Common solar tech can power smart devices indoors
Any time you turn on a light at home or in the office, you are expending energy. But what if flipping the light switch meant producing energy too?
Aug 19, 2021
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Any time you turn on a light at home or in the office, you are expending energy. But what if flipping the light switch meant producing energy too?
Aug 19, 2021
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Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are used to power everything from smart watches to electric vehicles, thanks to the large amounts of energy they can store in small spaces. When overheated, however, they're prone to catching ...
Nov 14, 2022
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A team of engineers led by Tufts University has developed a prototype bandage designed to actively monitor the condition of chronic wounds and deliver appropriate drug treatments to improve the chances of healing. While the ...
Jul 6, 2018
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Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a temperature sensor that runs on only 113 picowatts of power—628 times lower power than the state of the art and about 10 billion times smaller ...
Jul 3, 2017
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Scientists from the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN) at Osaka University, in collaboration with Chuo University, Eindhoven University of Technology, and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science ...
May 23, 2022
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Engineers from UK universities have developed a new method of measuring temperature through the interaction of a soft and flexible "smart skin" sensor with electromagnetic waves.
Jan 15, 2024
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The difficulty many people have getting tested for SARS-CoV-2 and delays in receiving test results make early warning of possible COVID-19 infections all the more important, and data from wearable health and fitness devices ...
Aug 10, 2020
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Almost every new program code has bugs that, in the worst case, can potentially compromise security. In order to detect them quickly and efficiently, researchers from the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security at Ruhr University ...
Dec 14, 2022
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Wireless, wearable sensors are all the rage with millions of people now sporting fitness trackers on their wrists. These devices can count footsteps, monitor heart rate and other vital signs. Now researchers report in the ...
Jul 19, 2017
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Harsh environmental conditions—such as surface temperatures reaching thousands of degrees Fahrenheit—make it challenging to accurately measure temperatures and heat flux on hypersonic flight systems.
Sep 27, 2019
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