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Emerging Tech News Archive
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This automated store in Sweden doesn’t have any human employees — only a smartphone app
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This helicopter drone helps Australia monitor shark activity and reduce attacks
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Inspired by moth eyes, this new graphene-based solar cell is crazy efficient
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Here’s how Google will launch its Project Loon Internet balloons
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MIT scientists create algorithm to predict rogue waves
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Weekly Rewind: Drone crosses English Channel, Kanye terrorizes Twitter, and more
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Awesome tech you can't buy yet: UV shoe sanitizers, smart mounts, fish tank tech
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This reusable sanitizer uses UV light to murder odor-causing microbes living in your shoes
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16 trends from Mobile World Congress that will reshape the year ahead
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The US Air Force just unveiled initial renderings of its new B-21 stealth bomber
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This odd new drone is designed to fold into an egg shape for easy transport
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Hoverboard ban: NYC subway posters make sure everyone gets the message
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Robot roundup: Meet the best (and sometimes most bizarre) bots in Barcelona
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The Kyon smart pet collar is like an Apple Watch for your dog
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Drone wars: Disney may use anti-drone drones to secure the set of Star Wars Episode VIII
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NASA’s ‘Robonaut’ bot is losing its sight, but maybe you can help
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Want to fix your terrible posture? This buzzing wearable trains you to sit up straight
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Amazon quietly pulls all hoverboards from its site (again)
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Fujitsu made a wearable for cows, and it could boost breeding efficiency in a huge way
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A meteor that exploded over the Atlantic on Feb. 6 had more force than the Hiroshima bomb
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Cure your robo-phobia with Pepper, the adorable ‘human-shaped’ robot
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Save the planet one query at a time with Ecosia: the search engine that plants trees
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This artificial skin can detect touch — and it’s made from tinfoil and sticky notes
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5 ways the ‘supermaterial’ graphene could transform the tech around us
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This distraction-free smart typewriter will make sure you actually get some work done
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These flexible ‘strap lights’ clip to your gear with magnets, outshine headlamps
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SpaceX ‘not expected’ to successfully land its upgraded Falcon 9 at sea Wednesday
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NASA is hoping to resurrect its experimental ‘X-Planes’ program in 2017
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This year’s Oscar statues were cast from 3D-printed scans of the 1929 originals
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Denmark’s smart traffic signals prioritize buses and bicycles to promote sustainability
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This drone just made a record setting 72-minute flight across the English Channel
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Airbus’s ‘bench-style’ seating may not be as horrendous as it sounds
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This University of Miami lab recreates category 5 hurricanes in a 30,000 gallon tank
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A record number of Americans applied to become NASA astronauts
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The FDL-1 is a programmable dart gun and turret that you can 3D print
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Weekly rewind: 3D-printed ears, flexible screens, Yahoo and Kanye crumble
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NASA plans its next giant space telescope, and it’s so much cooler than Hubble
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Feds to consumers: there’s literally no safe hoverboard
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Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Bluetooth breathalyzers, photo turntables, and more
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Swagway says stop using its hoverboards until further notice
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Forward to the Future: The world's first hoverboard is now on Kickstarter
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What do Millenials want in a home? Rooms that change as they do
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A 19-year-old kid built this free robo-lawyer, and it has already appealed over $3M in parking tickets
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This tiny new radio module can wirelessly broadcast data from inside the human body
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Mind-controlled robotic arm lets users wiggle individual fingers with just a thought
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Virgin Galactic unveils its new and improved SpaceShipTwo
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This cool robotic appendage turns you into a three-armed drummer
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Future Motion withdraws patent infringement action against Changzhou
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Health insurer required to cover exoskeleton for mobility-challenged patient
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A railgun may grace the turret of the Navy’s next-generation Zumwalt destroyer
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Peter Diamandis’ XPRIZE to award the brightest advancement in AI with $5 million
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Astronomers just snapped photos of the most massive black hole we’ve ever observed
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New study suggests that therapy via virtual reality can help patients with depression
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This tiny glass ‘Superman memory crystal’ stores 360TB for eternity
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Wasp research may lead to smarter, more efficient drones
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Astronomers detect atmosphere of a distant, diamond-like super-Earth for first time
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With auto-braking and location tracking, the Arrow is the safest go-kart for kids
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This cool map of Mars means future space ramblers will never lose their way
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DARPA’s 130-foot submarine-hunting drone will take to the sea in April
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Bionic Olympics: The Cybathlon competition aims to improve assistive technologies
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Mattel’s new ThingMaker is a $300 3D printer that lets kids print their own toys
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In 100 years, humans may live in underwater spheres and subterranean skyscrapers
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Move over, pink convertible; Barbie has a hoverboard now
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This crazy new 3D bio-printer can make full size ear, muscle, and bone tissues
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Nissan built a fleet of self-parking office chairs, because technology
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NASA’s solar observatory just released this awesome one-year time-lapse of the sun
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Singapore looks to 3D printing for ambitious public housing project
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‘Can anyone fly a plane?’ Hobbyist pilot shows how you can land a jet in an emergency
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Giant Rubik’s Cube needs brawn as well as brains to solve
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Laser strike forces Virgin Atlantic passenger jet back to airport
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Will computerized voices ever sound human?
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Weekly rewind: Doggie dates, Harry Potter 8, and the cheapest Tesla yet
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Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: 3D printing ceramic, swim trackers, collapsible bags
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GE launches Unimpossible Mission campaign to highlight its impressive tech
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Russia aims to point its ICBMs at the asteroid Apophis in 2036
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Pump with your rump instead of wearing out your arms with this hidden bike pump
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MyShake turns your smartphone into an earthquake detector and research tool
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Watch this drone pull a full grown man and witness the humble beginnings of Droneboarding
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These new Cabbage Patch dolls have creepy LCD eyes that will haunt your dreams
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With 512 LEDs in an app-controlled cube, Tittle is like fireworks for your desk
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The Sleep Guardian Plus gently wakes kids up before they enter nightmare territory
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Smuggled into North Korea, your old flash drives could help topple a dictatorship
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To Einstein’s delight, scientists just confirmed the existence of gravitational waves
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Your shoe may be able to harvest energy to charge your phone
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Amazing new autopilot system can safely land a plane if the pilot is incapacitated
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Finally, a machine that turns tweets into cocktails
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For the first time ever, scientists have reanimated a cryogenically frozen mammal brain
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This drone can automatically follow forest trails to track down lost hikers
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The first legit hoverboard just got a lower price and a new video
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This super-flexible search and rescue robot was inspired by the American cockroach
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Give up, humanity. This robot can solve a Rubik’s cube in under 1 second
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North Korean satellite nonfunctional and ‘tumbling in orbit’ following weekend launch
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Google wants to deliver stuff using self-driving trucks with storage lockers
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New cotton candy-inspired technique is helping scientists build artificial capillaries
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Chinese scientists just achieved a 90 million degree Fahrenheit nuclear fusion test
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This mind-reading tech helped a paralyzed violinist control a live orchestra
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Seven years in, Kickstarter hits 100,000 successfully funded campaigns
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Dominate winter with this fully automatic snowball machine gun
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This revolutionary 3D scanner digitizes your limbs to make custom braces and casts
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Could 3D printing be hazardous to your health? New study claims it might be
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This projector-powered augmented reality game takes climbing to a whole new level
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This is the world’s fastest mobility scooter, and it goes over 100 mph
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This room-service robot is a real hit with hotel guests
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A North Korean satellite passed over Levi’s Stadium after the Super Bowl ended
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Amazon’s first Super Bowl ad campaign puts Echo on display
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92 percent of students prefer physical books to e-readers
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SweepSense makes your phone or laptop smarter by using its speaker and microphone
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Astronauts can enjoy the Super Bowl too
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Microsoft’s Cortana gets sexually harassed, but she fights back
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Weekly Rewind: Photobombing horses, exoskeletons, Key and Peele do the Super Bowl
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Google is looking into wireless charging for its driverless cars
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Tactile Picture Books Project uses 3D printing to make picture books for blind kids
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Wilson shows off its new smart football, the Wilson X
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Samsung patents vein identification sensor on smartwatches to trigger payments, playlists
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A robot golfer just nailed a hole-in-one for the first time ever
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This tent has a shocking secret that could keep you alive in a storm
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InsideCoach smart soccer ball aims to keep kids active
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Scientists have sequenced the bed bug's entire genome in search of clues on how to kill it
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Germany makes landmark fusion power achievement as W7-X reactor fires up for real
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The US Army’s new high-precision air drop system can deliver cargo without GPS
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Research firm Gartner predicts bright future for VR hardware
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These wearable mechatronic wings react to stimuli, and you can make them with Legos
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This 3D-printed gun is semiautomatic, untraceable, and totally legal
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Finally! A wearable that feeds caffeine directly into your blood
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France plans to build 1,000 kilometers of energy-collecting solar roads by 2021
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NASA’s fly-over images of Ceres suggests the dwarf planet may still be active
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Scientists unveil new ‘4D-printing’ technique that produces shape-shifting objects
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This new soft robotic gripper can gently pick up objects of practically any shape
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New evidence suggests Earth was formed by a huge planetary collision 4.5 billion years ago
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Stanford team proves Cambridge and Colbert wrong: Spider-Man can definitely climb walls
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This modular exoskeleton lets disabled children walk on their own two feet
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Pro cyclo-cross rides into ‘technological doping’ scandal
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The Hovervault fire-resistant bag may save your home if your hoverboard explodes
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Wales tests a generator that uses ocean tides to power 10,000 homes
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Oros insulates gear with the same Aerogel NASA uses in space suits
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Dutch police have trained eagles to take down rogue drones
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Freeze chamber death prompts scientists to re-examine the safety of cryotherapy
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UNICEF Innovation Fund is looking for open source tech startups
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U.K. gives scientists permission to edit DNA in human embryos
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MIT wins Hyperloop design contest with a tube that can hurtle at 750 mph