Cool Tech And Gadgets

Cool Tech And Gadgets

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For those in the know, Festo is a name means something. They’re a German industrial control and automation company for the most part that...

Facebook has a major ambition: connecting everyone on the planet. To achieve this goal, the company is working on new approaches to ground-based communications...

China’s self-driving car testing is kicking into high-gear. Two autonomous vehicles built by Changan Automobile have completed a 2000 km journey in six days...
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In a world-first, MIT has 3D printed robots: solids, liquids, hydraulics, and all. This impressive success could hasten the age of affordable robotics, as...

The space race is heating up again in recent years, but this time it’s not major world powers that are competing against each other,...
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Hitachi has introduced the third generation of its humanoid robot. Meet EMIEW3. The first EMIEW came into the world back in 2005, with its...

Vision and understanding images is no longer the purview of biological creatures only. In recent years, computers have become astonishingly good at understanding what...
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If you’re building a drone or robot you’re gonna need it to know where it’s at and where it’s going. For that, you’ll need...

Rolls-Royce is predicting that in just four years, crewless “drone ships” will be sailing the seas with no crew on board. The aircraft engine...

China and Russia are hard at work to develop ever more capable radar systems, but the Pentagon has a plan to counter them with...

Researchers at the University of Geneva and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland may have found a way to make wireless communications 10...
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Since bullets appeared on the scene a few hundred years ago, nothing has been the same. If once some chainmail or plate armour was...

You may not know who George Hotz (aka geohot) is, but many have enjoyed the fruits of his labours. In fact, he is something...

The next big thing in science may be very small indeed. A new study in the journal Nano Letters presents revolutionary tiny robots that...
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The Picobug, as its name implies, is small. It weighs just 30 grammes, but it can do a whole lot: fly, walk, and (very...

A Silicon Valley startup is using drones to deliver medicine and blood to patients in Rwanda, and it plans to expand to other countries...

Autonomous cars may not be that common yet, but isn’t too early to be thinking about the future - a time when driverless cars...

The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working on a project that aims to launch volley of small drones from military aircraft...

China is no small fish in the weapons exports pool, but its military technology is still lagging behind its competitors. To overcome this, China...
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Autonomous vehicles aren’t quite here yet, but they’re getting closer each day. For proof, look to one small experiment being conducted in the Netherlands....

When the internet first started coming into being, security wasn’t really an issue, not even as an afterthought. This is was more than half...

How cool is it when you can turn on your coffee machine using a smartphone app when you’re still nodding off in bed? Or...