Understanding people's concerns and attitudes toward smart cities
If you own an internet-connected "smart" device, chances are it knows a lot about your home life.
Apr 25, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A cheaper method for making woven displays and smart fabrics of any size or shape
Researchers have developed next-generation smart textiles—incorporating LEDs, sensors, energy harvesting, and storage—that can be produced inexpensively, in any shape or size, using the same machines used to make the ...
Apr 21, 2023
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Engineering
Smart window—augmented reality for tomorrow's ship management
The precisely transmitted image of the quay wall on the ship's window of the steering bridge, provided with some additional information, for example on current conditions and mooring possibilities—even in fog, darkness ...
Apr 12, 2023
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Engineering
Smart windows regulate right light in the greenhouse
Greenhouses can allow the growth of high quality crops in otherwise unproductive areas. Important, as the world population is growing and the land area appropriate for farming is limited. One thing that is still difficult ...
Apr 8, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Smart glass has a bright future
Buildings are responsible for 40 percent of primary energy consumption and 36 percent of total CO2 emissions. And, as we know, CO2 emissions trigger global warming, sea level rise, and profound changes in ocean ecosystems. ...
Apr 1, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
Google has an answer to keeping your work and school life at home on time amid COVID-19 pandemic: Family Bell
There are many things about doing school at home that aren't much like being at school. No lines of cars with kids dragging oversized backpacks, no recess games and no bells to alert students when to get to class.
Aug 6, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
When speech assistants listen even though they shouldn't
Researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and the Bochum Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Cyber Security and Privacy have investigated which words inadvertently activate voice assistants. They compiled a list of English, ...
Jul 3, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
Without fanfare, Apple launches new iPhone for the budget-minded
Apple on Wednesday unveiled a new entry-level iPhone, aiming to appeal to consumers facing a suddenly bleak economic backdrop.
Apr 15, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
Alexa, Google could be listening to your work calls. Here's what to do.
A reminder to those who are working at home: You might want to turn your Amazon or Google smart home speaker them off, or at the very least, mute the microphone.
Apr 8, 2020
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Robotics
Centimeter-long snail robot is powered with light
Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, Poland, used liquid crystal elastomer technology to demonstrate a bio-inspired micro-robot capable of mimicking the adhesive locomotion of snails and slugs ...
Jul 31, 2019
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