| Kinsey Reporter: Free app allows public to anonymously report, share information on sexual behavior Sep 5th 2012, 15:08 Indiana University has released Kinsey Reporter, a global mobile survey platform for collecting and reporting anonymous data about sexual and other intimate behaviors. The pilot project allows citizen observers around the world to use free applications now available for Apple and Android mobile platforms to not only report on sexual behavior and experiences, but also to share, explore and visualize the accumulated data. | | 'Nanoresonators' might improve cell phone performance Aug 30th 2012, 21:33 Researchers have learned how to mass produce tiny mechanical devices that could help cell phone users avoid the nuisance of dropped calls and slow downloads. The devices are designed to ease congestion over the airwaves to improve the performance of cell phones and other portable devices. | | Turning chemistry inside-out: Self-assembling smart microscopic reagents to pioneer pourable electronics Aug 29th 2012, 10:47 A new project plans to build autonomous self-assembling electronic microreagents that are almost as small as cells. They will exchange chemical and electronic information to jointly direct complex chemical reactions and analyses in the solutions they are poured into. This is a form of embedded computation -- "to compute is to construct" -- in which, for example, the output is a particular catalyst or coating needed in the (input) local chemical environment. | | How to feed data-hungry mobile devices? Use more antennas Aug 23rd 2012, 18:37 Researchers have just unveiled Argos, a new multi-antenna technology that could help wireless providers keep pace with the voracious demands of data-hungry smartphones and tablets. Argos aims to dramatically increase network capacity by allowing cell towers to simultaneously beam signals to more than a dozen customers on the same frequency. | |