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  Charge your mobile phone with formic acid?

  • Posted by Figen Eker
  • May 29
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  Surprisingly the answer is yes. With the technology of today it is possible to use environmental friendly formic acid in fuel cell powering your mobile phone or laptop. Physicist Florian Nitze, Umeå University in Sweden, has in his thesis develop...
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  An electronic nose can tell pears and apples apart

  • Posted by Figen Eker
  • May 9
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  Swedish and Spanish engineers have created a system of sensors that detects fruit odours more effectively than the human sense of smell. For now, the device can distinguish between the odorous compounds emitted by pears and apples.Researchers from the ...
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  Social media enables interactive jukebox

  • Posted by Figen Eker
  • May 8
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  A digital jukebox which uses social networking to select music has been developed by researchers at Lancaster University.
  CheckinDJ allows people to choose what music should be played based on the combined preferences of the group and is linked their ...
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  Bielefeld robots take part in a space simulation

  • Posted by Figen Eker
  • May 3
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  The two robots Flobi and Nao worked full time for three weeks in an isolation study in Cologne. Scientists from Bielefeld University’s Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab) were studying how these intelligent assistance systems ...
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  Taking transistors into a new dimension

  • Posted by Figen Eker
  • March 12
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  A new breakthrough could push the limits of the miniaturization of electronic components further than previously thought possible. A team at the Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes (LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse) and Institut d'Éle...
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  University supports demand for world’s first zero emission sports car in new partnership

  • Posted by Figen Eker
  • February 28
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  Birmingham City University have joined forces with Westfield Sportscars Ltd in a new partnership to develop the world’s first build at home electric race car kit, an all-electric sports car designed and engineered to support a growing demand for ...
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  AI computer program develops free downloadable game for Christmas

  • Posted by Anne Korn
  • December 20, 2012
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  Researchers at Imperial College London have developed an Artificially Intelligent (AI) computer program that has itself designed a video game for the Christmas season, which can be downloaded for free today.
   
  The game developed by the AI comput...
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  University of Granada researchers win four consecutive editions of an international simulated car racing competition

  • Posted by Figen Eker
  • October 29, 2012
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  The 2012 Simulated Car Racing Competition is the fourth edition of this international contest, which consists of a simulation of the physics of cars racing on a virtual track using artificial intelligence. Each contest consists of nine races joining th...
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  Voice prostheses can help patients regain their lost voice

  • Posted by Figen Eker
  • October 24, 2012
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  Help is on the way for people who suffer from vocal cord dysfunction. Researchers are developing methods that will contribute to manufacturing voice prostheses with improved affective features. For example, for little girls who have lost their voices, ...
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  AlphaGalileo Breaking Research News: A novel eye writing device

  • Posted by Figen Eker
  • July 27, 2012
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  Using eye movements to draw and write is no longer science fiction, but reality!