Last year, Finland launched a free online crash course in artificial intelligence with the aim of educating its citizens about the new technology. Now, as a Christmas present to the world, the European nation is making the six week program available for anyone to take. Strictly speaking, it’s a present for the European Union. Finland […]
Mindflex, from Mattel and NeuroSky, used brainwaves to control a series of fans to navigate a floating ball through an obstacle course. (Image source: NeuroSky) Remember about five years ago when several consumer headsets from NeuroSky and Emotiv were pitched as a computer game controllers? For example, NeuroSky promoted its EEG Headset as a training aid […]
Mark Rober is bad at darts, but he still gets perfect scores, because he’s good at engineering. I fulfilled a 3 year long dream to create a dartboard where you get a bullseye every time thanks to some engineering. Basically, you throw a dart and then a Vicon motion capture system tracks the dart in…
Researchers have taken inspiration from the design of solid lithium-ion batteries to create a new, low-power energy device that could allow for the design of faster memory components for next-generation computing systems. There are two key design elements to the device—created by a team led by the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) Professor Taro […]
As a child, Ariana Merrill loved to figure out how cars worked, and this has translated into her love and passion for mechanical engineering. For the past 12 years, Ariana has been helping communities thrive through careful monitoring and innovation of electrical and mechanical systems. Ariana also is a tech enthusiast living in New Jersey. She […]
Software engineering is a massive field that has a lot of scope and potential. Many engineers wish to enter the field of software engineering simply because they know the industry will never die. There is a lot happening in the software industry and a lot more seems likely to happen in 2020. So, if you…
Medical and agricultural technologies could benefit from super-grippy detachable suction devices Engineers are often seeking better methods to stick articles to surfaces, for applications such as picking delicate berries or ensuring that surgeons can grasp tissue during operations. A discovery by zoologists at Cambridge University may have potential to help solve these problems. Suction organ […]
A group of the world’s largest shipping organisations has unveiled plans to form a multi-billion dollar research and development programme aimed at eliminating CO2 emissions from international shipping International maritime transport carries around 90 per cent of global trade and is currently responsible for approximately two percent of the world’s anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Roll-Royce and […]
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Researchers in London have developed new thermoelectric materials that could provide a low-cost option for converting heat into electricity. Diagram showing how thermoelectrics use differences in temperature to generate electricity (Credit: Tianjun Liu) Halide perovskites have been proposed as affordable alternatives to existing thermoelectric materials, but research into their suitability for thermoelectric applications has been […]