List/Grid Tag Archives: research
SoundWave: Control PC with Kinect-like Gestures [Doppler Effect]
We love Gestures, don’t we? Whether its your multitouch screen or a Kinect gameplay, not having to make enough effort to get things done serves our taste buds. Microsoft Labs…
LASER Cooling for Semiconductors [Optomechanics]
Can Energy falling on another kick the former out? Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have managed to successfully combine two different worlds: Quantum physics & Nano physics. Semiconductors are…
Ultrasound Surgery – Healing without Surgery, Pain
Human ability to see light & sense sound have been one of the best abilities. On one side we can hear and cherish music and on the other, we cherish…
Honda ASIMO Robots mimics Humans
Honda has been making these ASIMO robots for a long while now and everytime they come with a new version, its filled with surprises. We’ve already seen it dance, sing and read minds. The new…
Make any Surface TouchScreen
We’ve seen how you can use your hand as TouchScreen. However, with the hack finally being mastered with Kinect technology, you can make just any surface touch screen, no matter…
Retrieve, Record Image, Video Data from Brain
You must have seen several Sci-fi movies where the bad guy makes the superhero sit in an oscillator and capture his past events from his brain. It may look like…
SmartBird – Robot that Flies like REAL Bird
Every child, human-being had dreamt to fly like a bird and Robots are no exception. For years researchers have been trying to build Robots that can mimic the exact moment…
Why NASA Space Shuttle Software never crash | Bug-free NASA shuttles
Its every other time we hear in the stock markets, banks, telecom companies that their software crashed or a bug caused havoc and panic. Often non-tech users ask this question,…
PaperPhone – Worlds Thinnest bendable Display Smartphone
“Worlds thinnest Phone, Smartphone” is often exaggerated by phone manufacturers, coz such phone still have a centimeter of thickness. Meet the PaperPhone, world’s first flexible phone that has thickness no…
Future Home Vision by Microsoft
We love to see Microsoft Research’s Future vision with their occasional demos. Their latest idea revolves around Future Home Vision, a playground to demonstrate the potential of the future homes….
How Osama Bin Laden was Tracked, Technically
U.S. secret agencies had been gathering information from people in Bin Laden’s circle. One of the major advances was made by retrieving information about his personal couriers. After few attacks,…
Robot Catches Tossed Balls with accuracy
Modern robots have redefined the way they interact and think. Morgan Quigley’s low-cost Robot possess 7 degree-of-freedom (7-DoF). It possess a series elastic actuator (SEA) arm that costs way under…
Beginning of Quantum Computing, Computers
Quantum physics has been trying to find a faster solution to current generation computers designed using transistors. Quantum computing would perform similar computing of data, but based on mechanical phenomena,…
Google buys 6,000 Nortel Patents, Opens them up
Ruthless Software Patents are Evil, claims the industry’s top innovators. Not only do they prevent good things from happening, they often aren’t worth the trouble. The tech world has recently…
Hackers Hack Car with Music
It was once said that by English playwright William Congreve “music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” As per the latest…
