by Alfred Poor | December 2, 2016 | General News, Medical
Do you remember elementary school science lessons where you’d rub a balloon on your head and your hair would stand up? Or rub a plastic comb with a piece of wool and it would attract little slips of paper? Or maybe you’ve received a painful shock in the...
by Alfred Poor | February 25, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Sticky notes, aluminum foil, sponges, tape: it sounds like the recipe for a MacGyver escape device, but it’s not. In a field dominated by high-tech processes and painstakingly-engineered materials, a group of researchers have come up with a low cost design for...
by Alfred Poor | April 8, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Mobile devices in general — and wearable devices in particular — depend heavily on rechargeable batteries to provide the electricity that they need to operate. And the technology of choice these days is lithium-ion which has good storage capacity and...