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Microsoft Research recently released a video displaying its new technology called holoportation. The 3D capture tech allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted anywhere in the world in real time.…

Taking a picture through glass produces nasty reflections that damage the photograph. Researchers from MIT's Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Camera…

Up until now, advanced automatic safety technology was only available on some of the most expensive new vehicles. Thanks to Toyota, that kind of technology is about to be included as standard equipment on almost every Lexus and Toyota…

Just after we learned that Domino's Pizza was testing its own driverless delivery robots, a bill was drafted by D.C. Councilwoman Mary Cheh, proposing a set of autonomous delivery robots hit the streets of Washington, deployed from…

Hate those dreaded red lights? Maybe we don't need them after all. At least that's what researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETHZ), and the Italian National Research Council…

Once humans can successfully travel to Mars and begin setting up habitats there, growing food will be key. Philips Lighting has collaborated with The University of Arizona Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC) to test energy…

Engineers from the Universities of Bristol and Lund, along with a team from National Instruments (NI), have achieved 1.59Gbit/s over a 20MHz radio channel, setting a new world record in 5G wireless spectrum efficiency. Their…

Back in October we told you about OLO, the $99 device that turns your smartphone into a 3D printer. At that time, the invention had just debuted at World Maker Faire and there was no production date in sight and we weren't even completely…

Fairchild launched the flagship device of the company’s newest generation of 100V N-channel power MOSFETs, the FDMS86181 100V Shielded Gate PowerTrench MOSFET. The FDMS86181 is the first part in Fairchild’s new generation of PowerTrench…

AVX Corporation has released FFLI Series capacitors a new, high-voltage series of dry, medium-power film capacitors especially designed for DC filtering applications, such as the DC filtering of high frequency ripple currents and decoupling…

Linear Technology introduces the LTM8064, a step-down DC/DC µModule (power module) regulator with a 6V to 58V (60Vmax) input voltage range and adjustable load current control with ±10% accuracy at 7A. The LTM8064 can be used as a…

Nike has officially brought the Back to the Future film into the present, with its self-tying sneakers. Nike HyperAdapt 1.0 is the first shoe to display the technology, referred to as adaptive lacing. The shoe incorporates digital,…

Hate when you forget to check the weather, or even worse, forget your umbrella once you find out it's going to rain? Wezzoo, a social and real-time weather service, wanted to dive deeper into weather services so it developed the…

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has just granted a team of engineers from the University of Virginia and various other U.S. universities a federal grant to develop a forest of giant wind…

A team of scientists from South Korea’s Institute for Basic Science has developed a wearable graphene-based patch that allows for diabetes monitoring and feedback therapy, all using human sweat. To create the device, the researchers…