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May 21 | News
Popular firewall technology designed to boost security on cellular networks can backfire, unwittingly revealing data that could help a hacker break into Facebook and Twitter accounts, a new study from the University of Michigan shows. The researchers also developed an Android app that tells phone users when they're on a vulnerable network.
May 16 | News
Text messaging is a surprisingly good way to get candid responses to sensitive questions, according to a new study to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
May 15 | News
Camera
maker Canon Inc. is moving toward fully automating digital camera
production in an effort to cut costs—a key change being played out
across Japan, a world leader in robotics. According to the company
spokesman, counting on machines can help preserve the country's
technological power.
May 4 | News
Touché,
a new sensing technique developed by a team at Disney Research,
Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon University, is a form of capacitive
touch sensing, similar to what’s used in smartphone touchscreens. But
its ability to monitor capacitive signals across a broad range of
frequencies allows it to perform functions based on complex movements:
doorknobs that know when to lock based on the type touch, for example.
May 4 | News
An interdisciplinary team of engineers at the University of Arkansas
has developed a wireless health-monitoring system that gathers critical
patient
information, regardless of the patient's location, and communicates that
information in real time to a physician, hospital, or the patient
herself.
Apr 27 | News
A newly developed cell phone-based platform lets health workers accurately
read diagnostic tests in the field and chart the spread of diseases
worldwide.
Apr 20 | News
The
new smartphone app for the Outsmart Invasive Species Project that lets
people
learn about, identify and report invasive species using an iPhone or
Android is
now available for free through iTunes and Google Play.
Apr 19 | News
Comic book hero superpowers may be one step closer to reality after the latest technological feats made by researchers at University of Texas at Dallas. They have designed an imager chip that could turn mobile phones into devices that can see through walls, wood, plastics, paper, and other objects.
Apr 17 | News
Nearly
half of the 12 million babies born prematurely in developing countries
experience episodes of apnea, a sudden stoppage of breathing. Working
from that knowledge, five bioengineering students from Rice University
created the Babalung Apnea Monitor, which can restart a baby's breathing
and raises a flag if it can't.
Apr 10 | News
Short
of smashing it to bits, the world’s most exasperating alarm clock
cannot be defeated. Once it goes off, you must get up, go to another
room, and punch the day's date into a telephone-style keypad. According
to its inventor, a 25-year-old engineer, he fears his own creation so
much gets up before it ever gets a chance to deliver its annoying sonic
payload.
