Category: Tech News

Tiny accelerometer adds motion detection to clothes and cheap phones 0

Tiny accelerometer adds motion detection to clothes and cheap phones

Interesting… This integrate chip is really tiny (by today standards at least) and seems to be also cheap. http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/de51972913999f7f38b04147b4b62f4b/200610717/mCube-mems.jpg http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/20/tiny-accelerometer-adds-motion-detection-to-clothes-and-cheap-ph/

Discarded car batteries could become low-cost solar cells 0

Discarded car batteries could become low-cost solar cells

Great work by a team of MIT researchers that discovered one way to recycle lead from car batteries, to create long-lasting solar cells. 🙂 http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/GLOB/crop/3888×2416+0+115/resize/630×392!/format/jpg/quality/85/http://hss-prod.hss.aol.com/hss/storage/adam/add4ebd8f7b0dd2d04d6607d8891324e/157402093.jpg Watch this! http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/20/discarded-car-batteries-could-become-low-cost-solar-cells/

Navy drone plays well with manned aircraft, caps it with a carrier landing 0

Navy drone plays well with manned aircraft, caps it with a carrier landing

Very exciting and scary at the same time… http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/31049ea4fd1f0583e4569030c227cdb7/200605408/navy-drone-tail-hook-2014-08-19-01.jpg Development is picking up the pace, I just hope it will be used for good. http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/19/x47-b-carrier-maneuvers/ What are your thoughts about this? Are you against...

Octopus-like camouflage can hide you in plain sight 0

Octopus-like camouflage can hide you in plain sight

Interesting what this team at the University of Illinois has managed to create. http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/881be44c86ee2cdd6c2227abe0825f1f/200606021/octopus-like-camouflage.jpg I mean yes, it’s still a long way, but I can imagine stuff seemingly blending into it’s surroundings and “disappear”....

Competition coaxes computers into seeing our world more clearly 0

Competition coaxes computers into seeing our world more clearly

Were are getting there with a steady and fast pace! I am amazed at the advancements made and look forward to be contributing some day… http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/f17fde3adb2930e77951096d8cea93d2/200603872/imagenet.jpg http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/19/computer-vision/ Would you like a computer to some...