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OurVision is a low-cost wearable that reads text out loud to users and helps them navigate their surroundings. The IEEE CIS chapter received a US $4,400 grant for the project from EPICS in IEEE , made possible through generous donors and a partnership with the IEEE Foundation. The assistive device works with or without Wi-Fi.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Southwest Research Institute are collaborating to improve storage materials for hydrogen fuels with a hybrid metal-carbon microstructure that combines both chemical and physical hydrogen storage mechanisms. The hydrogen will be chemically and physically absorbed and desorbed.

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The grants will go to projects in 17 states. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. The critical barrier to wider deployment of electric vehicles is the high cost and low energy of today’s batteries. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Applied Materials Inc.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc., The BitBlt software enabled application programs to mix and manipulate rectangular arrays of pixel values in on-screen or off-screen memory, or between the two, combining the pixel values and storing the result in the appropriate bit-map location. Cupertino, Calif.,

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His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye.

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make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. The author spoke with many members of the design team in the months following the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, however, Steve Jobs did not grant an interview for this article.

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