AI-Powered Prosthetic Hands Enable Unlimited Movement
AI and ML are enabling prosthetic hands that better match each user’s muscle control patterns for an unlimited number of…
Blue-glowing Quantum Dots for Use in Next-Gen LEDs
Researchers develop quantum dots that could lead to brighter, sharper TV screens...
Tech Trends to Watch in 2021
The trajectory of the pandemic in 2021 may or not influence technology trends. Even so, I think a few trends…
Photon-based Computer Archived Quantum Supremacy
A team of researchers in China claims to build a quantum computer prototype in which up to 76 photons were…
Wearable Facial Sensors Help ALS Patients Communicate
Researchers at MIT have developed thin, wearable, piezoelectric sensors that can reliably decode facial strains and predict facial kinematics...
Six-Junction III–V Solar Cell Breaks Record for Efficiency
The solar cell, designed at NREL, gets close to a 50% conversion rate, by far surpassing silicon-based solar cells...
Can the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch Save 2020?
1968 and 2020: Similarities include the glimmer of hope provided by the rocket launch amid war, social unrest, racial injustice…
What Today’s Engineers Need to Know
What does today’s engineer need to know? Daniel Cooley, Silicon Labs' chief strategy officer, went straight to four big industry-wide…
MEMS Tech to Combat the Coronavirus
The race against time to fight the Covid-19 pandemic has motivated a global flurry of activity and collaboration by technology…
Covid-19: Designs for Low-Cost Ventilators
Designers from all over the world are working to design and build special low-cost ventilators in no time to fight…