Category: Technology
MIT Researchers develop a $10 Wearable Patch to help people suffering from ALS communicate better
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a chronic disease that affects the nervous system and causes a decline in muscle control. Symptoms of ALS may be minor in the early stages of the disease but get dramatically worse with time as people with ALS find it more and more difficult to...
Continue ReadingST to make cartridges for Covid-19 tests
STMicroelectronics is to manufacture cartridges for a multi-sample lab-on-a-chip test system developed by Alifax in Italy. By Nick Flaherty @ eenewseurope.com The move extends ST's manufacturing from packaging the microfluidics lab-on-a-chip device to making the whole cartridge,...
Continue ReadingNew OLED architecture has 10,000 PPI resolution
Researchers at Samsung in Korea and Stanford University in the US have developed and patented a new architecture for OLED displays with resolution up to 10,000 pixels per inch (PPI). by Nick Flaherty @ eenewsembedded.com The design uses adapted an electrode ultra-thin solar panels...
Continue ReadingNew Study shows Rare form of Magnetic and Electrical Property in stack-twisted Graphene
A group of scientists at Columbia University and the University of Washington has found unique electronic states along with an uncommon kind of magnetism, can develop in a three-layer graphene structure. The work was inspired by current research studies of twisted monolayers or twisted...
Continue ReadingMetabolizer: A open-source waste-processing system generating electricity from trash
Harvesting useful energy from municipal waste or our daily garbage is common around the world. In some developed countries, only 1 percent of household waste is dumped to landfills, while the remaining garbage is either recycled or incinerated in power plants to generate electricity. Junk...
Continue ReadingSelf-charging ‘thousand-year’ battery completes lab tests
Green energy startup NDB, which is developing a high-power self-charging diamond-based alpha, beta, and neutron voltaic battery that it claims provides up to thousands of years of charge, has announced the completion of two successful Proofs of Concept tests of its nano diamond battery...
Continue ReadingEconomical atomic battery offers increased power, reduced size
Scientists at the National University of Science and Technology MISiS (Moscow, Russia) say they have developed a compact atomic battery that can last up to 20 years. by Rich Pell @ smart2zero.com Based on an original patented microchannel 3D structure of a nickel beta-voltaic element,...
Continue ReadingInfineon, Fingerprint Cards join forces to drive deployment of biometric cards
Biometric payment cards with integrated fingerprint sensor make contactless payments more convenient, more secure and hygienic. The contactless card remains in the hands of the cardholder throughout the entire payment transaction, while eliminating the need for PIN entries or signatures...
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