Machines & Gadgets

Researches found a new material that could make solar cells non-toxic and inexpensive. The new material is built by combining the atoms of copper, selenium, and titanium into a unique crystal structure. Solar cells, often called photovoltaic cells, provide reliable and economical way of powering equipment which would otherwise require cumbersome and expensive fuel sources. ...

The most powerful UV light disinfection robot, named IPT 3200 can clean an entire room within 15 minutes.  It’s based on Field Balance, PowerBoost and SmartDosage UV technologies.  After 6 months of its deployment, the McLaren Oakland hospital saved more than $236,000 from reduced Health associated infections.  Over the last few couple of years, Health ...

Astronomers and stargazers use telescopes to observe faint, distant objects in the universe because they have much higher resolution and can gather more light from a small portion of the space than our eyes, obviously. But do you know there are actually more than one type of telescope available? The earliest known telescope in the ...

Researchers develop a new technique to make optical microscope more accurate while imaging nanoparticles.  They put an optical microscope under a microscope to achieve precision with high accuracy.  Optical microscopes are one of the simplest and oldest design of microscope developed in the 17th century. Over the past 20 years, researchers have made several improvements in ...

Tech giants like IBM, Google, Intel, and numerous startups are racing to develop the new machine that utilizes quantum mechanical phenomena, like superposition and entanglement. Quantum computing will be extremely useful to the next-generation of computing and communication technology. However, the quantum computing is not going to come easily, and we don’t know anything for ...

RoSE is a dynamic spine brace that characterizes the 3 dimensional stiffness of the human torso.  It identifies and treats spinal deformities. The system consists of 12-degree-of-freedom supervised via 12 motors. Spinal deformities, like kyphosis and idiopathic scoliosis, are abnormalities of formation and alignment of the curvature in the spine. There are more than 4 million cases ...

Scientists build the most advanced superconducting camera, named DARKNESS.  It will be used to detect small and faint exoplanets around the nearest stars.  It can capture thousand of frames every second without making any errors like dark current or read noise. Finding an exoplanet (planet outside our solar system) is an extremely difficult task, mainly ...

Researchers develop a system that allows you to communicate seamlessly with your personal digital device and other people without speaking anything.  The system analyzes neuromuscular signals in the face and correlates them with specific words.  Input modalities have surely come a long way since punch cards. Today, we’ve advanced systems (like touch-enabled and voice inputs) ...

There are tons of fictional spaceships that are so alluring that space lovers wish they can live in any one of those ships. Today, they are an integral part of sci-fi stories, and most of them have their own charm and personality. Just like Rome isn’t built in a day, designing a spaceship takes very ...

The modern technology is helping humanity in various ways. The truth is, without technology we might not be able to do certain things anymore. Well, today we are not going to give a lecture about how technology changed the nature of military operations over the years, but in this post we will reveal some of ...

After the horrible events of World War I, governments of different nations and other international institutions penned down various worldwide treaties and agreements, that refrain anyone from using certain poisonous gases and other bacteriological weapons against their enemies in war. One such agreement is the Geneva Protocol of 1925. The protocol prohibited the use of several ...

One of the hottest U.K. based startups, Graphcore focuses on accelerating the processing of complex machine learning models for training and inference. They are working on an Artificial Intelligence chip to lower the cost of AI applications in enterprise datacenters and cloud, and increase the performance by up to 100 times compared to the fastest system available today. The ...