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Floating Robots use GPS-enabled Smartphones to Track Water Flow

Posted May 17, 2012 by Eng-Tips in Editorial

By Sarah Yang, UC Berkeley Media Relations A fleet of 100 floating robots took a trip down the Sacramento River today (Wednesday, May 9) in a field test organized by engineers at the University of Ca...

Full Control of Plastic Transistors

Posted May 16, 2012 by Eng-Tips in Editorial

Transistors made of plastic can be controlled with great precision, according to an article in PNAS by Loïg Kergoat, a researcher at Linköping University in Sweden. The Organic Electronics Research...

Scientists Generate Electricity from Viruses

Posted May 15, 2012 by Eng-Tips in Editorial

Imagine charging your phone as you walk, thanks to a paper-thin generator embedded in the sole of your shoe. This futuristic scenario is now a little closer to reality. Scientists from the U.S. Depart...

Portable Diagnostics Designed to Be Shaken, Not Stirred

Posted May 9, 2012 by Eng-Tips in Editorial

By Hannah Hickey, University of Washington, News and Information As medical researchers and engineers try to shrink diagnostics to fit in a person’s pocket, one question is how to easily move a...

New Battery System Could Reduce Buildings’ Electric Bills

Posted May 8, 2012 by Eng-Tips in Editorial

The CUNY Energy Institute, which has been developing innovative low-cost batteries that are safe, non-toxic, and reliable with fast discharge rates and high energy densities, announced that it has b...

Troubled Waters

Posted May 7, 2012 by Eng-Tips in Editorial

by Janet Wilson, UC Irvine Communications UC Irvine professor Jay Famiglietti sits with his arms politely crossed, watching an irate Central Valley farmer wrest a microphone out of a conservationist&#...

Testing vintage US bridges for vulnerability – and finding ways to protect them

Posted May 4, 2012 by Eng-Tips in Editorial

It took only 13 seconds for the bridge to collapse into the Mississippi River in a thunderous rain of concrete and steel. When the Minneapolis I-35W bridge – an eight-lane, steel truss arch bri...

Internet Crime Complaint Center’s (IC3) Scam Alerts 4/20/2012

Posted May 3, 2012 by Eng-Tips in Editorial

This report, which is based upon information from law enforcement and complaints submitted to the IC3, details recent cyber crime trends, new twists to previously-existing cyber scams, and announceme...

Open Source and Cloud

Posted May 3, 2012 by Zen Kishimoto in Editorial

This week I attended the Open Cloud Conference at Silicon Valley Cloud Center in Sunnyvale. There were a lot of interesting sessions, and one was on the role of open source for cloud. As there was a d...

Simple Way to Remove Mud from Drinking Water

Posted May 2, 2012 by Eng-Tips in Editorial

By Marcia Goodrich, Michigan Tech News Nearly 80 percent of disease in developing countries is linked to bad water and sanitation. Now a scientist at Michigan Technological University has developed a ...

Fruit Spoilage Sensor Helps Combat Food Waste

Posted May 1, 2012 by Eng-Tips in Editorial

By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office Every year, U.S. supermarkets lose roughly 10 percent of their fruits and vegetables to spoilage, according to the Department of Agriculture. To help combat those lo...

Wearable electronics:Transparent, Lightweight, Flexible Conductor Could Revolutionize Electronics Industry

Posted April 30, 2012 by Eng-Tips in Editorial

The most transparent, lightweight and flexible material ever for conducting electricity has been invented by a team from the University of Exeter. Called GraphExeter, the material could revolutionize ...

MIT creates anti-fogging, self-cleaning, glare-free glass

Posted April 27, 2012 by Eng-Tips in Editorial

By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office One of the most instantly recognizable features of glass is the way it reflects light. But a new way of creating surface textures on glass, developed by researche...

Mini-sensor Measures Magnetic Activity in Human Brain

Posted April 25, 2012 by Eng-Tips in Editorial

By Laura Ost, NIST A miniature atom-based magnetic sensor developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has passed an important research milestone by successfully measuring hu...

TV as Thin as a Sheet of Paper? Printable Flexible Electronics Just Became Easier With Stable Electrodes

Posted April 23, 2012 by Eng-Tips in Editorial

Imagine owning a television with the thickness and weight of a sheet of paper. It will be possible, someday, thanks to the growing industry of printed electronics. The process, which allows manufactur...