Smart Clothes You’ll Be Wearing Soon
Motion-detecting pants, a proximity sensing shirt, a heart-sensing bra, biosensor underwear, and a “thought helmet” are among everyday objects that are becoming networked. ...
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Motion-detecting pants, a proximity sensing shirt, a heart-sensing bra, biosensor underwear, and a “thought helmet” are among everyday objects that are becoming networked. ...
Technology Review’s editors have identified ten emerging technologies that they predict will have a tremendous influence in the near future: Wireless Sensor Networks, Injectable Tissue Engineering...
Solar power from space, super-hairy plants to reflect enough near-infrared energy back into space to cool regional temperatures by two degrees Fahrenheit, and turning the carbon dioxide fr...
The dressing contains a fluorescent dye that is activated in the presence of infection-causing bacteria. Currently, the results of tests to determine whether a wound...
Stanford University bioengineers have taken computing beyond mechanics and electronics into the living realm of biology by creating the “transcriptor” — a biological transistor made from DN...
Scientists have developed a solid material so light it can be balanced atop the petals of a flower. Researchers from Zhejiang university in Hangzhou, China, showed off their newly developed graphe...
Meet Zoe: a digital talking head. She can express a range of human emotions on demand with “unprecedented realism” and could herald a new era of human-computer interaction, according to resea...
When you travel, watch out for these objects - they carry lots of germs !! Remote controls are never cleaned !! Handrails in supermarkets, airports, trains and bus stations - how many people hol...
A high-resolution endoscope as thin as a human hair Engineers at Stanford University have developed a prototype single-fiber endoscope that is as thin as a human hair, with a resolution fou...
Google wants to replace all your passwords with a ring March 13, 2013 As part of research into doing away with typed passwords, Google has built rings that not only adorn a finger but a...
he DARPA Tactical Technology Office is soliciting proposals on the design, development and demonstration of a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) experimental aircraft (X-Plane) with exceptional per...
Breathlessly billed as "Space Travel on Earth," a transportation concept from Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies, or ET3, would reportedly be able to whisk passengers from New York to L.A. in ...
Batteries continue to be the bane of mobile devices, but research done at Northwestern University could change that, with longer-lasting batteries that charge in minutes, not hours. The new science ...
IBM Magnesium Ion Some researchers are looking beyond lithium. The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) is funding high-risk, high-reward ...
Sakti3 Lithium Air One materials scientist told me that lithium air is the "grand slam home run" of energy density. Lithium-air batteries differ from lithium-ion...
Quantum devices will revolutionise computing, enabling huge calculations to be completed that classical computers simply cannot do. We're now one step closer to quantum ...
A man receives a medical checkup before surgery, in Santiago, Chile, on July 5, 2005 Enlarge A man receives a medical checkup...
As “smart” technologies continue to consume just about every aspect of our lives — from eating and doing laundry to turning on the lights and saving o...
We're one step closer to seeing bendable phones hit the market. A group of scientists led by Professor Lee Sang-young of South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Technology announced that they've s...
A few weeks back we told you about the revolutionary one-piece carbon fiber wheels developed by Australia’s Carbon Revolution. Built first for the Porsche 911, the 19x8.5 (front) and 19x12 (rear) ...
Yi Cui, an engineer at Stanford University, leads a team that may take nanotechnology to the next level by creating paper batteries and fabrics that can conduct energy. At a recent demonstration, Cu...
The advancements that are being made in battery technology are pretty mind boggling. We are seeing devices that are drawing power from just about every source that is imaginable, and now there is ba...
A flexible paper computer developed at Queen’s University in collaboration with Plastic Logic and Intel Labs could one day revolutionize the way people work with tablets and computers. The Pa...
What does it mean to us homo sapiens ? Whenever the first Earth twin is confirmed, the discovery will likely have a profound effect on humanity. "We humans will look up into the night sk...
Engineers from the Bristol wing of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) have announced the development of the first bicycle using Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) tec...
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