Tag Archives : University of California

It’s virtually impossible to not have technology touch every aspect of human life. This time, four mechanical engineering graduates from University of California thought of applying science to augment their surfboarding experience. They installed a computer and eight velocity sensors on a surfboard. These would aid in registering the speed at which [...]

Wearable health monitors have long been spoken about, as these clothes would not only serve their main purpose, but would also be helping in leading a remarkably healthy life. Joseph Wang, a nano engineer at the University of California at San Diego, has now come out with an all new kind of underpants, that are embedded with bio sensors, with which [...]

In a recent data usage report released by the University of California, it has been revealed that, an average American internet users consumes about 34 gigabytes of data, inclusive of 100,000 words in a single day. The data for the report is generated from a variety of sources such as television, radio, the internet, text messages and video games. With [...]

If you thought that the mobile phone was only for making calls, texting, having fun, listening to music and connecting with the rest of the world, then a brand new and very special add-on app might change all of that very soon. Aydogan Ozcan, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and member of the California NanoSystems Institute at the University [...]

If it’s upto Aydogan Ozcan, who works at the University of California, as an assistant professor of electrical engineering, he would make sure that, medical research tools such as microscopes, would be entirely replaced by mobile phones, capable of performing the same functions. It might sound like a far fetched day dream, bur Asst. Prof. Ozcan [...]

Here is good news for those video game lovers! According to a research conducted on the effects of video game playing on brain reveals that the brain functions more efficiently after playing video games for three months. This research was conducted earlier in the year 1992 by Richard Haier, a neurologist at the University of California in Irvine. Recently, [...]

In what was initially a frightening and then very intriguing experience, Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have concluded that peeling out an ordinary scotch tape in vacuum can generate X-rays intense enough to create an x-ray image of one of the scientist’s hands! While the initial fears were obviously about how this would [...]