Consumer & Gadgets
Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick have published "Face-Mic," the first work examining how voice command features on virtual reality headsets could lead to major privacy leakages, known as "eavesdropping attacks."
Feb 10, 2022
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Robotics
A team of researchers from the University of California, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has found that insects use natural oscillations to stabilize their flight. ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Walking is a basic human activity that improves human physical and mental health. However, physical disabilities and the COVID-19 pandemic have discouraged people from walking outside. To remove these limitations, a research ...
Dec 21, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
When everything shakes, precision is usually impossible—everybody who has ever tried to take a photo with shaky hands or make handwritten notes on a bumpy bus journey knows that. With technical precision measurements, even ...
Jul 17, 2024
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Robotics
A team of researchers at Microsoft has found that for physical stimulation techniques to work as hoped in virtual reality applications, the user needs to be shown the source of the stimulation. If they are not the group notes ...
Robotics
A team of researchers working in a MIT lab has built an intelligent tow tank (ITT) that is capable of carrying out fluid dynamics experiments, and have used it to carry out 100,000 such experiments in just one year. In their ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Walking can boost not only your own energy but also, potentially, the energy of your wearable electronic devices. Osaka Metropolitan University scientists made a significant advance toward self-charging wearable devices with ...
Nov 29, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
(Tech Xplore)—Wearables for the blind to improve their spatial awareness and navigation are always of interest and this month the Sunu Band is drawing keen interest among tech watchers for its capabilities.
Engineering
Purdue University researchers have developed a method of sending messages in English by using vibrations on a person's skin.
Sep 5, 2018
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Engineering
Haptics researchers have long known that applying ultrasonic vibrations to a flat, featureless glass plate makes it feel slippery. But they have also long debated why this occurs.
Aug 2, 2016
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