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French champion of pedal power, Stéphane Rousson, is developing a twin-prop waterbike designed to beat a 30-year-old world record for the fastest human-powered watercraft. The first prototype has been built and tested on the water.The long-standing record was set on October 27, 1991, by the Decavitator team at MIT, with Mark Drela pedaling the craft over a 100-meter course on the Charles River in Boston, and clocking up a best-run speed of 18.5 knots (21.289 mph).The idea for the project stemmed from a chat between MIT…

The day of the robot is over? Well, meet the M4! It is the artificial assistant you have always craved for, but no one could ever build. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has developed a new RC car-sized Morphobot that can transform its structure to walk, drive, and fly. This morphobot is called M4 ( Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot). it is built with the latest electronics, motors, and a small computer that help it decide which shape to turn into.Over the years we have seen the robotics industry evolve from…

Device makers have struggled to incorporate temperature sensors into smartphones and smartwatches to turn them into medically accurate body thermometers, but researchers at the University of Washington claim they’ve come up with a way to turn an off-the-shelf smartphone into exactly that–with nothing but a new app. They’re calling itFeverPhone.Is This the End of Apple’s Lightning Cable?Although smart wearables like the Apple Watch Series 8 and Apple Watch Ultra can measure a user’s body temperature through newly added…

It's the Eurobike trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany, later this month, and local firm HP Velotechnik is riding in hot with a recumbent electric trike called the Delta tx that was developed to take "a senior tricycle to the next level."At least that was the original plan, but company CEO Paul Hollants found it to be so much fun during test rides that it's being marketed as an Easy Rider for all generations – "you don't need to be at least a certain age to enjoy the casual riding position on a chopper," he said in a press…

Rise and shine, Valve fans. Rise and shine. People love Valve games as much as the company seems to hate making them. Valve has changed not just gaming but how we buy games, and has one of the most fervent followings in the history of video game companies. We just know everyone will agree with everything we have to say here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVDFJRM6F9k 10. Aperture Desk Job Valve likes to make up for games that never come out by just releasing other games that nobody even knew were in the making. That’s…

If you heard rumors that Google was working on not one but two foldable smartphones in the past few months (and years), it turns out those mumblings were actually true, despite the fact that the company only eventually announced one of them, namely the Pixel Fold. Apparently there was a second foldable smartphone created by the same team that was in charge of the Pixel Fold. This other device apparently "wasn't good enough" which is why it was eventually canceled and never made it to market. The team felt like it…

People don’t just fly kites for fun. At a test site near Munich, engineers recently launched an electricity-generating, box-style kite fitted with small, wind-catching rotors. The contraption, tethered to the ground by a hefty cable, flew repeatedly in a predetermined figure of eight — its rotors spinning in the wind. “The wind speed is a couple of times higher than that a conventional wind turbine would see,” says Maximilian Isensee, chief executive of Kitekraft, explaining how the very…

A new photonic, functional memory based on tin oxide slanted nanorod arrays in which both the optical and electrical stimuli can be used to modulate switching characteristics shows potential for developing high-density and high-efficiency computing systems.Currently, various research groups worldwide are designing and realizing non-volatile, ultrafast, reliable, functional memory systems that outperform traditional silicon-based flash memories. In this big data era, a new class of data storage devices that can overcome…

MIT researchers have made an open-source version of the “City Scanner” mobile pollution detector that lets people check air quality anywhere, cheaply. Pictured are some examples of the latest version of the device, called Flatburn, as well as a researcher attaching a prototype to a car. Credit: Carlo Ratti, Simone Mora, An Wang, et. alAn open-source tool developed by <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>MIT</div><div…

Glioblastoma is one of the most common and aggressive forms of brain cancer, and it's one of the hardest to treat. There may be good news on the horizon, however.A newly developed hydrogel, tested on mice, cleaned up traces of glioblastoma tumors and stopped them from returning. The hydrogel was so effective that there was a "striking" 100 percent survival rate in the animals.Although we can't be sure that the same treatments will achieve that level of success in humans, it's a hugely promising new approach.Paclitaxel is…