“Controlling devices in a smart home often requires users to start and use an app on their phone. This can be cumbersome (especially with increasing sizes of device ensembles) and puts demands on a user’s attention or engagement they might not be willing or able to fulfill.” – prompting a research team from the University of […]
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Combining e-noses, e-tongues and e-eyes (study)
You might have come across a sensor device called an ‘Electronic Nose’ (also known as an e-nose). ‘Electronic Tongues’ (e-tongues) are also available. And of course there are various types of ‘Electronic Eyes’ (e-eyes). For a rare example of an academic paper which describes the application of all three at the same time, see: ‘Combination […]
High-tech use for garlic skin – supercapacitors (new study)
Attention electronic engineers – stuck for a suitable material for creating supercapacitor electrodes? Have you thought about carbonized garlic skin? If not, may we recommend a new research paper scheduled for publication in the journal Nanoscale – entitled ‘Synthesis of Garlic Skin-Derived 3D Hierarchical Porous Carbon for High-Performance Supercapacitors’. Researchers Qing Zhang, Kuihua Han, Shijie […]
They made an electronic leech
This paper gives details of the design, and the actual building and testing, of an electronic leech: “Diseño de una sanguijuela electrónica” [Design of an electronic leech].[Article in Spanish], Rev Invest Clin. 2014 Jul;66 Suppl 1:S94-9. Authors: Lomelí-Mejía PA, Domínguez-Rubio R, Espinosa-Gutiérrez A, Lecona-Butrón H, Rodríguez-Reyna RM. The authors, at Laboratorio de Biomecánica, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación, explain: “This […]
