The company that built a flying car is working on its next project -- a four-seat, hybrid-electric flying car. Terrafugia Inc., the developer of the Transition driveable airplane, announced this week that its vision of the future of ...
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A one-of-a-kind aircraft powered solely by solar energy took to the skies above Silicon Valley early Friday morning on the first leg of a planned trip across the U.S. The aircraft, called Solar Impulse, has the wingspan of a jumbo jet but ...
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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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The University of Pennsylvania, MIT and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana are in the process of creating a surreal design involving LEDs, implants and tattoos. Researchers are working to create an implant that uses ...
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LED lighting control Control characteristics of LEDs The optimum switching and dimming behaviour of LEDs makes them ideal for integration in ...
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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 ...
President Barack Obama's nominee for energy secretary, Ernest Moniz, on Tuesday reiterated the Obama administration's position that decisions to license liquefied natural gas exports from the US should be based on a transparent, analytic ...
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Wall lighting can fulfil a number of tasks. Firstly, it can be aimed at fulfilling vertical visual tasks on the walls, whether this be informative ...
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The U.S government and two other entities involved in investigations leading to the indictment of the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz have asked a federal court in Boston to redact the names of people involved in the case from documents ...
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The next generation of smartphones could have bullet-proof sapphire-glass screens thanks to improved production techniques and falling prices. One of the many rumours surrounding Google's upcoming X Phone is that it will feature a ...
Simulations reveal that the formation of some glassy materials is like the setting of a bowl of gelatin. Gelatin sets by forming a solid matrix full of random, liquid-filled pores — much like a saturated sponge. It turns out that a ...
Apple's premier glass supplier is Corning and Apple's iPhone has been using Gorilla Glass from day one. On page 472 of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, we read: "We produced a glass that had never been made," stated Corning's CEO Wendell ...
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A pair of MIT professors and security researchers whose work paved the way for modern cryptography have been named winners of the 2012 A.M. Turing Award, also known as the "Nobel Prize in Computing." Shafi Goldwasser, the RSA professor of ...
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student Ming Ma has developed a new method to manufacture light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that are brighter, more energy efficient, and have superior technical properties than those on the market today. His ...
Ming Ma, a doctoral student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has been named the winner of the 2013 Lemelson-Rensselaer Student Prize which (along with prizes for students ...
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