Wearable Electronics: Highly conductive textiles and paper with aluminum
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- Published on Sunday, 23 June 2013 22:01
Jackets with built-in mobile phones, sports clothes that warn you when your heart rate gets too high, wallpaper with glowing patterns—these are not concepts from a science fiction movie, some of them are actually already available, and they may soon become commonplace.
Carnegie Mellon tracking algorithm inspired by Harry Potter's Marauder's map
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- Published on Friday, 31 May 2013 14:12
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon have developed a solution for finding people through computer analysis making use of facial recognition, color matching and location tracking. With homage to the fictional map used by Harry Potter, they came up with a solution that can effectively track people in the real world just like
Scientists develop cheaper, more efficient fuel cells
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- Published on Monday, 27 May 2013 12:25
Using the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron, researchers have discovered a way to create cheaper fuel cells by dividing normally expensive platinum metal into nanoparticles (or even single atoms) for use in everything from automobiles to computers.