Researchers from the University of Michigan collaborated with researchers from the Simon Fraser University in Canada and the University of Pittsburgh to create a knee brace that captures energy from walking and utilizes it to generate electricity. The energy captured ...

The Taiwanese company “E-lead” chose to reveal its newly developed “Noahpad UMPC” at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las-Vegas. The Noahpad is a miniature laptop computer with a unique interface designed to allow users to “unchain themselves” from ...

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis as the recipients of the 2007 Turing Award. The award, named after the British mathematician Alan M. Turing, is considered to be the ...

A team of researchers at the University of St. Andrews, in the U.K., has developed one of the smallest optical switches ever made. This switch, measuring about one tenth the size of a human hair, may eventually be used in ...

A group of researchers at Clemson University recently developed a new process and equipment that is expected to significantly reduce the amount of heat generated by silicon chips used for speeding processors. As microprocessors tend to generate more heat at ...

The U.S. based company “Fulton Innovation” has developed a technology that enables wirelessly charging electrical devices. The company demonstrated a series of products powered by “eCoupled Intelligent Wireless Power” at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las-Vegas. The engineers ...

With Ad Notam’s Mirror Image LCD Engine, an ordinary mirror is transformed into a fully integrated TV monitor. The MAGIC MIRROR can change from serving as a reflective mirror to serving as an LCD display screen, and vice-versa. Whether mounted ...

Team Aquaduct was declared as the winner of the first “Innovate or Die” Pedal-Powered Machine Challenge that took place earlier this month. Google, in collaboration with the bicycle maker Goodby Silverstein & Partners, held this competition in order to encourage ...

Crystal Island is an ambitious building project on an unprecedented scale, which was recently granted preliminary planning permission in Moscow. Designed by Foster and Partners, whose chairman is the accomplished architect Norman Foster, this impressive project will be the world’s ...

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed a class of material structures that can repel oils. This discovery may have applications in various fields, but will probably be used mainly in the aviation and space-travel industries. The ...