Development of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Strain Sensor for Detecting Human Motion by Japanese Researchers

 Group of Japanese researchers at AIST have successfully developed a strain sensor with oriented single-walled carbon nanotubes (single-walled CNT) films. The sensor films are bonded to a stretchable polymer substrate which can measure strains by detecting changes in the electrical resistance of the films. The CNT stain sensor is capable of detecting of up to 280%, around 50 times of what can be detected by conventional metal strain sensors.  Furthermore, its added durability...

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Industry’s First GaN HEMT Transmitter/Receiver Module capable of Operating in C-Ku Band

 Fujitsu Laboratories has announced the development of world’s first transmitter/receiver module using gallium-nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) technology which is capable of operating in a wide bandwidth range of C-Ku band radio frequencies over 6 to 18 GHz. The new technology would make it possible to integrate multiple types of communication equipment, which each currently operating at a different frequency range into a single module, resulting in a more...

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World’s first Multi-Touch Controller for Resistive Type Touchscreens

 Increasing number of screens panels in various consumer electronics are touchscreenpanels, which has been driven with increasing functionality and sophistication of electronic devices, where operation of touch panels is increasing shifting toward pinch, spread and other intuitive finger gestures. UP to now, the only way to make this happen was through use of more expensive electrostatic capacitance type touchscreens which require certain input devices. Now, in order to give the same...

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World’s First Biometric Authentication Technology, Combining Palm Vein and Fingerprint Data

Current authentication methods employing only one type of biometric data are sufficient for providing one-to-one matching, such as is the case for authentication systems used in financial institutions. However, for determining the identity of a given individual from a group of many people (one-to-many matching), accuracy will become an issue if the pool of people is as large as a million or ten million size, making it lengthy process or even impossible to clearly distinguish among potential matches...

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World’s First See-Through Organic EL Display by TDK

 TDK made an announcement on development of industry’s first see-through type Organic Electroluminescent (EL) display. The newly developed passive matrix type QVGA OEL display is mainly intended to be used as the main display panel in mobile phones as well as other mobile devices. The new see-through display has a field angle of 2.4 inches, with transmittance of 40% and brightness of 150 cd/m2. But not to worry, the display although is see through, it is constructed in such as way...

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Sharp’s New AQUOS PHONE is going Worldwide?

In an overly dominated Smartphone market owned by NOKIA, Apple’s iPhone, Google’ s Android and Samsung, Japanese Smartphone manufacturers are in search of finding a way to compete in a worldwide market or at least find a niche market where they can sink their teeth in. One such company is Sharp with their newly introduced AQUOS phone. A new brand of smartphone featuring connectivity to Sharp’s AQUOS LCD TVs. Sharp is trying to test the international smartphone market falling back on their smartphone’s...

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Development of SmartAR, an Integrated AR technology combining Object Recognition and 3D Space Recognition Technology by SONY

As Augmented Reality (AR) technology finds its way into variety of applications such as advertisement, promotion, games, as well as search technology, marketers started to use AR to promote products via interactive AR applications. One such example is the 2008 LA Auto Show, where Nissan unveiled the concept vehicle Cube and provided visitors with a brochure which, when held against a webcam, showed alternate version of the vehicle, also in August of 2009, Best Buy ran a circular with an AR code...

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Development of World’s First 85-Inch Direct-View LCD, Compatible with Super Hi-Vision

Sharp Corporation and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have jointly developed an 85-inch LCD which is compatible with Super Hi-Vision, considered to be the next-generation for television broadcast format. The new technology incorporates Sharp’s UV2A2 LCD technology for creating in creating world’s first direct-view LCD compatible with high display performance offered by Super Hi-Vision. The new technology also incorporates NHK’s expertise and know-how in super Hi-Vision, resulting in ultra-detailed,...

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INFOGRAPHIC: Facebook Winning War For Best Talent

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5 Ways To Raise Funds for Your Startup

Bill Clark is the CEO of Microventures, a securities broker/dealer that uses crowdfunding to allow investors to invest between $1,000 to $10,000 in startups online. You can follow him on twitter @austinbillc.Raising capital can be the hardest step in launching a startup. You can be passionate about your idea and convince a lot of people that it will be the next big thing, but it takes the right person to ask for money and close the deal. Here are five options to explore. 1. Friends and FamilyPeople...

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Hilarious: How to fail at video dating - Shareables

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How To Create An iPhone Or Android App Without Any Coding Skills

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Panasonic’s Toughbook 19 Gets Internal As Well As External Upgrades

I’ve always been vaguely enamored with the Panasonic Toughbook, a laptop that could take a lot of the slings and arrows (not to mention the bumps and jostles) of everyday life. And for someone who spends more than a little time with his laptop in the field, well, that would be welcome. But the Panasonic Toughbook hasn’t exactly brought the A-game in terms of the specs, at least, until a recent update in the Panasonic Toughbook 19, gave it some extra power under the hood as well as in...

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PS Vita Will Be Region Free

The PS Vita has scored a point against the Nintendo 3DS in the battle for handheld dominanation, with Sony revealing at E3 that PS Vita will be region free, meaning you’ll be able to buy a PS Vita from anywhere in the world and play games from anywhere in the world on it.The news came from Michael Denny, vice president of Sony Worldwide Studios Europe, who told IGN that to the best of his knowledge, the PS Vita will not be region locked. This is, of course, good news for those...

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FIC introduces a new Android 2.3 Tablet the Elija

 WimaxFIC International was proud to introduces several Tablet this year at Computex 2011 and among them the company introduces its first Freescale based i.MX53 (1Ghz) Android 2.3 slate the Elija.Also known as TFE02 Series, the Elija comes with an ultra thin 11.8mm Body (244.8×191.7×11.8mm) and comes powered by a 1GHz Freescale i.MX53 CPU (Cortex-A8). This 9.7” LED Backlight slate features a 4:3 capacitive Multitouch IPS Panel with a 1024×768 resolution as well as WiFi BGN, Bluetooth 3.0+HS,...

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Nintendo reveals its Next Gen Console at E3 with the Wii U and Wii U Controller

Scheduled to come in 2012, the Wii U is once again a huge surprise and comes with many innovations that will definitively make gamers want one. One of the many improvement compared to the first Wii, is its 1080p video capability as well as internal flash memory expandable via SD and external USB HDDs. But the coolest feature of all is its Wii U Control that comes with a 6.2-inch touchscreen with dual analog dual analog controls, two shoulder buttons and two triggers, a front-facing camera, gyroscope...

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Nintendo announced Red 3DS in Japan

Nintendo announced that it will start selling in Japan from July 14 a new Red 3DS as well as a new Wii Bundle includes two Wii remote and Wii Sports Resort in both Black and White. The new RED 3DS will be sold at the usual price of 25,000 Yen while these new Wii bundle will be available at around 20,000 Y...

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Universal last of big four music labels to join Apple iCloud

Full set collected While unconfirmed at present, it is widely believed that Universal MusicGroup has joined Sony, Warner and EMI in signing a licensing agreement with Apple to use its content on the company's forthcoming iCloud streaming service.The official announcement is expected to be part of Apple's keynote addressat the beginning on its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday 6 June.It is also believed that the company has signed agreements with many...

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Cheap (looking) ViewSonic ViewBook 730 announced

Froyo tablet for the lower end Fresh from announcing the world's first 7-inch Honeycomb device - the ViewPad 7x - ViewSonic has looked to an older version of Android (2.2), for a foray into the cheaper end of the tablet spectrum with the ViewBook 730.The 730, like the 7x, is a 7-inch tablet - this time with a 800x480 LED backlit display. It packs an ARM-Coretx A8 CPU clocked at 1GHz and has 8GB of on board storage that is expandable by 32GB with a microSD card.There's a VGA camera...

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