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Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired

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OurVision is a low-cost wearable that reads text out loud to users and helps them navigate their surroundings. Learning outcomes from the design and development process Students from the IEEE CIS student chapter say they learned a great deal during the project’s design, development, and deployment. They also trained M.S.

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New aqueous rechargeable lithium battery shows good safety, high reliability, high energy density and low cost; another post Li-ion alternative

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The battery, which can be low cost and reliable in terms of safety, provides another chemistry for post Li-ion batteries, they suggest, and with higher practical energy densities than Li-air systems for supporting applications including electric vehicles and large-scale grid energy storage.

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How Car Magnets Provide Major Value to Varying Businesses

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How Car Magnets Provide Major Value to Varying Businesses Old School Marketing Still Works This article may contain affiliate links With so much focus over the last decade on digital marketing, often with good reason, certain other forms of advertising or marketing have gotten less attention than they deserve.

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Unifrax introduces Battery Advisory Board to support SiFAB silicon fiber anode battery technology

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With more than 35 years of experience, Dr. Manthiram’s research is focused on the development of low-cost, high-performance materials for batteries. He has authored more than 850 journal articles. He is a globally recognized leader in cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

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UH, Toyota researchers develop new cathode and electrolyte for high-power Mg battery rivaling Li-ion

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The cathode and electrolyte chemistries elucidated here propel the development of magnesium batteries and would accelerate the adoption of this low-cost and safe battery technology. His group recently published a review article in Nature Energy on the roadmap to better multivalent batteries. —Dong et al.

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Tips for Safe and Effective Pressure Washing Your EV

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Tips for Safe and Effective Pressure Washing Your EV Safety First on the Path To a Speedy, Low-Cost Cleaning This article may contain affiliate links. In terms of cleaning your car, a pressure washer is probably the best choice for keeping it clean at a low cost and in the fastest manner possible.

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Video Friday: Loco-Manipulation

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By equipping a Unitree Go1 robot with two low-cost and lightweight modular 3-DoF loco-manipulators on its front calves, LocoMan leverages the combined mobility and functionality of the legs and grippers for complex manipulation tasks that require precise 6D positioning of the end effector in a wide workspace. [ CMU ] Thanks, Changyi!