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Emerging Tech News Archive
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Facts and apps for tonight’s New Year’s Eve Times Square ball drop
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Neural network can create high-res images based on a text description
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Move over laser surgery! Gene therapy could be the secret to restoring vision
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Flop or not? ScriptBook AI predicts which movies will be box-office bombs
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Singapore plans geofencing, remote pilot stations make drone flight safer
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Keymochi, the smart mobile keyboard, can judge your mood based on how you type
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3D-printed lace enclosures will ensure your shoes never come untied again
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Finch Shift universal VR controller helps you come to grips with virtual worlds
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Self-healing material that can carry current may advance robotics
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Engineers create bio-inspired, silk-based materials with programmable traits
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Stanford’s Laboratory for Cell and Gene Medicine aims to ‘cure the incurable’
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Never let your kids go unsupervised again! NannyBot will keep tabs for you
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Gorgeous Heng Balance Lamp boasts unique magnetic switch mechanism
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AI system listens to your engine and tells you if you’re running into problems
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Swarms of robots may soon be deployed to the center of hurricanes
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Hobby drones help keep elephants safe from stones, poison, and poachers
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Sweater weather: Artist makes custom-fit attire to keep your drone warm
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Innovative new "tag" makes whales both scientific subjects and collaborators
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NASA is taking a closer look at the ocean with a giant laser in the sky
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Christmas tree drone does your holiday decorating
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Are you hearing things? New audio test may provide objective test for concussions
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Making a Christmas tree fly is 2016's wackiest use of a quadcopter
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Land Lines is a fun project that will match any line you draw to a real map
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The wailing wallet: Wallor lets you know if you’re being pickpocketed
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Student develops cheap, functional prosthetic for senior thesis project
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More the merrier: Study shows driverless truck platooning saves time and energy
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Cars in France are now tootling along the world’s first solar panel road
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Engineer plans his apartment floor layout by 3D-printing a scale model
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Live cell imaging can be carried out using 3D printing and a smartphone
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AI can diagnose 17 different diseases based on a patient's breath
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Avian-inspired drone alters its feathered wings to boost speed, maneuverability
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Rain, fire, and rogue Barbies can't stop DJI's nearly invincible Mavic Pro drone
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Like music to your ears: Red Bull and DTS Audio show off the power of Headphone:X
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U.K. drone crackdown means users may have to pass a test to fly them
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Innovative air conditioners could work by beaming heat into deep space
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Graphene’s latest miracle? The ability to detect cancer cells
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DARPA wants to make communication possible no matter where you are
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New digital sky survey contains more than three million stars and celestial light sources
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First Special Olympics Robotics Championship takes place in Seattle
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Catch up, Amazon! 7-Eleven says it has already made 77 drone deliveries in the U.S.
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A mech for modern times: Method-1 is your sci-fi fantasy come to life
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3D-printed bones could replace bone donations in treating landmine victims
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Scientists make a major breakthrough in our ability to study antimatter
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Two organizations tackle saving Earth and settling Mars … via Kickstarter
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Hip-hop happy: TuneTable helps kids learn coding basics through music
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Smart mouth guard will inform athletes when they’ve suffered a concussion
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This piece of cardboard may help you sleep soundly on long flights
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The FAA is approving an average of 300 commercial drone certifications a day
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Gadget lets you control your smartphone, play games by flexing your muscles
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This versatile drone can dive like a bird and jump like a flying fish
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New production method may accelerate mass production of graphene
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Wish your wallpaper would evolve with your taste? With Lumentile, it can
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Watch this meat pie take a trip into space as part of a tasty science experiment
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Watch Apple’s mammoth new campus come together in this 6-month time lapse
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Gifts and glitter galore: Bill Gates played Secret Santa to one Reddit user
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Reminder: walkie-talkies are forbidden on NFL sidelines
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Auction winner gets to keep her moon rock bag after court battle with NASA
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Facebook’s Aquila drone crashed due to strong winds, NTSB investigation finds
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China steals U.S. research drone in South China Sea in front of its crew, but will return it
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Let there be light! Online platform lets students do science in real time
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Japan’s Kounotori has docked at ISS, and the junk collector will soon be deployed
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Bam! Pow! Learn! App called LingoZing uses comic books to teach foreign languages
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Scientists may have discovered how to reverse the natural aging process
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An android is entertaining passengers at a Scottish airport
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Robot bees are designed to pollinate flowers when real bees no longer can
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The Navy is building fleets of unmanned 'swarmboats' that can overwhelm and confuse enemies
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Robot arm can be controlled with thoughts, no brain implant needed
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Pen. Screwdriver. Bottle opener. The Author is the pen James Bond would use
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Affordable motion capture system is an entire studio in one skintight suit
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This French startup just raised $15M to make food out of mealworms
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Screech! Nanorockets can now be built with braking and steering systems
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NASA sends eight small satellites into orbit to help monitor hurricanes
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The latest invention from the ‘queen of crappy robots’ is her most terrifying yet
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Art installation puts AI system in charge of a living fly colony
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SnapSkan speed bumps will scan your tires, tell you when they're bald
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Star Trek-style tractor beam is key part of futuristic microscope setup
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From sci-fi to reality: Teams compete to create a Star Trek tricorder device
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A European university just landed $3.3M to 3D print artificial brains for research
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NASA is training underwater drones to explore Europa’s icy oceans
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The good news? There’s a robot that can fold your laundry. The bad news? It’s super slow
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Power up! America’s first offshore wind farm switches on
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Kickstarter 3D printer will print circuit boards as part of your designs
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Leave it to 3D: MIT engineers make printing electronic surfaces easier
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AI educational software knows when students are bored, can adjust lessons accordingly
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Watch this daredevil autonomous drone fly through narrow gaps at high speed
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SpaceX is delaying the first crewed launch of its Dragon capsule
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How snapping a quick selfie could help identify genetic diseases
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Scientists shed light on why lithium-ion batteries sometimes go boom
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Soon you’ll be able to 3D print chewing gum in any shape or flavor you want
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Quadcopter crashes into wedding guests, wedding guests sue
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Amazon/Blue Origin mogul Jeff Bezos gets letter from John Glenn the day he died
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Track heat, light, humidity, or movement with tiny QBiq Wi-Fi-connected sensors
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Adidas opens new flagship store in NYC — its largest one ever
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Clever new speech recognition system from MIT learns language just like a newborn child
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Silly putty sensor is so sensitive it can register the steps of a spider
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How a parrot wearing aviator goggles could teach robots to fly better
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MIT’s ChainFORM robot transforms into anything from stylus to gaming joystick
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How drones are helping save California’s troubled sequoia trees
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Plant a Wind Tree in your neighborhood to generate energy from low-speed wind
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John Glenn, first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, longtime senator, dies at 95
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Smart camera software can monitor your vital signs just by looking at you
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See what your skin is hiding with Skintuition visualization technology
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SpaceX’s rocket relaunch looks set to happen a little later than expected
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This ultra-precise drawing robot is the most mesmerizing thing you’ll see today
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Swiss engineers just unveiled a plane that can reach the edge of space using only solar power
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Mara Pen is a handheld mouse pointer that will transform your presentations
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Cooking with cold plasma could eradicate the smell of deep fat fryers
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Gamers learn to control characters strictly through direct brain stimulation
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Flying the Breeze drone just got, well, breezy with a new controller and goggles
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Sony’s Project Field could give us a new way to play card games
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Farming robot uses sonar to spot fruit and even count individual leaves
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Despite its drones ‘trying to land in trees,’ Google insists it’s committed to delivery project
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Google-owned smart spoon will counteract unwanted hand movements
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Quadcopters could be missing ingredient for cheap zero-G flights
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Earth’s ‘technosphere’ is massive, and could mean problems for the planet
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DIY 'wrist rockets' allow inventor to cruise underwater like a human submarine
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MIT researchers develop system that lets you customize and test your own drones
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Disney performs some tooth-based magic for more lifelike digital doubles
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Superfast fMRI is first to track human brain activity during thought
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Do you still give it a tip? Autonomous robot delivers takeout food in the U.K.
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Run hard, breathe easy: Heated balaclava helps athletes in cold weather
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Rent the Runway is opening up a new flagship location, and it’s all about tech
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Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo makes a successful debut solo flight
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Buzz Aldrin still recovering after emergency airlift from the South Pole
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Smart sensor can tell you exactly which devices are wasting power in your home
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Like a flying hamster ball, Droneball soars around in a cage to protect it from crashes
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Kickstarter ‘Wonder Wallet’ is a smart device that will hold your cash, too
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Scientists witness evolution in progress, create new species in a test tube
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SpaceX eyeing December 16 launch, its first since September explosion
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Cartography neural network generates realistic maps of imagined places
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QuadBot is the 3D-printed, customizable crab robot that will teach you to code
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Kickstarter 'universe in a sphere' is a desk ornament designed to awe you
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New technology turns every flush of yours into usable biocrude oil
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The US Department of Veteran Affairs is using Artificial Intelligence to supercharge its healthcare services
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Bitcoin anonymity no longer guaranteed; summons served to U.S. exchange
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Watch this terrifying robotic LaserSnake destroy a nuclear power cell
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H2 … oh my! MIT researchers just discovered a strange new property of water
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Nike’s power-lacing shoes hit stores today, but good luck finding a pair