Technology

Sneakey- A Picture Of A Key Is Now Worth A Thousand Locksmiths

UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key. "We built our key duplication software system to show people th ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2008 - 5:35pm

Be The Beatles- Legendary Pop Icons Get Their Own Video Game For The First Time

Can't get enough of The Beatles?   Two days ago we disclosed that a mathematician using Fourier transform had unlocked the secret of the 'mystery' chord in "A Hard Day's Night" and now The Beatles are back again- in a video g ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2008 - 11:31am

Big In Japan- An Analysis Of The Best Countries For A Tech Product Launch

BETHLEHEM, PA (October 31, 2008)—A new study published in the September/October issue of the journal Marketing Science reveals the world's most innovative countries, with Japan and the Nordic countries earning top spots and the United States finishin ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 1 2008 - 11:39am

Is This AFS Trinity 150 MPG SUV Being Suppressed By The Auto Industry?

AFS Trinity Power Corporation today announced it pulled its 150 MPG plug-in hybrid SUV prototypes out of the LA Auto Show but will independently exhibit and demonstrate the super fuel-efficient vehicles on their own elsewhere in downtown LA during the sho ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2008 - 4:59pm

GenomPort- Exploring The Human Genome Google Maps Style

The Data Management Group (DAMA-UPC), led by Josep Lluís Larriba, has designed a system for searching for information in a network or graph that can complement Internet search engines and is of special interest to biomedicine, social networks, the Internet ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2008 - 10:14am

Optimizing Airlines- Ontology To The Rescue

As airports become stretched to capacity and calls mount for new runways and terminals, a computer scientist in Greece has designed a system that could ensure as many seats as possible are filled on each flight and no one is left stranded at check-in.    I ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2008 - 10:42am

Nanoporous Ceramic Membranes Could Be Breakthrough For Implantable Medical Devices

A team of researchers led by North Carolina State University has made a breakthrough that could lead to new dialysis devices and a host of other revolutionary medical implants. The researchers have found that the unique properties of a new material can be ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2008 - 2:12am

Protein Patterning Technique Is So Accurate It Can Reproduce Art Masterpieces

Canadian researchers have created a new protein patterning technique that's enabled them to reproduce complex cellular environments and a miniature version of a masterpiece painting. According to a new study published in the journal Lab on a Chip, sci ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2008 - 2:48pm

Particle Synthesizer Lets You Become Beethoven- In Real Time

It's classical music for the "Guitar Hero" generation- a way to compose and perform at the same time, with infinite variations.    That's right, you can be Ludwig van Beethoven (except not deaf) and perform his Ninth symphony, armed wit ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 23 2008 - 2:23pm

Realistic Robots Approach The Edge Of The Uncanny Valley

In 1970, a Japanese roboticist named Masahiro Mori described what he called the "uncanny valley"- a point on a graph relating human affinity for a machine to its likeness of humans themselves, where human affinity plummets as the likeness becomes ...

Article - Chris Rollins - Nov 24 2008 - 4:40pm