Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute have developed a low-cost method of turning a wide variety of surfaces into touchpads, such as this steering wheel.
Credit: Future Interfaces Group
Touch sensing is most common on small, flat surfaces such...
Bimodal atomic force microscopy provides three-dimensional force vector maps with subatomic resolution. The cantilever is simultaneously oscillated laterally and vertically to determine the vector mapping over the buckled dimers on the Ge(001) surface.
Credit: Osaka University
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is...
A researcher holds a prototype of a biosensor designed to detect active levels of a medicine in the bloodstream, as part of a system to personalize drug dosing.
Credit: Soh Lab
As with coffee or alcohol, the way each person processes...
Screenshot of video (https://youtu.be/GCT0KwFw-pM) showing 3D printing of stretchable electronic sensory devices that could give robots the ability to feel their environment and is a major step forward in printing electronics on real human skin.
Credit: Shuang-Zhuang Guo and Michael...
The new device must only be exposed to light in order to purify air and generate power.
Credit: UAntwerpen and KU Leuven
Researchers from the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, have succeeded in developing a process...
A cross made of aluminum foil between the viewer and the WLAN-router can easily be reconstructed from the WLAN-hologram as can be seen in the inserted picture.
Credit: Friedemann Reinhard/Philipp Holl / TUM
Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)...
Cheetah robot.
Credit: Image courtesy of University of Twente
University of Twente researcher Geert Folkertsma has developed a prototype cheetah robot. Folkertsma has dedicated four years of research and development to constructing a scaled-down robotic version of the fastest land animal...
This is a schematic representation of the monolithically integrated SiPV-LIB device and the electrochemical performance of the bipolar LIB.
Credit: UNIST
A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has developed a single-unit, photo-rechargeable portable power source based on high-efficiency silicon solar...
A team of scientists developed Internet Atlas, the first detailed map of the internet's structure worldwide. The lines represent crucial pieces of the physical infrastructure of the internet that billions of people rely on.
Credit: Paul Barford/University of Wisconsin-Madison
Despite the...
Smartphones typically capture a limited portion of the full fingerprint using small sensors. Multiple partial fingerprints are captured for the same finger during enrollment. The figure shows a set of partial fingerprints (b) extracted from the full fingerprint (a).
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New research from Olin Business School examines data from the 2007-09 financial crisis to show how the US Federal Reserve can effectively assist banks in times of financial uncertainty.
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis
This week, the Federal Reserve hiked...
