Meet RightingBot, the lizard inspired robot
A lizard-inspired robot has been developed; it has the ability to always land right side up.
Powering a mobile phone with a T-shirt
Soon you will be able to charge your mobile phone with a humble T-shirt.
Back on their feet
Robotic limbs may provide mobility to paraplegics or augment the strength and endurance of nurses, firefighters and soldiers. Science writer Henrik Bendix explores some of the exoskeleton options that are being developed. Additional…
What is an induced coma?
An induced coma gives the brain the rest necessary to recover. Medically induced coma requires an extreme type of general anesthesia that essentially deactivates the brain; this prevents the patients from being revived…
Tapping into the unconscious brain
Neuroscientists have developed an unconventional method of communicating with vegetative patients.
Machine playing instruments
Who would have thought that machines could ‘play’ instruments. PureTune used an Atari 800XL (organ), HP Scanjet 3P (vocals), Texas Instrument Ti-99/4A (guitar) and a hard-drive powered by a microcontroller (bass drum and cymbal)…
Magnificent Vesta
A new video from NASA shows Vesta’s true colours. Vesta, according to data gathered by the Dawn mission, used to be an ancient planet; had it formed nearer to the Sun, it might…
