‘IFLY’ – Indoor Skydiving

Posted on January 8, 2023January 8, 2023 by IE Contributor

INDOOR SKYDIVING IS REAL FLYING in 'Ifly' state-of-the-art vertical wind tunnels. It is safe for all ages, experience levels and abilities and gives you a indoor sky diving experience for 60 sec. A vertical wind tunnel has fans at the top to draw air through the flight chamber and then push it back down the sides. iFLY Tunnel Systems (formerly SkyVenture) created the vertical wind tunnel industry and has consistently led wind tunnel innovations for 20+ years. It offers ninth generatio...

PETLIBRO offers smart pet technology to automate pet feeding, hydration, and monitoring

Posted on June 28, 2025June 28, 2025 by IE Contributor

Key Offerings 1. Automatic Pet Feeders PETLIBRO’s smart feeders are among its flagship products, known for their precision, capacity, and app-controlled features. Notable Models: PETLIBRO Granary Wi-Fi Feeder PETLIBRO AIR Automatic Feeder PETLIBRO Space Automatic Feeder Key Features: Scheduled feeding via app (iOS/Android) Portion control for weight management Voice recording (to call pets at meal time) Dual power supply (AC + battery backup) Desiccant...

University of Calgary observed the clear existence of “biophotons” (glow) in living beings until we die.

Posted on June 28, 2025June 28, 2025 by IE Contributor

Researchers at the University of Calgary have made a groundbreaking observation confirming the clear existence of biophotons—ultra-weak photon emissions produced by biological systems—in two plant species and live mice. This revelation not only substantiates the long-speculated phenomenon of biological light but also opens new frontiers in understanding cell communication, oxidative stress, and potentially even consciousness. The findings suggest that all living organisms, including humans, mig...

University of Glasgow — beamed light through a human head marking a major leap in non-invasive brain imaging.

Posted on June 28, 2025June 28, 2025 by IE Contributor

Photon transport through the entire adult human head Photon transport through the human head refers to the movement of light (typically in the near-infrared spectrum) as it passes through the complex anatomical structures of the skull, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and brain tissue. Historically limited by scattering and absorption, recent advancements in photonics and computational modeling have enabled researchers to track photons across the entire adult human head, offering a non-invasive, h...

Bridge XC LiFi – brings high speed 5G/4G/satellite/Fiber broadband from outdoors to indoor

Posted on June 28, 2025June 28, 2025 by IE Contributor

Bridge XC™ LiFi: Bridging the Last Meter Gap for High-Speed Broadband Indoors In the rapidly evolving landscape of broadband connectivity, the challenge of delivering high-speed 5G, 4G, satellite, or fiber bandwidth from outdoor infrastructure to indoor environments has persisted as a critical hurdle—often referred to as the "last meter problem." Bridge XC™ LiFi emerges as a groundbreaking solution, employing light-based communication to seamlessly extend high-speed internet from external ne...

NASA’s Universe of Learning

Posted on June 21, 2025June 21, 2025 by IE Contributor

The NASA’s Universe of Learning team connects the public to the data, discoveries, and experts that span NASA’s Astrophysics missions. Our team is made up of scientists, engineers, and educators who have direct connections to these missions. We also rely on a nationwide network of informal educators, scientists, and engineers who not only share our resources, but also help us develop them. UOL In partnership with STScI, SAO, ASTC, Smithsonian Affiliations, and informal science centers, UoL f...

Amazon Robotics

Posted on June 21, 2025June 21, 2025 by IE Contributor

Amazon Robotics stands as one of the most advanced and scaled examples of intelligent automation in industry. Originally born from the 2012 acquisition of Kiva Systems, Amazon Robotics has evolved into a cornerstone of Amazon's fulfillment strategy, driving efficiency, accuracy, and scalability in warehouse and logistics operations. Through a diverse set of robotic platforms, Amazon Robotics is reshaping how goods are stored, picked, packed, and shipped across its global network. Amazon Robo...

Seoul National University (SNU) College of Engineering develop world’s first 3D microphone capable of position estimation with a single sensor

Posted on June 21, 2025June 21, 2025 by IE Contributor

Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that Professor Sung-Hoon Ahn's team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering has developed a novel auditory technology that allows the recognition of human positions using only a single microphone. This technology facilitates sound-based interaction between humans and robots, even in noisy factory environments. The research team has successfully implemented the world's first 3D auditory sensor that "sees space with ears" through...

Locational Encoding with Neuromorphic Systems (LENS) – localization system for autonomous robots

Posted on June 21, 2025June 21, 2025 by IE Contributor

LENSLocational Encoding with Neuromorphic Systems LENS is a compact, brain-inspired localization system for autonomous robots. Using spiking neural networks, dynamic vision sensors, and a neuromorphic processor on a single SPECK™ chip, LENS performs real-time, event-driven place recognition with models 99% smaller and over 100× more energy-efficient than traditional systems. Deployed on a Hexapod robot, it can learn and recognize over 700 places using fewer than 44k parameters...

Researchers at ETH Zurich – AI controller ANYmal-D Robot

Posted on June 14, 2025June 14, 2025 by IE Contributor

ETH Zurich, through its Robotic Systems Lab (RSL), continues to redefine robotic mobility with its latest advances in AI-controlled legged robotics. The ANYmal-D quadrupedal robot, developed by ANYbotics and enhanced by ETH’s AI-driven control architecture, showcases state-of-the-art mobility intelligence, terrain adaptability, and real-world autonomy. By fusing reinforcement learning, model predictive control, and vision-based terrain awareness, ETH Zurich’s AI system pushes ANYmal-D closer...

‘Agrivoltaics’ – combines agricultural production and photovoltaic (PV) power generation

Posted on June 14, 2025June 14, 2025 by IE Contributor

Agrivoltaics (also known as Agrophotovoltaics) is an emerging field that combines agricultural production and photovoltaic (PV) power generation on the same land. With increasing pressure to decarbonize energy systems while preserving arable land for food production, agrivoltaics presents a synergistic solution to two global challenges: climate change mitigation and sustainable food security. Agrivoltaics offers a compelling model for the future of sustainable land use. By co-locating solar ...

‘poynting.tech’ – purpose-engineered antennas

Posted on June 14, 2025June 14, 2025 by IE Contributor

Poynting Antennas—a global leader in the design and manufacture of advanced antenna solutions—delivers rugged, high-performance antennas for mission-critical applications. With deep expertise in electromagnetic engineering, Poynting provides tailored antenna systems that serve sectors ranging from mining and maritime to agriculture, transportation, smart utilities, and industrial IoT. Poynting’s innovation-driven engineering focuses on antenna solutions that operate reliably in remote, mobil...

Zinsser – Customized Lab Automation

Posted on June 14, 2025June 14, 2025 by IE Contributor

Zinsser Analytic, a Germany-based company offers customized laboratory automation and robotic systems that enable researchers to focus on innovation rather than manual processing. Zinsser’s platforms span applications in life sciences, chemistry, material science, and biotechnology, emphasizing modularity, flexibility, and process integration. Tailor-Made Automation Platforms Zinsser specializes in custom-configured systems, unlike off-the-shelf solutions. Their systems are designed to...

Interactive 3D holographic display

Posted on May 31, 2025May 31, 2025 by IE Contributor

Interactive 3D holography combines advanced optical engineering, human-computer interaction, and real-time computation to create lifelike volumetric displays that users can view and interact with without the need for head-mounted displays or 3D glasses. This article explores the foundational technologies enabling interactive holographics, the challenges in real-time hologram generation, and leading industry players and research institutions shaping the future of this cutting-edge field. Unli...

MARC – mobile autonomous robotic cart

Posted on May 31, 2025May 31, 2025 by IE Contributor

MARC: Mobile Autonomous Robotic Cart for Automated Material Transport Mobile Autonomous Robotic Cart (MARC) represents a significant advancement in automated material handling within indoor environments such as warehouses, hospitals, manufacturing plants, and retail logistics. MARC combines autonomous navigation, obstacle avoidance, load-handling capabilities, and IoT integration into a compact, efficient, and intelligent robotic platform. Material transport is a key logistics function th...

AI Code Writers and Editors: Revolutionizing Software Development

Posted on May 31, 2025May 31, 2025 by IE Contributor

AI code writers and editors—tools can generate, autocomplete, debug, refactor, and even explain code in natural language. These tools not only enhance developer productivity but also make coding more accessible to non-developers. What Are AI Code Writers and Editors? AI code writers and editors are software tools that use machine learning—especially large language models (LLMs)—to assist or automate the coding process. They integrate into development environments (IDEs, editors, or cloud ...

AKA Robotics: Magnetic Crawler Robot for blasting, inspection, cleaning, painting

Posted on May 31, 2025May 31, 2025 by IE Contributor

AKA Robotics Magnetic Crawler robotic systems are engineered to efficiently and precisely remove dirt, paint, coatings, and other contaminants from a wide range of steel surfaces. These robots are used by numerous industries for their superior performance in surface preparation tasks. From cleaning the hulls of ships to maintaining storage tanks, our robots excel in abrasive blasting, ultra-high-pressure (UHP) water blasting, subsea cleaning, and cargo hold cleaning. Whether in mari...

RMIT University researchers have developed neuromorphic chip mimic human vision and memory abilities

Posted on May 24, 2025May 24, 2025 by IE Contributor

Researchers have created a small device that ‘sees’ and creates memories in a similar way to humans, in a promising step towards one day having applications that can make rapid, complex decisions such as in self-driving cars. The neuromorphic invention is a single chip enabled by a sensing element, doped indium oxide, that is thousands of times thinner than a human hair and requires no external parts to operate. RMIT University engineers led the work, with contributions from researchers a...

Autonomous Wheelchairs Revolutionizing Mobility Assistance

Posted on May 24, 2025May 24, 2025 by IE Contributor

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into mobility solutions is transforming the landscape of assistive technologies. One of the most promising innovations in this domain is the AI-powered autonomous wheelchair. These intelligent mobility aids combine robotics, computer vision, machine learning, and real-time localization systems to enable enhanced autonomy, safety, and user experience for individuals with mobility impairments. Core Technologies That Make It Possible 🧭 SLA...

Key Technology Tools

Posted on May 24, 2025May 24, 2025 by IE Contributor

Tech Tools FTRACE – Ftrace is an enhanced traceroute application for Windows. It is faster than standard tracert.exe whilst preserving the same command line interface and also provides new options such as UDP support. A GUI version is also available which eases in copying the results to other applications. You can download it from here TCPPING – is a small console application that operates similarly to ‘ping’, however it works over a tcp port. You can download it from here or here BI...

MIT Researchers have developed molecular membrane that can cut crude oil emissions by drastically.

Posted on May 24, 2025May 24, 2025 by IE Contributor

Photo Credit Image: Courtesy of the researchers Anne Trafton Separating crude oil into products such as gasoline, diesel, and heating oil is an energy-intensive process that accounts for about 6 percent of the world’s CO2 emissions. Most of that energy goes into the heat needed to separate the components by their boiling point. In an advance that could dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed for crude oil fractionation, MIT engineers have developed a membrane th...

Dual Atom Zinc Air – High Energy Density Battery can run for more then 3,600 hrs

Posted on May 17, 2025May 17, 2025 by IE Contributor

A zinc-air battery is a type of metal-air battery powered by the oxidation of zinc and reduction of oxygen from the air. These batteries are known for their high energy density, low cost, and eco-friendly components, making them ideal for applications ranging from hearing aids to grid-scale energy storage. However, conventional zinc-air batteries have been limited by issues like poor rechargeability, sluggish oxygen reaction kinetics, and the need for expensive catalysts. A typical dual-a...

Zhuque-2E Y2 carrier rocket, a methane-powered rocket developed by LandSpace Technology

Posted on May 17, 2025May 17, 2025 by IE Contributor

The Zhuque-2E Y2 carrier rocket, a methane-powered rocket developed by LandSpace Technology, takes off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center to launch six satellites into orbit, in China. The Zhuque-2E Y2 mission is more than just a successful satellite launch—it is a clear signal that China’s private space sector is advancing rapidly, with the technological prowess and vision to compete on the global stage. With methane propulsion and reusability on the horizon, LandSpace is shaping the ...

‘eParkourer’ – BMW CE 02 EV fully electric bike

Posted on May 17, 2025May 17, 2025 by IE Contributor

The BMW CE 02 is an electric two-wheeler from BMW Motorrad, introduced in 2023 and marketed as an "eParkourer"—a blend between a scooter and a mini-motorcycle, tailored for urban commuting. BMW Motorrad has taken a bold leap forward with the BMW CE 02. More than just a scooter, the CE 02 is a stylish, compact, and futuristic two-wheeler designed to bridge the gap between e-bikes and motorcycles. It’s a mobility solution crafted for a new generation of urban riders—those who value sustainabil...

‘CoreWeave’ – Hyper scaler cloud service platform

Posted on May 17, 2025May 17, 2025 by IE Contributor

CoreWeave is a specialized cloud computing company that focuses on providing high-performance computing (HPC) resources, especially for workloads like: AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) VFX (Visual Effects) and Rendering Batch Processing Real-time streaming and inference Empowering creators & innovators with access to the GPU resources they need. Access compute resources that match the complexity of your models. CoreWeave Cloud Platform simplifies the comp...

‘Smol Agents’ is an open-source framework from Hugging Face that lets you create lightweight AI agents capable of performing tasks in your browser or on your local machine, without needing heavy infrastructure or cloud services.

Posted on May 10, 2025May 10, 2025 by IE Contributor

Smol Agents—a lightweight agent framework developed by Hugging Face. It's designed to run autonomous agents inside your browser, often described as like having a "personal assistant" embedded directly in the web. Smol Agents: These are compact, self-contained LLM agents that can operate in a local environment (like your browser) with minimal resource usage. Open Computer Agent: It's part of Hugging Face's broader initiative to create open, autonomous systems that interact with your local ...

Dracula Technologies French solar energy company has developed “LAYER” technology that allows you to print organic photovoltaic ‘OPV’ with inkjet printers

Posted on May 10, 2025May 10, 2025 by IE Contributor

Dracula Technologies, a French innovator in sustainable energy solutions, has developed LAYER®—short for Light As Your Energetic Response. This cutting-edge technology utilizes organic photovoltaic (OPV) modules to harvest energy from ambient light, even in low-light conditions, providing a viable alternative to traditional batteries for powering low-energy devices. LAYER® is the world’s first free-form OPV module produced via inkjet printing. It converts indoor light—both natural and artifi...

Centre for Machine Vision, Bristol Robotics Laboratory is developing facial recognition technology to assess the emotional state of animals

Posted on May 10, 2025May 10, 2025 by IE Contributor

State-of-the-art facial recognition technology is being used in an attempt to detect different emotional states in pigs. State-of-the-art facial recognition technology is being used in an attempt to detect different emotional states in pigs. Machine vision experts at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) have teamed up with animal behaviourists from Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) in Edinburgh for the study, which it is hoped will lead to a tool that can monitor individual a...

‘Baidu’ has developed animal sound analysis into its ERNIE AI model that translates animal sounds into understandable human language

Posted on May 10, 2025May 10, 2025 by IE Contributor

Baidu has integrated animal sound analysis into its ERNIE AI model (a counterpart to GPT-type models). Their goal is to analyze, decode, and interpret vocalizations from animals — such as cats and dogs — and translate them into simplified, understandable human language. This initiative is part of Baidu's broader effort in multimodal AI, where sound, vision, and text are all processed together. How It Works (Simplified): Audio Capture: Sounds from animals (like meows, barks, chirps) are r...

Cornell University ‘SpellRing’ – AI-Powered Ring That Translates Sign Language Into Text

Posted on May 3, 2025May 3, 2025 by IE Contributor

A Cornell-led research team has developed an artificial intelligence-powered ring equipped with micro-sonar technology that can continuously and in real time track fingerspelling in American Sign Language (ASL). In its current form, SpellRing could be used to enter text into computers or smartphones via fingerspelling, which is used in ASL to spell out words without corresponding signs, such as proper nouns, names and technical terms. With further development, the device – believed to be the...

Odoo – open-source platform that offers suite of business applications for startup

Posted on May 3, 2025May 3, 2025 by IE Contributor

Odoo.com offers a powerful, all-in-one business management solution that adapts to the needs of modern enterprises. Whether you're a small startup looking for basic CRM and invoicing tools or a large corporation requiring full ERP functionality, Odoo provides the tools and flexibility to optimize your operations, reduce costs, and drive growth. Odoo is an open-source suite of business applications developed to support companies of all sizes in managing various business processes. Founded...