A sensor that allows vehicles to detect road conditions
Researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a sensor and a method for detecting road conditions while a vehicle is moving.
May 24, 2022
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Engineering
How eye imaging technology could help robots and cars see better
Even though robots don't have eyes with retinas, the key to helping them see and interact with the world more naturally and safely may rest in optical coherence tomography (OCT) machines commonly found in the offices of ophthalmologists.
Mar 29, 2022
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US approves new headlights that won't blind oncoming drivers
Anyone who has ever been temporarily blinded by high-beam headlights from an oncoming car will be happy to hear this.
Feb 15, 2022
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Telecom
Using optical beaming to power a portable 5G base station
Telecommunications company Ericsson has teamed up with a company called PowerLight Technologies to send power through the air to run a 5G base station. Both companies have posted the details on their respective websites.
Engineering
Miniature spectrometer for the smartphone
Recognizing fake drugs? Testing water samples ourselves? Checking the quality of air? In the future, it could be possible to do all this using a smartphone in a quick, cost-effective and straightforward way. The process is ...
Jul 1, 2021
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Scientists design 'smart' device to harvest daylight
A team of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) researchers has designed a 'smart' device to harvest daylight and relay it to underground spaces, reducing the need to draw on traditional energy sources ...
Mar 31, 2021
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Aqua-Fi: Underwater WiFi developed using LEDs and lasers
Aquatic internet that sends data through light beams could enable divers to instantly transmit footage from under the sea to the surface.
Jun 11, 2020
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Controlling light with light: Researchers develop a new platform for all-optical computing
The future of computation is bright—literally.
Feb 5, 2020
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Developing technologies that run on light
The future of faster, more efficient information processing may come down to light rather than electricity. Mark Lawrence, a postdoctoral scholar in materials science and engineering at Stanford, has moved a step closer to ...
Jul 24, 2019
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Five reasons why autonomous cars aren't coming anytime soon
In the world of autonomous vehicles, Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley are bustling hubs of development and testing. But ask those involved in self-driving vehicles when we might actually see them carrying passengers in every ...
Feb 4, 2019
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