Here’s some spellbinding news! Our friends at Harvard have developed a real life spell to make objects levitate. Well, maybe not a spell and maybe not ‘real’ levitation but they are certainly on their way. Scientists in Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology have started to use magnetic levitation READ MORE >
What’s a struggling baseball team do to keep the energy up in less than packed stadiums? Robots of course! The Hanwha Eagles have suffered more than 400 losses in the past five years, so fans are few and far between until now. By introducing a rowdy section of robots the READ MORE >
As folks who spend their day figuring out how to catch someone’s attention, our interest was piqued when we read that there might be a way to quantify the quick social judgments we make based on a stranger’s face. Researchers at the University of York have measured small differences in READ MORE >
When we think of robots we often think Star Wars and machines like C3P0, who can figure out what to do if their leg gets blown-off by Storm Troopers, but in reality, most robots remain stationary in factories and when they break, they shut down. Currently companies like Boston Dynamics READ MORE >
Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to wear your glasses when working on your computer? Better yet, your cell phone? Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed software that can actually adjust the intensity of each pixel in an image READ MORE >
<p>About 20% of Americans are faced with Dyslexia, the language-based disorder that makes reading, spelling and decoding especially difficult. Historically, Dyslexic students can find keeping up with their peers difficult, but thanks to a plethora of new apps, falling behind may become a thing of the past. “vBookz” reads text READ MORE >
LG and Samsung’s first smartwatch powered Android is available for pre-order now! The tech lovers at milk* can’t wait to try it out. The new Android Wear has a clear focus of what a wearable phone should be with quick, to-the-point messages and reminders right on your wrist. LG’s version READ MORE >
The Jetsons television series is coming to life thanks to Israel Aerospace Industries. They’re planning to have two person vehicles that work on elevated magnetic tracks up and running by the end of 2015. This technology may come to other countries, including the United States, depending on how successful the READ MORE >
Explore.org provides an instant connection to nature with hundreds of films, thousands of photos and over 60 video live-feeds from nature parks around the world. Right now, you can see streaming footage of brown bears waiting patiently for salmon in Alaska, stingrays gliding past coral in the UK, close-ups of READ MORE >
Korean researchers have developed a stick-on sensor that measures goosebumps on the body to observe the correlation between goosebumps on the skin and human emotions. The researchers placed the sensor on the arm of a subject and directed them to perform actions such as touching ice cubes. It’s interesting to READ MORE >