Despite numerous refinements and improvements to
the technology used to harness the power of the wind, windmills of old
share an obvious characteristic with their gigantic modern counterparts.
They're static. A network of designers coming together under the banner
of Pope Designs has come up with a mobile wind turbine concept that
could just change all that. Able to generate and store enough power to
meet its own needs, the turbine could also be erected anywhere the wind
blows to provide a source of clean energy to those who need it. Read More
With its multi-adjustable chassis and brutal
180-horsepower V4 engine, the Aprilia RSV4 was already the most
race-focused roadbike we'd ever seen when we took it for a video road test
earlier this year. Its race pedigree was proven last month at Imola
when Max Biaggi cruised to a dominant championship win in what was only
Aprilia's second season back in World Superbike. But the pace of
progress is furious, and yesterday at Intermot
in Cologne, Aprilia revealed a new model upgrade with a class-leading
electronics package that brings MotoGP-style rider assist features like
adjustable wheelie control and launch control to a roadbike for the
first time, as well as 8-way adjustable traction control and a
full-throttle quickshift system. If we thought last year's RSV4 was
racetrack-focused, the new Arpilia RSV4 APRC Special Edition makes it
look like a courier hack. Read More
The benefits of wind farms in terms of global
climate change are well recognized but according to researchers at the
University of Illinois they can also affect local climates as well. The
researchers observed that the area immediately surrounding a wind farm
is slightly warmer at night and slightly cooler during the day compared
to the rest of the region. The discovery could allow for strategies to
mitigate those effects in areas where they are undesirable, or take
advantage of them in others. Read More
Docomo's AR Walker is a virtual tour guide in a pair of glasses
By Rick Martin
October 5, 2010
At this year's CEATEC conference in Chiba, Japan, Docomo previewed the AR Walker augmented reality application that uses a tiny display screen mounted on a pair of glasses, rather than on a mobile phone screen like Layar
or other AR apps. While the AR Walker application is not by itself
anything new, being able to see annotations of the world around you
without having to view it through a mobile phone's camera display is.
Docomo has come one step closer to the fictional augmented reality
glasses that anime fans might remember from the TV series Dennou Coil, where children wore glasses to view virtual objects superimposed over the real world. Read More
In a collaborative study on sustainable building
materials, researchers from Spain’s University of Seville and Glasgow’s
University of Strathclyde have created bricks that contain sheep’s wool
and a polymer derived from seaweed. Clay-based soils were provided by
Scottish brick manufacturers, while the wool came from Scotland's
textile industry, which produces more of the stuff than it can use. The
polymer was an alginate, which occurs naturally in the cell walls of
seaweed. Mixed together, the three substances resulted in bricks that
were reportedly 37 percent stronger than regular unfired bricks. Read More
Earlier this year the iPhone 4 became the first smartphone
to boast a built-in gyroscope in addition to an accelerometer,
proximity sensor and ambient light sensor. Combining a gyroscope with an
accelerometer allows the device to sense motion on six axes – left,
right, up, down, forward and backward, as well as roll, pitch and yaw
rotations – allowing for more accurate motion sensing abilities
comparable to a game controller such as the Wii-mote. The iPhone 4 uses a
MEMs
(micro-electro-mechanical-systems) gyroscope but a newly developed
optical gyroscope, small enough to fit on the head of a pin, could allow
the integration of more accurate motion sensing technology in not only
smartphones, but also in medical devices inside the human body. Read More
TDK has been showing off its new OLED
film at the CEATEC conference in Chiba, Japan. This flexible film
surface can even show images while bending, giving it an immediate
advantage over glass displays. TDK hopes to begin production of the film
displays within one year, so it might not be such a long time before we
see them popping up in our mobile devices. Read More
In a study that could have implications for the
treatment of traumatic injuries in humans, scientists at Tufts
University in Massachusetts have succeeded in getting tadpoles to regrow
amputated tails. The researchers first noted that when the tails were
cut off of young Xenopus laevis (African clawed frog) tadpoles,
a localized increase in sodium ions occurred at the amputation site,
which allowed the tail to regenerate – something which tadpoles lose the
ability to do as they mature. However, after an hour of treatment with a
drug cocktail that triggered an influx of sodium ions into injured
cells, older tadpoles were also able to regenerate their tails.
Given that tadpole tails contain spinal cord, muscle, nerves and other
materials, it’s possible that the process might someday be able to
regenerate the spinal cords, or even limbs, of people. Read More
Featured gallery: BMW's new six cylinder motorcycles
By Gizmag Team
October 5, 2010
When BMW dropped its stunning Concept 6
out of the blue last year, the intention to revive the inline six was
clear… and here it is. The new K 1600 GT and K 1600 GTL touring
motorcycles are being offered with the company's 6-cylinder in-line
engine – a 118 kW (160 bhp) unit producing maximum torque of 175 Nm
which, at 102.6 kg, is billed as the lightest and most compact serial
production 6-cylinder in-line engine in a motorcycle over 1000 cc to
date. The new tourers also pack some top-shelf tech... check the gallery
for loads of images from BMW as well as those we snapped at Intermot 2010 where the bikes are on show this week. Read More
A research project that began in 2004 and
involved 38 institutions around the world has culminated in the
sequencing of the Culex mosquito genome. Culex is one of the three mosquito genera, the other two – Anopheles and Aedes
– having already been sequenced in 2002 and 2007, respectively. It is
also the genus that obtains the West Nile virus from infected birds and
transmits it to humans. Scientists hope that by better understanding the
mosquito, they may be better able to control the spread of the virus.
Read More
Kawasaki goes all-in: the 200+bhp 2011 Ninja ZX-10R
By Loz Blain
October 7, 2010
Kawasaki has stamped its foot; Team Green is sick
of playing catch-up in World Superbikes, it will no longer be content
to languish at the back of the field. But defeating the monstrous
Aprilia RSV4 and the ominous BMW S1000RR is going to require a
motorcycle leagues ahead of what Kawasaki has been rolling out in 2010.
Behold, motorcycle fans, the new king of the castle. Ripping out a
terrifying 210 horsepower and weighing just 198kg full of fuel and
fluids, the 2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R leap-frogs to the front of the
power and power-to-weight charts. But it's not just muscles that make
this bike so special, it sports a completely redesigned chassis aimed at
improving handling and racetrack lap times – and a traction control/ABS
setup that ditches all notions that such systems are for safety. On the
new Ninja, the intelligent electronics are all focused on making you
faster than ever before on the road or track. Wouldn't it be an amazing
turnaround if this machine could catapult Kawasaki back into World
Superbike contention? Either way, this is one of the most exciting bikes
we've seen in lime green for a lot of years, and it's a signal to the
other Japanese manufacturers that near enough is no longer good enough.
Read More
At CEATEC 2010 in Chiba, Japan, Panasonic exhibited the Lumix Phone, amid some significant excitement as they had teased the specs in a release
the previous week. While it remains to be seen exactly how good the
Lumix Phone is, it's certainly interesting to see a product that at
least approaches the model of a camera with a phone rather than a just
another phone with a camera. Read More
Traditional manually powered wheelchairs require
the occupant to turn the chair’s rear wheels with a pushing action. This
places a lot of stress on muscles that aren’t really designed to be
used in this way, resulting in everything from repetitive stress
injuries and muscle pain to torn rotor cuffs, joint degeneration and
carpal tunnel syndrome. To combat this, Salim Nasser of Merritt Island,
Florida, has taken a backward approach and developed the Rowheel System,
which allows a pulling motion to translate into forward motion of a wheelchair.
This transfers loads and stresses usually placed on weaker shoulder and
arm muscles onto more capable muscles in the upper back, shoulders and
arms to reduce the chance of injury and give the user an overall
increase in endurance and range. Read More
Finding room for green spaces
in more and more crowded cities isn’t easy but NYU graduate student
Marco Castro Cosio has hit upon the idea of planting gardens on some
previously wasted space found on city streets – the roofs of buses. With
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) running a fleet
of around 4,500 buses, each with a surface area of 340 square feet (31.5
m2), Cosio says that if a garden was grown on the roof of every one,
there would be an extra 35 acres of rolling green space in the city.
Read More
New e-display promises high performance, low power usage
By Ben Coxworth
October 6, 2010
According to University of Cincinnati electrical
and computer engineer Jason Heikenfeld, there are two types of
electronic devices: things such as e-readers, that require little power
but have displays with limited performance, and devices such as
smartphones and laptops, that display bright, full-color moving video,
but that guzzle batteries. After seven years of development, however,
Heikenfeld and collaborators from Gamma Dynamics are now presenting a
new type of electronic display. They claim that their “zero-power” electrofluidic system combines the energy efficiency of the one type of device, with the high performance of the other. Read More
We first covered XOR’s folding electric scooters
about a year ago but, aside from their top speed, weight and the fact
they fold up, there wasn’t a lot of info on them available. Now we’ve
had a chance to see the folding scooter in action at Intermot 2010 and nail down a few more details about the vehicle from XOR Motors that is dubbed the “XO2 Urban Transformer.” Read More
DEMON UAV achieves historic first 'flapless flight'
By Ben Coxworth
October 6, 2010
An unmanned aerial vehicle named DEMON made
history last month when it demonstrated “flapless flight” at an airfield
in Cumbria, England. The demonstrator aircraft’s ailerons/elevators
were locked off, allowing it to maneuver using nothing but a series of
forced-air jets along the trailing edges of its wings. In the future,
such technology could benefit military or commercial aircraft because of
fewer moving parts, less maintenance and a stealthier profile. Read More
smart USA announced today that it will be
collaborating with Nissan on a new five-door car. According to a
Memorandum of Understanding between the two companies, smart USA would
obtain the rights to procure and distribute a five-door, gasoline
powered, B-segment vehicle from Nissan for sale through the smart USA
retail dealership network. Read More
It’s just what every young boy with a messy
bedroom has dreamed of – a robot that trundles across the floor, picks
things up, and takes them away. WowWee’s Roboscooper can do just that,
although it’s limited to small objects that weigh no more than an ounce.
The toy robot has six rubber wheels, a cargo bed, articulated arms, and
a WALL-E-like head with infrared eyes. Users can guide it to objects
manually with the remote control, or leave it in autonomous mode, where
it roams around (avoiding obstacles) and picks up whatever it comes
across. It then takes the items to a location determined by the user,
where it shakes them out of its cargo bed. Read More
Horex unveils six-cylinder supercharged motorcycle
By Loz Blain
October 6, 2010
German brand Horex hasn't made a motorcycle for
50 years – but since a new ownership team took over the brand name in
2007, plans have been afoot to change that – and at this year's Intermot
in Cologne, we got our first close-up look at what the new owners are
playing at. The Horex VR6 is a modern super-naked featuring a staggered
six-cylinder engine with forced induction via a belt-drive supercharger.
The quick-revving motor will develop up to a meaty 200 horsepower,
putting it right up with Yamaha's 2009 V-Max in the musclebike stakes.
The new German bike's looks will draw inevitable comparison to Honda's
recent CB1100F – and when you combine the looks with the premium
pricetag, it's fair to say the Horex VR6 is targeted at cashed-up older
riders who will appreciate the retro looks, the comfortable riding
position and the seemingly limitless reserves of power that blown 1200cc
powerplant is going to pump out. It's great to see forced induction
back on the bike shopper's menu! Read More
When not in use, a guitar tuner is unlikely to
see the light of day and is destined to spend much of its life inside a
gig bag or hard case. But not giving Tascam's new tuner access to nice,
bright sunlight is very bad form indeed. The battery inside the tiny
TC-1S is solar charged so if it goes flat, then so do you... Read More
Remember those innocent days when a humble
cassette tape more than met our computer entertainment needs? As more
and more of our lives have been digitized, our storage requirements have
risen at almost the same rate as our impatience at waiting for files to
travel from one place to another. Western Digital offers some relief
with the announcement that it has upped the storage capacity and data
transfer capabilities on its popular My Passport Essential, My Passport
Essential SE and MyBook Essential external drives. In addition to
offering up to 3TB of space for keeping digital memories, media, photos
and files in one place, the range now also features USB 3.0
connectivity. Read More
Looking to make typing on tablet computers
easier (and add another term to the mobile computing lexicon), French
company AlphaUI is developing a “back-typing” concept that adds an
external physical keyboard to the back of a tablet. The prototype device
from AlphaUI is designed to attach to the back of smaller tablets with
5-7-inch displays and provides 24 standard-sized physical keys that are
ergonomically placed within easy reach of the user’s fingers as they
hold the tablet. Read More
At a press conference held this morning in San
Francisco, California’s Berkeley Bionics unveiled its eLEGS exoskeleton.
The computer-controlled device is designed to be worn by paraplegics,
providing the power and support to get them out of their wheelchairs,
into a standing posture, and walking – albeit with the aid of crutches.
The two formerly wheelchair-bound “test pilots” in attendance did indeed
use eLEGS to walk across the stage, in a slow-but-steady gait similar
to that of full-time crutch-users. Read More
Six times the luxury with Gresso’s Luxor World Time phone
By Darren Quick
October 7, 2010
Camera phones are pretty much de rigueur nowadays
but what about clock phones? Sure, your mobile phone no doubt displays
the time but does it simultaneously give the time for six different time
zones using six separate clock faces on the rear of the phone? Unless
you own one of Gresso’s Luxor World Time phones, I’m guessing not. Read More
Researchers from Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute
for Process Engineering and Packaging have developed a new type of food
packaging film that kills food-inhabiting bacteria. While antimicrobial
polymers in food packaging have been around for some time, the new
material is unique in that it incorporates sorbic acid that has been
dissolved into a lacquer, which is then deposited onto the film. When
that lacquer first touches the food, a timed release of the acid begins,
which neutralizes a significant number of the microorganisms on the
food’s surface. The result, according to the researchers, is the ability
to keep meat, fish and cheese fresher for longer. Read More
As part of Qatar’s bid for the 2022 World Cup,
the London-based architects responsible for the 2007 reconstruction of
Wembley Stadium, Foster + Partners, has designed an energy efficient
stadium to be built in the Qatar capital of Doha. When completed, the
Lusail Iconic Stadium will boast enough room for 86,250 spectators and
will be surrounded by parking and service areas shaded by canopies of
solar collectors, which will produce energy for the stadium when it’s in
use, as well as generating power for neighboring buildings. Read More
One of the more unique two-wheeled wonders at this year’s Intermot show
in Cologne is Third Element’s eSpire. This German bicycle features
“hybrid drive,” meaning that it can be pedaled ebike-style with electric
assist or driven with a throttle, like an electric motorcycle.
Its mountain bike-like frame and wheels allow for off-road adventures,
but it reportedly also makes a good commuter... and oh yeah, it looks
pretty cool, too. Read More
Suzuki has used Intermot Cologne to reveal its first new bikes for 2011 – the revamped GSX-R600 and 750 supersports. But similarly to the 2009 makeover the Gixxer 1000 received,
the new middleweights are more evolution than revolution despite the
fact that the designers essentially went back to the drawing board.
All-new engines and drivetrains produce the same peak horsepower as this
year's model (that's 123hp for the 600 and 148 for the 750) but
significant efforts have been made to improve fuel efficiency and reduce
power losses between the crank and the rear wheel. The chassis and
wheelbase of both bikes have been shortened, both bikes sport Showa's
fashionable and fully adjustable Big Piston forks and there's a new and
improved, radial Brembo monobloc braking system. The big news is that
the Gixxer6 and 750 have gone on a pretty impressive diet, shedding 8
and 9 kilos respectively. It looks like a solid upgrade, if perhaps a
little unexciting. Read More
Smart TV has landed. Logitech has announced a
full line of products to allow users to make the most of Google TV,
including what used to be referred to as a set-top box with a specially
designed keyboard controller, a high definition camera that fits on top
of the HD television and a smartphone app that will turn an iPhone, iPad
or any Android device into a system remote. Users will already need to
have a HD television, a satellite or cable provider and a broadband line
to benefit from the unit and accessories, but can then look forward to
additional online content played through the TV and seamless search
across all available programming. Read More
Tilt-rotor aircraft such as the Bell-Boeing built V-22 Osprey
that use powered rotors mounted on rotating shafts or nacelles at the
end of a fixed wing for lift and propulsion combine the vertical takeoff
and landing (VTOL)
capabilities of a helicopter with the speed and range of a conventional
fixed-wing aircraft. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is bringing
these benefits to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with its new Panther and Mini Panther UAVs that were unveiled last week at the Latrun Conference in Israel. Read More
Looking like an unassuming weapon from Oddjob's
arsenal, the Unbreakable Umbrella is the weapon of choice for
well-heeled bowler-hatted gentlemen cum ninja assassins everywhere. It's
also a good buy for anyone who has some cash to splash on a nifty
umbrella that not only keeps the rain off but can carve up a watermelon
with one well-placed chop. Read More
Last July Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2), the VSS Enterprise, made its first manned flight.
For the duration of that flight, the spacecraft remained attached to
its jet-powered carrier aircraft. But over the weekend VSS Enterprise
left the protective grip of its mothership, VMS Eve,
to successfully achieve its first manned free flight. Released from VMS
Eve at an altitude of 45,000 ft (13,700 meters), VSS Enterprise glided
for 11 minutes before landing at Mojave Air and Spaceport, successfully
completing the two main goals of the flight. Read More
Samsung Galaxy Tab stands out among tablets at CEATEC Japan
By Rick Martin
October 10, 2010
At CEATEC 2010
in Chiba, Japan this past week, more than a few companies were
showcasing tablet computers, due in no small part to the success of
Apple's iPad. The most notable among them was the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Read More
Robot-assisted surgery has a number of advantages
over traditional surgery – it’s steadier, more precise, less invasive,
plus the surgeon doesn’t even have to be in the same room (or continent)
as the patient. One of its drawbacks, however, is the fact that
surgeons can’t feel any of the resistance put up by the patients’
tissues – essentially, the controls provide no sense of touch. To
address this problem, Linda van den Bedem from Eindhoven University of
Technology (TU/e) has created a prototype surgical robot that does provide tactile feedback, and its name is Sofie... or Surgeon’s Operating Force-feedback Interface Eindhoven. Read More
After five years of effort, chemists at
Nashville’s Vanderbilt University have developed a new class of liquid
crystals with an electric dipole that’s over twice that of existing
liquid crystals... that’s good, right? Yes, it is. An electric dipole
consists of two equal yet opposing electrical charges (i.e: positive and
negative) within a molecule, that are physically separated from one
another. The greater the distance between them, the larger the dipole.
In liquid crystals, larger dipoles result in the ability to switch
between bright and dark states faster, and lower threshold voltages –
this means it requires less voltage to get them moving. Read More
For decades, fans of airships have been hoping
for a large-scale revival of the majestic floating aircraft. Every few
years, lighter than air flying concepts come along to raise those hopes,
such as Northrop Grumman’s Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle, Skyhook’s JHL-40, and DARPA’s Walrus, which led to the current Aeroscraft ML866
project. Now there's another unique contender to the throw into the mix
– Australia’s Skylifter. If it ever makes it to the skies, however,
it’s sure to be the source of some bogus UFO sightings. Read More
Parrot's AR Drone,
the iphone-controlled, twin-camera packing RC quadrocopter we first saw
in action at CES 2010 has now been released. The US$300 flyer features
interchangeable hulls for indoor and outdoor use, flight stabilization,
autopilot technology, plus it can be networked with other drones for
multi-player gameplay. Read More
World first GPS goggles with head mounted display
By Paul Ridden
October 8, 2010
A coming together of sports lens developer Zeal
Optics and display innovator Recon Instruments has managed to
successfully squeeze both GPS technology and head-mounted display into a
set of ski goggles named Transcend. A tiny computer gathers information
from a number of onboard sensors and provides location, speed, altitude
and temperature information to the wearer via a micro-LCD display
inside the goggles. The image from the display is then virtually
projected so that it appears out in front of the user. Read More
Awareness Headphone App helps you stay alert
October 8, 2010
Following a stream of incidents where teenagers
or cyclists have been hit by a car or truck because they were listening
to music with headphones on, London based company Essency has released
Awareness! The Headphone App. The philosophy behind the app is to allow
users to listen to music, whilst remaining street safe and street smart.
When listening to music (at any desired volume) a user will be able to
hear important sounds, like a siren, shout or directed conversation. The
application utilizes the inbuilt microphone on the iPhone and iPod
Touch to record outside sounds and by recognizing the street level sound
it will then “bleed” all louder noises through the headphones. Read More
Lexus unveils 'world's most advanced' driving simulator
By Ben Coxworth
October 12, 2010
At the Lexus research campus in Higashifuji,
Japan, the automotive company has created what it claims is the most
advanced driving simulator ever built. It consists of a 15 feet high by
20 feet wide domed pod which moves on a series of interlocking motion
tracks within a hangar the size of a football stadium. Inside the pod, a
full-size Lexus car is mounted on a turntable, and surrounded by an
interactive 360-degree high-definition audio-visual simulation of real
world driving environments. By allowing test drivers to safely
experience various sketchy driving scenarios, the company hopes to learn
more about driver behaviors and reaction times before accidents, then
incorporate those findings into new active safety features in their
cars. Read More
TruFocals eyeglasses feature adjustable focus
By Ben Coxworth
October 12, 2010
If you wear bifocal or even trifocal eyeglasses,
then you will know what a hassle it can be having to tilt your head up
to see things that are nearby. The areas of image softness or distortion
can also be distracting, and even cause nausea or headaches in some
users. Using multiple pairs of single-vision glasses gets you around
these problems, but introduces the problem of... well, of carrying
around and using multiple pairs of glasses. TruFocals, however, allow
users to wear one pair of glasses for near-, far- and mid-vision,
without having different focal areas within the same lens at the same
time. Instead, users actually focus the glasses by hand, not unlike a
pair of binoculars. Read More
Piezoelectric generators that harness otherwise wasted energy from vibrations has been proposed for capturing energy in everything from shoes to roads.
Now a new device made out of piezoelectric material by researchers at
Louisiana Tech University could allow a wide range of electronic devices
to harvest their own wasted operational energy, resulting in devices
that are much more energy efficient. It even offers the potential to
perpetually power micro and nano devices, such as biomedical devices or
remotely located sensors and communication nodes. Read More
An unexpected measurement has been achieved with
the Venus Express, a satellite currently studying the atmosphere of
Venus. While the satellite was not fitted with instruments to directly
measure atmosphere density, the scientists have discovered by measuring
the drag as the Venus Express experiences air resistance that the
atmosphere is 60 percent thinner than expected. This "working on the
fly" approach could allow the scientists to extend the life of the craft
allowing them to collect more data. Read More
Giant mushrooms to greenify downtown LA using sewage
By Darren Quick
October 11, 2010
Mushroom-shaped solar evaporators have taken out
first place in a competition asking architects, landscape architects,
designers, engineers, urban planners, students and environmental
professionals to create an innovative urban vision for a
several-mile-long development zone on the eastern edge of downtown LA.
The Project Umbrella submission features a series of umbrella-like
structures designed to clarify black water from city sewage which would
then be used to encourage the growth of surrounding trees and plants.
Read More
A quarter of a century after introducing the
world's first graphing calculator, Casio has announced its next
generation model that's been designed to deliver graphs and statistical
data as they appear in color textbooks. The PRIZM gets a new, modern
body design, offers high resolution color graphics and gives students
the opportunity to plot graphs over background image curves and then
discover the math functions used to create them. Read More
Joby ups the intensity with new Gorillatorch Blade
By Darren Quick
October 11, 2010
Joby’s Gorillatorch line has been removing the
torches from DIYer’s mouths and underarms for a while now with its
original 65-lumens Gorillatorch, which was joined earlier this year by the more powerful 100-lumens Gorillatorch Flare.
For the latest addition to the line Joby has again upped the light
intensity with the new Gorillatorch Blade. The Blade features the
instantly recognizable flexible legs that are found on all Gorillapod
tripods, along with a long-lasting CREE XLamp XP-C LED producing up to
130 lumens of light output, which can be adjusted from spot to flood.
Read More
Vehicles of the wheeled variety aren’t the only
ones going green. U.S. companies International Battery and Electric
Marine Propulsion (EMP) are partnering up to build a hybrid power train
for the world’s largest plug-in, hybrid electric boats and yachts. The
partnership has resulted in one of the world’s largest plug-in hybrid
sailboats, a Tag 60 catamaran christened Tang, hitting the
water on September 21. It is a 60 ft (18m) carbon-fiber speedster that
can be powered by the wind, even when the wind isn’t blowing. Read More
Scientists at the University of Bonn have brought
new meaning to the phrase "light-hearted" with the discovery of a way
to cause arrhythmia in the heart cells of mice using only blue light and
a sensor in the cell wall. They hope it could be used to research the
development of arrhythmia, one of the commonest causes of death after a
heart attack. Read More
Silicon-based solar cells, by far the most prevalent type of solar cell
available today, might provide clean, green energy but they are bulky,
rigid and expensive to produce. Organic (carbon-based) semiconductors
are seen as a promising way to enable flexible, lightweight solar cells
that would also be much cheaper to produce as they could be “printed” in
large plastic sheets at room temperature. New research from physicists
at Rutgers University has strengthened hopes that solar cells based on
organic semiconductors may one day overtake silicon solar cells in cost
and performance, thereby increasing the practicality of solar-generated
electricity as an alternative energy source to fossil fuels. Read More
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