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As the complexity and volume of global digital data grows, so too does the need for more capable and compact means of processing and storing data.

New York-based company 3Dphotoworks is aiming to make the 2D world of art accessible to blind people using a 3D printing process that turns paintings, drawings and photographs into 3D printed tactile fine art. Developed in collaboration with the Nat…

No more waiting for the government to fix that giant pothole. Soon, robots will automatically detect and repair city problems.

ith today’s advanced drone technology, unmanned aircraft can do all kinds of stuff: They can make art, help preserve Peru’…

MIT researchers say their drones can safely navigate forests at 30 mph. Many inexperienced drone pilots crash their new toys in trees. This drone could make that a problem of the past. 

A tool that would provide a secure foundation for any cryptographic system may be close at hand.

“Indistinguishability obfuscation” is a powerful concept that would yield provably secure versions of every cryptographic system we’ve ever developed an…

vOICe eine Neue und kreative Technologie hilft blinden Menschen bei der selbstständigen Orientierung. Die neue Brille des California Institute of Technology in Pasadena wandelt Bilder in Geräusche um, um Hinweise darauf zu geben, in welcher Umgebung…

Blind people have long relied on sound as a substitution for sight, and some even use echolocation to navigate around objects. But it turns out that sound can be specifically designed to convey visual information. Now, that phenomenon is being used …

Es ist schon kleine Sensation was dem Forscherteam um Asier Marzo, Bruce Drinkwater and Sriram Subramanian von den Universities of Bristol and Sussex mit dem Sonic Tractor Beam gelungen ist. Der Sonic Tractor Beam bringt Objekte zum schweben.

The world’s first sonic tractor beams that can lift and move objects using soundwaves have been built by a team that includes researchers at the University of Sussex.

Tractor beams are mysterious rays that can grab and lift objects. The concept was …

Robotik ist ein spannendes Thema, zu dem sich kontinuierlich neue Entwicklungen ergeben. So hat Yamaha beispielsweise kürzlich einen neuen Roboter namens Motobot vorgestellt. Dessen besondere Fähigkeit: Er kann Motorrad fahren.