Research articles

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  Eye control system lets you play 'Pong' and write email, costs just $60 to build

  By Andrew Webster on July 13, 2012 10:54 am + 4 comments

  A team of researchers at the Imperial College London have developed a new technique to let users Continue reading…

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  Researchers build tiny random number generator for NFC chips

  By Louis Goddard on July 13, 2012 10:21 am + 9 comments

  Researchers at Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University have built a true random number generator Continue reading…

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  Developer interest in BB10 falls 17 percent, lags behind iOS, Android, and Windows Phone

  By Aaron Souppouris on July 13, 2012 08:43 am + 167 comments

  A survey has found that developer enthusiasm for RIM's new OS, BB10, has plummeted from 4.6 points Continue reading…

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  Why aren't our 4,000 mph vacuum tunnel trains getting built?

  By Jeff Blagdon on July 13, 2012 01:38 am + 79 comments

  Despite breakthroughs in every scientific field from robotics to particle physics, fast, Continue reading…

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  AMD given $12.6 million in supercomputing grants by US government

  By Adi Robertson on July 11, 2012 07:12 pm + 14 comments

  Computing giant AMD has been given a total of $12.6 million to research high-powered extreme-scale Continue reading…

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  DARPA veteran Arati Prabhakar named as new director

  By Bryan Bishop on July 10, 2012 10:37 pm + 7 comments

  This past March the director of DARPA, Regina Dugan, left the research agency to join the ranks of Continue reading…

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  UCLA-developed camera can detect cancer cells in real time

  By Andrew Webster on July 9, 2012 04:10 pm + 6 comments

  Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have managed to turn the world's fastest Continue reading…

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  Researchers at Georgia Tech develop robot cameras that replicate eye movement

  By Chris Welch on July 8, 2012 12:49 am + 8 comments

  Scientists at Georgia Tech have successfully replicated muscle movement of the human eye in robots, Continue reading…

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  DARPA tests two new gigapixel-class cameras as part of AWARE imaging program

  By Bryan Bishop on July 7, 2012 08:31 am + 10 comments

  The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — DARPA — has recently completed successful Continue reading…

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  Robot legs accurately mimic human movement

  By Aaron Souppouris on July 6, 2012 07:24 am + 16 comments

  Researchers from the University of Arizona has built a pair of robotic legs that mimics our own. Continue reading…