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Batteries that bend and flex will transform electronics, transportation
May 9, 2013 10:41 am | by EurekAlert! | News | CommentsImagine a TV screen that hangs on the wall like a poster and rolls up like a window shade — or a smartphone that can fold up and fit into a pocket. It may sound like science fiction, but those technological marvels are moving closer to reality, thanks to advances toward development of flexible batteries....
Tiny, thin-film 10-W, 3 dB directional couplers target wireless applications
May 9, 2013 10:37 am | Avx Corporation | Product Releases | CommentsAVX Corporation has introduced what it says are the smallest thin-film 10W 3dB directional couplers available in today’s market. Based on the company’s thin-film technology, the new 0603 3-dB 90° couplers exhibit desirable high-frequency performance in ranges spanning
Booster pack lets users jumpstart and explore sensor fusion applications
May 9, 2013 9:50 am | Texas Instruments | Product Releases | CommentsTexas Instruments announced the Sensor Hub BoosterPack for its Tiva C Series TM4C123G LaunchPad. This plug-in daughter card that allows ARM Cortex-M4 MCU developers create products with up to seven types of motion and environmental sensing capabilities. The board and software enables
Engineers fine-tune the sensitivity of nano-chemical sensor
May 9, 2013 9:42 am | by EurekAlert! | News | CommentsResearchers have discovered a technique for controlling the sensitivity of graphene chemical sensors. The sensors, made of an insulating base coated with a graphene sheet--a single-atom-thick layer of carbon--are already so sensitive that they can detect an individual molecule of gas.
Study shows that people organize daily travel efficiently
May 9, 2013 9:38 am | by EurekAlert! | News | CommentsStudies of human mobility usually focus on either the small scale — determining the origins, destinations and travel modes of individuals' daily commutes — or the very large scale, such as using air-travel patterns to track the spread of epidemics over time.
NSF joins Intel and GE to move the needle in producing US engineers and computer scientists
May 9, 2013 9:32 am | by EurekAlert! | News | CommentsImagine a young athlete arriving at a university with the potential to win big over the next four years. Now imagine this athlete sitting out an entire season while practicing with the team and getting the lay of the land. This strategy is called redshirting....
Royal Holloway awarded multi-million pound grant for cyber security research training
May 9, 2013 9:28 am | by EurekAlert! | News | CommentsRoyal Holloway University today received a grant of £3.8million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to host a new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in cyber security.
Cast of Broadway's 'Matilda' chat with astronaut
May 9, 2013 9:23 am | by MARK KENNEDY, AP Drama Writer | News | CommentsThe cast members of the Tony Award-nominated "Matilda" are arguably all stars. This week, they chatted with a man closer to the actual cosmic ones. About three dozen cast members - including many children - packed a small room near Times Square on Tuesday to speak to an astronaut aboard the International Space Station
Europe Bans Certain Pesticides, USA Just Keeps Looking, Bees Keep Dying
May 9, 2013 4:06 am | by Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog | Blogs | CommentsFor years the bee colony collapse disorder has been showing the difficulty of the scientific inquiry process. And that difficulty often becomes more difficult if interests with lots of money at stake want to block certain conclusions. One-Third of U.S. … Continue reading →
Student Spotlight: Richard Lu on Undergraduate Research
May 9, 2013 12:00 am | by Georgia Institute of Technology | News | CommentsRichard Lu, a second year undergraduate student in the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, is going beyond his required IE coursework, and tackling real world problems through undergraduate research....
Slight Decrease in First Quarter 2013 Silicon Wafer Shipments
May 8, 2013 6:52 pm | by SEMI | News | CommentsSlight Decrease in First Quarter 2013 Silicon Wafer Shipments ...
Activision 1Q profit up but holiday outlook cloudy
May 8, 2013 6:38 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsVideo game maker Activision Blizzard Inc. said Wednesday that first-quarter earnings rose 19 percent, but it cautioned that the holiday season could be more difficult than it expected because of uncertainty about the global economy, new games and new consoles. The company raised its full-year...
Rackspace results fall short of expectations
May 8, 2013 5:20 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsRackspace Hosting Inc. said Wednesday that its first-quarter profit rose, but the results fell short of Wall Street expectations. Its stock dropped 17 percent after-hours trading. "We got off to a slow start for the year," Chief Financial Officer Karl Pichler said in a statement, adding that "our...
Microsoft appoints new CFO from Office division
May 8, 2013 4:40 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsMicrosoft says its new chief financial officer is Amy Hood, previously CFO of the Office division. She replaces Peter Klein, who announced his departure three weeks ago. He has been CFO for four years. Hood, 41, joined Microsoft Corp. in 2002. Before that, she worked at Goldman Sachs. She has a...
Compact vane axial fans deliver airflows up to 283 CFM
May 8, 2013 3:23 pm | Product Releases | CommentsOrion Fans has developed a new series of small, powerful vane axial (VXC) fans for harsh, high-static pressure environments for medical, networking and telecom equipment. Designed to deliver airflows of up to 283 CFM in a compact package...
