Technology Innovation Today – Page 20 – Technological Advances Worldwide

Live Out All Your Racing Dreams With … Magnets?

August 15, 2022February 20, 2024 admin

In many ways, adulthood is a litany of dreams deferred, elaborate goals of things like eating ice cream for dinner dashed. But every once in awhile something awakens childhood dreams of, say, being a race car driver. Something like this build-your-own racetrack kit. OK, they’re magnets. But the guys at Blipshift—known for their fun auto-inspired T-shirts—let you zoom around the track of your dreams while waiting for the coffee to brew or your kids’ waffles to heat up. “Formula Fridge” features a mélange of enough curves and straights to build…

Medical Tech

AspireAssist Stomach Emptying System for Weight Loss FDA Approved

August 10, 2022February 20, 2024 admin

The FDA has just approved the AspireAssist device from AspireBariatrics which, when we first learned of it, seemed like a joke. Alas, what looked like a high tech way of enabling bulimia has proven itself effective for weight loss in obese patients. Simply put, the AspireAssist provides a channel for stomach contents to be emptied before the nutrients are absorbed further down in the GI system. A tube is placed within the stomach that connects to a port on the belly. About twenty minutes after ingesting food the patient connects an external component that includes a…

Transport Tech

Germany to require ‘black box’ in autonomous cars

August 10, 2022February 20, 2024 admin

The fatal crash of a Tesla Model S car on self driving mode has increased the pressure on auto makers and regulators to ensure that automated driving technology can be deployed safely and to find ways of determining accountability in the event of a crash. To that end the German government is set to pass new legislation requiring all cars equipped with self-driving features to include a black box, similar to those required on aircraft. Under the proposal from Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt, all automakers will have to install a recording…

What Can We Do with a Quantum Computing?

August 8, 2022February 20, 2024 admin

When I was in middle school, I read a popular book about programming in BASIC (which was the most popular programming language for beginners at that time). But it was 1986, and we did not have computers at home or school yet. So, I could only write computer programs on paper, without being able to try them on an actual computer. Surprisingly, I am now doing something similar—I am studying how to solve problems on a quantum computer. We do not yet have a fully functional quantum computer. But I am…

Tiny ‘Atomic Memory’ Device Could Store All Books Ever Written

August 6, 2022February 20, 2024 admin

A new “atomic memory” device that encodes data atom by atom can store hundreds of times more data than current hard disks can, a new study finds. “You would need just the area of a postage stamp to write out all books ever written,” said study senior author Sander Otte, a physicist at the Delft University of Technology’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in the Netherlands. In fact, the researchers estimated that if they created a cube 100 microns wide — about the same diameter as the average human hair —…

Other Tech

New tech boosts 3D printing of metal objects

August 5, 2022February 20, 2024 admin

The prospects for 3D printing may have just become a little bit stronger, literally, thanks to a new way of using metallic powders to create structures. A Northwestern University team has shown a new technique using liquid inks and common furnaces rather than more expensive lasers or electron beams. In addition to being cheaper, the researchers say the process is also faster, more uniform and works with a wide variety of metals, alloys and compounds. “Our method greatly expands the architectures and metals we’re able to print, which really opens the door for a…

INTRODUCING VERSIONS, THE FIRST-EVER VR FESTIVAL FOCUSED ON CREATIVITY

August 1, 2022February 20, 2024 admin

Though virtual reality has existed in some form since the 1960s, and in the realm of science fiction for much longer, 2016 promises to be a breakthrough year for the technology, with high-profile product launches and major releases in games and film. With that in mind we are thrilled to announce our new conference Versions, organized in partnership with NEW INC, the incubator program at The New Museum.Versions aims to shift the conversation around VR from one focused on tools and gadgets to a dynamic interdisciplinary discussion that will examine…

3D Bioprinting

July 27, 2022February 20, 2024 admin

In the field of medical science, technology is flourishing. With the development, more lives are saved, and we are now reaching the period of bombarding innovations. Cancer will eventually be cured, heart diseases are no longer a treat, and damaging flus are not a topic that come into our mind. One of the technology innovations is 3D bio-printing. Every year, hundreds and thousands of people are in the list of waiting for the donations of organs, like kidneys, hearts, and livers. However, the lack of donors is a severe problem…

Transport Tech

Open The Solar System’s Express Lane!

July 22, 2022February 20, 2024 admin

On Jan. 19, 2006, the New Horizons spacecraft roared off the pad in Cape Canaveral, Fla., and into the record books. Perched atop a giant Atlas V rocket, the lightweight probe accelerated to about 36,000 mph, the fastest object ever launched by humans. It outdistanced the moon in nine hours, reached the orbit of Mars in 11 weeks and swung around Jupiter in February 2007. Then came the great wait. New Horizons will fly by Pluto this July and, if all goes well, return the first detailed images of the…

Medical Tech

A Laser Modified by Blood to Look at Tissues from Inside

July 12, 2022February 20, 2024 admin

Infrared, ultraviolet, and visible light are commonly used to visualize tissues in a variety of ways, but the light is typically not coherent, poorly focused, and not very bright. Researchers at the University of Michigan have been working on a way of getting blood to act like a laser, revealing medically relevant information from within the body. Recently presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics in San Jose, California, the research involved using indocyanine green dye that cardiologists, ophthalmologists, and other doctors are well familiar with. The dye was…