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 ...

Japanese researchers have created a new robot nurse that looks like a giant teddy bear. It can lift elderly patients from wheelchairs and beds.
 
Robot for Interactive Body Assistance (Riba) has been developed by state-run Riken research center.This is the first robot in the world which can ...

A new electric sensor has been developed by scientists which will enable the diagnostics and biological research to detect DNA in a faster, more accurate and cost-effective way.
 
The sensor which has been developed by the Singapore-based Institute of Bio-engineering and Nanotechnology ...

South Korean engineers have developed a magic ink which is expected to revolutionise full colour printing. The ink which has been named M-Ink can produce any colour in the visible spectrum. The new method claims to be inexpensive and provide instant full-colour printing.
 
The new idea ...

According to a new study, the juice which is present in rejected watermelons is actually a valuable source of bio fuel, which can be fermented into ethanol.
 
Wayne Fish and few other researchers worked at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) lab in Lane, Oklahoma, for the evaluation of ...

A supercomputer that can perform 28.16 trillion calculations has been developed by a scientist of Indian origin. The supercomputer named Cystorm, a Sun Microsystems machine has been created by Srinivas Aluru from the Iowa State University.
 
Cystrom is powered with a 3,200 computer processor ...

A new green technology for processing leather has been developed at the Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai. This technology employs the use of biocatalysts for reducing the quantity of environmental contaminants.
 
Enzymes that decrease the emission of hazardous materials during the ...

A new polymer has been developed by a team of Indian scientists that will help in reducing radioactive wastes in nuclear reactors. This will make the decontamination process less costly.
 
The new polymer that has been named 'Cobalt Imprinted Polymer’ is a compound that selects the ...

Protecting the houses from floods is a major problem in Holland, as a major part of the country is below sea level. Now, architects have found a way to fix the problem by building the Citadel - the world’s first floating apartment complex.
 
Seasickness will not be present as the ...

A thumbnail sized micro chip marvel which, when plugged into a computer, can instantly run thousands of chemical reactions. This new technology will soon make the flasks, beakers and hot plates a thing of the past.
 
The new technology has been developed by University of California-Los ...

A new flying car named ‘Transition Roadable Aircraft’ has been successfully test flown.
 
The innovation was showcased at an experimental aircraft show. The car’s wings can withdraw in about 20 seconds making it possible to drive it on the road
 
The car costs around ...

The car ‘Stealth’ designed and built by engineering students from a Punjab town has won first prize in the perseverance category at an international competition, held in the US.
 
The 'International Car Fiesta Shell Eco Marathon' was held at Fontana in California from April ...

A new in-car yawn-detection system is being developed by an Indian-American and two other budding Indian scientists which will warn the sleeping driver inside a car and hence can prevent road accidents.
 
Aurobinda Mishra of Vanderbilt University, in Nashville and colleagues Mihir Mohanty of ...

A transparent form of aluminium has been created by the scientists by bombarding the metal with the world's most powerful soft X-ray laser. The discovery was made possible with the development of a new source of radiation that is 10 billion times brighter than any synchrotron in the ...

A robot dressed in an elegant wedding gown walked the ramp at an Osaka fashion show, which paved the way to a major advancement in humanoid technology.
 
This robot was developed by the Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
 
 Despite ...

Thousands of years ago, the original inhabitants of Spain's Canary Islands are thought to have worshipped the Roque de los Muchachos mountain as having magical powers. On Friday, the mountain will officially become home to a telescope billed as the world's biggest time machine.
 
The ...

Onions are very well-known for the flavour its gives to food and are flaunted for their medicinal benefits. Now they have another use - powering up green energy.
 
A new system that came in existence on Friday has the potential to convert onion juice into electricity at Gills Onions, the ...