A Keyboard Made for the Masses Friday, October 13, 2017 It’s easy to look at something industrial and appreciate its chamfers and clean-edged aesthetic details. What about when you run your ...Read More
One Chare Built for Two Butts! Friday, October 13, 2017 Have you ever arrived somewhere with a friend but there’s only one chair? What about a waiting room with more strangers than seating? ...Read More
Does the NASA Mars Rover look familiar? Thursday, October 12, 2017 From the looks of it, not Elon Musk, but rather Bruce Wayne may just be the first person to conquer the red planet. This prototype ...Read More
Children’s Clothing, Built to Last Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Petit Pli is like nothing I’ve seen before – designed to fit children from the ages of 6 to 36 months, Petit Pli grows with your ch...Read More
Much More Versatile than Apple Pay Tuesday, October 10, 2017 I LOVE technology. I absolutely do. Ever since I was a child… But I know better than to put all my eggs in one basket. Phones have a ...Read More
This Could Be the End of Personal Vehicles Tuesday, October 10, 2017 Altern isn’t quite a bus, but it’s not quite a train! Instead, this transportation hybrid takes the best qualities of both to maximiz...Read More
Video gamers have an advantage in learning Sunday, October 01, 2017 Summary: Neuropsychologists let video gamers compete against non-gamers in a learning competition. During the test, the video gamers ...Read More
Tiny electrically pumped micro-lasers epitaxially grown on industry standard silicon substrates Saturday, September 30, 2017 Decades ago, the Moore's law predicted that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two y...Read More
Magnetic Fields Provide a New Way to Communicate Wirelessly Saturday, September 30, 2017 Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego demonstrated a new wireless communication technique that works by sendin...Read More
Researchers Integrate Wireless High-speed Data And Power Transfer Saturday, September 30, 2017 Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a system that can simultaneously deliver watts of power and transmit data...Read More
Biometric have designed and created a fake finger to protect identities Friday, September 29, 2017 MSU's biometrics expert Anil Jain and his Ph.D. student Joshua Engelsma have, for the first time, designed and created a fake fin...Read More
When robots help with shopping Friday, September 29, 2017 The IFL PiRo robot detects the objects desired and automatically puts them into shopping baskets. Credit: Laila Tkotz, KIT Today...Read More
New printer creates color by shaping nanostructures Monday, September 25, 2017 Laser morphs tiny germanium pillars to generate shades that won’t fade SUPER RESOLUTION A new printer can make extremely high-resol...Read More
The incredible shrinking transistor just got smaller Monday, September 25, 2017 Carbon nanotubes enable miniature components for computer chips SMALL WONDER A new transistor, made with carbon nanotubes, is tinie...Read More
Tiny quantum storage device fits on a chip Monday, September 25, 2017 The secret to shrinking is light-capturing ridges PHOTON RECALL A new supersmall device for storing quantum information could help e...Read More
Ten Future Technology -- Inventions Needed Sunday, September 24, 2017 This was a wish list for future technology that was originally intended to provide inspiration for inventors. First written in April of...Read More
Digital vs. Traditional Film Photography There's - Room for Both Friday, September 22, 2017 We've seen a phenomenal transition from traditional film photography to digital photography, led in part by the cameras on the ubiqu...Read More
Cray Supercomputer -- Seymour Cray is considered the founder of supercomputing. Monday, September 18, 2017 Picture of SuperComputer A supercomputer refers to the class of most powerful computer systems world-wide at the time of reference. Th...Read More
Robot, heal thyself -- Adding heat to soft bots’ rubbery material closes up lacerations Wednesday, September 13, 2017 SOFT BOT SQUAD Using an elastic, self-healing material, researchers created (from left to right) a robotic hand, gripper and muscle. ...Read More
In these bot hookups, the machines meld their minds Wednesday, September 13, 2017 New composite robots take coordination to a new level MIND MELDERS These Roomba-like robots latch onto each other with m...Read More