SAN FRANCISCO - Looking for an item in a large department store or mall can be like searching for a needle in a haystack, but that could change thanks to a hybrid location-identification system that uses radio frequency transmitters and overhead LED lights, suggested by a team of researchers from Penn State and Hallym University in South Korea.

The Biorobotics Lab will show the robots at an open house. - WHEN: Friday, Jan. 13, 11 - 3 - WHERE: Paul Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering - In a basement on the University of Washington campus perch seven identical robots.

by John Sullivan - In the basement of Hoyt Laboratory at Princeton University, Alexei Tyryshkin clicked a computer mouse and sent a burst of microwaves washing across a silicon crystal suspended in a frozen cylinder of stainless steel.

An African Agama lizard swings its tail upward to prevent pitching forward after a slip during take-off.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - When one tiny circuit within an integrated chip cracks or fails, the whole chip - or even the whole device - is a loss.

Gabriel Rebeiz, a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, has been appointed to the Wireless Industry Endowed Chair at the Jacobs School of Engineering.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - University of Illinois materials scientists have developed a new reactive silver ink for printing high-performance electronics on ubiquitous, low-cost materials such as flexible plastic, paper or fabric substrates.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A University of Michigan educational technology that aims to make large lecture classes feel smaller and more interactive is on display this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Harvard is on holiday break from December 23 to January 2; Winter Activities start on January 3 - Happy holidays from all of us at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

Sixty years ago, music professor Vladimir Ussachevsky received a large package at his office with revolutionary new technology: a reel-to-reel Ampex tape recorder.