Microsoft’s split-style controller was recently revealed in a YouTube video. It allows a user to play video games using a controller attached to smartphone/tablet devices instead of using the touch screen. (Image Credit: Microsoft Research) A few yea...
By using the Portal device, users are able to access data on a Wi-Fi-enabled device in regions where an internet shutdown is being enforced by the government. (Image Credit: Qifan Zhao, The Fallback Project) Humans have a right to access informa...
Scientists have created a “body-on-a-chip” that consists of mini-organs, including a heart that beats, lungs that breathe, a liver, blood vessels, colon, and brain. Image is a sample of one creation. (Image Credit: WFIRM) Medical researchers at the W...
Doctors recently used CRISPR to help treat a patient suffering from blindness (Image credit: Maurizio De Angelis/Science Photo Library) Over the past few decades, researchers and doctors have been looking for ways to help restore sight for the ...
The neighbor atom, as shown in red, is used to calculate the measurements of the blue atom. (Image Credit: RIKEN) Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan have successfully taken repetitive measurements of the spin ...
Mark Hamill speaking to Bella, who is the first one to wear the R2D2 bionic hand cover in the United States. (Image Credit: OpenBionics/YouTube) OpenBionics, a company that specializes in building bionics for amputees, has recently released an R...
The robot finger has the ability to localize touch with high precision over a large, multi curved surface. (Image Credit: Columbia Engineering) Researchers from Columbia Engineering University have developed a new robotic finger that has a sense...
The new electronic state of matter could advance research in quantum physics, further advancing technology. (Image Credit: Yun-Yi Pai) Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Department of Physics and Astronomy have announced the dis...
The virtually aided tactile enhancement system (VATES) allows more motion control. (Image Credit: Rongrong Bao.) Humans rely on the sense of touch to manipulate objects, but that can be restricted due to injuries or wearing gloves. This can be ...
AI may be the way to fight back against the spread of diseases (Photo from CDC) The coronavirus has been spreading at an alarming rate since its initial outbreak. So far, there have been roughly 305 deaths and more than 14,300 people infected an...
Scientists from EPFL have developed a deep-learning-based motion-capture software that uses several camera angles to imitate the actions of a fly in three dimensions. By using this information, scientists are hoping to meet their goal of designing a ...
NASA’s Ionosphere Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft is in orbit after its successful launch on Thursday, October 10 of 2019. A Northrop Grumman Stargazer L-1011 aircraft carried ICON, on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket, to an altitude ...
The team used magnetic resonance in anti-ferromagnetic materials to make the waves easier to see. Jing Shi, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UC Riverside, led the team who made the discovery. (Image credit: UC Riverside) ...
For the first time ever, scientists have recorded atoms splitting/bonding. This new method the team used could be used in the future with electronic microscopy. Image Credit: University of Nottingham) Scientists from the University of Ulm in Ger...
Researchers recreated the to push of an ancient Egyptian priest, Nesyamun, by using a CT scanner, a 3D printer and an electronic larynx. The mummy could only produce a vowel-like sound. (Image Credit: Leeds Teaching Hospitals/Leeds Museums and Galler...
These new implants will address inner ear damage, boasts a more comfortable fit, and will send highly conductive signals. The implant’s design is based on the Japanese paper-cutting technique, Kirigami. (Image credit: EPFL) Some older new I foun...
Gatebox has been redesigned by Keystone Innovative Group with software changes – replace the blue-haired anime character with a westernized avatar. (Image Credit: Gatebox) If Tamagotchi, Digipets, robot butlers of the 80s are any indication, we ...
The mini-accelerator could be a big boon in the medical industry, especially for cancer research. A magnified image of a section of the accelerator on a chip. (Image credit: Stanford University) High power particle accelerators play a large rol...
Since the neurons only need one-billionth the power of a microprocessor, they’re ideal for medical implants (Image credit: University of Bath) The quest to design artificial neurons has been an ongoing one. It’s been a major goal in the medical ...
Tomato plants could possible let out an ultrasonic scream whenever they’re under stress from water deprivation or from cutting a stem. (Image credit: pixabay) You may think that humans and animals are the only living things that let out a sound, like...
Researchers used underwater loudspeakers and played sounds associated with healthy reefs to lure in fish. Researchers say fish play a vital role in maintaining healthy coral reefs (Image credit: James Cook University) A team of researchers from ...
I don’t normally talk about this level of finished products, but I liked the concept. I think it could easily be replicated. On Thursday, November 21st, Amazon unveiled the Dash Smart Shelf, a smart scale that’s connected to WiFi, uses Amazon’s shopp...
Image of a humanoid geoglyph (left) and an enhanced image (right). (Image Credit: Yamagata University) A group of scientists has uncovered 143 unknown “geoglyphs” in Peru by using artificial intelligence and satellite imagery. The ancient drawin...
