Micro 3-D Printer Creates Tiny Structures in Seconds

• 03.05.2013
• Computing
• By Prachi Patel

Faster printing could see the technology move from research labs to industry. A spin-off from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany has developed a tabletop 3-D microprinter that can create complicated microstructures 100 times faster than is possible today.

Mozilla’s Mobile Firefox OS Raises Security Questions

• 02.28.2013
• Computing
• By David Talbot

Firefox’s new Web-centric OS will let users run apps from the Web, raising concerns over how to stop malicious software.

Ubuntu Off to a Promising Start on Smartphones

• 03.01.2013
• Web
• By Rachel Metz

An early version of Ubuntu’s touch-centric OS looks smartly designed and worth watching as it develops.

Startup Engineers See-Through Solar Cells

• 02.25.2013
• Energy
• By Kate Greene
• 1 Comment

A spectrally selective approach could let tablets, e-readers, and windows turn light into power.

Molecule Helps Nanoparticles Sneak Past the Immune System

• 02.21.2013
• Biomedicine
• By Mike Orcutt

Researchers have given nanoparticles the ability to tell immune cells not to eat them, a development that could have broad implications for medicine.

Facebook Nudges Users to Catalog the Real World

• 02.27.2013
• Web
• By Tom Simonite

Taking aim at Google, the largest social network wants a database describing as many things as possible.

Your Next Smartphone Could Respond to Your Voice, Even When It’s Asleep

• 02.21.2013
• Communications
• By Rachel Metz

A new feature in Qualcomm’s chips will let you wake your phone with a voice command so it can do your bidding. Now it just needs to learn to cook.

What ARPA-E Can’t Do

• 02.25.2013
• Energy
• By Kevin Bullis

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy is highly popular, but its impact so far has been minuscule.

Software with an Eye for Starbucks (and Nike and Coke ...)

• 02.21.2013
• Web
• By Rachel Metz

Startup gazeMetrix uses computer vision to glean information from Instagram photos. It may be the future of marketing.

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Godrej creates affordable refrigerator for rural India

• 12.14.2009
• Business
• By Shyam PV

Godrej has developed battery-powered Chotukool which cools raw food products with a specially-developed chip.

Water: Low Cost Water Purifiers

• 01.14.2011
• Biomedicine
• By TR Editors
• 1 Comment

New cost-effective water purification technologies remove microbiological, arsenic, and fluoride contamination from drinking water without being dependent on electricity.

Education: Future of School on Cloud

• 01.13.2011
• Web
• By TR Editors

A vision of a school that will have a personalized education delivery system, lever­aging research in personalization, feedback mechanisms, network architecture, computing, storage, virtual school provisioning, and education service delivery.

What Comes After the Touch Screen?

• 10.11.2012
• Web
• By Will Knight
• 3 Comments

Gesture control, devices that recognize different people, and tricks to make a screen feel as if it has physical buttons could be coming to your gadgets.

Startup Engineers See-Through Solar Cells

• 02.25.2013
• Energy
• By Kate Greene
• 1 Comment

A spectrally selective approach could let tablets, e-readers, and windows turn light into power.

Your Next Smartphone Could Respond to Your Voice, Even When It’s Asleep

• 02.21.2013
• Communications
• By Rachel Metz

A new feature in Qualcomm’s chips will let you wake your phone with a voice command so it can do your bidding. Now it just needs to learn to cook.

Molecule Helps Nanoparticles Sneak Past the Immune System

• 02.21.2013
• Biomedicine
• By Mike Orcutt

Researchers have given nanoparticles the ability to tell immune cells not to eat them, a development that could have broad implications for medicine.

Startup Engineers See-Through Solar Cells

• 02.25.2013
• Energy
• By Kate Greene
• 1 Comment

A spectrally selective approach could let tablets, e-readers, and windows turn light into power.

R&D Faces Its Own Fiscal Cliff

• 02.28.2013
• Business
• By Martin LaMonica
• 1 Comment

The sequester means across-the-board cuts to federal R&D and, barring a grand budget bargain, anemic research budgets in the years ahead.

Coal Demand Falls in the U.S., Rises Everywhere Else

• 02.25.2013
• Energy
• By Mike Orcutt

Cheap natural gas means U.S. electricity producers are buying less coal. But the rest of the world is buying more.

What ARPA-E Can’t Do

• 02.25.2013
• Energy
• By Kevin Bullis

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy is highly popular, but its impact so far has been minuscule.

Brain Implants Can Reset Misfiring Circuits

• 02.25.2013
• Biomedicine
• By Susan Young

Pacemaker-like treatment calms an overactive circuit in the brains of OCD patients.

Data Espionage Sleuths Aim to Put Chinese Corporations in Court

• 02.25.2013
• Web
• By Tom Simonite

CrowdStrike says it can help U.S. companies identify the companies that benefit from stolen data.

A Plan to Give Mobile Data Bills a Makeover

• 02.26.2013
• Business
• By Jessica Leber

What if mobile subscribers could click a button and top off their data plan, or even buy mobile Internet access to a single app?

Facebook Nudges Users to Catalog the Real World

• 02.27.2013
• Web
• By Tom Simonite

Taking aim at Google, the largest social network wants a database describing as many things as possible.

Musk Says Tesla Will Pay Off Its Loans in Half the Time

• 02.27.2013
• Energy
• By Kevin Bullis

Tesla’s CEO claims the company is a success, and partially credits the DOE loan program.

Protecting Power Grids from Hackers Is a Huge Challenge

• 02.27.2013
• Computing
• By Tom Simonite

Securing critical infrastructure needs to go far beyond the measures in President Obama’s recent executive order.