A researcher with the MIT experiment with a system of three-dimensional printing can also be used with metal, concrete and hard stone. Print them from your own home? And why not?

Rome - In a not too distant future, perhaps, among the wonders of 3D printing could be the ability to print prefabricated elements to be used in buildings. This is at least what he thinks Blacks Oxman, researcher at the MIT Media Lab committed to advancing the technology of three-dimensional printing in the field of construction. 

While not get a confirmed email to Steve Jobs on the subject, begin the first legal action to the offending file with geolocation data. And the Congress is called for clarification even Google

Rome - The file that stores in the iPhone / iPad coordinates unencrypted positioning seems to be confirmed by the user reached an intricate situation that is flowing in the first legal action, and that, as feared by some observers, it may not only concern Apple.

Researchers realize a material able to behave as a polymer and to repair in case of scratches and small lesions. Ideal for roofing proof of damage, such as the painting of cars

Rome - A joint research team at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and the University of Freiburg (Germany) has developed a material with self-healing properties, can have the same characteristics of a polymer while not, in fact, a polymer .

You just happy to own a smartphone, or you have a Trojan in your pocket? No, because you're underestimating the control that the producers - and not the owner - have on your hardware

Rome - In times really do not suspect Cassandra, still a beginner, he wrote an article about the black box, ie information about the objects that provide one or more core features, isolating the user-owner of their complexity and internal structure.

The provisions of article in the objects that were obviously the type black box, they had resources and computing power in excess, could be inserted functionality "hidden" of various kinds, and certainly this possibility would have been exploited by manufacturers for purposes not beneficial to the user.

If the advantage of the lithium-ion battery today is the high energy density, what they need instead is still a recharge time shorter. In this regard, the engineers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have identified a way to speed up their process.

Gerbrand Ceder and Richard P. Simmons Institute of Engineering and Materials Science at MIT have found that a greater freedom of movement of lithium ions within the material would have increased the capacity of the batteries. So researchers have worked on the structure of the material, going to create, in the surface region, a sort of "preferential" for lithium ions, just like a road junction around a city. And 'the line of research that moves in the field of nanotechnology.

A new project in Silicon Valley to allow commuters, before embarking on the path of access to advice on which path to follow to avoid queues. Advantages of both time and for pollution

Rome - The goal is to be able to introduce to every commuter road conditions before you even get in your car, avoid long hours in line during peak hours and traffic congestion due to accidents or highway for work in progress, suggesting an alternative route. This is the premise behind the new project announced by IBM Research, the Department of Transportation of California and the California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT), for the development of a research program that will allow drivers to quickly access personalized travel recommendations to help them avoid congestion, saving time and fuel. 

A joint research Japanese-Finnish describes a method for the production of thin layers of flexible plastic with logic circuits "printed" to carbon nanotubes. Ready for use?

Rome - The future of the carbon nanotube transistor passes through thin layers of flexible plastic, economical and practical to implement and enter the market. Or at least that's what the researchers hope the Aalto University in Finland and Nagoya University in Japan, which in Nature Nanotechnology offers a new method of production of filmnanotubici above.

An article published in Nature Materials, the result of a joint research of the University of Milan and the University of Tokyo Japanese (Prof. H. Tanaka) and Kyoto (Prof. T. Araki) demonstrates a unique property resulting from the integration of materials solid and liquid: the "defect" in the arrangement of the molecules of the materials can be technologically exploited to reduce the energy consumption in the operation of the liquid crystal display.

Technological development has always gone hand in hand with the ability to integrate different types of material and nature.

Researchers at the University of Bologna behind a new connectivity solution at low cost. And while in the U.S. think of the laser, Pisa touches the 448 Gbps

Rome - Researchers at the University of Bologna and the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, have developed a new ultra-low-cost optical fiber: the new material was called POF, which stands for Plastic Optical Fiber.

The results of their research were published in the scientific journal "Journal of lightwave technology": the POF guarantee the performance of high speed production costs down by not resorting to the traditional glass such as optical fiber, but, as the name implies, the plastic. The material would, in addition, to simplify the installation of very even, halving the costs.

The organization that oversees the development of the WiFi standard aims to facilitate the transition from cellular networks and wireless proper. Why the public should also WiFi 3G carriers, says the alliance

Rome - The organization Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) proposes the establishment of a new program of WiFi hotspots "certificates", with the main objective to facilitate as much as possible the coexistence of 3G networks and public WiFi networks - to benefit the ease of use of smartphone users but also to make a little 'easier' lives telephone carriers.