Smartphone battery temperature sensors can be used to reveal accurate weather data

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 14, 2013, 23:54

An app development group based in London has discovered that smartphone battery temperatures are correlated to actually weather conditions and this information can be used for real-time temperature readings.

Google Glass goes to the dogs

Last Updated: Saturday, July 13, 2013, 15:57

Search engine giant Google is reportedly planning to develop its wearable computing device Google Glass for dogs with occupation

Now, Google patents photo-snapping walking stick

Last Updated: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 15:37

Google has got its new invention, a walking stick that takes pictures whenever it hits the ground, patented.

Improved sensing devices may someday tell if it will rain on Mars

Last Updated: Sunday, May 12, 2013, 14:32

A Kansas State University chemical engineer and his team are using graphene quantum dots to improve sensing devices in a twofold project.

Now, robot that tells you when you stink

Last Updated: Friday, May 10, 2013, 15:01

Japan researchers have created a pair of robots- a girl and a dog - whose odour sensors can determine just how bad you smell.

Locust-inspired vision for car sensors could prevent crashes

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 11:52

The scientists, from the universities of Lincoln and Newcastle, have discovered that the insect has a fast and accurate warning system which enables it to detect approaching objects and avoid them while in flight, the Independent reported.

Locust-inspired vision for car sensors could prevent crashes

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 11:33

Scientists have created a revolutionary technology inspired by locusts that could save countless lives by preventing car crashes.

Sensor developed to control devices with thoughts

Last Updated: Monday, March 4, 2013, 15:09

Researchers have invented a mobile phone-like sensor to relay signals from specific parts of the brain to aid paralysis patients control devices with their thoughts.

Flexible, transparent imaging device developed

Last Updated: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 14:06

Austrian researchers have developed an entirely new way of capturing images based on a flat, flexible, transparent and potentially disposable polymer sheet.

Graphene-based sensors to detect trace elements in Earth’s upper atmosphere

Last Updated: Friday, December 7, 2012, 09:36

NASA scientists are developing graphene-based tiny sensors to detect trace elements in Earth’s upper atmosphere and structural flaws in spacecraft.

Silver nanoparticles `may lead to sensors that detect water contamination`

Last Updated: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 13:39

In a new study, scientists including one of Indian origin, have tried to make a semiconductor-graphene-metal film that could help detect even very low-level concentration of organic contaminations in water.