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Future Smartphone Screens Will Be Inspired By Vegetable Leaves And Cobwebs
Nature has often inspired the creations of man. Today these are spiders and their webs that have particularly stirred the curiosity of a team of researchers. These physicists are expecting to improve the smartphone screens or renewable energy devices using resistance and elasticity of silk thread created by these little beasts. We tell you more about this stunning…
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BMW’s Innovative Technology Will Enable Driver To park His Car Using His Watch
BMW is working on a standalone system where a driver would use a connected watch to direct his car to go park itself and come back to the same place when asked. Fans of the television series K2000 will recall those scenes where the hero uses his watch to communicate with his high-tech car which…
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This Amazing Self-Powered Glass Changes Colour With Change In Lightning Condition
In Singapore, a team of Nanyang Technological University has developed an electrochromic glass that can darken or lighten according to the lightning conditions without the need for an external power source. It is even able to store some energy … Currently the tinted windows found on the market are permanent and do not adapt to changes…
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SmartEyeglass Attach: Sony’s Kit To Convert Any Glasses Into Smartglasses
Sony, the Japanese manufacturer, has just introduced a device for converting any pair of standard glasses into smartglasses. This is a kit comprising of an electronic module and a 0.23 inch OLED screen that can be set on the spectacles to be transformed into smartglasses. The device will enter production starting from the next year. Although Google Glass…
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Hector: This Bio Inspired Hexapod Moves Swiftly Like A Real Insect
Hector is a small insect robot built by a research team from the University of Bielefeld in Germany. It very closely mimics the behavior of real insects where each leg can adapt itself to the surface and moves swiftly. Hector is an autonomous hexapod, its acronym stands for Hexapod Cognitive autonomously Operating Robot. Basically, the robot was designed with…
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Wind Tree: A Tree Shaped Windmill That Is Also Energy Efficient
The energy provided by the wind is free, environmentally friendly and inexhaustible but current wind turbines are often considered too noisy, too large and change the view of landscape. A Parisian start-up has developed a tree-shaped windmill system whose leaves act as mini wind turbines, capable of providing power and autonomy. We present to you this…
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Breakthrough In Photography: This Device Captures 100 Billion Frames Per Second
Since its invention in 1839, capturing the motion has always been one of the obsessions of photography. In 1878, for the first time a trotting horse was captured on a film and in 1887, the trajectory of a bullet going at supersonic speed. Today, a new techniques are being developed to capture the events taking place in the duration of…
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Researchers Develop A Non-Intrusive Mechanism To Detect Aggressive Drivers
Researchers from Madrid Polytechnic University have developed a novel mechanism to detect rash driving. The procedure is non-intrusive and only requires measuring the speed and acceleration of the car. The trials show that new method has 92% accuracy. We tell you more about this promising innovation. Each year there are 1.3 million deaths worldwide, as…
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This Fully Autonomous Robot Will Soon Conquer Unexplored Ocean Depths
Scientists have developed a fully autonomous underwater robot, capable of exploring the seabeds without human help. This invention could be used in many areas and map the unexplored depths. We tell you more about this little interesting piece of technology! Researchers from the University of Okayama, in collaboration with industrial partners, have developed an autonomous robot submarine equipped…
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International Study Reveals 269,000 Tonnes Of Plastic Waste In World Oceans
An international study provides the first estimate of the amount of plastic wastes in the world oceans. Bad and good news: there are almost 269,000 tonnes of such wastes and this would be “a minimum”– but the micro-wastes (small sized plastic) would be significantly less than previously expected. Published in the journal Plos One, this international study (by…
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BitDefender Demonstrates Smart Watches Can Be Hacked Within A Second
The security solutions provider BitDefender has shown that it is easy for a hacker to intercept the data exchanges between a smartphone and smartwatch with which it is connected. The weak link is the six-digit supposed to secure Bluetooth pairing between both devices. 80 billion! This is the number of connected objects that should circulate in the…
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Inspired From Spider Legs Scientists Develop A High Precision Sound Sensor
A team of researchers at the Korean National University has designed a high performance miniature sound sensor inspired from the sensory system of spider legs. This innovation can have have many promising applications like voice recognition, heart rhythm detection or earthquakes. Here is an example of biomimicry. Researchers at the Korean National University have developed a sensor…
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NBC Flex- The Transparent Film Transforms Any Surface Into Flexible 3D Touchscreen
Thanks to the nanotubes of hybrid carbon, a transparent and stretchable film can transform any surface into a flexible touchscreen which can be bended to any form. Developed by the Finnish startup Canatu, which specialises in industrial manufacturing, this technology could have numerous applications for mobile devices, connected objects and automobiles. Nowadays the touch screens…
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Smartphones Will Detect Explosives And Dangerous Gases Using Smart Cards
Using simple modified RFID tags, MIT researchers have developed chemical sensors that are capable of transmitting information to smartphone regarding gases in the atmosphere. This revolutionary technology can have numerous applications for detection of explosives and hazardous gases. American chemists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have announced that they have developed a new generation of chemical sensors. The…
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Actiwait To Save Pedestrian Lives By making Them Play Pong At Crossings
We will not lie, waiting to cross a road is never fun and it is often very tempting to rush between cars to save time. Then why not wait and play a video game rather than risk your life to save a few seconds? This is exactly what this ingenious and interactive crosswalk button designed by students…