Technology

You know what I would like? An Internet camera. It would be just like the digital camera I have today: it would take pictures, compress them into JPEG files, and store them on an SD card in the camera. Of course, it would also have a GPS receiver, and it ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Feb 23 2010 - 9:19pm

Designers Compete to Create "Green Gadget" of the Year

This Thursday, the 2010 Greener Gadgets Conference, a daylong event featuring discussions about energy efficiency, sustainable design and product manufacturing, packaging and recycling, will culminate with a Greener Gadgets design competition. Individuals ...

Blog Post - Lauren Rugani - Feb 24 2010 - 12:10am

Scientists Introduce The Cell Phone Of Undersea Communications

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists and engineers have devised an undersea optical communications system that—complemented by acoustics—enables a virtual revolution in high-speed undersea data collection and transmission. Its developers ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2010 - 11:32am

'Piezo-Rubber': New Technology Harvests Electricity From Body Movements

In a study in Nano Letters, scientists report that they have developed a flexible, biocompatible rubber film called Piezo-rubber for use in implantable or wearable energy harvesting systems. The material could be used, for instance, to harvest energy from ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2011 - 7:24pm

And the Greenest Gadget Is...

...The Augmented Living Goods Program (AUG) submitted by a group of recent Savannah College of Art and Design graduates. Their design entered today's competition in 8th place after online voting closed, and I have to admit, I originally dismissed this ...

Blog Post - Lauren Rugani - Feb 25 2010 - 6:14pm

Let's Start Using Our (Si) Brains

Let's Start Using Our (Si) Brains scientists have sequenced the human genome-- the blueprint for all of the proteins in biology-- but how can we understand what these proteins do and how they work?... ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 26 2010 - 8:39pm

What to blog about?...

New Scientist tells us that some of my former IBM Research colleagues have been busy looking at ways to give bloggers inspiration: Want to get more people to read your blog? A software tool that provides a list of topics for you to write about could help. ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Feb 26 2010 - 10:07pm

Tracking in the 21st century

This New Scientist article reminds me of a project I worked on about ten years ago. The article talks about analyzing mobile-phone location data to establish patterns of how the users move around. We didn’t analyze predictability rates, but we did look fo ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Mar 2 2010 - 6:01am

Open Source

Forgive me if this has been covered already, but I am curious about the use of computers in Science I have to add a quick sentence here just to prevent the questions overlaying the initial graphic I'll pose this as a Questionnaire, and would apprecia ...

Blog Post - Henry Cox - Mar 9 2010 - 3:56pm

Biometrics pulls ahead by a nose

The "humble hooter" could be added to the list of features used to identify an individual, according to scientists at the University of Bath. Researchers created a system called PhotoFace to scan the shape of volunteers' noses, and developed ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Mar 15 2010 - 9:12am