Gadgets
Amazon unveils 'Jetsons'-like roaming robot for the home
Amazon’s new robot can hear, see and follow you around the the home, but its no Rosey the Robot.This article was originally published on this website.
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Gadgets
Now everyone can build battery-free electronic devices
Last year, computer engineers from Northwestern University and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) introduced the world’s first battery-free Game Boy, which harvests both solar energy and the user’s kinetic energy from button mashing to […]
Gadgets
Xiaomi unveils Smart Glasses—a wearable concept device
Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi has announced on its website the development of a wearable concept device called Xiaomi Smart Glasses. The device is shaped like regular eyeglasses and is meant to be used as a […]
Gadgets
Apple's next iPhone mirrors last year's, adds more storage
Apple unveiled its next iPhone line-up, including a model that offers twice the storage available in earlier versions and other modest upgrades to last year’s editions that proved to be a big hit among consumers […]
Software
3D-printed objects that sense how a user is interacting with them
MIT researchers have developed a new method to 3D print mechanisms that detect how force is being applied to an object. The structures are made from a single piece of material, so they can be […]
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Do Alexa and Siri make kids bossier? New research suggests you might not need to worry
Chatting with a robot is now part of many families’ daily lives, thanks to conversational agents such as Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa. Recent research has shown that children are often delighted to find that […]
Software
Researchers develop toolkit to test Apple security, find vulnerability
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a software toolkit that allows users to test the hardware security of Apple devices. During their proof-of-concept demonstration, the research team identified a previously unknown vulnerability, which […]
Software
A new dataset for better augmented and mixed reality
Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego have released OpenRooms, an new, open source dataset with tools that will help users manipulate objects, materials, lighting and other properties in indoor 3D scenes to […]
Gadgets
A “Real Folding Window” for better foldable displays
A team at LG Chem has announced on LG’s News Room webpage that the company has developed a new kind of foldable screen display technology for use in mobile devices. As part of the announcement, […]
Software
Google adds facial expression recognition to Android Accessibility Suite beta version
A team at XDA Developers has discovered that Google has added facial expression recognition to the beta version of the Android Accessibility Suite, which came with the beta version of Android 12. The new feature […]