Scientists at University of Maryland in the United States have developed a new technique that makes wood as strong as steel or even titanium alloys. This ‘Super Wood’ can have potential applications in construction, automobiles, and aviation industries. “This new way to …Continue reading
You Can Now 3-D Print a Toupee
Researchers have figured out how to use a 3-D printer to make plastic hair of varying thicknesses for things like toys and brushes. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have come up with a method for using 3-D printers to fabricate plastic hair—a …Continue reading
Robot Spiders Weave Products from Plastic in a New Spin on 3-D Printing
If you’re afraid of spiders, then you might find Siemens’s vision for future manufacturing lines a bit alarming. In a lab in Princeton, New Jersey, the company’s researchers are testing spider-like robots that extrude not silk but plastic, thanks to portable 3-D …Continue reading
Gorgeous New 4-D Printing Process Makes More Than Just Eye Candy
A new technique for making “programmable” materials could lead to all sorts of medical and electronic devices. If you are tired of the hype around 3-D printing, brace yourself, because it’s time to add another “D.” Yesterday, researchers unveiled a new process …Continue reading
New Ink Opens the Door to 3-D-Printed Radar
Printing the electronics in sophisticated radar systems onto sheets of plastic would make the systems both cheaper and more versatile. This would have obvious military benefits but also many potential civilian applications, such as weather-monitoring radar and self-driving vehicles. One major challenge …Continue reading
Smart Bandage Signals Infection by Turning Fluorescent
Researchers have developed a new kind of wound dressing that could serve as an early-detection system for infections. Bacterial infection is a fairly common and potentially dangerous complication of wound healing, but a new “intelligent” dressing that turns fluorescent green to signal …Continue reading
Researchers Take a Step Toward Vocal Cord Transplants
Chronic pain is often tough to understand, much less treat. But a new flexible, implantable electronic device could illuminate why certain parts of your body hurt. And down the road, the system, which features a wirelessly activated light-emitting diode (LED), might even …Continue reading
Could Implantable LEDs Relieve Your Pain?
Chronic pain is often tough to understand, much less treat. But a new flexible, implantable electronic device could illuminate why certain parts of your body hurt. And down the road, the system, which features a wirelessly activated light-emitting diode (LED), might even …Continue reading
Bono Sings the Praises of Technology
To say that Bono is the lead singer of the rock band U2 is like saying that Thomas Edison invented the record player: it leaves out a lot of biography. The 52-year-old Irishman (born Paul Hewson) is also a technology investor and …Continue reading
Turning Floodwater into Drinking Water
By Daniel Lovering A Thai government agency has developed a mobile unit called SOS that can purify contaminated water in the aftermath of a flood.