Tetraplegic Patient Walks Again Using Special Exoskeleton Suit
This is possibly the most exciting news of the entire week. Thanks to technology, a tetraplegic patient is able to walk again, well, albeit very slowly and only in laboratory.
Amazon Partnered With LEGO For LEGO Mindstorms Powered By Alexa Competition
Good news, LEGO Mindstorms enthusiasts. Your knack for building crazy LEGO Mindstorms creations may be rewarded handsomely – courtesy of Amazon. Amazon has partnered with LEGO Group for a competition, LEGO Mindstorms Voice Challenge: Powered by Alexa.
Oculus Ditches Controllers, Lets You Bring Your Real Hands Into VR With Hand Tracking
Hand controllers for VR, though necessary, are silly. They are good if you are holding a weapon say, a gun or Lightsaber, in the VR world, but not when you want to experience the dexterity of your digits like you do in the real world. You will need a VR […]
Boston Dynamics Atlas Pulled Off More Parkour, But It Really Was A Gymnastic Routine
After showing off it is capable of pulling off back flip and executing parkour maneuvers, Boston Dynamics’ bipedal humanoid, Atlas, recently showed that it can do more parkour.
Boston Dynamics Is Ready To Sell You A Robot Dog That Is Way More Useful Than Aibo
Robot dog is here to help in your work. How? I don’t know. That’s for you to figure out. I am just letting you know that if you need a robot dog that is built with industrial use in mind, Boston Dynamics is finally ready to sell you its Spot, […]
Teenage Student Designed And Made A Crazy Life-like Mechanical Dinosaur Costume
Forget about those inflatable dinosaur costumes. If you really want to be convincing as a dinosaur and looks menacing at the same time, you need to do what Dutch engineering student Esmée Kramer did: Projector Raptor: A Mechanical Dinosaur Costume.
Wait. What? U.S. Navy Admits That Leaked “UFO” Footage Are Real???
Lets take a break from the usual geeky stuff and move on to an otherworldly form of geeky stuff: UFO. When it comes to life beyond Earth, there are believers and there are skeptics. However, what the U.S. Navy have recently confirmed may make skeptics think again (and scrambling for […]
Meet Singularity 2, The Blackest Black Object You Can Own
I am sure you have heard about the fuss over the world’s blackest material, Vantablack, which came onto the market a couple of years ago. Since then, there have been a few “equivalents” like the Black 2.0 and a few others that seek to make the Anish Kapoor-owned Vantablack available […]
Hyundai Motor Group’s New Center Side Airbag Will Prevent Front Passengers’ Head From Colliding
Airbags serve to protect occupants from potentially deadly impacts on most parts of the vehicle’s interior. But what about impact between say, the driver and the passenger? Well, for that, Hyundai Motor Group will have you and your passenger covered in its future cars.
This Smart Cane Helps The Visually Impaired To Navigate The Streets Using Google Maps
Here’s an amazing development called WeWALK. WeWALK is a revolutionary smart cane for the visually impaired that uses Google Maps to aid the visually impaired to navigate the streets. The development of smartphones have help the visually impaired, but with WeWALK it combines the benefits offered by a smartphone into […]
This Orange Juice Bar Uses Discarded Peels To 3D Print Cups For The Orange Juice
You may remember Italian design firm CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati for its Scribit wall-crawling scribbling robot, among the many other pretty mind-blowing stuff. Well, they have made headlines again, this time for a project it has done for global energy exploration company, ENI.