Technology

Here we are: after years of development and tons of false previews on sites around the world, Samsung is ready to bring to market a new range of smartphones with flexible screens. "Mobile phones with flexible and nearly indestructible screens that can be rotated, folded and placed in a pocket ...

Since the entry of the Kinect system in the videogame panorama, the idea of ​​'understanding each other through gestures' with an electronic device has taken hold in the market and in the collective imagination. Without a keyboard, without direct contact between the hands and a computer, a mobile phone, an appliance, we will be free to integrate the presence of technology in the ...

Bacteria friends are able to restore cracks and flaking in concrete, a bit like healing a wound. Biocemento was born.

Chopin and the Beatles teach us that things like good music can last a very long time: from tomorrow they could be preserved forever thanks to more stable and lasting memories. Since the advent of the information age, the most pressing problem of industry (and people) has been to protect a large ...

From the advent of touch screens onwards it has been a flourishing of mobile devices and tablets: the way we interact with these gadgets has changed at an impressive speed. Today some may mistakenly imagine that the 'finger-on-screen' scheme is the one on which the fortune of future technologies will be built, ...

Making a wheelchair capable of overcoming architectural barriers must not have been easy: today a team of engineers from the Chiba Institute of Technology, led by the Associate Professor, has succeeded in the feat using a good dose of lateral thinking. A wheelchair? Difficult to define it this way: when ...

Arduino is an opensource framework that allows rapid prototyping and quick learning of the fundamental principles of electronics and programming. It consists of a hardware platform for physical computing developed at the Interaction Design Institute, an institute based in Ivrea, founded by Olivetti and Telecom Italia. The name of the ...

The user writes in a comment on the blog of an engineer: Do (electronic) engineers also have to know how to write well in Italian or is it enough that they know how to 'count'? Let's start with a comment left on a blog article, with rather harsh tones and full of reproach for all young engineers ...

The 3D transistors are made thanks to Intel's revolutionary technology called Tri-Gate which, thanks to a 22nm technological process, makes us keep up with Moore's law. Topic to be explored on both Moore's law side (Will chip development follow Moore's law?) And ...

When over the last 5 years we have reported news on the robotic arm of DARPA (if you want, the old site is available), we were talking about advanced prototypes: today we can talk, with satisfaction, about clinical tests: it is the future. Not later than two weeks ago the health agencies ...