An artist's rendering of the company's wave system
(Credit: Orecon)Right now, wave power is in the early experimental stages, but venture capitalists are lining up to be on the ground floor.
Orecon has lined up $24 million in funding from Advent Ventures, Venrock, Wellington Partners
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CORK, Ireland--Researchers for years have devised cooling systems that sit next to or on top of chips and other hot components. Now, researchers in Ireland are trying to make one for inside these components.
The University of Limerick in Ireland, in conjunction with Cork's Tyndall Institute and other research ...
DUBLIN, Ireland--There isn't quite an inch of dust on top of Institutione Catholica, a two-volume theological set of books dating back a few centuries. But it looks close.
The entire top of the volumes are coated in a thick, brown mass. Some of the dust has formed into balls ...
DUBLIN, Ireland--It knows when you are sleeping. It knows when you're awake.
"It" is neither Santa Claus nor a monster in the closet. Rather, it's technology from Dublin-based BiancaMed that can track and analyze a person's sleep and night-breathing patterns without disturbing the sleeper, said CTO Philip ...
CORK, Ireland--Here's a combination you don't see every day: wireless networking and performance art.
Todd Winkler, a professor at Brown University in Rhode Island, and Mikael Fernstrom, a lecturer at the University of Limerick in Ireland, have choreographed performance pieces in which the dancers are rigged up with ...
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a bandage that won't come off until it dissolves.
The bandage consists of a "biorubber" substrate carved into microscopic pillars and valleys with the same sort of equipment used to make semiconductors. It is then coated with a sugar-based glue ...
Forget about customer satisfaction or superiority of image quality. The real issue in the war between Blu-ray and HD DVD was about royalties.
With the competition gone, the Blu-ray consortium now has the opportunity to convince PC makers and consumer electronics makers to adopt Blu-ray drives as their optical drives ...
But is it shower-safe?
(Credit: Angstom Power)Oh, the humanity!
Fuel cell maker Angstrom Power and cell phone maker Motorola have teamed up to create a prototype mobile phone that runs on a hydrogen fuel cell. Hydrogen is produced--by cracking water molecules--with a desktop fueling station and then inserted into ...
The batteries in hybrid cars now get recharged slightly whenever the driver taps the brakes. If research at Honda pans out, heat from the engines could do the same thing.
The Japanese auto giant has released a paper detailing how a Rankine cycle co-generation unit could help recharge the battery ...