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• Nanosensors for Medical Monitoring

  Physicians often test the levels of a few telltale blood proteins in seriously injured or ill patients to detect organ failure and other problems. Now Vista Therapeutics , a startup based in Santa Fe, NM, hopes to improve the care of these patients with Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:51 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanowires, Sensors, Diagnosis

• Shape-shifting 'smart dust' may explore alien world

  Thousands of miniscule wireless sensors, or "smart dust," could one day be used to explore other planets. Several research groups are developing tiny smart dust devices. Each is a few cubic millimeters in volume and can perform simple sensing task... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:33 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Space exploration, Sensors

• Star Trek-like 'Tricorder' becomes science fact

  Purdue University researchers have developed a portable sensing system to analyze chemical components, with "numerous promising uses for detecting everything from cancer in the liver to explosives residues on luggage and biomarkers in urine that prov... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2007 11:59 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Sensors

• Acoustic sensors make surfaces interactive

  Tai-Chi (Tangible Acoustic Interfaces for Computer-Human Interaction), a series of acoustic sensors that turn any surface into a touch-sensitive computer interface, has been developed by European researchers. Two or more sensors are attached aroun... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, November 29, 2006 12:02 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Sensors, Computer interfaces

• Tracking Information Flow in the Brain

  MIT scientists have engineered a nano-sized calcium sensor that may eventually shed light on the intricate cell-to-cell communications that make up human thought. Alan Jasanoff and his team at the Francis Bitter Magnet Lab and McGovern Institute ... Read more
  Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 12:59 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neurobiology, Neuroscience, Sensors

• Researchers develop nanoparticle sensor

  New Mexico Tech researchers have developed a sensor that uses the light-emitting properties of some nanoparticles to analyze and identify nucleotides, individual components of single strands of DNA and RNA. The hope to adapt the sensors to detect ... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:01 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanoparticles, Sensors