Looks like a gadget out of a science fiction movie like Terminator, but it might be reality pretty soon. The US Ministry of Defense is financing a research program aimed at creating cyborg moths, that is, insects on which, when they are still at larval stage, miniature electrodes and control chips are mounted. The research [...]

When precision and reliability must be absolute and beyond doubt, and the slightest error can cost dearly, we humans always face, like it or not, the possibility of an error. And if this error can even cost us our life, a wise move can be resorting to technology, more specifically robotics. To handle dangerous or [...]

Imagine yourselves as being able to read an entire book without holding it in your hands, or rather without having the book with you as it does not exist on paper. And imagine being able to do it not with your hands, but simply by moving your eyes or fluttering your eyelids. The Fraunhofer Institut [...]

Maybe they will never make it to the cover of a fashion magazine, but they can certainly improve the conditions of life of dialysis patients. Wearable Artificial Kidneys or WAK, as the acronym goes, are a miniature dialysis machine, mounted on a belt, which can be worn allowing the patient to move freely while benefiting [...]

It looks like a scene from a James Bond movie: imagine two spies, placed on two adjacent roofs or mountain peaks and equipped with binoculars to look around, who can use these very binoculars not only to look, but also to talk to each other! It may look like science fiction, but it is already [...]

When you use a USB flash drive, you have basically two main reasons of concern: the first is that the handy stick may inadvertently serve as a vessel to spread viruses, malware or spyware, thus infecting computers on which it is used, and the second is that the stored data may end up in the [...]