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We have not finished hearing about objects made by 3D printers. Here's a pretty impressive illustration: the first loudspeaker made entirely from a 3D printer. It was a team of students from Cornell University in the USA who, using various types of conductive inks, created all the parts, seamlessly integrating

Researchers have just discovered an effective and easy-to-use method for bonding biological gels and tissues. A team led by Ludwik Leibler (1), including researchers from the Soft Matter and Chemistry Laboratory (CNRS/ESPCI ParisTech) and the Physical Chemistry of Polymers and Dispersed Media Laboratory (CNRS/ESPCI ParisTech), has just discovered an effective and easy-to-use method for bonding gels and biological tissues.

TITAN ARM is a robotic arm that increases physical strength tenfold. Useful to avoid work accidents, to help injured patients in rehabilitation, or simply for anyone wishing to increase their muscular strength by an additional 18 kg: physical therapy or mobility aid, it also provides

Doesn't anyone play Lego anymore? Children prefer Game Boys or other state-of-the-art consoles... Don't be mistaken, it's the adults who are reappropriating the Lego concept to customize the smartphone. And it's Motorola who laid the foundations for such a concept with the Ara project. In the beginning,

Wild Cat means wild cat: even if the physical resemblance is not obvious, this robot with a karting engine and four legs, runs on all types of terrain and rather fast! Even better, it can jump, take tight turns or even make a complete half-turn in

Here is a mix of biometrics and connected object: the watch signed Ionosys. To connect to your company's network, you approach your watch to a sensor located in the tablet or computer. The bracelet of the watch contains biometric data that allow you to identify yourself in a much more efficient way.

We've been imagining martians on the planet Mars for decades, but snakes?! This is the Serpex project, funded by the European Space Agency, and piloted by the Scandinavian research centre Sintef, which is trying to assess the usefulness of studying difficult access areas, in tandem with the Rover modules. The

Taking a plane like taking a taxi. This is the principle of PPlane, a project led by European researchers. Self-service, like today's bicycles or Autolib', it will be piloted remotely. Its trajectory will be monitored by operators on the ground. Its design should take another twenty years to complete. The

Magic or utopia? Neither: Mab is an automated cleaning system made up of hundreds of micro drones flying around to thoroughly clean our homes. Inspired by the concept of bees foraging and their comings and goings to and from the hive, a young designer has

A fog exploitation system has just been developed by MIT and Chilean researchers to provide drinking water to the world's most arid regions. The fog falls on a hill in Fray Jorge in the semi-arid Coquimbo region of central Chile. The

For example, the feat involved remotely connecting the brains of two researchers, with the first sending a signal via the Internet to move the finger of the second who was playing a video game, using electrical brain recordings and a form of magnetic stimulation, researcher Rajesh

After Google Glass, here is the motorcycle helmet of the future! Except that, unlike glasses, it will be allowed to be used for driving because this helmet is equipped with a screen and driving assistance features: integrated GPS and 3G connection, display and brightness adjusted according to

To keep viewers' attention, a video conferencing system developed by Bell Labs adapts its video streams to the user's emotions. Read More

German engineers at the DFKI (Artificial Intelligence Research Centre) are developing a gorilla robot capable of walking (forwards, backwards, sideways and diagonally) and balancing on a moving object. This is the iStruct gorilla (for "Intelligent Structures for

Three students from Télécom ParisTech have carried out an original project using diodes to display images and videos. To do this, they use a principle as old as the world, which consists of rotating their diode bar at 1000 revolutions per minute in order to

Ontario-based Queen's University unveils MorePhone in Paris Read More

An Arab-Israeli scientist has developed a process for injecting gold nanoparticles into cancer cells to make them more vulnerable to radiation. Read More

In Israel many researchers from Matam to Haifa have embarked on a race to find an innovation that can reduce the loading time of a smartphone in a real way. It is in the USA that the invention has finally been released. A young American student won a competition

Samsung's working on a mind-controlled tablet. This could give paralyzed people new ways to interact with the world, while improving functionality. One day, we may be able to check our email or call a friend without ever touching a screen or even talking to

Current experiments, in particular by the team of 2008 Nobel Prize winner for medicine Luc Montagnier, show that elements of biological structures, in this case DNA fragments, can be "reconstructed" using electromagnetic waves "extracted" from other biological structures as references, thus revealing that there is "meaning" in the