Technology

Twitter Confirms Results Of Public Opinion Polls- Sort Of

Computer analysis of sentiments expressed in a billion "tweets" during 2008-2009 yielded measures of consumer confidence and presidential job approval similar to those of well-established public opinion polls, Carnegie Mellon University researche ...

Article - News Staff - May 11 2010 - 12:45pm

Those Magnificent Men in Their Perpetual Flying Machine

You could be forgiven for thinking that the days when flying was a frontier science are well and truly over, but not so, as the Solar Impulse had its maiden flight recently. A flying machine no longer seems an eccentric idea but the aim of Solar Impulse is ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - May 12 2010 - 12:06pm

Utter Fabrication

Just a quick update for my fab fans out there.  And by 'fab' I mean 'PCB fabricators'.  For the Calliope satellite, I need 8 printed circuit boards (PCBs) fabricated for the solar cells.  As I covered earlier, these cells are also the m ...

Blog Post - Project Calliope - May 18 2010 - 1:22pm

Sharks Inspire Energy Efficient Airplanes

An innovative paint system may make it possible to lower the fuel consumption of airplanes and ships, reducing costs and carbon dioxide emissions, according to researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Applied Materials Rese ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2010 - 11:42am

Ion-Selective Membranes: Invention Regulates Nerve Cells Electronically

A group of bioelectronics researchers say they have made a major step toward being able to regulate nerve cells externally.  Their breakthrough is based on an ion transistor of plastic that can transport ions and charged biomolecules and thereby address an ...

Article - News Staff - May 23 2010 - 10:56am

New Modeling Technique Brings Historical Monuments Back To Life

A team of researchers has developed a model that can recereate famous historical monuments.  The project makes it possible to create three-dimensional plans with colour images of historical and artistic places of interest. The data is recorded by laser sca ...

Article - News Staff - May 25 2010 - 4:36pm

Next Step In Robotics: A Star Wars Imperial Walker

Some new research out of the Dynamic Robotics Laboratory at Oregon State University could have practical, humanitarian uses, like prosthetic limbs for humans or helping people in wheelchairs gain 'walking' mobility.  It could also be used for awe ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 18 2012 - 2:14pm

Video Games Help Blind Children Exercise

A project under development at the University of Nevada, Reno, called VI Fit can help children who are blind become more physically active and healthy through video games. The human-computer interaction research team in the computer science and engineering ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2010 - 2:07pm

Computer, Adapt Thyself

Computing networks of tomorrow will be evolving meshes of different processors, various legacy and newer hardware, and numerous software and operating platforms spanning generations- making it costly, bordering on impossible, to rely solely on human progra ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2010 - 3:01pm

Swing It!

Just a quickie today, I may be working to turn the ionosphere into the world's biggest musical instrument, but a fellow named Tristan has done a music hack that makes any song swing. The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it ...

Blog Post - Project Calliope - Jun 1 2010 - 2:47pm