Newly developed AI system can accurately judge a book by its cover
Researchers at Japan’s Kyushu University have trained a neural network to be able to predict which genre a book falls into simply by studying its cover.
Halt! A new home security system deploys a drone to patrol your property
Sunflower Home Awareness System combines outdoor smart light sensors with an aerial drone-based camera to let you know what's happening around your home.
Large-scale study seeks to find the secret behind musical stickiness
Researchers in the U.K. scientifically measured what it is that makes some songs irresistibly -- if sometimes annoyingly -- catchy.
Clicking is only the beginning: this magnetic pen is a fidgeter’s dream come true
Think Ink is a steel ballpoint pen and “discrete fidgeting tool,” which promises to keep fingers your fingers busy. You can back it on Kickstarter.
Ingenious 3D printed brackets make it ridiculously simple to build your own wooden furniture
Using 3D printing and local materials, Standard Products is a new take on furniture design for the digital generation, based around user customization.
Researchers train subjects' brains to experience less pain
Could listening to a piece of audio on your headphones, or popping on a head-up display, make you more tolerant of pain? New research suggests so.
Who needs a nose? This crazy new algorithm can predict smell just by analyzing molecular structures
Can you guess a molecule’s smell by studying its structure? An algorithm can, based on the results of a project using cutting-edge machine-learning tech.
Stealth fitness trainer promises ripped abs via smartphone games
Stealth is a home fitness device that promises to sculpt you some killer abs in exchange for playing games on your smartphone.
Pocket-sized possibilities: Meet the smallest self-powered controllable drone
A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania built the world’s smallest self-powered controllable flying drone.
Smart oven wants to do for cookies what Nespresso did for coffee
CHiP is a smart tabletop kitchen device that “intelligently bakes” everyone’s favorite chocolate chip-filled snack -- and text your phone when they're done.
New 3D-printing software allows surgeons to quickly design titanium facial implants
Experts in the U.K. have created software that lets surgeons quickly and easily design 3D-printable titanium implants for patients with facial injuries.
No need to stare at a screen: Kickstarter robot teaches kids to code using cards
Plobot is a coding robot that teaches kids as young as four the basics of programming and computational thinking using physical command cards.
A robotic exoskeleton powered this disabled U.S. athlete to a prize in the ‘Robot Olympics’
A robotic exoskeleton helped disabled U.S. athlete to walk again. Here's what happened.
Whisk Wiper is the smart kitchen utensil cleaner you never knew you needed
New Kickstarter contraption the Whisk Wiper lets would-be chefs quickly clean a kitchen whisk without frustration or mess in just a matter of seconds.
Nutrition startup will tell you what to eat based on your DNA
Habit is a personalized nutrition startup which will develop diet plans that cater to a person’s unique genetic makeup -- and will even deliver food to fit.
Facial-recognition algorithm will tell you if you look more like Clinton or Trump
Do you look more like Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump? The company behind one of the world’s most accurate facial recognition systems wants to help.
MIT researchers are working to create neural networks that are no longer black boxes
Researchers at MIT are working to show that it is possible to train a neural network in such a way that it rationalizes its decisions.
Startup wants to bring 3D-scanning photo booths to malls around the world
Next-gen photo booths will offer customers the chance to have themselves 3D-scanned to create ultra-lifelike, VR-ready avatars. Or so one startup hopes.
Cigarette-puffing robot simulates the effect of smoking on your lungs
Researchers have developed an artificial human lung on a chip and cigarette-puffing robot to carry out more accurate tests into the effects of smoking.
This gigantic CNC router is 8 feet wide, 4 feet tall, and costs less than $500
Maslow is an affordable CNC cutting machine, which makes cutting the perfect plywood piece easier and more accurate than ever, thanks to computer precision.
MIT’s Nightmare Machine uses AI to make ordinary photos skin crawling
MIT researchers' “Nightmare Machine” uses cutting-edge deep learning technology to conjure up images designed to scare the bejesus out of us.
Robotic tutor detects emotional state of young students to better motivate them
A computerized tutor can detect emotional states in primary school-age kids -- and give them appropriate encouragement to improve learning.
Shape-shifting table can transform from coffee setting to dining table in a second
Table Archimède is a shape-shifting table which can convert from a dinner table to a coffee in just one second. It is currently raising funds on Kickstarter.
The pieces move by themselves in this crazy high-tech chess board
Square Off is a physical chess board, but your opponent’s pieces move around the board, seemingly of their own accord. So, Wizard's Chess, basically?
Breakthrough neuro chip can record brain activity for months at a time
Researchers have created a new bionic hybrid neuro chip, able to to record the activity in animal brain cells for a period of weeks or months at a time.
Pop! New soap molecule could disrupt multibillion dollar cleaning products industry
Scientists have created a new soap molecule that is far more environmentally friendly than existing products made by the giant cleaning products industry.
Scientists just made 3D printed magnets, and they have some attractive new properties
Researchers at Vienna University of Technology have invented a way to print permanent magnets using a regular 3D printer.
In your face, science! This 3D printed structure shrinks when heated, expands when cooled
Virtually every solid material expands when it is heated. However, a new materials science research project wants to buck the trend.
Interactive apartment block prototype is a voyeuristic Arduino-powered experience
Cross Hitchcock’s Rear Window with a computer club, and you'd probably get something like this creative mini apartment powered by an Arduino Nano board.
Eye-tracking could help readers by noticing when they struggle with a word
Eye-tracking technology could be used to help readers struggling with particular words, claims new research from the University of Copenhagen.
Sensor-packed sustainable biobridge will open in the Netherlands on Thursday
A new biobridge in the Netherlands is constructed out of sustainable hemp and flax fibers and crammed full of 28 embedded sensors.