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Graphical system design changes the way we manipulate, move, and store energy, and now it’s helping energy technology go digital. By going digital we increase the rate of technology improvement. Think about online search and how it changed the way
May 15, 2012 - 8:30am
Researchers at Michigan State University developed a low-cost, hand-held device that can help physicians detect and diagnose cancer. The Gene-Z device operates using an iPod Touch or Android-based tablet and can determine HIV virus levels during
May 8, 2012 - 9:39am
Brazil is known for a number of things: miles of sunny beaches, the 2016 Summer Olympics, the Carnaval celebration, and... being the world's largest sugarcane producer? Yes, in fact Brazil is a global leader in converting sugarcane to ethanol, which some
May 1, 2012 - 9:31am
We've all worked with our hands at some point in our lives, whether it was playing in the sandbox or learning how to build a computer. Now, the developers at the Center for Automatic and Robotics in Madrid have taken working with your hands to the next
April 24, 2012 - 9:34am
You’ve heard of breaking glass with a high note, but did you know that you can control fire by singing? The team at Waterloo Labs came up with a project that adds heat to your karaoke performance.   Using a Ruben’s tube, NI myDAQ
April 17, 2012 - 9:06am
As we mentioned in our previous Sugar-Free Sweet App, diabetes technology is prevalent in our society as the number of people affected by diabetes increases yearly. Our last Sweet App mentioned a way for a glucose meter to talk to an insulin delivery
April 10, 2012 - 9:56am
When students at the University of Leeds in England were tasked to develop a game for their electronics class using force, elevation, and angle, product design student, Sylvie Garner immediately knew she wanted to re-vamp the famous Angry Birds
April 4, 2012 - 8:21am
Diabetes is a rising epidemic in the United States, with 25.8 million Americans dealing with the chronic illness on a day-to-day basis. With that, many medical device companies are developing new and better ways to help manage diabetes, especially for
March 28, 2012 - 9:34am
We usually reach for our Red Bull energy drinks early in the morning instead of coffee, or late at night to help us focus, but now Red Bull is giving us something new to reach for—breaking an aerospace record using NI LabVIEW.   The
March 20, 2012 - 9:41am
As part of a research study by Future University Hakodate, students in Japan and the UK are collaborating in real-time to program a robot to follow specific circuits. The students have similar LEGO robots programmed using NXT MINDSTORMS 2.0 software.
March 15, 2012 - 1:21pm