Manoranjan "Mano" Misra, an Indian American professor known for turning coffee grounds and chicken feathers into fuel, has been honoured as the 2010 Regents' Researcher by the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents.
 
Misra, director of the University of Nevada, Reno's ...

Smart energy-scavenging nanofibres in clothes could one day power portable electric devices according to American engineers who claimed to have built such technology.
 
The nanofibres can convert energy from mechanical stresses into electricity, and could one day be used to create clothing ...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates said Monday that innovation will remain the key to alleviating human suffering around the world.
 

He was speaking in his second open appraisal letter of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Set up in 1994, the foundation has so made more than $21 billion ...

Kingston has launched the latest memory kits, HyperX DDR3 to increase the memory to 24GB. This is the largest ever kit to be produced from the company which will enable users to use the Intel Core i7 and X58 platforms to increase memory by using six 4GB sticks.
 
Kingston has also come up ...

IBM, the global IT major, has emerged as the top inventive firm in securing US patents. And, as per reports, the company has secured about 4,914 US patents in 2009.
 
IBM India chief technologist Gurudath Banavar said, “The US patent numbers reflect our leadership as the world's ...

Asus has unveiled its new EAH5000 Series graphics cards, EAH5970, EAH5770 and EAH5750.  
 
The latest graphics cards enable the users to tweak GPU voltage through Smart Doctor application. These are also loaded with GDDR5 memory. The users can enhance the frequency of GPU from ...

It’s now time for the sex dolls to entertain the customers as world’s first sex robot, Roxxxy has debuted at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo.
 
According to its developer, Perfect Companion, Roxxxy is complete with artificial intelligence that give her a life-like personality ...

Intel, the global leader in chip design, has announced the launch of the next gen powerful and energy-efficient processors for mini-notebooks and PCs. The processors may be available between Jan4-10.
 
It is also stated that, a number of other chip manufacturers are also working on the new ...

As per the next January 26 announcement, the Apple’s Mac Tablet could be named ‘iSlate’. This has become more believable after the company purchased a domain called iSlate.com in 2007.
 
The rumors have become rife and some of the popular bloggers have even stated it as a ...

Lenovo has joined the bandwagon of eBook Reader campaign after Asus and MSI.
 
The other leaders in this eBook Readers campaign were Amazon, Sony and Noble. Amazon’s Kindle and Noble’s Nook were the prominent Readers in the market. As the markets have seen saturation in different ...

Virtual Reality Exposure Treatment (VRET) is set to come to the rescue of nervous drivers, where they can overcome road fears in a simulated environment.
 
Goggles, akin to those worn by comic book superhero Cyclops of the X-Men, may assist drivers conquer their road fears by transporting ...

Now a new solution is there to recurring back pain in the people. Taiwanese scientists have developed a sort of mobile phone chip, which can be used to treat back pain.
 
According to Lin Chi-wan at National Taiwan University, the microchip can be implanted directly into the person’s ...

Scientists have developed mini helicopter, ‘Sensorfly’, that can remain airborne even after getting knocked to the ground and can also caution fellow copters if they hit an obstacle.
 
According to a report in New Scientist, the ‘minicopters’ have been developed by ...

World’s first environmentally friendly robot, ‘D+ ropop’, which has been made out of cardboard, has been unveiled by Japanese scientists. D+ropop, which is the brainchild of robotics firm Eager, weighs just 6 kg.
 
The life-size robot has the eight lightweight motors for ...

A new chocolate termed Lola has been invented by Spanish manufacturer Cocoa Bio which would help people to lose weight. The chocolate is made up of chemicals which would suppress hunger, but yet would be rich like other chocolates. But it comes with a minute green hinge due to the presence of ...

A researcher is designing a micro-endoscope that can see deeper, which may help in detecting tumours early. Doctors at present insert camera-based endoscopes into patients to examine visible abnormalities like tumours.
 
Huikai Xie, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering ...

If US company Terrafugia has things its way, the world's first road-registered, flying car could soar the skies by the 2011.
The firm's new vehicle is named the Transition Roadable Aircraft. The latest project will combine road and air transport needs.
The model is still going through testing ...

Experts believe that using in-car technology that warns against reckless driving may assist in reducing the number of road mishaps.
 
Oren Musicant, Safety engineer at Ben-Gurion University in Israel tested in-vehicle data recorders (IVDR) with teenage drivers over six months. ...

A new process has been discovered by researches which will help in making ice creams healthier and tastier.
 
The secret for making ice creams healthier is to add fibre, antioxidants and probiotics while preparing it, say the University of Missouri-Columbia (UM-C) ...

Intel and Numonyx have started a joint venture with STMicroelectonics in developing a new mass-market version of technology called phase-change memory to materialize of having small size and large capacity chips.  
 
Phase-change technology is a concept used by Gordon Moore, which is ...

Now the epidemiologists and ecologists can analyze data remotely maps findings across the world without going to labs. The new application, which will be made available over smart phones, has been developed at Imperial College-London.
 
According to the authors, the software will also enable ...

The Nobel Prize for Physics for the year 2009 was given to Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for their precious contributions to the fields of internet and digital camera.
 
Kao was cited "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres ...

A group of Bath engineers have developed a robot fish which could swim like a wave using its single fin. According to the scientists, the robot fish, Gymnobot is smarter than the low-cost polymer fish developed by MIT and it can ripple using its two crankshafts fit inside its ...

The researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a new sensor ‘Dust Alert’ to warn of pollution. The unique technology is the first-of-its-kind tool to monitor the quality of the air.
 
The sensor was developed by the professors, Eyal Ben-Dor and Dr Sandra Chudnovsky from ...

A group of scientists led by an Indian-American has devised a new technique to cool hybrid cars, PCs, aircrafts and other electronic devices.
 
They were trying to understand how the fluid overheats in tiny microchannels. The new findings from this Purdue University team will be beneficial ...

Entertainment Weekly, an American magazine, is in the limelight after it became the first one to publish a video ad in the printed edition of the book.
 
A small cardboard piece, which has been inserted in the page, comes with a mini screen. Through this the people who read this magazine ...

A new software tool has been developed, which will help the visually impaired to navigate through unfamiliar places by creating virtual maps.
 
This new tool has been created by Orly Lahav of the School of Education and Porter School for Environmental Studies at Tel Aviv University ...

A user-friendly forearm crutch has been developed for the disabled, which can monitor correct usage with the help of an inbuilt sensor.
 
The new crutch has been developed on a low-cost, off-the-shelf technology and has sensors similar to those used in Nintendo Wii.
 
Neil White, a ...

According to a new study, there are such a large number of trees, which are enough for providing power to an electronic circuit.
 
The study, which was conducted in 2008 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has come up with an astonishing fact that plants have the potential to produce ...

If things progress as per plans, very soon there will be a new entrant in the laptop market. World’s first laptop with twin monitors is scheduled to hit the stores by the end of the year.
 
The dual-screen laptop, which has been titled as Spacebook, has been developed by the ...