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Silicon Labs has introduced next-generation optical sensors that can be used to protect consumers from the harmful effects of ultraviolet (UV) radiation and to develop innovative touchless user interfaces leveraging high-performance…

As communications expand and data rates soar, researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland set out to create more efficient network components. What they came up with was the world’s smallest integrated optical switch which turns on and off…

Yes, you read right. In the time it takes you to slip on a mattress cover, you can make your bed smarter and more high-tech. Entrepreneur Matteo Franceschetti wanted to improve overall sleep when he came up with the idea for an…

What better way to celebrate Chinese New Year than with 540 dancing robots and 29 drones? The dancing robots appeared at China's Spring Festival Gala in south China's Guangdong Province over the weekend. Each of the dancing robot is…

Hobbyist Niels Affourtit, was inspired by a National Geographic documentary in which he witnessed an underwater rover explore the ruins of Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia. "I was impressed and started searching online to see if I…

Robots may take our jobs — and replace our athletes too. One robot, Eldrick, named after well-known golfer Tiger Woods, was able to achieve a hole-in-one on his fifth swing at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

There's been a sudden interest in water desalination now that water needs are growing, especially in areas that suffer from droughts. Unfortunately, a wide-scale desalination would require tremendous amounts of energy, though.

As robots become more bio-inspired, it was only a matter of time before some engineers gave them the ability to camouflage with their environment like a chameleon. Researcher Gouping Wang from Wuhan University in China teamed up with…

The European Space Agency's 3D laser scanning system, supported by the Treemetrics company conducted forest mapping that resulted in this imagery. An environmental and tree profiling company called Treemetrics wants to lower the…

While flexible electronics have been an area of growing interest over the past few years, a new company is attempting to develop them with ceramic. While ceramic typically has properties that make it strong, Eurekite has put a spin on…

As if being a Google engineer wasn't enough work, Max Braun decided he needed a bathroom mirror to suit all of his needs. So he got himself some tools like a two sided mirror, display panel, and controller board and constructed one.…

By 2020, the UK will be home to the world's largest offshore wind farm. DONG Energy company has decided to build the giant Hornsea Project One, making it the first to exceed 1,000 MW in capacity. Hornsea, with a capacity of 1.2…

University of Wisconsin - Madison engineers have figured out a way to power devices by plugging them into your shoe and harnessing the power of footsteps. The researchers have developed a new energy-harvesting technology capable of …

MIT researchers have been working on a new low-power chip that processes 3-D camera data in order to create a wearable device to guide the visually impaired. The low-power chip consumes only one-thousandth as much power as a conventional…

If you thought Microsoft's HoloLens, its augmented reality headset, was just for technology lovers and computer enthusiasts, you were wrong — sports fans will benefit, too, once the project is complete. In keeping with Super Bowl this…