ScienceDaily: Consumer Electronics News

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• Scientists design an imaging system capable of obtaining twelve times more information than the human eye
• Physicist turns smartphones into pocket cosmic ray detectors
• Greater range for electric vehicles: Two-in-one motor

Scientists design an imaging system capable of obtaining twelve times more information than the human eye Posted: 03 Oct 2014 03:44 AM PDT Researchers have designed a new imaging system capable of obtaining up to twelve times more color information than the human eye and conventional cameras, which implies a total of 36 color channels. This important scientific development will facilitate the easy capture of multispectral images in real time, and in the not too distant future it could also be used to develop new assisted vehicle driving systems, identify counterfeit bills and documents or obtain medical images much more accurate than current ones, among many other applications.

Physicist turns smartphones into pocket cosmic ray detectors Posted: 02 Oct 2014 01:26 PM PDT A new smartphone app can essentially turn Android phones into pocket cosmic ray detectors. The app, DECO, uses the phone's camera to capture energetic subatomic light particles and log data.

Greater range for electric vehicles: Two-in-one motor Posted: 30 Sep 2014 06:03 AM PDT Scientists have invented a 2-in-1 electric motor which increases the range of electric vehicles. This innovative engine integrates the traditional electric motor with the air-con compressor, typically two separate units. This novel, space-saving design allows the use of bigger batteries, which can increase the range of electric vehicles by an additional 15 to 20 per cent.

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ScienceDaily: Computers and Internet News

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• Healthy knowledge management and social networking
• Social networks can strengthen knowledge-sharing
• Software for Google glass that provides captions for hard-of-hearing users

Healthy knowledge management and social networking Posted: 03 Oct 2014 10:57 AM PDT Social network analysis could improve knowledge sharing in the health-care sector, according to new research.

Social networks can strengthen knowledge-sharing Posted: 03 Oct 2014 10:51 AM PDT Contrary to the notion that social networks are time-wasters, they could improve project management and the spread of specialized knowledge in the healthcare sector and possibly other large organizations, according to new research.

Software for Google glass that provides captions for hard-of-hearing users Posted: 02 Oct 2014 01:26 PM PDT Speech-to-text software for Google Glass has been created that helps hard-of-hearing users with everyday conversations. A hard-of-hearing person wears Glass while a second person speaks directly into a smartphone. The speech is converted to text, sent to Glass and displayed on its heads-up display.

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ScienceDaily: Automotive and Transportation News

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Greater range for electric vehicles: Two-in-one motor Posted: 30 Sep 2014 06:03 AM PDT Scientists have invented a 2-in-1 electric motor which increases the range of electric vehicles. This innovative engine integrates the traditional electric motor with the air-con compressor, typically two separate units. This novel, space-saving design allows the use of bigger batteries, which can increase the range of electric vehicles by an additional 15 to 20 per cent.

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ScienceDaily: Engineering and Construction News

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• New materials for better, stronger and cheaper dental implants
• Boosting biofuel: Yeast made to tolerate high levels of ethanol, making them more productive
• Fine tuning nanoparticles for the medical industry
• New nanomaterial introduced into electrical machines
• All directions are not created equal for nanoscale heat sources

New materials for better, stronger and cheaper dental implants Posted: 03 Oct 2014 03:44 AM PDT A ceramic polymer blend has been developed by researchers to reduce costs of dental implants. "By optimizing the geometry and consistency of the implants we can ensure that they remain in place longer, but with a lower cost than the titanium implant," said the project collaborator in charge of industrial design.

Boosting biofuel: Yeast made to tolerate high levels of ethanol, making them more productive Posted: 02 Oct 2014 11:18 AM PDT Yeast are commonly used to transform corn and other plant materials into biofuels such as ethanol. However, large concentrations of ethanol can be toxic to yeast, which has limited the production capacity of many yeast strains used in industry.

Fine tuning nanoparticles for the medical industry Posted: 02 Oct 2014 05:41 AM PDT Nanoparticles have the potential to revolutionize the medical industry, but they must possess a few critical properties. First, they need to target a specific region, so that they do not scatter throughout the body. They also require some sort of sensing method, so that doctors and researchers can track the particles. Finally, they need to perform their function at the right moment, ideally in response to a stimulus. Scientists are trying to develop new particles with unprecedented properties that still meet these requirements.

New nanomaterial introduced into electrical machines Posted: 02 Oct 2014 05:41 AM PDT Scientists have now constructed the world's first prototype electrical motor using carbon nanotube yarn in the motor windings. The new technology may significantly enhance the performance.

All directions are not created equal for nanoscale heat sources Posted: 01 Oct 2014 06:02 AM PDT Thermal considerations are rapidly becoming one of the most serious design constraints in microelectronics, especially on submicron scale lengths. A new study has shown that standard thermal models will lead to the wrong answer in a three-dimensional heat-transfer problem if the dimensions of the heating element are on the order of one micron or smaller.

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ScienceDaily: Energy and Resources News

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Batteries included: A solar cell that stores its own power Posted: 03 Oct 2014 03:43 AM PDT Is it a solar cell? Or a rechargeable battery? Actually, the patent-pending device is both: the world's first solar battery. Scientists have succeeding in combining a battery and a solar cell into one hybrid device.

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