Saving on fuel with low-resistance tires, self-charging tag tracks fish, and engineers bring offshore construction techniques to bridge repair. Here's your weekly news brief.
This smartwatch prototype allows the wearer’s wrist to function as a joystick for common touchscreen gestures. The watch includes a two-inch TFT display and plastic strap with 12 infrared proximity sensors and Piezo vibration sensor connected to a microcontroller board.
Ballbots—robots with a tall, thin body that glides atop a sphere— have been around for years. The newest represents a significant advance in the technology.
Text messages now clear flights for takeoff. Design standards are developed for tsunami-vulnerable locations. And U.S. construction firms may be technology shy. We’ll tell you why.
Lasers like the one seen at Epilog’s booth at World Maker Faire in N.Y. can engrave materials like wood, acrylic, plastic, glass, leather, fabric, coated metals, and ceramics – just to name a few.
Four seat plane powered by a fuel cell takes flight, not everyone is excited about self-driving cars, and robots may soon scan buildings for structural defects.
A portable THC detection device could be a real buzz kill. Boeing will use touch screens on its next generation of triple-seven jets. And one-pedal driving is featured on the 2017 Chevy Bolt.
Computer scientists discovered and restored text on five complete wraps of the animal skin scroll, which will most likely never be physically opened for inspection, with the help of technology.
Engineers, designers, scientists and doctors at Drexel University have all teamed up to produce biomedical textiles to create a new line of smart clothing that could potentially save lives.
Researchers at Georgia Tech say they have found a way to get multiple robots to work more closely together by developing what they call “minimally invasive” safety algorithms.
A study by researchers at Washington State and Purdue universities seeks to understand why “significantly” more women study engineering in some mostly Muslim countries than in the United States.