The creator of the Kevlar vest, Stephanie Kwolek, has died at the age of 90 following a brief bout with an illness, according to family friends. She made the Kevlar ...
June 22, 2014 at 7:47 pm by Michael Hatamoto
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is currently asking for proposals in the future development of BlockADE (Block Access to Deny Entry). For companies and ...
June 22, 2014 at 5:11 am by Michael Hatamoto
Given that modern smartphones are now mostly made up of screen, it’s getting harder to integrate extra sensors and features without adding in extra buttons, often ...
June 20, 2014 at 9:56 am by Peter Donnell
Google promised to bring internet speeds 1,000 faster than the current average internet speed found in homes around the US through Google Fiber. The connection, which is ...
June 18, 2014 at 6:46 am by Gabriel Roşu
Gamers have always been thought to be comprised mostly by loners and rejects, the so-called nerds who live in their parent’s basement and play video games all day long. ...
June 9, 2014 at 2:08 am by Gabriel Roşu
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
Researchers in Tokyo have put a new twist on the use of sound to suspend objects in air. They’ve used ultrasonic standing waves to trap pieces of wood, metal, and water ...
January 3, 2014 at 9:01 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Researchers at UC Berkeley are working to make it a reality. They’ve created what is known as artificial muscles that could one day give robots 1000 times the ...
December 25, 2013 at 1:09 am by Gabriel Roşu
Researchers at York University have managed to send a text message which read “O Canada” using Vodka, or as I prefer to think, they’ve found a great way to ...
December 23, 2013 at 1:37 am by Peter Donnell
Graphene is the cool kid in the world of materials, it’s incredibly strong and conductive, making it perfect for a wide range of applications, and especially good for ...
December 13, 2013 at 9:32 am by Peter Donnell
It appears that researchers have found a way to figure out what personal identification number someone is typing into their smartphone by using the device’s built-in ...
November 12, 2013 at 9:06 pm by Gabriel Roşu
BP have just opened up their brand new datacenter in Houston, which now houses the world’s largest supercomputer for commercial research and it is capable of punching ...
October 24, 2013 at 9:19 am by Peter Donnell
Disney have been working away in their lab to find a way of bringing tactile feedback to mobile devices. A new paper released from Disney Research shows that friction can be ...
October 9, 2013 at 8:52 am by Peter Donnell
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts have created a method to break a CPU’s internal cryptographic mechanisms, using a technique that is completely ...
September 17, 2013 at 8:54 am by Peter Donnell
A new technique has been developed by a team of researchers at the North Carolina State University which allows for the creation of high-quality semiconductors thin films that ...
May 25, 2013 at 3:54 pm by Peter Donnell
