US Government to Review Toyota Electronics
Despite continual assurances from Toyota that a recent rash of uncontrolled accelerations of the company's automobiles aren't caused by their electronic braking systems, the U.S. Department of Transportation will review possible electronic causes for the failures, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told a U.S. congressional hearing Wednesday.

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Cell-inspired electronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- A single cell in the human body is approximately 10,000 times more energy-efficient than any nanoscale digital transistor, the fundamental building block of electronic chips. In one second, a cell performs about 10 million energy-consuming chemical reactions, which altogether require about one picowatt (one millionth millionth of a watt) of power.

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