It isn’t glamorous, but these robots could be the future of public health management. Meet Mario and Luigi, the plumber probes developed by researchers at the MIT Senseable City Lab, who are currently wading through the sewage of the city of Cambridge, MA, monitoring the health of local citizens at an unprecedented level…
There were always shortcuts to technology. A lone inventor, or even a team
In consumer tech, this number is in hundreds, in advanced and specialized batteries it spans in thousands. With usage of nanorods (wires with diameter thousands times thinner than human hair) and graphene, they were able to get around 10 thousand recharges before significant battery fade…
Big news came a few days ago from the University of Tokyo, where researchers created ultrathin, ultraflexible protective layer, which was then used for creating air stable organic light-emitting diode (OLED). While OLED technology is already consumer available, the protective layer…
Testing the stretchiness of a newly synthesized rubberlike polymer in one of the Stanford University labs has yielded surprising results. Cheng-Hui Li, a member of a research group led by chemical engineering Professor Zhenan Bao, has developed a type of elastomer – the kind of plastic…
Although visually impressive, the inventions of Nikola Tesla haven’t been used for much aside from entertainment and education for the better part of the last century. This may be about to change, as scientists at Rice University have discovered that the strong force field emitted by a Tesla coil…
The line between a man and a machine is continuing to blur. Not only are computers in some ways getting better than us (one only needs to remember the recent news of Google’s AlphaGo beating a pro player in a game of Go), but we are witnessing the beginnings…
For development of IoT, it is vital that computers get smaller and affordable. After all, the goal is to put them in as many items as possible. Intel now marks a significant progress in this endeavor, with its new Quark Micro-controller Developer Kit D2000…
Yesterday morning in San Francisco, California, Mark Zuckerberg delivered a keynote speech at the
Researchers from the University of Bristol, in collaboration with colleagues at the Universities of Exeter, Montpellier, and Naples Federico II, have found that humanoid robotics and computer avatars could help rehabilitate people suffering from serious social disorders, such as schizophrenia or social phobia…
