Berkeley Lab scientists have made a nanocrystal-making robot, capable of producing nanocrystals with amazing precision. This robot, named WANDA (Workstation for Automated Nanomaterial Discovery and Analysis), provides colloidal nanocrystals with custom-made properties for electronics, biological labeling and luminescent devices. Since it is controlled by software protocols, it simplifies the process to novice users without extensive… »
The folks at Davis Frame Co., a timber frame home company based out of New Hampshire, recently built an off-grid home in Oregon. The large, 265 square meters (2,850 square feet) home is looking quite traditional, however, it was built with a great deal of green features in order to receive the Platinum certification from… »
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. announced support for hover detection for their capacitive touchscreen technology. The new feature, driven by Cypress’s TrueTouch, enables smart touchscreen solutions that anticipate the touch of a finger and enlarge content such as points on a map or the font of tiny website links to make them easier to find and select…. »
UCLA engineer Aydogan Ozcan, inventor of a novel lensless imaging technology known as LUCAS (Lensless Ultra-wide-field Cell Monitoring Array platform based on Shadow imaging), has now taken his work a step further by creating a miniature microscope – the world’s smallest and lightest for telemedicine applications. You can find more information in a paper published… »
We already wrote about Robovie-II robot – designed to assist the elderly and disabled in everyday task. Japanese start-up Vstone and Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), have launched a new half-size humanoid robot designed for the same purpose and they named it Robovie3. The robot is much improved, yet cheaper than its predecessor. Robovie… »
Therapists once thought the therapeutic window closed six months after a stroke, however, a major clinical study has found that patients show modest yet meaningful gains in limb movement and an improved outlook on life years after suffering a stroke. Researchers from Brown University, lead by Albert Lo who is assistant professor of neurology, used… »
Placed in the hills of Mill Valley, California, this custom home is the first LEED for Homes certified house in Marin County, and the second LEED Platinum house in Northern California. This home is a statement of what is possible when high design and high sustainability are combined. The house constructed at the 131 Hillside… »
Piezoelectric power generating technology isn’t quite new, however, its implementation and optimization is becoming more popular these days. We already wrote about Pavegen in one of our previous articles and in this article we’re going to write about an example in Toulouse, France. The energy provided by pedestrians is used to generate electricity in order… »
