All the stories tagged with research
23% of American students say they’re addicted to the internet
04/07/2011, The internet – a curse or a blessing? The worldwide communication service has allowed billions of us to stay updated with all the latest news and events happening all over the world and easily keep in touch with people we [...]
Slowest mobile towns in UK mapped
04/06/2011, Here is a rather interesting piece of research work that deserves commendation – we’re talking about mapping the slowest mobile towns throughout the UK where 3G mobile broadband speed is concerned. So far, we do know that the average speed [...]
Large multi-touch display used as a giant microscope
04/01/2011, If you had a large touchscreen at your disposal, the first thing you would probably think of doing is play Angry Birds on it. Well, believe it or not, touchscreen displays can be used for productive purposes as well. Researchers [...]
Ford starts building digital children crash dummies
03/31/2011, Ford announced that they have officially started work on building a digital human child, complete with its internal organs, skeleton structure and brain, all in the name of safety research. Car safety testing has been going on for years now, [...]
Kinect as a visually impaired radar
03/17/2011, The Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Group from the university of Konstanz has created Navigational Aids for the Visually Impaired (or NAVI), an application that uses Kinect’s perception of depth to guide visually impaired people in buildings. It works by having Kinect “see” [...]
$200 Gizmo Accurately Diagnoses Cancer, in Hours
02/24/2011, Still at the research stage, an electronic device built by U.S researchers from Harvard and MIT can diagnose malignant tumors on the spot (<1hr) instead of “days”. And it does it with a 96% accuracy, which is much higher than [...]
295 exabytes shared by the world in 2007
02/11/2011, When you’re sitting down in your living room sipping on some hot chocolate, where does your mind drift to? How about this – how much information is stored by the entire world’s population? Bear in mind that this is not [...]
Android smartphone sales hit the jackpot with 888.8% jump
02/10/2011, We’re still in the midst of the Chinese Lunar New Year, where the number 8 is highly significant to those celebrating the occasion. Well, the Android operating system certainly gives something to cheer about for those obsessed with statistics as research [...]
27% of Americans use Facebook in the bathroom
01/20/2011, According to a study done by an Atlanta-based media firm – 27% of Americans use Facebook in the bathroom. Shocking? No, not really. Ever since we’ve had cellphones and things to do on them, people have been finding other things [...]
Researchers use LCD projectors for mind control?
01/18/2011, The smart folks over at the Georgia Institute of Technology have managed to use inexpensive components from ordinary liquid crystal display (LCD) projectors to control both the brains and muscles of tiny organisms such as worms. While previous research was [...]
Researchers easily hack keyless car entry systems
01/17/2011, Going wireless is always a convenient thing, though it’s far from the safest approach. Many folks are just getting used to keyless car entry systems that allows you to enter the car as long as you have the security key [...]
Researchers try to determine if you’re a pro gamer with science
01/13/2011, Are researchers running out of things to research about? Probably not, but a group of psychology professors at the University of Illinois have been doing some research and discovered that you can tell how gifted someone is at gaming by [...]
Researchers come up with self-powered solar microchips
01/02/2011, There’s no doubt that solar energy will play a major part in the future. Now researchers out there have come up with a fancy microchip that can be self-powered, thanks to a built-in solar panel. The microchip is used as [...]
