May 28 2008
Many hospital patient become infected by bacteria or viruses unrelated to the primary reason for their visit. Recently, however, a Dutch company launched the Virobuster Steritube, an innovative system for sterilizing air, designed to avoid such...
May 28 2008
A team at the Australian company BioPower Systems has designed the bioWAVE and bioSTREAM devices. Devices that sway in tune with the oceans currents while producing clean, renewable energy.
May 26 2008
CNET sister site ZDNet Korea reports that Samsung announced the development of a 2.5-inch, 256 Gigabyte (GB) solid state drive (SSD) at the fifth annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum in Taipei.Typical solid state drives shipping in notebook PCs today...
May 26 2008
Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows that cellphones may be used to give insight in periodicities of human behavior, human group behavior and more: separate the rich from the poor, the sick from the healthy, even the outgoing from...
May 25 2008
... two changed lines of code have created profound security vulnerabilities in at least four different open-source operating systems, 25 different application programs, and millions of individual computer systems on the Internet. And even though the...
May 25 2008
The key to beating jet lag on long haul flights is not to eat the airline food, according to scientists.The advice for international travellers comes from a study that shows the timing of meals has a much bigger effect on the body clock than previously...
May 25 2008
Scientists of Hewlett-Packard demonstrated recently realizations of a new fundamental circuit element, the so called memristor, or memory resistor, If commercialized, it could lead to very dense, energy-efficient memory chips.
May 25 2008
Imagine a mechanical Pelé or David Beckham six times smaller than an amoeba playing with a “soccer ball” no wider than a human hair on a field that can fit on a grain of rice. Purely science fiction? Not anymore.
May 23 2008
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) engineers have developed a robotic device able to act as a brain-computer interface. This is the ‘first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning...
May 23 2008
A German psychologist has warned “professional smilers” such as flight attendants and shop assistants that too much forced smiling can cause stress, depression and even heart problems.