Hi Tech & Innovation
Future systems that allow people to interact with virtual environments will require computers to interpret the human hand's nearly endless variety and complexity of changing motions and joint angles.
Jun 22, 2016
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Telecom
A new platform enables high-quality 3-D video communication on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets using existing standard wireless networks.
Jan 9, 2018
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Computer Sciences
It can take decades for scientists to identify physical laws, statements that explain anything from how gravity affects objects to why energy can't be created or destroyed. Purdue University researchers have found a way to ...
Dec 15, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Conventional silicon architecture has taken computer vision a long way, but Purdue University researchers are developing an alternative path—taking a cue from nature—that they say is the foundation of an artificial retina. ...
Nov 29, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Computers and artificial intelligence continue to usher in major changes in the way people shop. It is relatively easy to train a robot's brain to create a shopping list, but what about ensuring that the robotic shopper can ...
Apr 19, 2019
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Engineering
What if the inherent weaknesses of a material actually made houses and buildings stronger during wildfires and earthquakes?
Oct 3, 2018
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Software
If you don't like wandering through big-box stores trying to find the furniture you need, and then struggle to assemble it, researchers have proposed a solution: Smart software that helps you design your own furniture, 3-D ...
May 9, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
In the future, when you order a shot of whiskey, you might ask the bartender to hold an edible fluorescent silk tag that could be found floating inside—even though it is safe to consume.
Jun 6, 2022
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Engineering
Instead of inserting a card or scanning a smartphone to make a payment, what if you could simply touch the machine with your finger?
Dec 3, 2020
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Engineering
Communication could step beyond reading a cellular phone screen with a new technique by Purdue College of Engineering researchers to learn and read messages through a person's sense of touch.
Jul 3, 2018
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