| Privacy enhancing tools have a bad reputation when it comes to usability. Nathan Freitas of The Guardian Project demonstrated easy to use ap...
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| We’ve all seen the amazing capabilities of flocks of birds and schools of fish to move seemingly as one. Such collective behavior can be wit...
| Old school robots don’t particularly like unstructured environments such as the homes of us messy humans. Objects are moved, task descriptio...
| The multiplayer game Throw Trucks With Your Mind integrates your psychic abilities as game controllers using EEG technology. In the game t...
| ‘Science fiction has a pretty poor track record of absorbing scientific truths’, says science fiction writer Alastair Reynolds. ‘The most in...
| An infrared sensor wired to the part of the brain that processes tactile information enables rats to ‘touch’ infrared light. The successful...
| The patent system has a negative net effect on innovation and productivity, two economists conclude in a study. They propose to abolish the...
| Three Swedish electronic engineers started out with a simple idea. To make a printed circuit board fly. The first iteration of the nano q...
| This article first appeared in the January & February issue of Elektor. Open source software has proved it’s worth its salt. Firmly roote...
| Industry grade bioprinters are already capable of printing living tissue from human cells. Currently the 3D tissue is used in lab environmen...