Innovation - Page 144

March 14, 2017

Oxford scientists are building robots that 'wear' artificial skin before it's transplanted

Earlier this month, a team of Oxford professors proposed a provocative idea: grow human tissue on humanoid robots.

March 14, 2017

US Air Force orders anti-drone net-filled shotgun shells

Rather than training and looking after eagles, U.S. military personnel will use modified shotguns and nets.

March 13, 2017

Levi's and Google have finally unveiled their connected Commuter jacket

Two years after first teasing us with its line of connected clothing, Google and Levi's have put us out of our misery. The first piece to come out of Project Jacquard is the Commuter Trucker jacket.

March 13, 2017

Meet RAMBO, the Army's new 3D-printed grenade launcher

Researchers at the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center last week announced they successful developed and fired a 3D-printed grenade from a 3D-printed grenade launcher.

March 12, 2017

Tech Q&A: Dealing with Facebook blowhards

Want to know how to deal with Facebook blowhards, keep your browsing private and shoot better Instagram pictures? Then read this column.

March 10, 2017

NASA discovers spacecraft missing for 8 years

India's Chandrayaan-1 went missing eight years ago after contact was lost several months after it went into service.

March 10, 2017

"Human, the milk has spoiled." Soon Alexa will run your smart home, and your life

Voice assistants such as Amazon's Alexa and Google Home require you to start talking before they give you information. What would happen if Alexa could start talking first?

March 9, 2017

How to make your cell phone self-destruct 'Mission Impossible' style

This cell phone will self-destruct. And so will this battery, this computer chip and a whole spectrum of military electronics – on command – just like a real life version of that iconic moment in “Mission Impossible.”

March 9, 2017

Samsung executive confirms plans to move appliance manufacturing to the U.S.

Samsung looks to be making moves ... right on over to the United States. According to a report from the Korea Herald, the South Korean tech giant is looking into relocating manufacturing facilities for home appliances to the U.S.

March 9, 2017

IBM figures out how to store data on a single atom

IBM has managed to do something that was unthinkable a decade ago – it’s found a way to store data on a single atom.