Researchers Examine Emerging Market for Used Electric Vehicle Batteries
A new report from UCLA and UC Berkeley shows that used electric car batteries could help California achieve its renewable energy, greenhouse gas reduction and energy storage goals more efficiently —...
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High-Tech In-Ear Monitors Are Better Than Ever With 3D Custom Fitting and...
It is the rare professional musician–at least the ones who have achieved a reasonable level of success–that doesn’t sport a pair of in-ear monitors (IEMs) during a performance or a recording session....
View ArticleSigning robot developed as chatty companion for the elderly
Following in the footsteps of Hiroshi Ishiguro's eerily lifelike creations, Toshiba introduced its very own take on the human-looking droid at Japan's CEATAC electronics trade show this week. The...
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IBM "sunflowers" to supply off-grid energy, water, and cooling
Equipped with an array of multi-junction photovoltaic chips, each of the IBM 'sunflowers' can supply the energy needs of several homes (Image: Airlight Energy/dsolar) Looking rather like a 10-meter...
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Student Creates 3D Printed ‘Airy Arm’, Allowing For Surprising Use of...
We have seen many extremely helpful 3D printed prosthetic hands and arms come to fruition over the past two years. Thanks to groups like e-NABLE and the Robohand Project, there are hundreds of people...
View ArticleBrain-computer interface enables "locked-in" brain stroke sufferer to...
By enabling users to communicate and control devices with their thoughts, brain-computer interfaces (BCI) hold almost a scary amount of potential. While they have achieved feats such as directing the...
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Drone pilots battle it out in Star Wars-inspired race through French forest
Dozens of drone owners conducted a three lap circuit through trees last month in what organizers, who compared the event to the pod race in Star Wars Episode I, hope will spawn similar contests around...
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"Combining glass" brings together real and virtual in augmented reality...
The reflection of a user's finger 'touches' a museum artifact, causing a projected pop-up to appear Perhaps you've been in a situation where you noticed that your reflection in a window looked like it...
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Michigan Tech Researchers Create Two Portable Solar Powered 3D Printer Systems
Additive manufacturing promises to change the lives of millions, the means of production of thousands of companies, and transform supply chain management in the developed world. It’s really remarkable...
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Amputee First to Get 'Lock and Load' Prosthesis!
Thanks to advanced research on prosthetic limbs, a Swedish truck driver is the world's first amputee to receive a prosthesis that has a direct connection to his bone, nerves and muscles. A titanium rod...
View ArticleThe Neuroscience Era: From neuroprostheses to full emulation of the brain and...
Dear friends, fellow thinkers and colleagues, On October 14 neuroscientist Dr. Randal Koene (USA) will give a lecture in Moscow about recent scientific discoveries in the field of neuroscience which...
View ArticleHumanoid Robot Robi to Launch in Hong Kong
Robi, a humanoid robot that can chat and control your TV, will be available in Hong Kong later this month, its fifth market after Japan, Italy, Taiwan and the U.K. Standing 34-centimeters tall, the...
View ArticleResearchers develop world's thinnest electric generator
Researchers from Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology report today that they have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic effect in an...
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The Fortis exoskeleton let you lift heavy tools indefinitely – and it’s...
There are many different takes on what a human exoskeleton could look like, and a few have even been put into service to greatly augment the human body. However, most of those have one thing in common...
View ArticleNew Self-Healing Process Found That Could Help The Brain Regain Function...
A decade ago, Zaal Kokaia and Olle Lindvall of the Lund Stem Cell Center in Sweden revealed that neural stem cells can respond to emergency traumas, such as a stroke, and differentiate into neural...
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Microsoft’s Quantum Mechanics
In 2012, physicists in the Netherlands announced a discovery in particle physics that started chatter about a Nobel Prize. Inside a tiny rod of semiconductor crystal chilled cooler than outer space,...
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NavVis performs Google-like 3D mapping, but quicker
Users of the NavVis mapping trolley don't have to hide from its cameras When we first heard about the NavVis system a couple of years ago, it was being developed for indoor navigation. Developed by...
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Scientists find 'hidden brain signatures' of consciousness in vegetative...
These images show brain networks in two behaviorally similar vegetative patients (left and middle), but one of whom imagined playing tennis (middle panel), alongside a healthy adult (right panel)....
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3D printing enables customized knee replacement surgery
In today's installment of "How 3D Printing is Changing Healthcare Forever," a Massachusetts-based medical device company is forging new ground in knee replacement surgery. A combination of CT imaging,...
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AeroMobil's Flying Car Set to Hit the Market This Month
The AeroMobil 3.0 holds two passengers and can fly up to 430 miles on standard 91 octane gasoline. It’s powered by a Rotax 912 engine, which is the same engine that is being used by another flying car...
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