Emerging Tech

Robotics aren’t a new phenomenon in healthcare; after all, the FDA approved the DaVinci surgical robot 15 years ago. But the field has made huge advances over the past decade, and robotics are now tackling major challenges in healthcare. Robotics are now used for testing and diagnostics, prosthetics development, physical therapy, and health monitoring. Here’s a look at four ways ...

As big a bother that airports admittedly are, they are becoming more and more necessities. We certainly wouldn’t choose to be without them, but we certainly want less noise and less an intrusion into our communities and nature itself. The Aviation Green Movement If airports don’t become more environmentally friendly in the coming years, it won’t be from a lack ...

The Portabee GO is a portable 3D printer for novices, with an impressive 50 micron precision.

Special sensors in the printer map out the texture of your skin and even adapt to the contours of bone and tissue.

Dexmo, a set of exoskeleton gloves designed by Dexta Labs, provide tactile feedback for humans interacting in the digital world

This Swallowing Detector, also known as Automated Ingestion Detection (AID), helps you keep track of all of the disgusting crap you shove down your throat hole on a daily basis, with the hopes that you'll shove less disgusting crap down it if you can actually monitor what you're doing to yourself.

These days gesture control is accomplished using your device's camera, but Elliptic Labs might have just came up with the next-gen solution.

Michael Krone created this awesome 3D printed gun that shoots an endless stream of paper airplanes. Everything was printed except for the power source, which is innards of a cordless screwdriver.

In the past, the thought of speech-enabled home automation was a something people loved to watch on shows like The Jetsons or in science-fiction movies. Today though, voice-controlled, multi-function home-automation systems are actually available on the market and something that builders and homeowners can incorporate into new homes, no matter the size of the building. If you’re keen to learn ...

A group of people in the French Alps have created Airgony, which is described as a Quadcopter Racing Fanatic Association. So basically, it's the beginning of an actual organized drone racing sport.