Scientists from Nanjing, China, have developed eye-tracking smart content lenses based on radio frequency tags that can be used for various applications, including health care and augmented reali...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-eyes-tomorrow-smart-contact-lenses.html
The global move toward more sustainable, green energy has increased power reserves and the demand for energy storage devices. Unfortunately, some materials for these devices can be expensive and ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-scientists-chicken-fat-energy-storage.html
Researchers in the emerging field of spatial computing have developed a prototype augmented reality headset that uses holographic imaging to overlay full-color, 3D moving images on the lenses of ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-ai-holography-3d-augmented-reality.html
When old food packaging, discarded children's toys and other mismanaged plastic waste break down into microplastics, they become even harder to clean up from oceans and waterways. These tiny bits...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-video-swarms-miniature-robots-simultaneously.html
We are living in a very noisy world. From the hum of traffic outside your window to the next-door neighbor's blaring TV to sounds from a co-worker's cubicle, unwanted noise remains a resounding p...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-suppressing-silk-noise-transmission-large.html
A new method to deliver a quality cold brew coffee in less than three minutes solidifies Australia's position as the innovators of modern coffee, according to researchers from The University of Q...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-australian-ultrasonic-cold-brew-coffee.html
A first-ever stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin, opening up new possibilities to perform tasks that require a...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-stretchable-skin-robots-human-sensitivity.html
In a world first, University of Sydney researchers have developed a chemical process using plasma that could create sustainable jet fuel from methane gas emitted from landfills, potentially creat...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-methane-emissions-landfill-sustainable-jet.html
Researchers have developed a technique to move objects around with a jet of wind. The new approach makes it possible to manipulate objects at a distance and could be integrated into robots to giv...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-scientists-harness-tool.html
A team of physicists and engineers at Vector Atomic, Inc., a maker of navigation and communications equipment, has developed a new kind of atomic clock that they claim is both ultra-precise and s...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-scientists-atomic-clock-ultra-precise.html
For Michael Saliba and Mahdi Malekshahi, it was one of those moments in science when good experimental results raised more questions. The University of Stuttgart researchers recently developed a ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-insights-gen-solar-cells.html
The world's largest 3D printer has created a house that can cut construction time and labor. An even larger printer unveiled on Tuesday may one day create entire neighborhoods.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-world-largest-3d-printer-university.html
Researchers at Microsoft have revealed a new artificial tool that can create deeply realistic human avatars—but offered no timetable to make it available to the public, citing concerns about fa...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-microsoft-lifelike-avatar-ai-tech.html
The latest wearable devices, such as Samsung's Galaxy Ring and Apple's Vision Pro, are taking health care a step further and even enabling people to work virtually. Given the characteristics of w...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-versatile-fibers-energy-storage-capacity.html
Optical neural networks may provide the high-speed and large-capacity solution necessary to tackle challenging computing tasks. However, tapping their full potential will require further advances...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-photonic-machine-lays-foundation-reconfigurable.html
A team of South Korean scientists led by Professor KIM Dae-Hyeong of the Center for Nanoparticle Research within the Institute for Basic Science has pioneered a novel approach to stretchable disp...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-stretchable-quantum-dot-display.html
Researchers developing the next generation of computing technology aim to bring some light to the field—literally. Optical computing, which relies on particles of light called photons, is expec...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-advance-based-capabilities-future-smart.html
In "Star Trek: The Next Generation," Captain Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise leverage the Holodeck, an empty room capable of generating 3D environments, of preparing for missions and...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-recreate-star-trek-holodeck-chatgpt.html
University of Florida engineers have developed a method for 3D printing called vapor-induced phase-separation 3D printing, or VIPS-3DP, to create single-material as well as multi-material objects...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-3d-method-eco-friendly.html
Cornell University researchers have developed two technologies that track a person's gaze and facial expressions through sonar-like sensing. The technology is small enough to fit on commercial sm...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-ai-powered-sonar-smartglasses-tracks.html
Researchers from Lehigh University have developed a material that demonstrates the potential for drastically increasing the efficiency of solar panels.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-quantum-material-efficiency-solar-cells.html
When scuba divers need to say "I'm okay" or "Shark!" to their dive partners, they use hand signals to communicate visually. But sometimes these movements are difficult to see.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-waterproof-glove-scuba-divers-communicate.html
Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a digital display screen where the LEDs themselves react to touch, light, fingerprints and the user's pulse, among other things. Their...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-perovskite-generation-digital-displays-fingerprints.html
Security experts fear Q-Day, the day when quantum computers become so powerful that they can crack today's passwords. Some experts estimate that this day will come within the next ten years. Pass...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-art-passwords-biochemistry.html
While 3D printing has exploded in popularity, many of the plastic materials these printers use to create objects cannot be easily recycled. While new sustainable materials are emerging for use in...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-3d-printer-figure-unknown-material.html
A team of materials scientists and engineers from Donghua University, in China, and the National University of Singapore, has developed a type of fiber that does not rely on chips or batteries to...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-chipless-fiber-wireless-visual-digital.html
Damage to nerve tissue due to skin defects such as burns, skin diseases, and trauma causes loss of sensory and cognitive functions that are essential for life-sustaining activities, as well as me...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-artificial-skin-regenerate-transmit-sensation.html
Smart textiles are making virtual reality more immersive and enabling wearers to experience the sensation of physical touch. An ultrathin film that can transmit touch sensations is able to turn t...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-virtual-skin-contact-smart-textiles.html
For more than two millennia, paper has been a staple of human civilization. But these days, the use of paper is not limited to writing. It is also playing a pivotal role in ushering in a greener ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-metalair-paper-battery-wearable-devices.html
Cornell researchers have developed a wristband device that continuously detects hand positioning—as well as objects the hand interacts with—using AI-powered, inaudible soundwaves.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-wristband-echoes-ai-track-positions.html