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Navigation tool offers virtual world for the blind
Researchers at the University of Rochester have created a navigational assistant that can help inform visually impaired people of their whereabouts, or even bring new dimensions to museum navigation or campus tours for sighted individuals.
[ + ]Changes proposed for amateur radio operators
A review designed to simplify arrangements for amateur radio licence operators has been launched by the Australian Communications Authority (ACA).
[ + ]The ‘nomadic’ medical T-shirt
Four laboratories and an equal number of manufacturers have pooled their skills to develop the first T-shirt that, 'barded' with physiological and medical measurement sensors and linked via the GSM network to a specialist centre, is a new operational telemonitoring tool; a new advance in the field of telemedicine.
[ + ]Tiny nanotube antennas may yield better signals
In the future, mobile phone calls and television pictures could become a lot clearer thanks to tiny antennas thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair. At least that's the speculation of a University of Southern California researcher who has been investigating nanotube transistors.
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