Effectiveness of the app, which measures pressure waveforms of blood flow through the cardiovascular system, demonstrated in clinical trials. Want to know how healthy your heart is? Now there's an app for that.In a proof-of-concept clinical trial, engineers at Caltech, Huntington Medical Research Institute, and USC have demonstrated that the camera on your smartphone can noninvasively provide d...

Jaguar Land Rover will introduce futuristic steering wheel at Tech Fest on September 7. It’ll reveal intelligent and connected steering wheel that lives in your home and becomes your reliable companion. Called Sayer, it’s a concept steering wheel that features voice-activated artificial intelligence (AI), it is able to carry out different kinds of tasks including alerting your exclusive membe...

Stanford scientists cooled water without electricity by sending excess heat where it won’t be noticed – space. The specialized optical surfaces they developed are a major step toward applying this technology to air conditioning and refrigeration.Radiative sky cooling systems use reflective panels to emit heat into space, potentially cooling a building in the process. Heat naturally flows from...

Lego, the world-beating Danish toymaker, reported an unexpected drop in profit, down 3% in the first half of 2017, to 3.4 billion Danish kroner ($543 million). The decline comes after full-year sales growth last year was the slowest in nearly 10 years, ending an outstanding run of double-digit increases. Revenue fell 5% in the first half.As a result of declining sales and profit, the company wi...

The company, Kapanu, is a spin-off of Swiss technical university ETH Zurich; CEO Roland Mörzinger collaborated with Disney Research to create an augmented reality engine for medical purposes, and dentistry was chosen as a good first application.For someone getting major dental work or reconstructive surgery, it can be hard to visualize what they’ll look like afterwards. You can do casts and m...

Sony is investing in Acutronic Robotics‘ Series A round, via its Sony Innovation Fund. Sony will also adopt Acutronic’s Hardware Robot Operating System (H-ROS), for use in its own robotics division, the company says.This funding follows investment by DARPA in Acutronic’s platform, which aims to become an industry standard for robotics components from across hardware and software providers.Ac...

Luggage that transforms to meet your travel needs. Valluse can be arranged in six different configurations.I’ve been a long standing fan of the modular approach to traveling. Take the Leather Duffle from last year for example. The very idea of having three separate bags but handling them as one bag is convenient, not just because it makes carrying items less of a hassle… but it also means all...

​Our 10th annual back-to-school survey takes a closer look at spending and shopping trends for the upcoming back-to-school season. This year’s total back-to-school spending is expected to reach $27 billion, department stores fall from the second to the sixth shopping destination, and mass merchants jump to the head of the class.​2017 back-to-school shopping trendsBack-to-school season is the...

University of Washington researchers are developing an app that could allow people to easily screen for pancreatic cancer and other diseases — by snapping a smartphone selfie.[BiliScreen is a new smartphone app that is designed to screen for pancreatic cancer by having users snap a selfie. It’s shown here with a 3-D printed box that helps control lighting conditions to detect signs of jaundic...