film covering for windows may soon be possible thanks to an invention that borrows the microscopic surface patterns of a butterfly wing.
Butterfly wings and lotus-leaves share an unusual ...READ»
During his presidential campaign, President-elect Obama was quoted as saying, “America risks being left behind in the global economy: Revolutionary advances in information technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and other fields ...READ»
CNN reported today that a woman successfully received a transplant of a section of trachea made from her own stem cells. Scientific progress of the future has arrived.READ»
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It's one of the toughest marketing challenges of recent times... how do we measure the success of social media? I see countless posts everyday where ...READ»
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Has your contextual advertising turned into a contextual nightmare? Maybe you became the butt end of the joke for many blogs creating not the kind of buzz ...READ»
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PerfSpot is launching new development - FriendVouch..With 25 million members on PerfSpot.com and 4 billion monthly ad impressions on our Spot200 network, PerfSpot.com is in prime position to launch our premier digital ad platform on ...READ»
In "Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy," out this week, global branding expert Martin Lindstrom skips consumer surveys and focus groups and instead takes a peek at consumers’ brains.READ»
(Guest blogged by Daniel Castro)
A new study published last Friday in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society titled “Cross-Cultural Analysis of Students with Exceptional Talent in Mathematical Problem Solving” is ...READ»
I just joined this group and would like to introduce myself. My name is Joel Simpson, I am VP of Advanced Business Concepts, Inc., which is an IT consulting company located in MA and FL. I am also an Officer in the Army National ...READ»
Twitter has recently received a lot of media attention. Is it worth the hype? What examples and best practices can you share with the group re this new social networking technology.READ»
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I have always been told that the INTERNET leveled the playing field for small business owners. Many Business web sites provide free innovative marketing techniques (wg. Google Alert, I want Sandy.com) in hopes that you ...READ»
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