Technology

He may not be able to cut through a thick sheet of steel in a short time, but the US Navy has shown that his solid laser is capable of incinerating small boats. MLD (Demonstrative Maritime Laser) is a 15 kilowatt beam specially designed to equip ships: its 'civil' use could ...

Transcendent Man is a new documentary made by Barry Ptolemy on the figure of the futurologist Ray Kurzweil: everything is based on the book "The singularity is near".

At first glance (and perhaps not too close) it may seem like a real hummingbird, but it is the new spybot made by DARPA: this flying robot is equipped with a video camera capable of transmitting images from a distance. The dimensions are still excessive (but I am very demanding): 16 cm ...

Shellfish from around the world, rejoice! The strength of an irreducible beast is now at your disposal thanks to a new model of exoskeleton made by a group of university students. The Titan Arm is an award-winning project at the "James Dyson Awards", awards for the most innovative technological achievements that ...

There are several wearable devices already designed to keep our vital parameters under control, from heartbeat to sleep tracks: a group of inventors is bringing to the market a user-friendly and wearable approach to brainwave monitoring. WholeXon is a Canadian company that works at full speed ...

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 ...

In difficult times like these, popular demands persist: in the last 3 and a half years the only positive developments for our country have come from referendums. To the increasing surprise of politicians and scholars of social flows, political protest movements are organizing and preparing to be, ...

Time passes, technologies and methods improve, and things that just seemed impossible are surprisingly at hand: it is appropriate to say, given the incredible new bionic arm born from the collaboration between the American universities of Pittsburgh and John Hopkins. It is a leap ...

A graph that shows the progress of some of the most anticipated technologies in the coming years and decades. Take a look at it.

Microsoft's Holodesk project begins to provide the first prototypes and the first stimuli: the possibility of manipulating '3D' objects in physical space seems really interesting. The system combines a Kinect sensor (yes, of those that today are used 'for fun') and a special screen to create a ...

The pushed globalization has not been interpreted in the best way: many analysts expected the world to become smaller, and instead we have only found it worse. There are no rules that allow true freedom of exchange, because the total absence of economic constraints has leveled down prices ...

This robot is very skilled and can do many things that humans can do. What if robots like this replaced human workers?