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Screens on even the newest phones and tablets can be hard to read outside in bright sunlight. Inspired by the nanostructures found on moth eyes, researchers have developed a new antireflection film that could keep people from having to run to the shade to look at their mobile devices.The antireflection film exhibits a surface reflection of just 23%, much lower than the iPhone's surface reflection of 4.4%, for example.

It's late. Do you know where your PC boards are? Let me rephrase that: Can unused PC boards be stored for future use?Yes, they can - if stored properly. Keep them wrapped up or sealed in a bag. Anti-static isn't necessary in this case, but it won't hurt. It’s best to keep them in a cool, dark place. Be sure to keep them clean and do your best to avoid dropping them on the floor and stepping on them. Author:Duane Benson, Chief Technology Ch...

A small, thin square of an organic plastic that can detect disease markers in breath or toxins in a building's air could soon be the basis of portable, disposable sensor devices. By riddling the thin plastic films with pores, University of Illinois researchers made the devices sensitive enough to detect at levels that are far too low to smell, yet are important to human health.

The research team of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed a system for 3D fingerprint identification by adopting ground breaking 3D fingerprint minutiae recovery and matching technology, pushing contactless biometric technology into a new realm of speed and accuracy for use in identification, crime investigation, immigration control, security of access and forensic applications at an affordable cost.

The evolution of the smartphone industry since ten years offers to biometric technologies a huge opportunity to install sensors on each human. Today biometrics technologies are rapidly integrated and evolve quickly.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory used a high-resolution electron microscope to study nanoscale details of catalytic particles made of nickel and cobalt-inexpensive alternatives to the costly platinum used in most fuel cells today. A paper describing the research in the journalNature Communicationsincludes 3D, dynamic images that reveal how the particles' external and internal structure and chemica...

The official shipment of Genius' retractable touch pen has been announced. The GP-B200 and GP-B200A are compatible with both iOS and Android-based smartphone devices. For the rest of this announcement, GP-B200 will be used to refer to both models.

A 500dpi flexible fingerprint sensor in a smart card form factor designed by FlexEnable is going to be showcased at TRUSTECH 2016 in Cannes, 29thNovember-1stDecember 2016. With biometric authentication becoming increasingly important for the smartcard industry, flexible fingerprint sensors open up new opportunities.

Rice University computer scientists have created a system for mobile users to quickly determine their location indoors without communicating with the cloud, networks or other devices. The battery-saving scheme uses image recognition and "hashing," a method that reduces key details in a photo to short strings of numbers called hashes. To determine a location, the system hashes a photo from the user's camera and compares it against a pre-downloaded...

A 3D sky-mapping project that will measure the light of millions of galaxies has received formal approval from the U.S. Department of Energy to move forward with construction. Installation of the project, called DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument), is set to begin next year at the Nicholas U. Mayall 4m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Ariz., with observations starting up in January 2019.