MIT Team Powers Light Bulb Without Wires
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By BRIAN BERGSTEIN  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In a perfect world, there'd be no wires. They clutter the view, get tangled behind desks and limit how far networks can reach. That's why the telegraph gave way to the radio. Cell phones unstrung telecommunications. Wi-Fi liberated computer data.
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A small U.S. startup has announced technology for running Wi-Fi routers in remote places using only the power of the sun.
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Researchers have made analog electronics out of carbon nanotubes.
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An electrical pulse through nanotubes and wires helps find the crack.
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Japanese scientists say they have created an electronic eye that would help blind people cross the street safely. The device, a tiny camera mounted to a pair of eyeglasses, can detect the existence and location
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Scientists capture a beam of light and make it reappear elsewhere, potentially leading to advances in computing.
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US scientists develop tiny energy-generating fibres that could be used to create self-powered smart fabrics.
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MIT researchers develop an authentication system that's not so easily revealed to prying eyes.
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With Pixar style desk lamps, cyber-teddies, and droid flowers An MIT doctoral candidate has produced a robotic desk lamp, though its maker prefers to call it a "collaborative lighting assistant", or even "non-anthropomorphic robotic platform".â¦
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Change a light bulb and stop a war. Build smarter homes and keep the seas from rising.
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Scientists create a tiny engine that could become a power source for future nano-scale devices.
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Ultrasmall technology, revolutionary impact.
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Blog: D.light Design, started out of a Stanford student project, aims to bring a safer, cheaper form of energy to families living in emerging nations without access to electricity.
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Texas Instruments Inc. engineers and MIT researchers say they've designed a new chip that consumes less power and can be used in devices as varied as medical implants and sensors that detect enemy tanks.
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Physicist Marin Soljacic is working toward a world of wireless electricity.
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In an advance that could lead to lighter spacecraft and smarter cars, researchers have developed a new technique for producing a high-quality semiconductor that&#39;s much more resistant to extreme conditions than the silicon found in most of today&#39;s
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MIT researchers have developed a new ultralow-voltage chip that could improve the energy efficiency of low-power electronics tenfold.