Collaborate Disseminate
Having lots of glass surfaces can brighten up a room, but it also lets in too much heat as well as neighbors’ prying eyes. A new metamaterial is not only more transparent to light, but adds privacy, cools the room inside, and automatically cleans itsel… Continue reading More transparent than glass, new material cools rooms and self-cleans
Disposable diapers are a huge source of global waste, largely because they’re difficult to recycle. A new process, however, could salvage the “superabsorber” polymer utilized in the liners of those diapers – and yes, even if they’re soiled.Continue Rea… Continue reading Ultraviolet light could hold the key to recycling disposable diapers
While forklifts do work well for lifting and moving heavy loads indoors, they’re bulky (in close quarters), expensive, and can’t lift loads over a certain footprint size. That’s where the FORMIC modular robotic transportation system is designed to come… Continue reading FORMIC system uses a swarm of robots to transport heavy loads
While forklifts do work well for lifting and moving heavy loads indoors, they’re bulky (in close quarters), expensive, and can’t lift loads over a certain footprint size. That’s where the FORMIC modular robotic transportation system is designed to come… Continue reading FORMIC system uses a swarm of robots to transport heavy loads
If you want to maximize the number of trains that can operate along one rail line simultaneously, it’s crucial that you know the exact location of each train at all times. A new system is designed to help in that regard, by analyzing the magnetic prope… Continue reading MAROS tech analyzes rails to precisely geolocate trains
While it would be great if teachers could spend lots of time with each of their students, the fact is that children often end up doing most of their handwriting exercises unsupervised. A new system may help address that problem, utilizing a “smart” pen… Continue reading KIHT tech could teach children how to put pen to paper
For electric planes to really take off and for electric cars to travel far longer distances between charges, we’ll need batteries that pack far more energy without becoming prohibitively heavy. A team in Germany has now demonstrated a new lithium-metal… Continue reading Remarkable density of new lithium battery promises massive range for EVs
E-waste is a growing problem, so if an electronic component can’t be reused or recycled, it should at least be biodegradable. That’s where an experimental new electronic display comes in, as it can be composted when no longer needed.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading Biodegradable electronic display designed to help minimize e-waste
Estonia’s Skeleton Technologies and Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have partnered up to complete development on what they’re calling the SuperBattery for EVs – “a groundbreaking graphene battery with a 15-second charging time.”Continue Rea… Continue reading Skeleton and KIT promise graphene SuperBattery with 15-second charging
If you were heading into a burning, smoke-filled building, you’d probably want someone else to know your location within it at all times. German scientists have developed a system that’s claimed to serve that very purpose, for use by firefighters and o… Continue reading Safety system tracks firefighters by their strides