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Boston University’s College of Engineering is a partner launching a major program, under a National Science Foundation grant, to develop the next generation of wireless communications technology based on visible light instead of radio waves.
Researchers expect to piggyback data communications capabilities on low-power light emitting diodes, or LEDs, to create “Smart Lighting” that would be [...]

When people working on a project get together with their laptops and PDAs, they share information via the internet and a client server. But new software developed by European researchers allows independent, ad hoc, secure networking anywhere.
The power and reach of the internet in today’s world is such that people have, in a short space [...]

Observers like Bill Gates believe that by 2025 we could have robots in every home. In labs across Europe, researchers are creating designs that could become the robo-butler of the future.
Bill Gates likens the current state of robotics research to the earliest days of personal computing history when he formed the then fledging company Microsoft. [...]

With the high cost of gasoline and diesel fuel impacting costs for automobiles, trucks, buses and the overall economy, a Temple University physics professor has developed a simple device which could dramatically improve fuel efficiency as much as 20 percent.
According to Rongjia Tao, Chair of Temple’s Physics Department, the small device consists of an electrically [...]

Advances in sensing technology will help to reduce the wastage from ‘farm to fork’ that’s contributing to the UK’s £10 billion food wastage bill, according to the UK’s Sensors & Instrumentation Knowledge Transfer Network.
 
Sensors can detect early indicators of food spoilage before visual signs are apparent, identify toxins and monitor water and nutrient concentration within [...]