Bendable displays for phones and other
small devices have been rumoured to be in the pipelines for awhile
now. The wait may soon be over, however, as LG’s display division is
planning to begin rolling out bendy screens starting later this year.
Microsoft has finally seen the light, and nixed its ill-conceived 24-hour authentication system. But is that really such a good thing? Given what they’re planning to sacrifice in order to do so…I’m going to go with ‘no.’
3D printing is great for building lifeless husks out of plastic, but soon we’ll be able to start printing guts as well. Scientists have figured out how to coax a fully functioning lithium-ion battery out of nothing but some paste, and those small batteries could have big applications.
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Test driving cars is harder then it looks. If you want to get the best testing, without hurting human test drivers in the increasingly rough situations, then you need to do something different. Many car makers are turning to help from non-human drivers. That’s right, robots may be testing the cars you drive every day.
A team of researchers at Chiba
University, in the Namiki Lab, have been working on an interesting robot. The robot, which plays air hockey for a living, is designed to do something interesting. The robot is able to adapt to the way you play and get better at the game.
By now we all know that graphene has tons of potential applications, from virtually no-light camera sensors
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Whether it is producing card-counting blakcjack teams or inventing the email, it is no surprise when MIT is mentioned in the same breath as something astonishingly intelligent and innovative. But a machine which is capable of printing out food? Come on! How much more wonderfully weird can new food inventions get? Say hello to Cornucopia.
Robots can do a lot of things, but can they get you out of going to Albany for a really boring meeting? A robotics design team at Cisco, working with the folks over at iRobot, are hoping so. They are developing a bot that is designed to give HD telepresence. It can even drive itself to the meeting (from inside of the office, that is) to save you the site.
Robots can do a lot of things. One of the things that you may not have given any thought to is the fact that they can help sick kids. One bot, dubbed the VGo, is designed to help sick kids get to the class and have some kind of a normal life. The bot streams classroom footage in real time.
Tomorrow is the first day of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, and the big names in videogames will be presenting their latest consoles and software in full force. Lucky for you, I’ve got a cheat sheet for when and where you can watch the action live!
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