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New malaria detection device for faster diagnostics
Apr 27 2009, Atul

Malaria is a fatal disease, especially when the type is not detected. Many people lose their lives in the African region owing to the same problem. A group of scientists from the University of Glasgow claim that they have succeeded in creating a...

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Eco Tech: Cheaper, more efficient solar cells under development
Mitali, Shimla
Eco Factor: New solar cells promise an efficiency of 6%. Researchers at the University of California have designed a new solar cell which will be far cheaper than...
University of California, Nanopillars, solar energy, renewable energy
made popular Jul 7 2009
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Silicon Valley grows latest Calif. political class
AP, Sacramento
Silicon Valley, the nation’s center of high-tech innovation, is exporting a new kind of product _ frustrated former CEOs leaping from the boardroom to politics...
US, California, Politics, Silicon
made popular Apr 22 2009
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Mixed feelings about Sun setting in Silicon Valley
AP, San Francisco
If IBM Corp. had managed to buy longtime rival Sun Microsystems Inc., it might have been as incongruous as waking up to a big blue sun.
Oracle, Sun, Silicon, Valley
made popular Apr 20 2009
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Eco Tech: Researchers devise ingenious way to better Li-Ion batteries
Anupam, Shimla
Eco Factor: Core-Shell Silicon Nanowires can improve the capacity of Li-Ion batteries. Technologies of the future will depend more on portable power sources than on...
Li-Ion batteries, Portable batteries, Silicon, Nanostructured Silicon
made popular Jan 21 2009
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Eco Tech: Nano-Silicon to boost the capacity of Li-ion batteries
Anupam, Shimla
Eco Factor: Replacing graphite anode with nano-silicon enhances current storage capacity of lithium-ion batteries. The only factor preventing global adoption of...
Silicon, Lithium Ion batteries, Electric cars, Electricity
made popular Nov 26 2008
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AMD makeover moves show limited choices in slump
AP, Sunnyvale
Many of the problems facing Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are of its own making. But the limited choices the chip maker has for solving its troubles are symptoms of an...
TEC, Silicon, Valley, Blues
made popular Nov 13 2008
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Graphene may replace silicon in microchip manufacturing
Jaiyant Cavale, Bangalore
Graphene, the tough material that can stand even a diamond cutter may soon be used in manufacturing microchips. Graphene may soon replace silicon and help manufacture...
Graphene, Silicon, Microchip, Ultra Capacitors
made popular Sep 18 2008
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Joy Yang designs Glowing Bubble, an ergonomic lighting solution for the elderly
Jaiyant Cavale, Bangalore
Joy Yang of Queensland Univeristy of Technology, Australia has designed the Glowing Bubble, a lighting system for the elderly that aims to help them lead an independent...
Joy yang, Glowing Bubble, Silicon, Light
made popular Sep 6 2008
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Transistors go atom-sized
Jayaprashanth, bangalore
In yet another innovation that could further Moore’s law and make it much more relevant, even in the future, we now have a transistor created by British...
Moore's law, Graphene, Silicon, Atom-sized Transistor
made popular Apr 19 2008
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Solaria synthesizes solar panels with less raw material
Sameer Kumar, Hyderabad
One of the major reasons why the world is not taking up solar energy as rapidly as it should is because of the simple fact that the initial installation cost is too...
Solaria, Solar Panels, Silicon, Solar Energy Solar Cell Synthesis
made popular Mar 26 2008
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The backless bra-true to its name
Mayuri Majumdar, Kolkata
Here is a very true to its name backless bra. Sassybax has launched one. It comes in two colors- nude and black with silicon cups and spandex material. It does not have...
Bra, Backless Bra, Silicon
made popular Mar 13 2008
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Carbon based electronics 10 times faster than silicon possible
Sameer Kumar, Hyderabad
We all are already well aware of the value of ‘Carbon’ as a building block of life itself. We owe our very existence to carbon and its miraculous property...
Silicon, Carbon, Gadgets, Transistors
made popular Dec 19 2007
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Two-Year Sentence in Night Vision Case
AP, San Jose
A Silicon Valley businessman was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for helping broker the sale of a night vision camera to a research institute linked to the...
Asia, NorthAmerica, China, United States
made popular Dec 4 2007
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Can Solar Cells really put covers on Fossil fuel?
Anwesha, Calcutta
Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory’s physicist Neil Greenham has conceived of an organic solar cell that doesn’t use expensive silicon....
silicon, solar cell, fossil fuel, Environment
made popular Nov 30 2007
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New solar cell design requires 80% less silicon
Piyush, Shimla
A Japanese company named Clean Venture 21 (CV21) claims to curb the overall cost of producing solar cells by 50 percent. Isn’t that a remarkable step up for a...
Clean Venture 21, Solar Cells, Silicon, Hexagonal Reflector
made popular Nov 14 2007
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Nanosolar Powersheet: A threshold for a greener future
Piyush, Shimla
Cost has always been one of solar’s biggest problems. Traditional solar cells require silicon, and silicon is an expensive commodity and upto 70 percent of the...
Nanosolar, Nanosolar Powersheet, Solar Energy, Coal
made popular Nov 13 2007
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Latest in Green technology - Cost effective photovoltaic cells
C.S., chennai
The most reliable renewable source of energy to power electronic gadgets as we have seen is the solar energy and fuel cells. Photovoltaic cells are commonly used...
PV cells, Solar energy, Silicon, Organic material
made popular Nov 12 2007
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Recycling the renewable: IBM washes out silicon from scrap!
Sameer Kumar, Hyderabad
IBM has been, for long, a pioneer in technological advancement & gadgetry. Now they have come up with a unique eco-friendly way to solve the problem of Silicon...
IBM, silicon, scrap wafers
made popular Oct 30 2007
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IBM Has Greener Way to Reuse Silicon
AP, Armonk
IBM Corp. says it has developed a greener method for recycling precious silicon that is wasted during computer chip manufacturing.For microprocessors and other computer...
NorthAmerica, United States, Silicon, Recycling
made popular Oct 30 2007
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Sphere shaped cells-Cost and energy effective
Neha Mahajan, New Jersey
Solar panels have always been perceived to be flat and expensive. Proving this common notion wrong is a Japanese company Kyosemi Corporation, which has developed...
Solar panels, sphelar, silicon, sun's energy
made popular Oct 15 2007
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Neurogrid simulates data processing by the brain
Harshpaul, shimla
Even the fastest supercomputers can’t really match the human brain, but now they will get a helping hand with the Neurogrid. Designed by Kwabena Boahen of Stanford...
Neurogrid, Neurochip, Kwabena Bohen, Cortex Neurons
made popular Mar 18 2009
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Kill the ill within with Phillip’s robotic iPill
Bharat, Shimla
Finally, there is a pill to overcome all illness woes. Next time you go down with a digestive disorder, you wouldn’t have to wait to gulp a pill down for instant...
iPill, Medicine, Microchip, Philips
made popular Nov 12 2008
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Graphene may replace silicon in microchip manufacturing
Jaiyant Cavale, Bangalore
Graphene, the tough material that can stand even a diamond cutter may soon be used in manufacturing microchips. Graphene may soon replace silicon and help manufacture...
Graphene, Silicon, Microchip, Ultra Capacitors
made popular Sep 18 2008
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Wireless hospitals systems can disrupt med devices
AP, Chicago
Wireless systems used by many hospitals to keep track of medical equipment can cause potentially deadly breakdowns in lifesaving devices such as breathing and dialysis...
MED, Microchip, Dangers, Technology
made popular Jun 24 2008
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Pet identification - ID tags, ID on collars and microchips
Sujatha, Bangalore
Sometimes pets stray out of homes and lose their way. Pets also get stolen, or lost during natural disasters like cyclones, floods, earthquakes, and very heavy rains,...
ID tags, microchip, collars, Lifestyle
made popular Apr 22 2007
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Malaysia develops world's smallest microchip with radio technology
Naveen, Shimla
After being in the R&D phase for more than two years, a microchip with radio technology has been developed in Malaysia which is claimed to be the world’s...
Malaysia, Microchip, Radio, Technology
made popular Feb 26 2007
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IBM shows groundbreaking eDRAM memory technology
Naveen, Shimla
IBM has revealed its new high-performance eDRAM memory technology at the International Solid State Circuits Conference. The new on-chip memory technology is claimed to...
IBM, eDRAM, Microchip, Silicon
made popular Feb 15 2007
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Plastic Microchip: An end to silicon microchip?
Naveen, Shimla
The emerging new technologies in the electronics industry are cutting down the production costs to a great extent but can you even imagine how low will be the...
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Patients to be implanted with rice-sized chip to help doctors retrieve their medical records
Irani, New Delhi
With the world of medicine witnessing the amazing magic of science, Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey executes an innovative new test program, in which...
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In Focus: Open pet microchip technology
Vikas Shekhawat, Churu, Rajasthan
It’s a new dawn for thousands of lost pets with the introduction of open microchip technology in which all scanners can read all chips. In the absence of the open...
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Microchips: Reuniting pets and owners
Vikas Shekhawat, Churu, Rajasthan
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Get your pet microchipped
Vikas Shekhawat, Churu, Rajasthan
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made popular Oct 25 2005
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Is your pet micro-chipped?
Vikas Shekhawat, Churu, Rajasthan
A micro-chipped missing dog found after two years highlight the importance of micro-chipping you’re pets. The grain sized scannable chip help shelters,...
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made popular Oct 24 2005
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Cometh an intelligent medicine, pill with built-in microchip
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Microchips in a pill are being developed which would allow doctors to monitor a patient whether he has taken a pill, on a mobile phone or through a wireless internet...
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