MIT Demonstrate Atlas Robots New Trick
Remember the multi talented Atlas robot created by Boston Dynamics? Well it looks like it’s still being improved upon since it’s 2013 outing at the DARPA ...
September 8, 2014 at 11:58 am by Peter DonnellMIT
Hitachi Is Developing a Reactor That Burns Nuclear Waste
Nuclear power is one of the safest methods of power generation, in theory. In the real world it however looks different, especially when the structures aren’t ...
September 3, 2014 at 3:58 pm by Bohs Hansen
Is Your Potato Chips Bag Spying on You?
Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analysing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. In one ...
August 16, 2014 at 4:25 pm by Bohs Hansen
Scientists Create Transformers-like Self-Building Robots
With all the cheap 3D printing methods out there, anyone can make anything with a little bit of imagination. This is how a few researchers from Harvard and MIT have created ...
August 8, 2014 at 1:00 am by Gabriel Roşu
Nvidia Researcher Discovers a Way to Quadruple Future VR Headset Resolution
A researcher from NVIDIA has apparently discovered a new manufacturing technique which could quadruple the perceived resolution of virtual reality gear in the future. The ...
July 28, 2014 at 11:04 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Original RickRoll Video Blocked by YouTube
It appears that the popular video-sharing website, YouTube, has blocked access to a seven years old RickRoll video, preventing users from hearing the still-popular ...
July 20, 2014 at 9:12 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Cars Could Soon Feature Golf Ball-esque Dimples To Improve Efficiency
As many of you may know, golf balls are not smooth, they’re full of tiny dimples that change the aerodynamics of the ball. The lumps and bumps on a golf ball help hold ...
July 16, 2014 at 9:17 am by Peter Donnell
Forget the T-800, MIT and Google’s Boston Dynamics Are Said To Work on T-1000 Robots
There have been talk of future robots resembling the T-800 model from the Terminator series for some time now. Yet, no company has even arrived close to a design, yet alone a ...
July 14, 2014 at 5:42 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Scientists Work Out How To 3D Print Vascular Networks
3D Printing has come a long way, from objects to food and now even human skin and meat. One of the major problems when attempting to print human meat was printing out the ...
July 1, 2014 at 7:56 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Ultra Fast 36 Core CPU Created by MIT Scientists
36-core processors may soon be a reality as a team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology make advances in their design. Their aim is to create processors ...
June 28, 2014 at 11:35 am by Peter Donnell
New Manufacturing Technique Could Speed Up Graphene Production
Graphene has been in the hands of researchers for ten years now, a super material that has displayed many interesting properties and applications. The only trouble with the ...
May 25, 2014 at 10:57 am by Peter Donnell
Superfast Internet Now A Possibility…. On The Moon
The internet as we know it today is one of man’s basic commodities, sitting alongside other basic products such as food and water. If you think about it as well, we can ...
May 25, 2014 at 12:09 am by Chris Hadley
MIT’s Cameraless Tracking System Can See Through Walls
Motion tracking and home automation are still a little rough around the edges, sure we have thinks like the new Kinect, which in many ways is an incredibly powerful tool, but ...
February 5, 2014 at 1:54 pm by Peter Donnell
Pebble Seeds Engineering Schools With 4000 Free Smartwatches
Pebble are looking to spark the fires of innovation with their new project which is aimed at education. The company will be donating over 4000 of their Pebble smart-watches to ...
December 19, 2013 at 9:28 am by Peter Donnell
3D Tech Could Help You Interact With Objects From Afar
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K0U0FjG63w[/youtube] It is common for people to hold video conferences in order to have some insights upon objects of reference, but ...
November 29, 2013 at 8:55 pm by Gabriel Roşu
