Promising to revolutionize the amusement park funhouse as we know it, researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Hirose-Tanikawa lab have created a remarkable mirror that does more than just make someone look overly thin or tall. It’s actually able to change the emotion on someone’s face, replacing a frown with a smile, or anger with glee.
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During WWII, the US captured one of the largest submarines ever built by the Japanese. The US Navy intentionally scuttled the massive submarine during the war and the exact location of the sub was then lost for decades. A group of researchers from Hawaii has announced that the submarine has been found again. The Sub, […]
A researcher has developed a turtle-like robot for undersea archaeology. The robot, currently dubbed U-CAT, is small, pill-shaped, and equipped with four swiveling flippers or paddles for hover-class maneuverability. By flipping its flippers, the U-CAT can inch forward, backward, up, down, left or right, capturing video all the while. The U-CAT was conceived by Taavi […]
Plugging in an EV to recharge while you’re at work is commonplace for electric car drivers, but Nissan wants to take things the opposite way with its Leaf, with a “Vehicle-To-Building” system that can turn a small fleet of cars into a power source for business infrastructure. The feature, currently in early field testing, sees […]
We’ve seen single-pixel cameras, and now MIT researchers have figured out how to create clear images of dimly-lit objects using single photons — in 3D, no less. The technique doesn’t involve any fancy new hardware, either, as the team worked with a standard photon detector that fired low-intensity visible laser light pulses. The magic happens from the algorithms they developed instead, which can pick out variations in the time it takes for individual photons to bounce off of subjects. After the software separated the noise (as shown above) the result was a high-res image created with about a million photons that would have required several hundred trillion with, say, a smartphone camera. That’ll open up new possibilities for low-energy surveying, for instance, or even spy cameras that could virtually see in the dark — because no laser research project is complete with a sinister-sounding military application.
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Source: Nature
Scientists have been trying to explain exactly how some soft tissue on a 68 million year old T Rex skeleton could have survived millions of years without rotting away. The question has been burning in the minds of researchers since 2005 when an adolescent T Rex skeleton was discovered in Montana that had soft tissue […]
While rain gauges are a good way to measure rainfall, the fact of the matter is that they can’t be placed everywhere, meaning that there will be areas where researchers might not have data on. In a bid to better understand rainfall in general, researchers from the University of Hanover in Germany have launched an initiative called RainCars, which basically takes advantage of cars with built-in GPS to measure rainfall across multiple locations at once. (more…)
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Tongue piercings may be associated with rebellion, but one researcher is aiming for revolution instead, creating a Tongue Drive System that allows paralyzed wheelchair users to more easily navigate than traditional hands-free control options. The handiwork of a team at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the system […]
There are lots of dinosaur fossils discovered around the world and often they are only small remnants like a single bone or a tooth. A group of paleontologist working in Alberta, Canada discovered an incredibly complete fossil of a baby dinosaur that is described as being similar to a tiny rino. The scientists say that […]
Moon Express is a company that is working with NASA on private space flights to the moon. Moon Express has a Reimbursable Space Act Agreement signed with NASA and part of that agreement means that NASA provides Moon Express with its robotic Mighty Eagle lander for testing purposes. Moon Express has announced the completion of […]
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