Smart sleeve for stroke patients seeks to aid in faster recovery
This smart sleeve for stroke patients seeks to provide data regarding muscle movement and strength as its wearer engages in everyday at-home tasks.
Twitter just established its Trust & Safety Council to stop online abuse
Twitter has formed a "Trust & Safety Council," a new part of its strategy to ensure that people feel safe expressing themselves.
This revolutionary 3D scanner digitizes your limbs to make custom braces and casts
A student-developed 3D hand scanner called the Curatio just may herald the beginning of a truly customized arm brace
This is the world’s fastest mobility scooter, and it goes over 100 mph
Affectionately named the "Rascal," this mobility scooter proves that getting older doesn't have to mean getting slower -- in fact, just the opposite.
Here’s what $5 million and a Super Bowl ad will buy you
What is it that keeps so many advertisers coming back to the Super Bowl year after year, even as the cost grows higher and higher?
92 percent of students prefer physical books to e-readers
Don't get too nostalgic about the days of paper books just yet -- it looks like e-readers are still a ways away from replacing the real thing.
Astronauts can enjoy the Super Bowl too
In America, we take care of our astronauts. So when our astronauts want to watch America's game, they get to watch America's game.
Microsoft’s Cortana gets sexually harassed, but she fights back
Last week, we learned that you don't have to be showing any skin to be sexually harassed, and now, we've learned that you don't have to be human either.
Google is looking into wireless charging for its driverless cars
It's not enough that Google's cars don't need drivers -- now, they don't want plugs either. Is wireless charging in the works for Google's autonomous fleet?
Tactile Picture Books Project uses 3D printing to make picture books for blind kids
The Tactile Picture Books Project is creating children's books for a very special demographic: the blind.
Wilson shows off its new smart football, the Wilson X
The 21st century has done a major number on sporting equipment, and now, just in time for the Super Bowl, Wilson has unveiled its new smart football.
Facebook just banned medical marijuana dispensary pages
Looking for medical marijuana? Take your search off Facebook. Or rather, Facebook is taking the search off Facebook.
Scientists may have unlocked the secret to longer, healthier life
According to scientists at Mayo Clinic, the trick to longer life lies in the suicide of senescent, or aging, cells.
Germany makes landmark fusion power achievement as W7-X reactor fires up for real
Our dreams of nuclear fusion are drawing ever nearer thanks to a scientific leap forward in Germany.
This new soft robotic gripper can gently pick up objects of practically any shape
Scientists say they have managed to develop a robot with "a new soft gripper" that uses electroadhesion.
