Curious about just how far they could take the company’s additive manufacturing technology, engineers at GE Aviation’s Additive Development Center in Cincinnati successfully created a simple jet engine, made entirely from 3D printed parts , that was able to rev up to 33, 000 RPM. Read more…
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GE 3D-Printed a Miniature Jet Engine That Runs at 33,000 RPM
Your typical 3D printer works by layering melted plastic to eventually build up a solid 3D object, but what happens when you swap plastic for fabrics? Suddenly you’ve got a machine that can create objects that are soft , deformable, and cuddly. Read more…
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Disney Made a 3D Printer That Creates Soft Objects Using Fabric
It makes perfect sense. The sensors that capture images for a digital camera and the sensors that convert light into electricity for a solar cell rely on the same technology. So why not build a device with a sensor that does both, and create a self-powered video camera? Some Columbia University researchers did just that . Read more…
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The World’s First Self-Powered Video Camera Can Record Forever
What most often gives away a CG character as fake is their dead, lifeless eyes. It’s a common contributing factor to the uncanny valley effect, but now researchers at Disney have developed a system to perfectly capture a performer’s eyes that promises to make CG characters finally appear more lifelike and convincing. Read more…
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Disney’s Super-Realistic CG Eyeballs Are an Uncanny Valley Airlift
A team of researchers in Singapore have developed a next generation lithium-ion battery that can recharge a battery to 70-percent in just two minutes. That means it would charge an entire electric car in just 15 minutes. And here’s the kicker: it lasts over 20 years. Read more…
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New Li-Ion Batteries Charge 70 Percent in 2 Minutes, Last for 20 Years
The Pixie Dust display uses sound waves to create images and animations from real particles that appear to float in mid-air. It probably sounds implausible, but there’s video of it in action. And yes, what you’re seeing is actually happening, no gimmicks or special effects. Read more…
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Unbelievable Display Technology Uses Levitating Particles as Pixels
If we really want to get the dream of implantable electronics off the ground, we’ll need to figure out how to make circuit boards flexible enough to morph and move with our bodies. Thankfully, a team at The University of Texas at Dallas seems to have solved that , with thin film transistors that are flexible enough to wrap around a nerve or blood vessel. Read more…
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Researchers Make a Circuit So Flexible, It Can Wrap Around a Vein
A team of researchers from the University of Virginia just made scientific history : They figured out how to turn stem cells into full blown fish embryos. In other words, scientists can now control embryonic development, a key to being able to grow organs and even entire organism from stem cells. Read more…
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Stem Cell Researchers Just Figured Out How to Create New Embryos
Toshiba just took the wraps off a medical breathalyzer that the company says can diagnose diseases by analyzing the air a patient exhales. “Bad breath” just took on a whole new meaning. Read more…
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Toshiba’s New Breathalyzer Diagnoses Diseases, Not Drunks
Our eyeballs are some of our more delicate organs, and the mere thought of them having to be sliced open for surgery is unsettling. So researchers at the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich have created a magnetically-guided microbot , barely larger than a few human hairs, that can be embedded in the eye and externally controlled to perform delicate surgery without any part of the patient having to be sliced open. Read more…
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Magnetic Microbots Perform Eye Surgery Without a Single Incision