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US research uniform 'super smart'
When a soldier is wounded on the battlefield, his intelligent uniform informs him of the location of the wound, and even traces its weapons, biological and chemical weap…
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GraphExeter - The lightest, most transparent and most flexible transmission material
Currently, almost all touch-screen displays of electronic technology devices must rely on a coating made from indium tin oxide (ITO) material. This material is used by e…
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Electronic books emit light
Dubbed the 'Simple Touch and Light', the Nook uses an LED system to illuminate when light from the surrounding environment is too small. Light emits enough to no…
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Application to help blind people type messages
Researchers are developing a new application that runs on touchscreen smartphones to help blind people type in messages.
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Find beautiful dreams with your phone
Yumemiru, the name of the application, pushed the 'homemade' fever of the 1990s to a new scientific peak by leveraging the built-in touch-sensitive system of you…
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Manufacturing 'electronic leather'
Scientists have successfully researched the 'electronic skin' technology that has a very sensitive sense of touch like human skin, Nature Materials said.
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Flip book is like paper books
Scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have recently developed a technology that allows users to turn e-book pages like paper books.
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Phone diagnostics
Supported by the Korean government, researchers at the Institute of Advanced Science and Technology are developing new technologies. Accordingly, simply pressing on the…
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Digital pen
The Wacom pen-maker has just released its Inkling digital pen design kit, which allows users to record and copy sketches on paper to a computer for editing.
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Touch screen with paper
Paper can be used as a touch screen, and this idea has been demonstrated by Japanese experts.
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The hybrid car 'hybrid' smartphone
On November 28th, Toyota Motor Co. surprised many with the release of its model car, Fun-Vii, describing it as
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Breakthrough on touch screen for the blind
Scientists at the Polytechnic University of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, have invented a new generation of touchscreens that allow users to feel by touching their finge…
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Using infrared sensor technology to fabricate behavior monitoring system
Irisys, UK, conducted initial testing of hand washing monitoring (using infrared sensor) monitoring systems at the NHS trust Institute in London, where health workers wo…
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The Omnittouch system makes paper sheets an interactive surface
A portable projector system allows users to make paper, wall or even human hands into a graphical interface that can interact.
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Touchscreen for the visually impaired
A team of researchers at Stanford University has invented a way for visually impaired people to use the tablet's touchscreen as a Braille keyboard.