TECHNO ZONE

By Air, Land & Sea: Sandia’s Multi-Terrain Drone Concept

15/11/2013 09:02
 Named the "Multi-Modal Vehicle Concept" (MMVC,) the matryoshka-esque drone would begin its life as a UAV. Taking off from a friendly location, the drone would spend the majority of its life in its flying configuration. Once the drone had nearly reached its target, it would jettison...

MCU Development Kits & Plug-In Modules

15/11/2013 09:00
It is an exciting time in the microcontroller arena with Texas Instrument's (TI's) introduction of the low-cost LaunchPad series of MCU boards. Each of TI's product lines of microcontrollers has a LaunchPad to help you design, develop and evaluate – from MSP430™, C2000™, Tiva™ C Series...

HyRef Helps Put Renewable Energy on the Grid

15/11/2013 08:59
In order for renewable sources to generate a significant part of our energy base-load, they need to be predictable. At any given location, it’s difficult to know how much sunshine to expect or how much wind will be blowing on a particular day, and without that information we can’t predict how much...

Add a Touch Interface to your Hardware with Touch Board

15/11/2013 08:57
Want to create an interactive design with touch interface? Well, the Touch Board may be just what you are looking for. Arduino compatible, the Touch Board comes with 12 capacitive touch channels and will respond to anything conductive that is connected to one of the channels. You can turn on a...

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...

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...

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...
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