By modifying a Microsoft Kinect sensor, a research project at the Computer Human Interaction (CHI) conference demonstrated how gamers in a wheelchair could interact with motion games. To see the prototype in use, watch a video on YouTube. ...
Defense Distributed, the company that developed the Liberator 3D printed gun, today released a YouTube video demonstrating its first test firing of the weapon. With dramatic orchestral music setting the tone, the video shows a man firing ...
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As developers create tiny computer devices like smartwatches, one question they face is how to make tiny keyboards usable. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University say they have a solution to that problem. They have developed what's ...
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AATCC is proud to announce the winners of the AATCC Millennial Marketing Award, a juried, invitation-only, university marketing competition for students studying retail merchandising and marketing. All of the winners are students ...
Mobility is changing the face of education with more schools investing in bring-your-own-device schemes where students are not only allowed but encouraged to replace textbooks with their personal electronic learning tools. In some private ...
You wake up in the morning and your robot starts the coffee maker and then sends the daily calendar to the car. The car then works on a plan that makes sure you keep to that schedule. It's not a scene out of a sci-fi movie. It's the ...
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IDG News Service - Researchers at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed an insect-like robot that achieves flight by flapping a pair of tiny wings. The robot is small enough to sit on the tip of a ...
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It's not a Star Trek tricorder, but by hooking a variety of gadgets onto a smartphone you can almost get a complete physical - without the paper gown or even a visit to the doctor's office. Blood pressure? Just plug the arm cuff into the ...
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The student Ming Ma from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed a new method to manufacture LEDs that are brighter, more energy efficient, and have superior technical properties than those on the market today. His patent-pending ...
April 29, 2013 - Manitoba says it now has a new strategic action plan to prevent workplace injury and illness, and to better ensure every worker makes it home safely at the end of the day. “This comprehensive strategy follows the ...
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When it comes to designing your own home office, each person prefers a different style. Even persons with the same type of job and that basically need this office for the same reasons prefer to work in a different type of environment. It's ...
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Acute or chronic sleep deprivation resulting in increased feelings of fatigue is one of the leading causes of workplace incidents and related injuries. More incidents and performance failures, such as automobile accidents, occur in the ...
Researchers at the University of Michigan have invented a way for different wireless networks crammed into the same space to say "excuse me" to one another. Wi-Fi shares a frequency band with the popular Bluetooth and ZigBee systems, and ...
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Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, in collaboration with the école Polytechnique in Paris, France, say that they have identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that causes nitride light-emitting diodes ...
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Actress Kangana Ranaut campaigns in Delhi against the use of tinted glass in cars New Delhi, April 23: If you have vehicles with tinted glass, then be ready to let go of your insurance claim. According to a government proposal to the ...
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