Engineering
Having trouble hearing? Just turn up your shirt. That's the idea behind a new "acoustic fabric" developed by engineers at MIT and collaborators at Rhode Island School of Design.
Mar 16, 2022
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Telecom
Israeli researchers uncovered a novel way that hackers could steal sensitive data from a highly secured computer: by tapping into the vibrations from a cooling system fan.
Apr 24, 2020 report
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Robotics
A team of researchers at Microsoft has found that for physical stimulation techniques to work as hoped in virtual reality applications, the user needs to be shown the source of the stimulation. If they are not the group notes ...
Apr 19, 2018 report
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Walking can boost not only your own energy but also, potentially, the energy of your wearable electronic devices. Osaka Metropolitan University scientists made a significant advance toward self-charging wearable devices with ...
Nov 29, 2022
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Engineering
The soft whirring sound of low-frequency vibrations cannot be easily detected because it is not loud. But once detected, it can be hard to ignore. Often, residents complain of the annoyance caused by low-frequency vibrations ...
Sep 22, 2022
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Computer Sciences
A camera system developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers can see sound vibrations with such precision and detail that it can reconstruct the music of a single instrument in a band or orchestra.
Jun 21, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Computers are getting smaller and smaller, just as current cell phones offer computing power similar to that of a laptop. And the trend toward miniaturization continues. Smart dust applications (tiny microelectronic devices), ...
Feb 21, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick have published "Face-Mic," the first work examining how voice command features on virtual reality headsets could lead to major privacy leakages, known as "eavesdropping attacks."
Feb 10, 2022
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Robotics
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Europe has found that swarms of tiny dumb vibrating robots are capable of carrying out sophisticated actions such as transporting objects or squeezing through ...
Jul 23, 2021 report
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Robotics
A team of researchers from the University of California, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has found that insects use natural oscillations to stabilize their flight. ...
Oct 1, 2020 report
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