Piezoelectric
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ScienceDuring the recent LEGO2NANO summer school held at Tsinghua University in Beijing, a group of Chinese and English students succeeded in making a Lego-based scanning atomic force microscope with nanoscale resolution in five days at a cost less than $500.
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Kyocera Corporation has combined a piezoelectric actuator with a special resin film to produce Smart Sonic Sound – a piezo film speaker that is thinner and lighter than conventional speakers yet boasts similar audio levels.
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Researchers at the Harvard Microrobotics Lab have created insect-sized robots that can run and operate on their own power source.
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A new "blood pressure watch" made with piezo-resistant fibers promises cheap and convenient continuous blood pressure monitoring.
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SolePower aims to use the energy generated from walking to charge all kinds of devices.
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Belatchew Arkitekter has proposed converting the Söder Torn building in Stockholm into an urban wind farm by covering it in piezoelectric fibers.
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Harvard researchers have presented video of the world's first controlled flight of an insect-sized winged robot.
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ScienceScientists at Georgia Tech have crafted a new type of touch-reactive material that's sensitive enough to read fingerprints and could give robots a sense of touch that resembles our own.
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ScienceA team of researchers at MIT’s David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research have developed a new polymer film that generates power from water vapor.
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ScienceAn engineering team from the University of Missouri has invented an accelerator about the size of a stick of gum that can create X-rays and other forms of radiation, opening up the possibility of cheap and portable X-ray scanners.
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Researchers at GE have created a super-thin cooling device they say will enable thinner, quieter and more powerful tablets and laptops.
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Researchers have developed a self-charging power cell that directly converts mechanical energy to chemical energy, storing the power until it is released as electricity.
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