A new MIT system transmits whispers

How do you whisper to someone across the room? With lasers, of course. MIT has developed a system using lasers to transmit audio signals directly to the ear, and no one else in the area can hear them.

NASA goes back to the middle ages for its rover tire design--Superlastic tires

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The Mars Curiosity rover has been a big success, but NASA's modern tech couldn't save its tires from breaking down in the harsh conditions of Mars. For future missions,

10 Breakthrough Technologies

These technologies all have staying power. They will affect the economy and our politics, improve medicine, or influence our culture.

Harvard Engineers Create the First Fully 3D-Printed Heart-on-a-Chip

The heart-on-a-chip is made entirely using multimaterial 3D printing in a single automated procedure, integrating six custom printing inks at micrometer resolution.

MIT Develops Nanobionic Plants That Can Detect Explosive

By embedding spinach leaves with carbon nanotubes, engineers transformed spinach plants into sensors that can detect explosives and wirelessly relay that information to a handheld device similar to a smartphone.

Fujistu develops touchscreen interface for seamless data transfer between the real and virtual worlds

Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a next generation user interface which can accurately detect the users finger and what it is touching, creating an interactive touchscreen-like system, using objects in the real word.

DARPA is developing implant to monitor brain in real time

In a bid to improve the mental health of soldiers and veterans, DARPA has launched a $70 million project to create an implant that tracks neuron activity and provides quantifiable brain data.

Honda automatic driverless valet parking system

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Honda has developed a low-cost, automatic valet parking system which uses parking lot surveillance cameras to help park cars automatically.

Underwater Wireless Networks could Improve Oil and Gas Exploration

Wireless networks span the globe. But like a frightened toddler, they don't go underwater. That may soon change because University at Buffalo researchers are developing a deep-sea Internet.

3-D Antenna: A Cure for Urban GPS

GPS readings in cities and indoors can be terrible. One startup has found a novel solution.

A new antenna design being tested by the U.S. Air Force could make GPS significantly more reliable and able to function in dense urban areas where GPS accuracy is weak. It might even allow the technology to work indoors in some cases.

Research: Heat-assisted recording technology will enable 40 TB HDDs by 2020

TDK, a Japanese multinational electronics company that manufactures electronic materials, electronic components, and recording and data-storage media has developed a heat-assisted recording technology, which will drastically increase the capacity of hard disk drives.

NISSAN WINS TOP AWARD AT CEATEC JAPAN 2013 FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING TECHNOLOGY

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.'s Autonomous Drive technology has won the Grand Prix in the CEATEC Innovation Awards at YOKOHAMA, Japan (Oct. 4, 2013), the top prize. It was awarded by a panel of independent US journalists working in the fields of IT and consumer electronics.

Working towards Clean Environment: Smart Trash Can moves autonomously to catch your trash

This Smart Trash Can, developed by Minoru Kurata, an engineer at a Japanese auto maker, won an Excellence Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival.
"When you toss trash at it, a sensor detects the position of the trash,

Material Science: New plastic becomes stronger when stressed

Plastics are amazingly versatile materials, and their usage in all manner of objects is only increasing. Virtually everything you own is at least partially composed of plastic, and that’s usually a very good thing. Plastic is light, inexpensive, and can be molded in any shape. However,

Computer Vision: Appearance manipulation system to assist the Visually Impaired

Researches at Wakayama University are developing a system which manipulates the color, tone and contrast of printed materials, and could be used as an aid for users with vision impairments such as low vision or color blindness.

Researchers Grow 3-D Human Brain Tissues from Stem Cell

Researchers have grown brain tissue with distinct regions that mimic different functional structures of the developing brain.
PARIS-AFP scientists said on Wednesday that

Research: Lane Departure Warning System

Now, Costly but preventable mistakes by drivers can be reduced with the Lane departure systems. This article explains how it works.

Lane departure warning system

Control Other People's Mind with the New Human brain-to-brain Interface.

The first human-to-human, brain-to-brain noninvasive interface has been created by researchers at the University of Washington. The system allows one researcher to remotely control the hand of another researcher, across the internet, merely by thinking about moving his hand. The researchers are

Copper-Graphene is 500 times stronger than Graphene, the strongest material known.

Graphene holds the title of the world strongest material known. It also has soft and light weight features that makes the material unique.

These records have just been broken by a composite known as Copper-Graphene.

Researchers at the

Electric Implant stimulates nerves to regulate Organ function and ControlsRheumatoid Arthritis.

This electric implant
can stimulate nerves in the body to
regulate organ function.
In early human tests, SetPoint Medical