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'Lego-electronics' offer simple way to assemble integrated circuits

(Tech Xplore)—One of the biggest challenges in the drive to miniaturize electronic devices is the difficulty in aligning and assembling the increasingly tiny electronic components with the necessary precision, which is ...

Engineering

Sep 22, 2017
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Football helmet smartfoam signals potential concussions in real time

Most football fans have seen players get hit so hard they can barely walk back to the sideline. All too often, those players are back on the field just a few plays later, despite suffering what appears to be a head injury. ...

Engineering

Sep 21, 2017
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Team shatters long-range communication barrier for devices that consume almost no power

University of Washington researchers have demonstrated for the first time that devices that run on almost zero power can transmit data across distances of up to 2.8 kilometers—breaking a long-held barrier and potentially ...

Engineering

Sep 13, 2017
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New microchip technology could be used to track 'smart pills'

Researchers at Caltech have developed a prototype miniature medical device that could ultimately be used in "smart pills" to diagnose and treat diseases. A key to the new technology—and what makes it unique among other ...

Engineering

Sep 12, 2017
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Team efforts accelerate 3-D printing journey

With the development of additive manufacturing—often referred to as 3-D printing—engineers are limited only by their imagination—and the quality of the part that they can produce. By heating plastic or metal powders ...

Engineering

Sep 07, 2017
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Monitor tracks heart, respiratory rates of elderly living on their own

(Tech Xplore)—A scenario that is altogether contemporary in the broader cradle-to-grave journey: An elderly parent, over 65 years of age, functions independently, and lives alone. The fact is also that in his or her senior ...

Engineering

Sep 07, 2017
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Electronic devices that can degrade and physically disappear on demand

(Tech Xplore)—A team of researchers from the U.S. and China has demonstrated electronic devices that can degrade and disappear on demand using nothing but moisture in the air. In their paper published on the open access ...

Engineering

Sep 04, 2017
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Algorithm unlocks smartwatches that learn your every move

Scientists at the University of Sussex have invented a new algorithm that enables smartwatches to detect and record your every move, without being told beforehand what to look for.

Engineering

Sep 04, 2017
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In the face of climate change can our engineers keep the trains running on time?

Physicist Michio Kaku once said, "What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them." And so it has been with railway and metro bridges that span waterways. ...

Engineering

Aug 29, 2017
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Is Tesla electric truck to have a range of 200 to 300 miles?

With self-driving technology on the horizon, cars are not the only items of interest. From manufacturers to fleet operators to consumers, interest is keen on what the prognosis looks like for lending self-driving capabilities ...

Engineering

Aug 28, 2017
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