Portable electronics users tend to upgrade their devices frequently as new technologies offering more functionality and more convenience become available. A report published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2012 showed…
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MIT startup brings nonstick coating “LiquiGlide” to consumer goods packaging
The days of wasting condiments — and other products — that stick stubbornly to the sides of their bottles may be gone, thanks to MIT spinout LiquiGlide, which has licensed its nonstick coating…
New nanogenerator harvests power from the car’s rolling tires with better fuel efficiency
A group of engineers have developed a nanogenerator that harvests energy from a car’s rolling tire friction, which may improve the fuel efficiency or the cruising ability of electric vehicles. An innovative…
MIT’s automatic bug repairing without access to source code
At the Association for Computing Machinery’s Programming Language Design and Implementation conference this month, MIT researchers presented a new system that repairs dangerous software bugs by automatically importing functionality from other, more…
Samsung’s new technology could improve your smartphone’s battery life
Samsung Electronics have announced that it has developed a new technology to improve lithium ion battery capacity. They have developed a next generation lithium-ion battery technology which they use a silicon anode;…