Researchers at MIT have taken a significant step toward battery-free monitoring systems — which could ultimately be used in biomedical devices, environmental sensors in remote locations and gauges in hard-to-reach spots, among other applications.

Previous work from the lab of MIT professor Anantha Chandrakasan has focused on the development of computer and wireless-communication chips that can operate at extremely low

July Roses and Clematis

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Warm, wet weather delighted our roses and clematis. They are flowering better than ever and their colours sparkle.

Jul 9 2012

Recent Work

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Today's Best Market Rumors (7/8/2012) RIM Lawsuits?

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Updated throughout the day on the 24/7 Wall St. Wire.

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) will face shareholder suits as it delayed products. (NYT)

Boeing (NYSE: BA) won a 100 737 purchase from a lending unit at GE and expects another large one from SAS(Bloomberg)

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Jul 9 2012

NASA's Amazing New View of Mars

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The space agency calls its panoramic image of the Red Planet the "next best thing to being" there.

via yahoonews.

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Jul 9 2012

Samsung Galaxy Beam projector phone

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the Samsung Galaxy Beam has finally arrived, with the Carphone Warehouse offering the handset for free on a 24 month contract! It is sim free with a price of £419.It has a contract for £31 a month.It has the new android jelly bean update.You can watch movies wherever you want because it has a projector!

Jul 9 2012

UBI to deploy Mumbai's first 'Talking ATM'

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NCR Corporation is said to deploy over 100 Voice Guided ATMs - which not only allows access to visually challenged people but also people with physical disabilities through ramps for wheel chair access, for Union Bank of India (UBI) - India’s pioneer public sector bank. The city’s first ‘Talking ATM’ was inaugurated today at The Passport Seva Kendra in Thane by Sri D Sarkar, CMD, UBI.

The best blog?

Hi guys.

So, being new to all this and being limited right now with time to actually post my own stuff I ask myself, how will I avoid overloading my blog with information once everything goes back to normal and I have time to be here again? Tricky one really.

Big thank you to all of you with all the interesting posts, i’m having a great time reading everything from you guys!