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Startup helps smokers snuff the habit with ‘smart cigarette case’_August 4, 2015 New technology could help people understand what triggers their craving for a cigarette, and use that information to cut back on smoking._ |
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Researchers Test At-home Auto-titrating Oral ApplianceJuly 27, 2015 Research assistants in NC State’s iBionics Laboratory have developed a device to make oral appliances (MRDs) that are used in the home auto-adjusting, improving patient comfort and potentially minimizing the short and long term side-effects of MRDs caused by unnecessarily excessive jaw advancement. Rita Brugarolas, Jose Manuel Valero-Sarmiento and Troy Nagle, engineering, featured. |
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Wireless power transfer boosted by magnetic field enchancerJuly 27, 2015 Researchers from NC State University and Carnegie Mellon University show that passing wireless power transfer through a magnetic resonance field enhancer (MRFE) can boost the transfer efficiency by at least 100 per cent compared to transferring through air. |
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Researchers boost wireless power transfer with magnetic field enchancementJuly 27, 2015 NC State researchers along with Carnegie Mellon University have increased the wireless power efficiency through magnetic field enchancement. David Ricketts, electrical and computer engineering featured. |
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Researchers boost wireless power transfer with magnetic field enhancementJuly 23, 2015 Researchers from NC State University and Carengie Mellon University show that the utilization of a magnetic resonance field enchancer, MRFE, can enchance power efficiency by up to 5,000 percent. David Ricketts, electrical and computer engineering featured. |
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Researchers boost wireless power transfer with magnetic field enchancementJuly 23, 2015 NC State researchers have increased wireless power transfer though a magnetic resonance field enchancer (MRFE). David Ricketts, electrical and computer engineering, featured. |
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Researchers boost wireless power transfer with magnetic field enchancementJuly 23, 2015 Researchers found that passing wireless power transfer through a magnetic resonance field enhancer (MRFE) can boost transfer efficiency by at least 100 percent as compared to transferring through air alone, potentially boosting transfer efficiency by as much as 5,000 percent in some systems. David Ricketts, electrical and computer engineering. |
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Cyborg cockroaches are being trained to sniff out earthquake survivorsJuly 23, 2015 A team of bioboticists at NC State is developing an army of cybernetically-enhanced cockroaches to map out disaster areas and pinpoint survivors trapped beneath rubble. Alper Bozkurt, electrical & computer engineering, featured. |
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Cyborg cockroach and drone teams can locate disaster survivorsJuly 23, 2015 Cybernetically enhanced insects controlled by a drone can be deployed to comb the rubble of an earthquake site, looking for survivors. Alper Bozkurt, electrical & computer engineering, featured. |
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Marshal Brian Explains ‘How Stuff Works’July 21, 2015 Host Frank Stasio talks with Marshall Brain about his life and career. Marshall Brain, Director of Engineering Entrepreneurs Program, featured. |
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Teaching old dogs new tricks with ‘smart harness’July 13, 2015 North Carolina State University scientists have formed new solutions invented to optimize connection between dogs and people. Alper Bozkurt, electrical and computer engineering, featured. |
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Now, make sense of your dog’s woofJuly 13, 2015 A joint project between the computer science and electrical and computer engineering departments and the College of Veterinary Medicine has developed the technology designed to improve communication between dogs and humans. Alper Bozkurt, electrical and computer engineering, featured. |
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Researchers zap away control centerJuly 10, 2015 Researchers at NC State have developed a method for optimizing energy in electrical grids without using a control center, which captures renewable energy and cuts down utility prices. |
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Harness teaches old mutt new tricksJuly 9, 2015 NC State researchers create a ‘smart harness’ to improve communication between dogs and humans. Alper Bozkurt, electrical and computer engineering, featured. |
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Communicating with your pet dog: ‘Smart harness’ allows humans and dogs to understand each other betterJuly 9, 2015 NC State researchers create technology to enhance communcation between dogs and humans. Alper Bozkurt, electrical and computer engineering, featured. |