Brain2Music taps thoughts to reproduce music
Legendary Stones guitarist Keith Richards once said, "Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones."
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New gate-tunable and high-mobility devices based on strontium titanate
Strontium titanate (SrTiO3), an oxide of strontium and titanium with a perovskite structure, has many advantageous properties, including spin-orbit coupling, electrical tunability, and unconventional superconductivity. Compared ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers introduce transparent optical imager with near-infrared sensitivity and touchless interface
Most existing devices are operated via the sense of touch, either via touchscreens or mouse, remote controls, keyboards, and other equipment. Some engineers, however, have been trying to introduce alternative interfaces that ...
Computer Sciences
Netflix says its magenta approach beats green screen
Green screen technology has been around nearly a century. Some 45 million moviegoers were mesmerized by the special effects of "The Wizard of Oz" when it hit theaters in 1939. The magical scenes in Emerald City were the first ...
Engineering
Displays controlled by flexible fins and liquid droplets more versatile, efficient than LED screens
Flexible displays that can change color, convey information and even send veiled messages via infrared radiation are now possible, thanks to new research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Engineers inspired ...
Jun 30, 2023
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Rendering three-dimensional images from eye reflections with NeRF
Vision depends on light entering the eyes through the transparent tissues of the cornea, pupil and lens. When the light reaches the retina, photoreceptors produce signals and transmit them via the optical nerve to the brain, ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
AI tool generates video from brain activity
"Alexa, play back that dream I had about Kirsten last week." That's a command that may not be too far off in the future, as researchers close in on technology that can tap into our minds and retrieve the imagery of our thoughts.
Energy & Green Tech
Engineers harvest abundant clean energy from thin air, 24/7
A team of engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently shown that nearly any material can be turned into a device that continuously harvests electricity from humidity in the air. The secret lies in being ...
May 24, 2023
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Robotics
Soft e-skin that communicates with the brain
Researchers at Stanford University have developed digital skin that can convert sensations such as heat and pressure to electrical signals that can be read by electrodes implanted in the human brain.
Robotics
An ionic skin that could provide robots with tactile sensation and texture recognition capabilities
Through their fingertips, humans can touch and grip onto things in their surrounding environment, but they can also sense the tactile properties of objects and detect other atmospheric changes. Fingertips are incredibly sensitive ...
