Nanomanufacturing Standards
Nanomanufacturing – the intentional synthesis, generation or control of nanomaterials or fabrication steps in the nanoscale, for commercial purpose – is encompassed by two primary […]
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Solar Impulse: An Exploration of Potential of Clean Energy
On July 27, 2016, Bertrand Piccard successfully touched down Solar Impulse 2 in Abu Dhabi, completing its around-the-world voyage in the same exact spot it […]
Powered Exoskeletons
Tools exist to meet the needs that humans cannot physically accomplish. Industrial practices have always combined the efficiency of tools and the ingenuity of human […]
Cell Phone Towers Disguised as Trees
Nature often clashes with society, and the companies and groups involved with the incompatibility will make attempts to assimilate their products and/or services with the […]
Ergonomic Hazards of Touch Screens
Touch screens have become a widely used input method for computers, cell phones, tablets, and video game controllers. While this type of gesture-based interface can […]
Petri Dish Burger and Lab-Grown Meat
In the summer of 2013, scientists at Mark Post’s laboratory in Maastricht University in the Netherlands successfully produced the world’s first hamburger made from lab-grown […]
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Technology
Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) allow living things to interact with technology in the simplest sense. Think about it: when you move your eyes to read or […]
Real-Life Lightsaber and the Hammer of Thor
Technological innovation can take the foundational elements of science fiction and merge them into reality, albeit with some limitations. California-based engineer Allen Pan has successfully […]
Text-to-Speech Technology (Speech Synthesis)
In our last post, we discussed speech-to-text technology, which has a background that varies from the history and current applications of text-to-speech technology. Text-to-speech, through […]
Speech-to-Text and Phonetic Recognition
On September 1, 1878, Emma Nutt became the first female telephone operator, establishing a norm that lasted for over a century, until personnel who took […]