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Smart Clothes: Health-Tracking Textiles for Daily Wellness

It is 7 o’clock in the morning. You check yourself in the mirror, adjust your collar, and consider the hectic day ahead. But at least you know that the stress…

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CosPal Project: Innovative Robots That Recognize and Interact

Led by Linköping University in Sweden, the researchers in the COSPAL project adopted an innovative approach to making robots recognise, indentify and interact…

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High-Speed FGM Printing Process Boosts Custom-Fit Solutions

Custom-Fit, funded by the EC under Sixth Framework Programme, is an industry led project with the aim of creating a fully integrated system for the design,…

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New breed of cognitive robot … a puppy?

Both have advantages and disadvantages, and combining the two offers the best of both worlds, say a team of European researchers who have developed a new breed…

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Five Spanish Universities Launch E-Participation Project

The project is the result of six years of research in the fields of electronic government, e-democracy and e-cognocracy by the Zaragoza Multicriteria Decision…

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Cutting edge computing helps discover the origin of life

Deep ocean hydrothermal vents have long been suggested as possible sources of biological molecules such as RNA and DNA but it was unclear how they could…

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Next-Gen Software Detects Complex Cyber Network Attacks

By their very nature networks are highly interdependent and each machine’s overall susceptibility to attack depends on the vulnerabilities of the other…

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Animation Aids Psychology in 'Second Life' Experiment

The £290,000 award will support Professor Jian Zhang and his colleagues in the BU-based National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA) over the next three years…

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New Method for Simulating Combustion Processes Developed

Using DEISA research infrastructure the researchers have developed a new method for simulating combustion processes that will have a real and practical impact…

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Technology Enhances Care for Critically Ill Patients

A common side effect of stress and trauma in critically ill patients is a rapid increase in blood glucose levels. As with diabetes, the levels can be reduced…

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Artemis Connects With Jules Verne ATV After Launch Success

Jules Verne ATV was launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 05:03 CET on 9 March. First contact between Artemis and the ATV was established at…

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First Global Video Transmission Using Terahertz Waves

However the current systems, such as WLAN or Bluetooth have their limits: They transmit the data with clock rates of some gigahertz, maximum (a billion…

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ETH Zurich Tests High-Speed WLAN Network for Better Connectivity

According to the communication theory, only a limited amount of data can be transmitted within a given bandwidth for wireless communication. Ever since these…

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Linking RFID Systems with Automation Data: Simatic RF-Manager

Simatic RF-Manager 2008 of the Siemens Industry Automation Division now links RFID with automation data from Simatic S7 controllers and also collects data from…

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Self-Building Wireless Networks: Unlocking New Potential

Networks of mobile sensors and other small electronic devices have huge potential. Applications include emergency management, security, helping vulnerable…

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Smart Embedded Systems: Meet the Autonomous RobuCab

The RobuCab, an autonomous vehicle about the size of a golf cart, trundles at 10kph along a quiet French street. Alarmingly, it looks like it is driving…

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