Technology

Wi-Vi: Low-Cost Ability To See You, Even Through Walls, Using Low-Power Wi-Fi Signal

The current administration may be worried that the high profile of its domestic tracking and spying and punitive efforts will make it harder for them to monitor the public.   MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory may be able t ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2013 - 11:43am

Thin Epitaxial Silicon Solar Cell Milestone Completed

Crystal Solar has completed a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funded Incubator project regarding technology development and manufacturing cost-effectiveness of epitaxial solar cells and modules. Thin epitaxial silicon solar cell  technology has the capabil ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2013 - 9:10am

Windows 8.1 preview review: VIDEO of installation and gaming under Windows 8.1

From the perspective of a power user who games on Windows what is Windows 8.1 like? Here is my answer to those questions in the form of a video. A word of caution do not use this preview unless you are really computer savvy. Who knows what could go wrong ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 18 2013 - 1:08pm

Solar Impulse Completes Solar-Powered Flight Across America

The Solar Impulse airplane, brain-child airplane of Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg (who co-piloted the entire journey) that can fly day and night without fuel or polluting emissions, has ended its cross-country journey in New York City. Solar Impul ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2013 - 9:51pm

Pocono IndyCar 400- An All-Solar Racetrack

The 400-mile IndyCar race July 7th at Pocono Raceway will be the first open-wheeled event at the 2.5-mile, triangular-shaped track since 1989. Pocono Raceway's triangular design, known as "The Tricky Triangle," makes it truly unique. Pocono ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2013 - 7:55pm

Measuring Bacterial Infection Response To Antibiotics Goes From Weeks To Minutes

It currently takes a long time to measure a bacterial infection's response to antibiotic treatment. Clinicians must culture the bacteria and then observe its growth, in the case of tuberculosis for almost a month, in order to determine if the treatme ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2013 - 10:28pm

Scientists Pursue Recreating A Stradivarius Violin

Antonio Stradivari is universally recognized as the most famous violin maker in the world- if people can name one violin, it is his. During his life, he and his apprentices built more than a thousand violins, violas, cellos and other stringed instruments. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2013 - 12:15pm

Biologics: StromaCell For Mechanical Concentration Of Nucleated Cells From Adipose Tissue

MicroAire has entered the Biologics market with the launch of the StromaCell mechanical cell-separation device, which is is designed to prepare an autologous nucleated cell concentrate from a sample of adipose tissue, or fat, at the patient's point of ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2013 - 11:00pm

Measuring Hurricane Wind Speeds Using Distorted GPS Signals

If you have ever used a GPS system to find a route to somewhere, you might have wondered on occasion how they can be so wrong- though it's often not the signal itself that is wrong. Yet sometimes a distorted signal can be a good thing. By figuring ou ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2013 - 2:02pm

Are 3,000 Yard Gun Shots About To Get Democratized?

A saying in the Old West was that God made men, but Sam Colt made them equal. Well, not completely equal, but his invention of the revolver certainly made life better for flintlock pistol owners. Speed and accuracy were still a subjective issue. Now, maybe ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 17 2013 - 12:02pm