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(Patent) Apple Patents a Unique Approach to a Flexible Glass Screen...
We recently posted on a report Apple’s folding iPhone will consist of two panels of glass like t...
(Paper) Researchers Trained a Quadruped Robot to Cross a Balance Beam
A four-legged, 90-kilogram robot can cross a bridge only six centimeters wide.While four-legged r...
Fraunhofer - Production Line-Cleaning Robot Learns on the Job
The wheeled version of the robot (pictured here with its arm lowered) is connected to a docking s...
(Patent) Future Apple Watches could Sport Vein Scanning Technology
Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,698,497) for a “vein scanning device for automatic ge...
(Paper) Facebook's Holographic Optics for The Thinnest Virtual Reality
Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) is always exploring new optical architectures to improve form factor,...
(Patent) Apple Granted a Patent Relating to Gaze Tracking Used in V...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 59 newly granted patents fo...
(Paper) DeepFaceDrawing : Deep Generation of Face Images from Sketches
AI creates realistic faces from crude sketches.Back in the Sixties, one of the hottest toys in hi...
Facebook’s New AI Tool Transforms 2D Image to 3D Models
This could mean accessible, commercial 2D to 3D rendering.When it comes to 3D model estimation fr...
(Paper) Motion Capture Tech Digitizes Dogs, with No Suit and a Sing...
The researchers developed their new motion capture tech by first training it on a range of dogs w...
(Paper) VR Finger Tracking That Recognizes Air-Drawn Passcodes - FMKit
While makers of mixed reality headsets move closer each year to convincingly merging the real and...
(Patent) Apple Pursues a Patent for Controlling Access to Protected...
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(Paper) Graphene Smart Textiles Developed for Heat Adaptive Clothing
This prototype garment features a patch of adaptive material on the chest that can be turned on o...
(Paper) MIT CSAIL - Using AI to Recreate How Artists Painted Their...
AI technology shows how artists created their famous paintings.Have you ever looked at a painting...
(Paper) AI Model Creates 3D Avatars from a Person’s Picture - Avat...
What if all it took to create a realistic digital avatar of a person was a single image? In a pap...
Could Far-UV Light Provide Widespread Disinfection of Airborne Viru...
UV disinfection could be safe for humans, deadly for viruses and bacteria.A short-wavelength ultr...
Spherical Solar Cells Soak Up Scattered Sunlight
Silicon solar cells folded into spheres hint at solar power's flexibility in even small devices....
(Video) LightAnchors : Appropriating Point Lights for Spatially-Anc...
LightAnchors enables spatially-anchored data in augmented reality applications without special ha...
(Patent) Intel Files a Patent for Optimizing Head-Mounted Displays...
U.S. patent application, 20200184728, discloses a virtual reality system having an opaque and enc...
(Video) Amazon AI Introduces "Distance Assistant"
Amazon is implementing a new AI camera system known as the "Distance Assistant" at some of its wa...
(Patent) Apple Patents Auto-Adjusting Glasses May Not Need Prescrip...
According to a report on Patently Apple, the U.S. patent and trademark office just published two...
Zero-Touch Technology Could Make It Safe to Use Elevators and ATMs...
So much of our life involves buttons and touchscreens, but what if you didn’t need to touch them...
(Video) Exotic Self-Cooling Beetle Inspires Film to Cool Electronic...
A roll of the new beetle-inspired material that can passively cool things.Heating and cooling sys...
(Paper) Artificial Intelligence Makes Blurry Faces Look More Than 6...
This AI turns blurry pixelated photos into hyperrealistic portraits that look like real people. T...
(Paper) Nvidia AI - Training Generative Adversarial Networks with L...
Training generative adversarial networks (GAN) using too little data typically leads to discrimin...
Fraunhofer : A Smarter Way of Building with Mobile Robots - Husky A200
Engineers at the Fraunhofer Italia Innovation Engineering Center (IEC) in Bolzano, Italy, are dev...
Aqua-Fi Could Bring Wi-Fi-like Tech to the Underwater World
Radio waves travel poorly through the water, which makes it difficult for divers or submersibles...
(Paper) Apple Patents Next-gen 5G Technology Supporting Both Millim...
There's no doubt that 5G executed properly will provide Apple's next-gen iPhones with new capabil...
(Paper) Rubber "Exoskeleton" Lets Liquid Metal Structures Retain Th...
Multifunctional liquid metal lattice materials through hybrid design and manufacturing.Imagine if...
A New Device Can Produce Electricity Using Shadows
The novel shadow-effect energy generator developed by NUS researchers uses the contrast in illumi...
(Patent) Amazon Pursues a Patent for a Voice-Controlled Multimedia...
US patent application 20200177945 discloses a voice-controlled device that receives speech input...
Israeli Startup Kemtai's Virtual Trainer Keeps You Fit Even When St...
Israeli tech startup Kemtai brings a personal trainer into your home even when you’re in lockdow...
