Storing energy in red bricks
Imagine plugging in to your brick house.
Aug 11, 2020
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News tagged with home
Engineering
Device tracks house appliances through vibration, AI
To boost efficiency in typical households—where people forget to take wet clothes out of washing machines, retrieve hot food from microwaves and turn off dripping faucets—Cornell University researchers have developed ...
Sep 09, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
Samsung's home helper shaped like ball and rolled to CES
Samsung at CES showed its ball-shaped rolling robot that follows you around, beeps and performs tasks as your personal assistant. The company posted a video showing just how Ballie would help out in your home.
Jan 12, 2020 weblog
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Hardware
Cooking Raspberry Pi for the smart home
Researchers in India describe the potential of the low-cost Raspberry Pi computer to be used as a control system for home automation using the so-called Internet of Things. They outline details in the International Journal ...
May 12, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
Amazon, Apple and Google unite to certify smart home devices
Tech giants Amazon, Apple and Google have announced their support of Matter, a standard focusing on capable and secure smart devices for homes. Also known as Internet of Things (IoT) products, these devices include smart ...
May 12, 2021 report
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Wearable brain-machine interface could control a wheelchair, vehicle or computer
Combining new classes of nanomembrane electrodes with flexible electronics and a deep learning algorithm could help disabled people wirelessly control an electric wheelchair, interact with a computer or operate a small robotic ...
Sep 20, 2019
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Robert W. Gore, the inventor of Gore-Tex fabric, dead at 83
Robert W. Gore, whose invention of what created the breathable-yet-waterproof fabric known as Gore-Tex revolutionized outdoor wear and helped spawn uses in numerous other fields, has died. He was 83.
Sep 20, 2020
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New window system cuts sound levels by 26 decibels, achieves four times better ventilation
Home owners, especially those in noisy districts, can look forward to greater living comfort with a new invention by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Design and Environment (SDE) that ...
Feb 04, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Good news for rooftop solar, not for home batteries
The energy produced over the lifetime of typical rooftop solar panels more than makes up for the energy it takes to make, mount and then eventually recycle them. But adding a home battery usually lowers those dividends, according ...
Apr 09, 2019
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Energy efficient heat pump technology increases the value of homes in the U.S.
Launched this week in Nature Energy, a new study led by the Center for Global Sustainability (CGS) researchers examines the cost of heat pump installation in American households and the effect on house prices and home values. ...
Oct 21, 2020
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