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Contact Lenses With Circuits, Lights A Possible Platform For Superhuman Vision
January 17, 2008 — Achieving superhuman vision like the Bionic Woman's could be as easy as popping in a contact lens. Engineers have for the first time combined a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an ... > full story -
Ambient Intelligence: Snowboarding To The New Frontier
January 16, 2008 — Think how many lives could be saved if emergency services were alerted the moment a pedestrian is run over. Think how much more fun snowboarding could be if you could emote your feelings ... > full story -
Simple Online Methods Increase Physician Disease Reporting
January 15, 2008 — With emerging diseases like the West Nile Virus, and re-emerging diseases such as the pandemic flu and drug-resistant tuberculosis, it's increasingly important to promptly detect a potential ... > full story -
Tracking Products In Global Supply Chains With RFID
January 14, 2008 — The once imposing barriers to mass implementation of RFID tracking solutions along global supply chains are starting to come down. Pilot projects are under way in some of Europe's most important ... > full story -
Teens Getting Help For Suicidal Behavior From An Online Community
January 14, 2008 — Adolescents tend to be hard to reach when it comes to communicating their feelings. But, researchers have discovered many teens are seeking emotional support from an online community. New research ... > full story -
A Better Virtual World, One Tree (or Millions) At A Time
January 11, 2008 — The inability of casual computer users to build 3-D objects is an anchor holding back the promise of virtual worlds, such as Second Life or World of Warcraft. Now computer science researchers are ... > full story -
For Nutrition Info, Moms Like The Web Best
January 11, 2008 — A Web site is a better source of information on nutrition than a video game or printed pamphlet, according to a study of low-income mothers reported in the Journal of Nutrition Education and ... > full story -
New Technology Protects Internet Advertisers From Click Fraud
January 8, 2008 — New technology that protects Internet advertisers from "click fraud" -- falsely driving up hits to ads on Web pages. The extra clicks drive up costs for pay-per-click ... > full story -
Forest Service Launches Web-based Forest Threats Viewing Tool
January 2, 2008 — The Forest Service's Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center recently launched its forest threats summary viewer, a tool that will provide images, threat distribution maps, additional ... > full story -
Mapmaking For The Masses: User-generated Content Can Profoundly Impact Geographic Information Systems
December 31, 2007 — Sites such as Wikimapia and OpenStreetMap are empowering citizens to create a global patchwork of geographic information. According to Michael Goodchild from the University of California in Santa ... > full story -
Cryptic Messages Boost Data Security
December 23, 2007 — Quantum cryptography, or quantum key distribution, enables two communicating parties to produce a shared random bit string know only to them, which can be used as a key to crypt and decrypt messages. ... > full story -
'Combinatorial' Approach Squashes Software Bugs Faster, Cheaper
December 17, 2007 — Software researchers are developing an open-source tool that uses an emerging approach called 'combinatorial testing' to catch programming errors. The tool could save software developers significant ... > full story
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