A wind- ’mill’ with no moving parts? Since Wednesday, 27 March 2013, a model has been on display outside the building of the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scien... Read more
A new type of nanoscale engine has been proposed that would use quantum dots to generate electricity from waste heat, potentially making microcircuits more efficient. “The system is re... Read more
Don Gilmore, a Kansas City mechanical engineer, has invented a self-tuning piano kit that could revolutionize — if not destroy — an industry headquartered in his hometown. The computerized d... Read more
These engines would have no moving parts, would not wear out, and would be infinitely reliable Researchers who are studying a new magnetic effect that converts heat to electricity have disco... Read more
Sophisticated reading light generates electricity using a mechanism similar to that in a grandfather clock. Post Fossil has created the ‘First Light,’ a cordless reading lamp that doesn’t re... Read more
Has the potential for widespread applications from the micro- to macroscale Inspired by a toy, the ‘buckliball’ — a collapsible structure fabricated from a single piece of material — represe... Read more
Everyone knows that, unless you’re extraordinarily gifted, you need to crawl before you can walk. Turns out the same principle could also apply to robots. In a first-of-its-kind experiment c... Read more