Researchers built robotic skin with a sense of touch

Using Intel’s neuromorphic chip, Loihi, researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) developed an artificial skin that allows robots to detect touch 1,000 times faster than the human sensory nervous system. The system can also identify...

Tomorrow’s firefighters will have near-superhuman abilities

Firefighting gear has evolved continuously since the 1600s to keep pace with the challenges that firefighters face, such as the numerous blazes that are currently ravaging Northern California. During the colonial days, structures routinely burned to...

Crowdsourced research predicts what molecules smell like

As of now, the only way to tell how something smells is to actually take a sniff. That is to say, there's no observable, scientific measure we know of that can predict how we'll perceive a specific odor. In comparison, things are a little more cut an...

ICYMI: The best health innovations of the year

Today on In Case You Missed It: It's been a pretty magical year for medical innovation, with something for everyone but most especially Star Trek fans. The FDA approved 3D-printed medicine for the first time, prosthetic arms for kids got awesome and...

Deep Sea Love

My scuba diving experience at the Great Barrier Reef was a pretty awesome one; the guys strapped me up in a wetsuit with all this heavy gear and I had a fascinating dive. If there is one thing that I would like to change about it, then it has to be the dive goggles. I have a high prescription number and the scuba gear usually comes generic numbers to the glasses. ‘Control Your Sight’ are goggles that feature number customization.

What this means is that you can customize the lens of each goggle to suit your prescription number. There is a knob on either side of the goggles that adjusts the deflection ratio as the silicone t-oil packed is inserted into the swimming goggle. Simply amazing and do want!

Designer: Yootaek Jung

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Walking With An Independent Streak

The one thing that you will note about the folks who have some imparity is that they strive to be fiercely independent. To help them walk the streets without any assistance, we have here the Street Scanner. It is a device that works by sensing the objects around it. The sensors recognize objects that are distant and report it to the user via its interface.

The device provides feedback through voice and popup buttons and each of them works with 2 levels of heights that depict obstacles and indicate if they are moving or not. Overall, it’s a device that makes navigation easy and safer.

Designer: Ahhaproject

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The Guide Brick

The Blind Guider is an innovative guide brick that for the sight impaired. It provides the street names and directions to blind via RFID embedded on the guide brick. The blind communicate with the guide brick through the sensors found on the bottom of the guide cane, which is transmitted to the earphone. How feasible is this design is yet to be determined, however as a concept it is a good idea.

Designers: Jang Cheng, Hui-Chuan Ma, Chih-Hao Wang and Yin-Kai Li

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