Tag Archives: MIT

INVENTIONS & INNOVATIONS
Low-Power, AI Functionality Could Soon Be Brought to our Mobile Devices

Neural networks, the invention of chips that can learn and think on their own, began back in the early days of AI research. Now referred to as “deep learning systems”, these neural networks are how Facebook is able to recognize … Continue reading →

 

INVENTIONS & INNOVATIONS
Scientists Develop Light-Based Processor, Could Mean Big Changes in Electronics

What an amazing way to end a year then begin another. After an innovative year in science and technology, there has been a scientific breakthrough in processing power. Scientists from the University of Colorado have been excited to showcase a … Continue reading →

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Thync’s Mood-Altering Headset, Uses Electrical Pulses

According to Thync’s website, the company was “born out of fascination with how neuroscience can impact daily life”. The team at Thync is made up of neuroscience, neurobiology, and consumer electronics specialists from MIT, Harvard, and Stanford University. Man, just … Continue reading →

 

BATTERY & POWER TECHNOLOGY
Batteries Could Get an Up Charge Using Lithium Power

Yet another company is jumping on the battery advancement train. MIT startup SolidEnergy has been using its 12 employees and $4.5 million in funding to work on a new lithium-ion battery technology to power our devices. While current lithium-ion batteries … Continue reading →

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
Butterfly Network Developing Handheld MRI & Ultrasound Scanner

Biotech entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg of Butterfly Network, a company creating a medical imaging device that could change the way we see the inside of the human body, has just raised $100 million dollars in funding for his three year-old startup. … Continue reading →

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
Who Needs Glasses If We Have Vision Correcting Displays?

Nearly 40% of Americans suffer from vision problems, more specifically short-sightedness or myopia. MIT researchers, along with computer and vision scientists at the University of California at Berkeley, have developed digital display technology that can automatically correct itself to fit … Continue reading →

 

THE RED-HEADED GEEK SHOW
E68- Facebook Study, SCiO, Bioprinted Blood Vessels, Chip Implant | Red Headed Geek Show

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Scientific Breakthrough: Successful 3D Printed Blood Vessels

“Bio-printing” artificial human organs has gone through some tremendous hurdles. Printing a solid mass of flesh, identical to human even, has been done rather easily. The hard part? Creating artificial blood vessels. Blood vessels are the most important part of … Continue reading →

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Quadriplegic Man Moves Arm After Chip Implanted Into Brain

When Ian Burkhart was 19, he faced a devastating crash while horsing around in the surf in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. After mistiming a dive, Burkhart ended up headfirst into a sandbar, instantly becoming paralyzed. One thing that helped Burkhart … Continue reading →

 

THE RED-HEADED GEEK SHOW
E64- Moon Wi-Fi, Mario On TV, Star Trek Skype Translator, Google Self-Driving Car | Redheaded Geek Show

Do you like the moon? What about Wi-Fi? Remember when complimentary Wi-Fi spots used to be a nice commodity? Whereas now if a business advertises its “hotspot” in the window you roll your eyes? What if i told you the … Continue reading →

 

THE RED-HEADED GEEK SHOW
E 36- Lumitrack, Nest Protect Smoke Detector, M-Blocks, What The Tech | Red Headed Geek Show

A man named John Romanishin, who was once doubted by a professor of his, now holds a research scientist title in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His vision that robots could climb, jump and move without use of … Continue reading →

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
MIT Researcher John Romanishin’s Self-Assembling Robots With a Surprisingly Simply Scheme

These little robots are not only simplistic in their appearance but in operation. Built to be in cube form, with magnetic sides and corners, they are hollow and have no external moving parts. That does not stop them from their most admirable traits; climbing over and around one another, rolling around on the ground, leaping into thin air and even moving while suspended upside down. The one thing contained inside the cube is the flywheel, which can spin at speeds of 20,000 revolutions per minute!

 

BATTERY & POWER TECHNOLOGY
A Real Life Lightsaber, Scientists Harness the Force to Create

Scientists at MIT and Harvard University have created a new kind of matter. But does anyone care about that? Not really; all the buzz on the web this week has been on what this new matter looks like – a real life lightsaber.

 

INVENTIONS & INNOVATIONS
4D Printing: Everything Old Under the Sun is New Again – New Tech for Old

The phrase "new lamps for old" is from the tale of Aladdin & a sorcerer's plan for offering a new lamp in exchange for the old & quite valuable magic lamp.

 

THE RED-HEADED GEEK SHOW
E07-Blue Pi, 3D Printed Car, Cancer Detective, and The Pixel: Red-Headed Geek Show

  Morning! Afternoon! Evening! Its Daria! Here’s this weeks topics in a nutshell. They are impressive! Raspberry Pi is having their one year anniversary, an engineer is working on his 3D printed Car, some 4D news, a boy wonder creating … Continue reading →