with Tegra 2 introduce the world’s fastest dual-core smartphone with amazing video features and multitasking capabilities. It contains dual-core Tegra2 1GHz processor,it is fully capable of recording videos in crisp 1080p with its 8-megapixel rear camera unit. There’s also a front-facing one at 1.3 megapixels for the video-calling. Dual-core technology …
Read More »Dutch Electricity System Can Cope With Large-Scale Wind Power
Research by TU Delft shows that Dutch power stations are able to cope at any time in the future with variations in demand for electricity and supply of wind power, as long as use is made of up-to-date wind forecasts. PhD candidate Bart Ummels also demonstrates that there is no …
Read More »Nanogenerators Convert Mechanical Energy To Electricity For Self-Powered Devices
Researchers have developed a new technique for powering nanometer-scale devices without the need for bulky energy sources such as batteries. By converting mechanical energy from body movement, muscle stretching or water flow into electricity, these “nanogenerators” could make possible a new class of self-powered implantable medical devices, sensors and portable …
Read More »Nanogenerators Grow Strong Enough to Power Small Conventional Electronic Devices
Blinking numbers on a liquid-crystal display (LCD) often indicate that a device’s clock needs resetting. But in the laboratory of Zhong Lin Wang at Georgia Tech, the blinking number on a small LCD signals the success of a five-year effort to power conventional electronic devices with nanoscale generators that harvest …
Read More »Scientists say on way to solving anti-matter mystery
Scientists say on way to solving anti-matter mystery, European scientists reported about the creation and capture of anti-hydrogen atoms in a novel magnetic trap and said it put them on track to solving one of the great cosmic mysteries – the make-up of anti-matter. Anti-matter is of intense interest outside …
Read More »Engineers Make Artificial Skin out of Nanowires
Engineers Make Artificial Skin out of Nanowires Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a pressure-sensitive electronic material from semiconductor nanowires that could one day give new meaning to the term “thin-skinned.” “The idea is to have a material that functions like the human skin, which means incorporating …
Read More »Shoe Power Generator, Embedded in the Sole of a Shoe, Harvest Energy
Dr. Ville Kaajakari, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University has developed a technology that harvests power from a small generator embedded in the sole of a shoe. Kaajakari’s innovative technology, developed at Louisiana Tech’s Institute for Micromanufacturing (IfM), is based on new voltage regulation circuits that efficiently …
Read More »Scientists Demonstrate World’s Fastest Graphene Transistor; Holds Promise for Improving Performance of Transistors
In a just-published paper in the magazine Science, IBM researchers demonstrated a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest cut-off frequency achieved so far for any graphene device — 100 billion cycles/second (100 GigaHertz). This accomplishment is a key milestone for the Carbon Electronics for RF Applications (CERA) program funded by …
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