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Personalized 'earable' sensor monitors body temperature in real time

Wireless, wearable sensors are all the rage with millions of people now sporting fitness trackers on their wrists. These devices can count footsteps, monitor heart rate and other vital signs. Now researchers report in the ...

Engineering

Jul 19, 2017
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DRL pockets rainbow for fastest racing drone

(Tech Xplore)—The DRL RacerX has taken the title of the fastest racing drone, achieving a top speed of 179.6 miles (289 km/h) per hour.

Engineering

Jul 16, 2017
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Startup's stress sensor tracks users' unconscious responses to products and experiences

Humans experience a range of emotions in response to products and experiences on a daily basis. Shoppers may get excited for certain brands and then overwhelmed by choices. Audience members may oscillate between apathy and ...

Engineering

Jul 13, 2017
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Watch 3-D movies at home, sans glasses

While 3-D movies continue to be popular in theaters, they haven't made the leap to our homes just yet—and the reason rests largely on the ridge of your nose.

Engineering

Jul 12, 2017
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Using the stairs just got easier with energy-recycling steps

Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have created a device that makes walking up and down stairs easier. They've built energy-recycling stairs that store a user's energy during descent and return energy to the ...

Engineering

Jul 12, 2017
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Method for designing efficient computer chips may get miniature smart drones off the ground

In recent years, engineers have worked to shrink drone technology, building flying prototypes that are the size of a bumblebee and loaded with even tinier sensors and cameras. Thus far, they have managed to miniaturize almost ...

Engineering

Jul 12, 2017
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Soft and stretchy fabric-based sensors for wearable robots

Wearable technologies—from heart rate monitors to virtual reality headsets—are exploding in popularity in both the consumer and research spaces, but most of the electronic sensors that detect and transmit data from wearables ...

Engineering

Jul 12, 2017
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CMU-SV Professor uses The Matrix to train drones in tracking objects

In the 1999 film The Matrix, a young hacker named Neo learns that the world as he knows it is a virtual simulation—and with this realization comes the ability to use this virtual world to his advantage. In one scene, Neo, ...

Engineering

Jul 10, 2017
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Mechanical third thumb offers extended hand abilities

(Tech Xplore)—Dani Clode, a grad student at the Royal College of Art in London, has created what she calls the "Third Thumb"—a system that adds a mechanical thumb to the opposite side of a natural thumb on a human hand. ...

Engineering

Jul 07, 2017
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A computer that reads body language

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have enabled a computer to understand the body poses and movements of multiple people from video in real time—including, for the first time, the pose of each ...

Engineering Computer Sciences

Jul 06, 2017
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