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One amateur inventor turned upside down the design of scissors which had been unchanged for two thousand years.
NASA always gets the best of everything.
Nikola, a shameless spinoff, is trying to do for trucks what Tesla Motors did for cars. Do they have what it takes, though?
This Wednesday, serial entrepreneur Elon Musk met behind closed doors with United States Secretary of Defense Ash Carter down at the Pentagon.
It was bound to happen. This week, Jared Overton, a Tesla Motors Model S owner, reported his car spontaneously started itself and drove into a trailer parked right in front of it. No one was hurt, but the car itself broke the windshield. Tesla Motors claims their software wasn't to blame. Instead, internal logs suggest Overton used the 'summon' feature by mistake from his phone. Overton disagrees. It seems like a lawsuit might follow, but the accident begs a more important discussion: are Tesla's autonomous features really safe?
As far as innovations go, it stands in a class of its own by allowing us to virtually alter the real world around us. It carries an echo of the changes mass media and computers brought into our lives, but there hasn't been anything quite like it in our history. Among other things, VR could have a very powerful impact on our home life.
We tested Microsoft's CaptionBot and had some laughs.
Portable data storage, such as USB drives, might not be quite as useful or sought after as they once were but they remain an undeniably handy method to carry your data around.
You might be able to grip, grab and direct hand movements with a prosthesis as if it were your own biological hand, but without the exquisite sense of touch life is not only stale, but also challenging. We're coming close to a singularity in prosthetic research, however -- having bionic arms that sense pressure, texture, temperature and humidity just like their biological counterparts.
An artificial ‘skin’ can stretch up to 480 percent its original size, and can sense changes in pressure – a haptic feature that could lend both robots and human prostheses a sense of touch.
Using only five atoms, a team of international researchers showed how to factor a prime, albeit a trivial one for demo purposes.
Up until now, there was no reliable way to measure the temperature of nanoscale objects, like viruses.
A revolutionary new supercomputer powered by Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy source for every living cell in your body, is ridiculously small and much more efficient than a traditional supercomputer. That's because instead of electricity, this computer is powered by biological agents. This means it needs little to any cooling, and can be scaled to the size of a book.
University of Washington researchers want to flip Wi-Fi energy use upside down. They've invented a new protocol and technique that uses 10,000 less energy. The same signal can be used to power devices without the need of an external power source. Cameras, temperature or motion sensors can all be power and connected to the internet at the same time using 'passive Wi-Fi.'
Pushing around Atlas actually has a purpose, besides annoying the robot.
It may be possible to observe the presence of an advanced alien civilization by the effects produced if that civilization were to self-destruct through nuclear war, biological warfare, nanotechnological annihilation, or stellar pollution. Each case would generate unique detectable signs that could be identified by earth-based telescopes.
"Unless you've been in a wheelchair, it's very difficult to see all the various small details - what a person would actually need within an exoframe," said one Phoenix exoskeleton user. Developed by California robotics startup SuitX, this exoskeleton is the lightest on the market today. It's aim is to eventually become so cheap, durable and practical that it will make the wheelchair obsolete and the lives of millions of paraplegics a lot less daunting.
Material scientists at Oxford University, collaborating with experts from Karlsruhe, Munster and Exeter, have developed the world's first light-based memory banks that can store data permanently. The device is build from simple materials, in use in CDs and DVDs today, and promises to dramatically improve the speed of modern computing.
A great deal has been said and uncovered since Apple’s founder Steve Jobs’ passing. His sister, Mona Simpson an acclaimed author and professor at University of California, delivered a special eulogy as part of a featured article for the New York Times. Among other interesting insights, that casts a more human side to his […]
Steve Jobs, co-founder of apple and the visionary mind behind the company’s products has passed away, at the age of 56, after a long fight with cancer. As word of his death spread, people remembered him as the innovator he was, and as the man who made technology seem so close and personal; the man […]
