Particle-free silver ink developed for printable electronics

Particle-free silver ink developed for printable electronics: "There's no doubt that we will soon be seeing a lot more in the way of low-cost electronic circuits that have been printed onto common, flexible materials such as plastic, paper or fabric."

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Danish Mirror House reflects its enviornment

Danish Mirror House reflects its enviornment: "Danish architectural firm MLRP has come up with a novel way to prevent graffiti and vandalism of a local town hall. By turning the outside walls into mirrors, the team successfully transformed a "drab" building into a local attraction that is hopefully resistant to future graffiti attempts."

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Solar panels keep greenhouses cooler in summer, let the sun through in winter

Solar panels keep greenhouses cooler in summer, let the sun through in winter: "Spain's ULMA Agrícola consortium and Tecnalia research center have developed a new type of photovoltaic solar panel for greenhouses that can generate electricity without an adverse effect on the crops grown within, while additionally providing cooling in summer. "

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Hands on with the Nokia Lumia 900 at CES

Hands on with the Nokia Lumia 900 at CES: "More from CES 2012, Sin City, where we've briefly had a chance to get familiar with the Nokia Lumia 900, the Finnish corporation's sacrificial offering at the increasingly cluttered LTE altar to the gods of 4G. The Windows smartphone features a large 4.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 8-megapixel camera with a wide-angle Carl Zeiss lens and seven hours of talk time, according to Nokia. First impressions? Really rather good, actually."

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Open-source project intends to advance robotic surgery

Open-source project intends to advance robotic surgery: "A couple of years ago, the Willow Garage robotics company gave ten of its PR2 robots away to deserving research groups. The idea behind the project was that these groups would use the PR2s for robotics research, then share their discoveries with each other, thus advancing the field farther than would be possible if they each had to build their own unique robots from scratch."

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Scientist closes in on creating a superlens

Scientist closes in on creating a superlens: "Some day, you may have a microscope on your smartphone camera that's as powerful as a scanning electron microscope. If you do, it will likely be thanks to research presently being conducted by Durdu Guney, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan Technological University. He is working on creating a metamaterial-based "superlens" - "

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Ortery Technologies shows 3D Pure White Background photography system

Ortery Technologies shows 3D Pure White Background photography system: "As someone who spends a good deal of time taking photographs of new consumer technology, only to subsequently enjoy hours of tedium touching up my snaps in image manipulation software, I have to admit to being pretty excited by the new 3D PhotoBench 260 from Ortery Technologies."

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GEODOG GPS-enabled collar lets you find your dog using your smartphone

GEODOG GPS-enabled collar lets you find your dog using your smartphone: "We've all experienced that moment of panic when we open the back door to let the dog inside only to find that he's not there. Technology has provided a solution to this dilemma with GPS tracking devices designed specifically for our four-legged friends entering the market in recent years, but this offering from GEODOG claims to improve on those that have gone before with a new slimline design that's shockproof, easily-adjustable, user-friendly and unobtrusive."

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Honda's Accord Coupe Concept previews ninth-generation Accord

Honda's Accord Coupe Concept previews ninth-generation Accord: "Even without taking into account Japan's recent natural disasters, Honda has struggled of late, seemingly having lost its prominence as a technology innovator. With much riding on next year's models, there was a lot of interest when Honda took the covers of the new Accord Coupe Concept at the 2012 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) recently, revealing the first official glimpse of a new styling direction, as well as revealing a host of claimed new technologies for the all-new, ninth-generation 2013 model, set to go on-sale this fall in America."

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New inflatable tourniquet designed to reduce battlefield deaths

New inflatable tourniquet designed to reduce battlefield deaths: "Insurgents are commonly taught to aim just below a soldier's body armor, which is where the abdominal area meets the legs. When a bullet hits this area it causes massive internal bleeding which often proves fatal in a matter of minutes."

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GEODOG GPS-enabled collar lets you find your dog using your smartphone

GEODOG GPS-enabled collar lets you find your dog using your smartphone: "We've all experienced that moment of panic when we open the back door to let the dog inside only to find that he's not there. Technology has provided a solution to this dilemma with GPS tracking devices designed specifically for our four-legged friends entering the market in recent years, but this offering from GEODOG claims to improve on those that have gone before with a new slimline design that's shockproof, easily-adjustable, user-friendly and unobtrusive."

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Samsung unveils 55-inch Super OLED TV to be released later this year

Samsung unveils 55-inch Super OLED TV to be released later this year: "Larger screen OLED TVs have had us salivating at various electronics trade shows over the last couple of years and CES 2012 doesn't look like being any different. LG already announced it's intention to show a 55-inch OLED display in the lead up to the world's biggest consumer electronics show and now rival Samsung has unveiled its offering that has set our salivary glands into overdrive."

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