The latest to follow the ground forces on operations on the battlefield is Rex, a small six-wheel-drive load-bearing robotic vehicle. Designed by Israel Aerospace Industries specifically to follow the lead soldier from a given distance and to carry...

Robots have almost become like us in the East and the West, but it is time now to see them reach human scale in the Middle East. Because in order to have a better relationship with robots, they must interact more and share more experiences with humans,...

Prosthetics for humans have improved with the change in time that’s also been accompanied by the change in technology. Now this has reached a whole new level with the SmartHand, a bio-adaptive hand prosthesis, developed by a team of scientists...

We’ve become too lazy with our comfortable lives and attitudes. To cater to all active lifestyle aspirants and all couch potatoes alike, Philips has introduced DirectLife, an interactive fitness program that’ll keep track of an individual’s daily...

We may not have heard much about Audio Chi, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be given a chance to impress the audiophile in us. With a vision to revolutionize the world of personal audio, keeping much-required style and substance in...

Having seen a lot of vision implants for the blind, and some just to add to the cyborg aspect of it, we’re still to decide if these super-human efforts of the researchers will actually evolve the world for the visually impaired? Then those already...

Since the 1950 researchers have been trying ways to created Unmanned Aerial Vehicle that can be as subtle in flight as the maple tree seed. Based on the spiral flight the seeds take when they fall off a tree, researchers from the University of...

General Electric (GE) has revealed a low cost, ultra-portable ultrasound scanner to make Ultrasonography more affordable and convenient for patients. Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric showed the Vscan (as they call the med device) at the Web 2.0...

When we receive a call on our cellphone, there are only two preferred ways we get to know of it. Either it is through the ringing volume presumed as auditory sense, or it is as vibration, tactile sensation that is. Now, to recreate that to a new sense...

We’ve been spectators to all kinds of sculptures made out of scrap. But like us even Nike wouldn’t have thought that shoes could be made in all kinds of scrap. Wires, metal sprockets, nuts, bolts, circuits, just name it and it is there, brought out...