When it comes to testing for cancer, environmental pollution and food contaminants, traditional sensors can help. The challenges are that they often are bulky, expensive, non-intuitive and c... Read more
Technology developed at UC Riverside has wide applications, from designing better cars and smartphones to high-tech baseball gloves Imagine an automobile crash test that uses test dummies pa... Read more
A small pressure sensor can make the difference between life and death. The first tests on humans will be carried out in April on patients with spinal injuries at Sunnaas Hospital. More than... Read more
Could Aid in the Design of Pressure Sensors and Artificial Muscles If you squeeze a normal object in all directions, it shrinks in all directions. But a few strange materials will actually g... Read more
Having trouble getting the lid off that pickle jar? Well, perhaps the Human Grasp Assist device can help. Designed through a collaboration between GM and NASA – and also known as Robo-... Read more
A novel power supply: the acoustic energy from bass-heavy riffs of rap music We’ve been following the evolution of patient-embedded medical sensors for some time – miniature devi... Read more
The system should offer 99.999999999997 percent reliability Given that wireless gear-shifting for bicycles has been around for the past few years, perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surpri... Read more
Think twice before you walk away from your car — one day, it may holler at you to come back. At least that’s the hope of some Middle Bucks Institute of Technology students, who have de... Read more