‘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...

‘Skild.ai’ – Bringing AI into the physical world

Posted on January 17, 2026January 17, 2026 by IE Contributor

Most AI today excels in virtual domains — text, images, or game environments — because the space of possible inputs and outputs is discrete and well-defined. In contrast, physical reality is continuous, unpredictable, and multi-modal. Skild AI tackles this by building a foundation model trained on diverse simulated and real-world interactions, enabling robots to perceive, reason, and act in the world much as a human would — observing, adapting, and continuously learning. The Vision: Omni-Bod...

‘pixverse.ai’ – Artificial Intelligence platform that turns text and static imagery into dynamic video content.

Posted on January 17, 2026January 17, 2026 by IE Contributor

PixVerse is a generative artificial intelligence platform focused on turning text and static imagery into dynamic video content. It leverages advanced deep learning models to automate complex visual and motion synthesis tasks, enabling creators to produce short, expressive videos with minimal manual editing. The onboarding page positions PixVerse as a leading AI video generator, especially popular for social media content creation. How PixVerse Works Platform’s core AI pipeline typic...

‘Penumbrainc’ – products for treating vascular and neurovascular conditions

Posted on January 17, 2026January 17, 2026 by IE Contributor

Penumbra, Inc. is a U.S.-based medical device company that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets innovative products for treating a range of vascular and neurovascular conditions. Penumbra’s corporate philosophy centers on innovative device solutions that can improve patient outcomes and help clinicians address complex disease conditions, from acute ischemic stroke to peripheral vascular blockages. Its products are often used in minimally invasive interventions, enabling faster recove...

‘sensory’ – Sound ID & Voice Biometrics

Posted on January 17, 2026January 17, 2026 by IE Contributor

Sensory Inc.: On-Device Voice, Sound, and Biometric AI at the Edge Sensory Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based pioneer in embedded, on-device artificial intelligence for voice and sound applications. Founded in 1994, the company has spent more than 30 years innovating speech and biometrics technologies that run efficiently on low-power processors without relying on cloud connectivity. Sensory’s AI stacks power over 3 billion devices worldwide, emphasizing privacy, responsiveness, and energy effic...

Tele-optometry – ‘Aetheia’ – remote digital ophthalmic diagnostic platform

Posted on January 10, 2026January 10, 2026 by IE Contributor

Aetheia - Digital ophthalmic diagnostic platform that combines high-resolution imaging, remote control capabilities, and intelligent automation to deliver advanced eye examinations without the clinician and patient needing to be physically co-located. Developed by Eyoto and widely deployed by SpaMedica, one of the UK’s leading independent providers of ophthalmology services, Aetheia represents a dramatic shift in how eye health services — including complex diagnostics and routine assessments...

Nvidia Vera Rubin platform

Posted on January 10, 2026January 10, 2026 by IE Contributor

NVIDIA officially launched its most advanced artificial intelligence computing platform yet — the Vera Rubin AI platform. Named in honor of Vera Florence Cooper Rubin, a pioneering American astronomer whose work reshaped our understanding of the cosmos, the Vera Rubin platform represents a major leap forward in AI supercomputing architecture. Whereas previous systems focused primarily on GPUs alone, Vera Rubin treats the entire data center rack as a cohesive, unified AI machine, designed to acc...

‘kaibarai.com’ – AI-Powered Video Creation by Prompting

Posted on January 10, 2026January 10, 2026 by IE Contributor

Kaiber AI — is an advanced online platform that empowers creators, artists, and professionals to produce high-quality dynamic videos, animations, and visual content using cutting-edge generative AI technology. With tools that democratize creativity and reduce traditional production complexity, Kaiber AI is redefining modern digital storytelling. Kaiber AI is a cloud-based generative video and animation engine that lets users transform text descriptions, static images, audio files, and existi...

‘mypersonas.ai’ – Digital Clone

Posted on January 10, 2026January 10, 2026 by IE Contributor

MyPersonas.ai is an advanced AI solution designed to create digital clones of essential employees, enabling businesses to scale expert knowledge, reduce bottlenecks, and deliver consistent support around the clock. Positioned at the forefront of AI-powered knowledge sharing, MyPersonas blends realistic human interaction with continuous learning and organizational efficiency. At its core, MyPersonas is an enterprise-grade platform that builds lifelike AI “personas” — digital replicas of subje...

Apple releases open source SHARP AI model that turns single photo into 3D scene

Posted on December 20, 2025December 20, 2025 by IE Contributor

Apple released an open-source artificial intelligence model called SHARP (short for Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in Less Than a Second) that can reconstruct a photorealistic 3D scene from a single two-dimensional image in under one second on standard GPU hardware. This capability represents a major milestone in computer vision and neural rendering, especially considering that traditional 3D reconstruction techniques typically require dozens or hundreds of images from multiple angles to bui...

China’s Next Mars Explorer: Tianwen-3

Posted on December 13, 2025December 13, 2025 by IE Contributor

Tianwen-3 is a multi-spacecraft, multi-phase Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, designed to: Land on Mars Collect scientifically valuable surface samples Launch those samples into Mars orbit Capture them with an orbiter Return them to Earth for laboratory analysis Tianwen-3 is less a rover and more a planetary logistics system—a tightly integrated chain designed to execute one of the hardest tasks in spaceflight: bringing pristine material from another planet safely to Earth....

XREAL: Redefining Consumer Augmented Reality Through Lightweight Spatial Computing

Posted on December 13, 2025December 13, 2025 by IE Contributor

XREAL (formerly Nreal) is a leading consumer augmented reality (AR) company focused on delivering lightweight, wearable AR glasses that bridge the gap between smartphones, PCs, gaming devices, and immersive spatial computing. Headquartered in China with strong global presence (U.S., Japan, South Korea, Europe), XREAL has positioned itself as one of the most commercially successful AR glasses vendors worldwide. Unlike bulky enterprise AR headsets, XREAL’s strategy centers on: Comfort-firs...

Silicon Valley Summit(s) of 2025

Posted on December 13, 2025December 13, 2025 by IE Contributor

Silicon Valley in 2025 continued its tradition as the global epicenter of cutting-edge technology, hosting a diverse slate of summits and conferences that spotlighted AI, robotics, wireless futures, startup innovation, investment opportunities, and cross-industry collaboration. From humanoid robots taking center stage to global pitch events and major wireless technology gatherings, the year’s summits reflected both ambition and the real challenges of tech commercialization. 1. Humanoid R...

iRhythm Zio® Patch – wearable used to monitor heart rhythm over an extended period

Posted on December 13, 2025December 13, 2025 by IE Contributor

The iRhythm Zio Patch is a discreet wearable heart monitor used to continuously record your heart’s electrical activity (ECG) over an extended period — typically up to 14 days. It’s prescribed by a healthcare provider to help detect irregular heart rhythms (arrhythmias) that might not show up on short tests like a standard ECG in a doctor’s office. You wear a small, flexible patch on your chest. It records every heartbeat continuously while you go about daily life (you can usually shower...

‘visual-paradigm’ –

Posted on December 6, 2025December 6, 2025 by IE Contributor

Visual Paradigm (VP) is a fully integrated modeling, design, architecture, and project-management environment used by enterprises for software development, business process modeling, system architecture visualization, agile project management, and DevOps-aligned documentation. It supports UML, BPMN, ArchiMate, ERD, SysML, Flowcharts, Customer Journey Mapping, Requirement Diagrams, UX Wireframes, and dozens of other diagramming and modeling frameworks. Known for its strong team collaboration,...

AWS Nova Forge

Posted on December 6, 2025December 6, 2025 by IE Contributor

AWS Nova Forge is a new enterprise service from Amazon Web Services (announced at re:Invent 2025) that lets organizations build frontier-class, highly customized AI models by starting from Amazon’s Nova foundation-model checkpoints and training them with customer data across early (pre-training), mid-training, or post-training stages. It pairs Nova’s model family and AWS training infrastructure (SageMaker/Trainium) with tooling for controlled data mixing, reinforcement fine-tuning, safety guard...

360° Awareness Humanoid Robotic Head

Posted on December 6, 2025December 6, 2025 by IE Contributor

German company Infineon Technologies AG and HTEC have unveiled a new 360° Awareness Humanoid Robotic Head at the OktoberTech Silicon Valley 2025. The robotic head showcases how robots can sense and respond to their surroundings with human-like awareness, according to the firm. The robotic head is a prototype platform that showcases how modern sensing and perception technologies can come together to give robots a multi-modal awareness of their environment. Rather than relying on a single s...

Agroz Robotics – AI-driven robotics into controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) and vertical farming

Posted on December 6, 2025December 6, 2025 by IE Contributor

Agroz Inc. is an innovative, fully vertically integrated agricultural technology company designing, building, managing, and operating indoor and outdoor Controlled Environment Agriculture ("CEA") vertical farms. Agroz also operates CEA vertical farms in local communities to grow and deliver clean, pesticide free, fresh and nutritious rich vegetables directly to consumers and businesses, and to educate the public on how its vegetables are grown. Agroz believes its competitive advantage stems fro...

Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by IE Contributor

Apple Intelligence is the personal intelligence system that brings powerful generative models to iPhone, iPad, and Mac. For advanced features that need to reason over complex data with larger foundation models, we created Private Cloud Compute (PCC), a groundbreaking cloud intelligence system designed specifically for private AI processing. For the first time ever, Private Cloud Compute extends the industry-leading security and privacy of Apple devices into the cloud, making sure that pers...

Kapton Tape Supercapacitors

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by IE Contributor

Kapton tape supercapacitors built using Laser-Induced Graphene represent one of the most accessible and scalable approaches to flexible energy storage. By directly converting inexpensive polyimide into conductive, porous graphene foam, researchers can create high-performance supercapacitors suitable for wearables, IoT devices, robotics, and smart textiles. LIG-based supercapacitors combine simplicity, low cost, flexibility, and high power density, positioning them as a cornerstone for the ne...

‘vsco.co’ – Visual Supply Company, a creative platform for photography and videography

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by IE Contributor

VSCO (vsco.co) is much more than a photo-filter app. It’s a creative ecosystem: a place to shoot, edit, share, learn, and do business — all centered on aesthetics, craftsmanship, and community. Their shift into AI, pro tools, and brand marketplaces signals a mature, ambitious strategy to empower creators at scale while staying true to their roots. Future Outlook AI Expansion: Given the promise of semantic search in VSCO Hub and AI editing tools in AI Lab, VSCO is likely to continue b...

‘2wai.ai’ – AI avatar app that recreates deceased loved ones in interactive mode

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by IE Contributor

2wai (pronounced “two-way”) is a consumer-facing mobile startup that lets people create and interact with lifelike “HoloAvatars” — AI-driven digital twins or avatars that look, speak and (the company says) remember like the person they represent. The product is presented as a social app and “the human layer for AI”: users record short videos with a phone camera, upload them into the app, and within minutes can create an avatar they can chat with in real time and in many languages. 2wai i...

‘VSLAM: ORB-SLAM3’ –

Posted on November 8, 2025November 8, 2025 by IE Contributor

SLAM(Simultaneous localization and mapping) is a major research problem in the robotics community, where a great deal of effort has been devoted to developing new methods to maximize their robustness and reliability. VSLAM (visual SLAM) utilizes camera(s) as the primary source of sensor input to sense the surrounding environment. This can be done either with a single camera, multiple cameras, and with or without an inertial measurement unit (IMU) that measure translational and rotational...

‘Kroki’ – create technology diagrams by providing simple text

Posted on November 8, 2025November 8, 2025 by IE Contributor

Kroki transforms infrastructure, software systems, workflow models, and architecture diagrams into text-driven, reproducible assets. This makes it invaluable for: Cloud architects DevOps engineers Technical documentation teams Software designers Research & academia By treating diagrams as code, Kroki helps ensure accuracy, consistency, automation, and maintainability across technical documentation pipelines. Kroki is an open-source diagram rendering service that conve...

‘Georeferencing Frames’

Posted on November 8, 2025November 8, 2025 by IE Contributor

Georeferencing frames means assigning real-world coordinates (a spatial reference) to image or video frames so each pixel — and each camera pose — is expressed in a common coordinate system. In indoor contexts (where GNSS/GPS is unavailable or weak) georeferencing is done by fusing computer-vision (photogrammetry / Visual SLAM), sensor data (IMU, LiDAR), and control references (targets, surveyed control points or known anchors). This lets you convert raw video or 360° imagery into accurate 2D f...

AI Music Creation Using Text Prompt

Posted on November 8, 2025November 8, 2025 by IE Contributor

Imagine writing: “warm lo-fi piano, gentle vinyl crackle, distant saxophone solo, 90 BPM, nostalgic evening” — and getting back a finished, multi-minute, mix-ready track that you can legally use in a podcast, ad, game or as the backing for your next viral short. That future is here. Text-to-music models — sometimes called text-to-audio or text-to-music generators — are rapidly moving from research demos into production tools that are reshaping how music is composed, licensed and integrated ...

Toyota coms-x smart delivery vehicle

Posted on November 1, 2025November 1, 2025 by IE Contributor

The Toyota COMS is a very small, single-seater electric vehicle (EV) developed by Toyota Auto Body (a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation) in Japan. “COMS-X Smart Delivery Vehicle” is essentially a commercial/utility variant of the COMS micro-EV platform, tailored for light-duty delivery and last-mile applications. In other words: a compact EV with a delivery box or container, built for urban logistics rather than private commuter use. Vehicle class & platform Single-seat...

‘Altium’ – electronic design automation (EDA) for PCB design and electronics product development.

Posted on November 1, 2025November 1, 2025 by IE Contributor

Altium is one of the best-known vendors in electronic design automation (EDA) focused on PCB design and electronics product development. Its flagship desktop product, Altium Designer, together with cloud services such as Altium 365 and collaboration/enterprise offerings, positions the company as a one-stop environment for schematic capture, PCB layout, simulation, mechanical co-design, data management and manufacturing output. Below I’ll explain the platform, key technical details, how teams ty...

Google pomelli – Prompt based AI-powered marketing tool to help rapidly generate marketing campaigns

Posted on November 1, 2025November 1, 2025 by IE Contributor

Pomelli is a newly announced AI-powered marketing tool developed by Google Labs in partnership with DeepMind. It is positioned as an “experiment” (i.e., early-stage product) aimed at helping small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) rapidly generate marketing campaigns that are on-brand, scalable, and streamlined. The core idea: many SMBs don’t have large budgets, dedicated design/creative teams, or deep marketing resources. Pomelli aims to bridge that gap by “understanding” the business brand...

University of Pittsburgh – Amir Alavi & team have Build a Wireless Metamaterial Interbody Cage for Real-Time Assessment of Lumbar Spinal Fusion In Vivo

Posted on November 1, 2025November 1, 2025 by IE Contributor

A collaboration between civil engineering and neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh could change how spinal fusion surgery is performed and monitored. Associate Professors Amir Alavi, Nitin Agarwal, and D. Kojo Hamilton have received a $352,213 National Institutes of Health (NIH) R21 grant to develop the first self-powered spinal implant capable of transmitting real-time data from inside the body. The transdisciplinary project, “Wireless Metamaterial...

‘VIGOZ’ combines cycling and electric vehicle in one

Posted on October 25, 2025October 25, 2025 by IE Contributor

French mobility-startup CIXI (based in Annecy, Haute-Savoie) is developing a novel “active vehicle” called the VIGOZ that seeks to combine elements of cycling and electric vehicle driving into one platform. The slogan: a vehicle you pedal, that still functions on highways, giving you both physical activity plus transport. The Concept & Vision CIXI positions the VIGOZ as part of a shift from passive commuting to active mobility. Founder Pierre Francis describes how everyday commuting (...