Archive : Technology

A collaboration of researchers from HRL, CalTech, and UC Irvine have created the new world’s lightest material–some 100 times lighter than styrofoam. It’s even lighter than aerogel, one of our favorite ultralight materials. The material is a micro-lattice in structure, with the 0.01 percent of the material that’s solid consisting of hollow tubes that are only 100 nanometers thick. It’s rated at a density...

A new household servant robot made by the world’s largest manufacturer of industrial ‘bots can help people with disabilities or limited mobility move things around. It’s controlled via Kinect, with the robot aping the Kinect user’s body gestures. Yaskawa Electric wants its SmartPal VII to live in the homes of elderly people, where it can assist with everyday clutter maintenance and a host of other tasks. It has a head-mounted...

Professor Babak Parviz has given the new electronic contact lens to rabbits, and reports complete success. The device’s display has only one pixel, but serves as a working proof of concept for developing more complex information lenses. A useful device would need hundreds of pixels at least, to display a short email or text message. The lens harvests energy from an external source using an antenna and has an integrated circuit...

Take your media library with you. Stream it to your iPad or Android tablet. Take more than 300 HD movies on-the-go Stream media over Wi-Fi to 3 Wi-Fi enabled devices at the same time Automatically sync media and documents from your PC or Mac computer Up to 5 hours battery life 500 Gb storage

Germany based E-volo has developed the world’s first electric powered, personal multicopter. Mechanized by sixteen electric propellers, the E-volo multicopter can take off and land like a helicopter.