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Spinoff to introduce ultrasonic gesture recognition for small devices

13/11/2013 09:18
A group of research engineers at the University of California has been working on new technology to allow electronic devices to recognize hand gestures, similar to Microsoft's Kinect—with a major difference. Instead of using light, the new technology is based on sound waves. The group is currently...

Dangerous Things' xNT: a personal NFC chip in your hand

13/11/2013 09:14
An embeddable chip that has the potential to rid you of keys and instantly unlock your phone is now available on Indiegogo     Keys have been a necessary evil for the last century or so, but what if you could unlock your house, your phone or you computer with just your hand? That is...

Liftoff! India's First Mars Probe Launches Toward the Red Planet

13/11/2013 09:11
  India's first mission to Mars, the Mars Orbiter Mission, launches the Mangalyaan orbiter toward the Red Planet atop a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on Nov. 5, 2013 from the Indian Space Research Organisation's Satish Dhawan Space Centre in...

Kyocera launches 70-megawatt solar plant, largest in Japan

13/11/2013 09:07
Nearly 300,000 offshore solar panels will provide enough power for 22,000 homes as post-Fukushima Japan struggles with energy sources. The Kagoshima Nanatsujima Mega Solar Power Plant sits in the shadow of Sakurajima, an active volcano. (Credit: Kyocera) Kagoshima in southern Japan is...

Hot water freezes faster than cold - and now we know why.

03/11/2013 11:50
Hot water seems to freeze faster than cold water, known as the Mpemba effect. The effect was named after the Tanzanian student who in 1963 noticed that hot ice cream mix freezes faster than a cold one.  The effect was first observed by Aristotle in the 4th century BC, then later Francis...

New car feature charges your cell phone wirelessly

03/11/2013 11:49
New cars are increasingly offering cutting-edge technology, but most of it is stuff you can easily live without. Chrysler, however, has announced it will be first to market with an oh-yeah-I-want-that-bad in-car tech feature: the ability to wirelessly charge your cell phone, merely by placing it...

Strong Encryption, Natural Language Search Make Potent Cocktail

22/10/2013 19:27
    Encrypted data may be relatively safe from prying eyes, but it's often inaccessible to authorized users as well. "Encryption can break an application," said CipherCloud CEO Pravin Kothari. "It can make an application useless." Through a gateway between an organization and its...

Images and Video Move by Touch from One Smartphone to Another Tablet

20/10/2013 12:30
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed technology whereby a ring, structure nail or wristband acts as a user interface allowing files to be transferred directly from one screen to another by touch. The new technical solution is the first step towards the interactivity of various...

Carbon-negative energy, a reality at last -- and cheap, too

19/10/2013 19:21
BERKELEY, Calif. -- In 2007, officials from this famously liberal city shut off the electricity to an artists space known as the Shipyard. That action, which forced the artists there to seek a new way to power their flamethrowers, is the origin story of a company that now produces what it...

Nexus 5: What we expect about the announcement, specs, and release date of Google's next smartphone

19/10/2013 19:18
  Don't look now, but the LG Nexus 4 successor is expected to make its formal debut by the end of this month. Rumors and conjecture have been floating around for much of the summer, and now details seem to be falling into place quickly for the updated flagship Android...
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