Startup develops wearable for inducing lucid dreams
Imagine waking up in your dream, aware that you are dreaming yet able to control the narrative. This phenomenon, known as lucid dreaming, is experienced …
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Stanford and Berkeley researchers develop water-soluble circuit boards
However, a recent development in the field of electronics might just be the game-changer we need to tackle this growing problem. Researchers at German semiconductor …
Researchers develop prosthetic limb interfacing with nerves
In a groundbreaking development, researchers at the Science Translational Medicine have engineered a prosthetic limb that directly interfaces with the wearer’s nerves. This innovation, as …
Look into my Orb
This post comes from my newsletter, Startup Strategies. Startups, at their core, are hypothesis testing machines. You have an idea—Fitbit for dogs—and you build a …
New material looks like Chex, is stronger than Kevlar
An insanely strong new nanomaterial could replace steel and Kevlar in surface coatings. The material, created by researchers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich, is …
This robot uses spider joints to wiggle around
As if robots weren’t weird enough, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and at the University of Boulder in Colorado have created …
Archeologists train an AI to compare pottery shards
Piecing together history from shards is hard. Now robots can make it easier.
Watch these wild self-assembling blocks move by themselves
We first saw these little blocks a few years ago but the 2.0 version, called M-Blocks 2.0, are a sigh to behold. Created by CSAIL …
Watch NASA’s all-woman spacewalk LIVE
NASA is streaming the first all-woman spacewalk on YouTube. The big walk has already happened – you can scroll back and see the Earth in …
What if you could control VR objects with your own bare hands
Augmented reality is nothing really new, although it isn’t widespread yet. Think of it as using a camera on a phone to capture the real …