Japanese
company Power Japan Plus has announced the development and planned
mass-production of "Ryden," a disruptive carbon battery that can be
charged 20 times faster than an ordinary lithium-ion cell. The battery,
which is cheap to manufacture, safe, and environmentally friendly, could
be ideal to improve the range and charging times of electric cars.
on Sunday, 25 May 2014
Researchers from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies
(CINVESTAV) in Mexico have developed a pair of glasses that use a
combination of ultrasound, GPS, stereoscopic vision and artificial
intelligence to help the visually impaired to navigate their
environment. The device, perhaps the most sophisticated of its kind, is
slated to reach mass production early next year and will likely cost up
to US$1,500.
on Saturday, 24 May 2014
Google is working with Wi-Fi equipment maker Ruckus Wireless to
build a large-scale Wi-Fi network in the cloud off of which any
business could hang its wireless routers, according to a source familiar
with the project who asked not to be named.
The 3D format has had something of a renaissance in recent years, but
the technology still has some way to go before the potential of
"real-life" multiperspective 3D can be realized. The Camera Culture
group at the MIT Media Lab is developing a new 3D video projection
system that doesn't require glasses and provides different users
different perspective angles of the same object. The team sees it not as
a final answer, but as a transitional system that sits between current
technologies and true holographic video.
on Sunday, 18 May 2014
A group of researchers from Tufts University, Brown University and the
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are collaborating with the US Navy in a
multi-year effort to explore how they might create robots endowed with
their own sense of morality. If they are successful, they will create an
artificial intelligence able to autonomously assess a difficult
situation and then make complex ethical decisions that can override the
rigid instructions it was given.
on Saturday, 17 May 2014
By David Szondy
The chemical tree got a bit of a shake this week with scientists at IBM
announcing the discovery of the first new class of polymer materials in
decades. Discovered using a combination of lab experiments and computer
modelling, the new plastics have properties that could potentially have
a huge impact in manufacturing, transportation, aerospace, and micro
electronics.
The chemical tree got a bit of a shake this week with scientists at IBM
announcing the discovery of the first new class of polymer materials in
decades. Discovered using a combination of lab experiments and computer
modelling, the new plastics have properties that could potentially have
a huge impact in manufacturing, transportation, aerospace, and micro
electronics.
on Friday, 16 May 2014
By Lakshmi Sandhana
Getting
a needle into a patient's vein can sometimes be a complicated process,
especially if the veins aren't visible. Vein-spotting spectacles that
see through a patient's skin could help avoid the damage caused by
repeated needle pricks, and that's exactly what researchers at the
University Teknologi Petronas (UTP), Malaysia, are developing. Their
Smart Veins Locator is a wearable head-mounted display that allows
nurses to see the patient's veins in real-time, by overlaying a map of
their veins on top of their skin.
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