The challenge of building an energy future that preserves and improves the planet is a massive undertaking. Scientists and politicians have recognized the need for an urgent and sizable shift in ...
A highly sensitive rectifying element in the form of a nanowire backward diode can convert low-power 100 nanowatt microwaves into usable electricity. The newly developed diode has achieved a leve...
WHO Anyone who uses a smartphone with in-ear earphones.
The Create the Future Design Contest was launched in 2002 to help stimulate and reward engineering innovation. In the past 17 years, the annual contest has drawn more than 14,000 product design i...
Researchers have designed a device that creates electricity from falling snow. The device is inexpensive, small, thin, and flexible like a sheet of plastic. It can work in remote areas because it...
A new method was developed to make a low-cost, high-quality lens quickly using a 3D printer. The technology could be used to create optical imaging lenses, customized contact lenses for correctin...
A photonic switch was developed that can control the direction of light passing through optical fibers faster and more efficiently than ever. This optical “traffic cop” could improve how info...
Guaranteeing that computer chips — which can consist of billions of interconnected transistors — are manufactured without defects is a challenge. It’s also a challenge to determine if a chi...
Spinoff is NASA's annual publication featuring successfully commercialized NASA technology. This commercialization has contributed to the development of products and services in the fields of hea...
Scientists at NASA’s Glenn Research Center have developed and patented improved ohmic contacts, and a fabrication method for them, that will speed the production of silicon carbide (SiC) sensor...
NASA's Glenn Research Center has developed a breakthrough means of adapting strong but lightweight carbon fiber composite material to fabricate structures of complex shape such as specialized com...
Innovators at NASA's Glenn Research Center have developed an educational device and method for creating letters, numbers, characters, symbols, or a combination, using shape memory alloy (SMA) wir...
POWER PROTECTION Transtector Systems, an Infinite Electronics brand, Irvine, CA, introduced AC power protection cabinets engineered for small cell sites that combine a field-configurable branch ...
Researchers have developed a self-contained wheel unit that combines a wheel and an electric motor with braking, suspension, steering, and a control system in a single module designed to be bolte...
A technique was developed that uses a combination of WiFi signals and accelerometer technology to track devices in near-real-time. The WiFi-assisted Inertial Odometry (WIO) technique uses WiFi as...
At one time, robotics was considered more science fiction than reality. That's changing. Today, robots are increasingly playing a role in our everyday lives. They're zooming around our homes to p...
Collaborative robots, often called “cobots,” offer opportunities for companies of almost any size to cost-effectively automate processes that were previously out of reach. Cobots are availabl...
A team at MIT created self-assembling robotic cubes that can climb and roll over each other into set formations.
Rutgers engineers have embedded high performance electrical circuits inside 3D-printed plastics, which could lead to smaller and versatile drones and better-performing small satellites, biomedica...
Having proven its capability and future potential in producing plastic-based parts, 3D printing has also been progressing steadily in metal. Recent market analysis reports stake material and prin...