‘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...

Nano-Wrinkles and a Tiny Actuator Fight Implant Biofilms

Posted on November 1, 2026November 1, 2026 by IE Contributor

Infections on implantsJoint replacements, pacemakers and catheters are prone to biofilms, bacterial sheets that can cause hard-to-treat, antibiotic-resistant infections. A University of Michigan Engineering team built an implantable platform, DARTS (dynamically actuated reconfigurable topographical surface), that reduced bacterial burden and improved tissue response in mice, according to the university's October 27 news release. The study appeared in Advanced Functional Materials.Two mechanisms...

A Mesh Grown Into Heart Cells Turns Heartbeats Into Power

Posted on November 1, 2026November 1, 2026 by IE Contributor

Power from the body itselfImplants run on batteries that eventually die. Engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst grew living human heart tissue around a mesh of tiny generators, and each heartbeat bent the generators enough to produce an electrical pulse, Earth.com reported on October 23. The team's calculation puts the output at more than ten times the energy for the device's size compared with earlier implanted harvesters. None of it has been tried in a body.DesignThe mesh is abo...

MIT’s LUCID Implant Uses Ultrasound to Spread Drugs in the Brain

Posted on November 1, 2026November 1, 2026 by IE Contributor

The problemGlioblastoma is an aggressive brain tumor; MIT News notes a little more than 10,000 cases are diagnosed in the US each year and patients survive 12 to 15 months on average. Surgeons struggle to remove every cancer cell, so tumors often recur. Implantable wafers and gels can release drugs locally, but they rely on passive diffusion.What MIT builtResearchers led by Canan Dagdeviren created LUCID, the Long-term Ultrasound-enhanced Convective Injection Device, described in a paper in the...

A 3D-Printed Brain Implant Cools Seizure Activity in Rats

Posted on November 1, 2026November 1, 2026 by IE Contributor

One printed device, three jobsResearchers at the University of Sheffield and TU Dresden have printed a brain implant that records electrical activity and cools a patch of cortex, all as one continuous structure, according to a Tech Times report on October 29. The work was published in Advanced Science in September 2026. The aim is an alternative approach for drug-resistant focal epilepsy, which affects roughly 15 million people worldwide per the report.How it is builtUsing direct ink writing, a...

Penn State’s Printable Hydrogel Targets Multitasking Wearables

Posted on November 1, 2026November 1, 2026 by IE Contributor

A gel that sticks where others slipMost wearable health monitors capture one signal at a time, and they struggle with hair, sweat and movement. A team led by Penn State has developed an ultrasoft, adhesive, printable hydrogel designed to conform to dry, wet, moving and hairy skin, Medical Product Outsourcing reported on October 30. The work was published in Science Advances.What is in itThe researchers call it RTLR gel, a name that refers to its radically tuned setting time and two forms of gra...

Mistral Large 4 Goes Open-Weight at 1 Trillion Parameters

Posted on November 1, 2026November 1, 2026 by IE Contributor

What was releasedOn October 29, Mistral AI released the weights of Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, three weeks after a public preview. According to Hugging Face's launch post, it is a multimodal, multilingual mixture-of-experts model with about 1 trillion total parameters, about 49 billion active per token, and a 1 million token context window. It takes text and images in and produces text.Two official variants are available, FP8 and NVFP4, plus community GGUF builds. The Next Web reports ...

DeepSeek’s Super Agent Aims to Manage Itself

Posted on November 1, 2026November 1, 2026 by IE Contributor

A team of AIs behind one chat windowOn October 31, DeepSeek published a new architecture it calls Super Agent, according to a November 1 report by The Asia Business Daily. The pitch is simple: today's AI assistants answer one question at a time, but the people supervising them can only follow so much. DeepSeek says a person can manage roughly three to five conversations at once, which caps how much work AI can actually absorb.Super Agent tries to lift that cap by turning a single assistant into...

China Zorrilla: World’s Largest Battery-Electric Ferry Sets Sail

Posted on October 31, 2026October 31, 2026 by IE Contributor

The port of Buenos Aires, home terminal of ferry operator Buquebus, whose China Zorrilla now sails to Uruguay on battery power. Photo: Roberto Fiadone, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Electric ferries are not new; small ones have crossed Norwegian fjords for years. What changed this month is scale. China Zorrilla, a 130-meter catamaran built by Incat Tasmania for operator Buquebus, has entered commercial service between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Colonia, Uruguay. It is the largest ba...

Brown Engineers Beat the Dead Layer for Low-Power AI Chips

Posted on October 31, 2026November 1, 2026 by IE Contributor

The crystal structure of bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3), the multiferroic material at the center of the Brown study. Image: Nan Wang and Ya Yang, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. AI's appetite for electricity has become one of technology's defining problems. Better algorithms help, but some of the biggest long-term gains could come from rethinking the materials inside chips. Engineers at Brown University reported on October 28, 2026 that they have solved a long-standing obstacle for one promising...

A Laser Phase Plate Lets Cryo-EM See Proteins Too Small to Image

Posted on October 31, 2026November 1, 2026 by IE Contributor

Illustration of a cryo-transmission electron microscope, the class of instrument the laser phase plate upgrades. Image: Ryan Kissinger, courtesy of NIAID, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has transformed how scientists see the molecules of life, earning its pioneers the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Yet it has a stubborn blind spot: most human proteins are too small to image clearly. Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have now built ...

Oxford’s Bismuth Sulfide Finding Sidesteps a Key Solar Trade-off

Posted on October 31, 2026October 31, 2026 by IE Contributor

Photovoltaic panels at the Travers Solar Farm in Alberta, Canada. Photo: Kkiefuik, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Every solar panel is fighting a quiet battle inside its materials. The better a semiconductor is at absorbing sunlight, the faster the electrical charges it creates tend to disappear before they can be collected. A study led by the University of Oxford and published in Nature on October 28, 2026 shows that this trade-off is not a law of nature. In a material called bismuth sul...

XREAL AURA: The First Android XR Glasses Put Gemini in View

Posted on October 31, 2026November 1, 2026 by IE Contributor

XREAL's booth at Tokyo Game Show 2024, where the company showed earlier hardware; AURA is its first pair of glasses on Android XR. Photo: RuinDig/Yuki Uchida, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Headsets that cover your face have struggled to become everyday devices. Google and XREAL are betting that glasses will fare better. On October 28, 2026, the two companies launched XREAL AURA, the first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR. They project apps into your field of view while letting you ...

Apple’s MacBook Pro Goes OLED and Touch With PROLED XDR

Posted on October 31, 2026October 31, 2026 by IE Contributor

A previous-generation 16-inch MacBook Pro (M2 Max), shown for reference; the new PROLED XDR models keep the familiar silhouette in a thinner, lighter body. Photo: SimonWaldherr, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. For more than a decade, Apple resisted putting a touchscreen on the Mac. On October 28, 2026, it changed course. The new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display brings two firsts to Apple's pro laptop: a tandem OLED screen and touch input. It is one of the biggest redesigns of the Mac...

Humanoid Robots Scale Up: GXO Takes Agility’s Digit to More Sites

Posted on October 31, 2026November 1, 2026 by IE Contributor

For years, humanoid robots have been more demo than deployment. That is why a quiet announcement on October 26, 2026 matters: GXO Logistics, the world's largest pure-play contract logistics provider, said it will expand its use of Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid to two more U.S. warehouses. A repeat order from a live customer is one of the clearest signals that a new technology is crossing from pilot to practice. From one warehouse to three According to the joint press release, Digit will ...

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: One Open Model for 40 Languages

Posted on October 31, 2026November 1, 2026 by IE Contributor

A speech waveform, spectrogram and phonetic transcription, the raw material speech-recognition models learn from. Image: Wugapodes, via Wikimedia Commons, LGPL. A transcript can capture every word and still miss what people need: who said what, a translation for a colleague, or the correct spelling of an industry term. On October 28, 2026, NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a free, open-weight model designed to do all of that in one place, steered by plain-language instructions. One...

Genie 4: DeepMind’s World Model Now Simulates Sound and Speech

Posted on October 31, 2026October 31, 2026 by IE Contributor

The London building at 6 Pancras Square that houses Google DeepMind. Photo: Gciriani, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Imagine typing "a crowded rural train station in 1980s Japan" and then walking around inside it, hearing the platform noise, changing the weather with a sentence, and watching passengers react. That is the promise of Genie 4, the new world model Google DeepMind announced on October 27, 2026. It is still a research preview, but it shows how quickly AI is moving from gener...

GPT-6.1 Terra: OpenAI’s Cheaper Model for Everyday Computer Work

Posted on October 31, 2026November 1, 2026 by IE Contributor

Most of the work that fills an office day is not frontier mathematics. It is reading an invoice and typing its numbers into accounting software, filling out a form, checking a drawing, or trimming a video. On October 26, 2026, OpenAI released a model aimed squarely at that kind of work: GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast, mid-tier model that combines visual reasoning with the ability to operate a computer, at a standard API price 50% lower than the model it replaces. The launch says a lot about where the A...

HADES: OHDSI’s Open-Source Engine for Real-World Evidence

Posted on October 24, 2026October 24, 2026 by IE Contributor

Every day, hospitals, insurers and clinics generate an enormous record of how medicines actually perform in ordinary patients: who took what, for how long, and what happened next. Randomised trials remain the gold standard, but they are expensive, slow and often never run for the head-to-head questions doctors care about most. The data to answer many of those questions already exists. The hard part is analysing it in a way that is rigorous, repeatable and trustworthy. That is the job of HADES, ...

OpenAI’s Sora in 2026: From Sora 2 Hype to Shutdown

Posted on October 24, 2026October 24, 2026 by IE Contributor

Few AI products have had a run as short and as dramatic as Sora. In the space of about 18 months, OpenAI's text-to-video model went from a jaw-dropping research preview to a viral social app, a billion-dollar Hollywood partnership, and then a full shutdown. As of late October 2026, there is no Sora you can use: the consumer app closed in April and the developer API followed in September. For anyone tracking where generative AI is heading, the story of Sora is less about one model and more about...

NVIDIA’s Healthcare AI Stack in 2026: From GPUs to AI Agents

Posted on October 24, 2026October 24, 2026 by IE Contributor

For most of the last decade, "NVIDIA in healthcare" meant one thing: fast GPUs that helped radiologists and researchers crunch images and genomes. That picture is now badly out of date. Over 2026, NVIDIA has rebuilt its healthcare business around open models, AI agents that can run scientific software on their own, and real-time computers that sit inside medical devices. The latest round of announcements, made at GTC Berlin on October 21, 2026, shows where this is heading: from tools that help ...

NVIDIA VISTA-3D: One AI Model to Segment the Whole Body in CT

Posted on October 24, 2026October 24, 2026 by IE Contributor

Outlining organs and tumours in a CT scan is among the most tedious jobs in medical imaging. A single scan can hold hundreds of slices. Each structure has to be traced in three dimensions, and research groups typically train a separate AI model for every organ or dataset they care about. NVIDIA's answer is VISTA-3D, a single foundation model, built with the open-source MONAI framework, that segments well over a hundred anatomical structures on its own and lets a human fix or extend its work wit...

Figure’s Helix: How One AI Model Is Teaching Humanoids to Work

Posted on October 24, 2026October 24, 2026 by IE Contributor

For most of robotics history, teaching a machine a new skill meant one of two expensive things: an expert writing code line by line, or thousands of human demonstrations for a single task. Figure AI is betting on a third path. Its AI system, Helix, aims to let a humanoid robot hear a plain-language request, look at the scene in front of it, and work out the motions on its own. In under two years, Helix has gone from controlling a robot's arms and fingers to steering its entire body through home...

Google SynthID: How Invisible Watermarks Flag AI Content

Posted on October 24, 2026October 24, 2026 by IE Contributor

Spotting an AI-generated photo, song or paragraph by eye is getting close to impossible. Google DeepMind's answer is not a better guessing machine but a signature baked in at the moment of creation: SynthID, an invisible watermark now stamped on a remarkable volume of content. In October 2026 Google opened its SynthID Detector to everyone, and the company says it has already watermarked more than 180 billion images and videos, plus the equivalent of 240,000 years of audio (Google, October 2026)...

Mermaid AI: How the Mermaid.js Team Is Reinventing Diagrams

Posted on October 24, 2026October 24, 2026 by IE Contributor

Every engineering team knows the moment: the architecture has changed, the meeting has ended, and the diagram that explains it all is already out of date. Redrawing boxes and arrows is the kind of chore that quietly never gets done. Mermaid AI, from the company behind the open-source Mermaid.js library, is betting that the fix is to stop drawing altogether, and simply describe what you mean. What makes the product interesting is not just that it uses generative AI. It is that the AI writes in a...

‘Moonshot.AI’ – Long-context reasoning, Multimodal intelligence, Agent-based AI systems

Posted on April 4, 2026April 4, 2026 by IE Contributor

From Chatbots to Autonomous Intelligence In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, a new class of systems is emerging—systems that do more than generate text. They reason over vast information, interact with tools, and execute complex workflows. Moonshot AI stands at the forefront of this transformation. Founded in 2023, the company has rapidly positioned itself as a leader in long-context foundation models and agentic AI systems, challenging established global players...

‘Wayve.ai’ – put self-driving tech in every car

Posted on April 4, 2026April 4, 2026 by IE Contributor

Unlike conventional self-driving systems, Wayve aims to create a scalable, mapless, and vehicle-agnostic autonomy platform powered by AI foundation models. Wayve’s approach is based on Embodied AI, where intelligence emerges from interaction with the real world rather than predefined rules. Key Idea AI learns driving like a human: Observing Interacting Adapting This contrasts with traditional systems that rely on: Predefined rules HD maps Modular pipelines ...

ChromeOS Flex is a lightweight operating system

Posted on April 4, 2026April 4, 2026 by IE Contributor

ChromeOS Flex is a lightweight, cloud-first operating system developed by Google, designed to run on existing PCs and Macs. It extends the ChromeOS ecosystem beyond Chromebooks, enabling organizations and individuals to modernize aging hardware with a secure, fast, and manageable OS. Originally derived from the Chromium OS project and evolved from Neverware’s CloudReady, ChromeOS Flex is optimized for web-based computing, SaaS applications, and enterprise device management. 2. Key Design ...

UCLA researchers have identified a revolutionary drug, DDL-920, that mimics the effects of physical rehabilitation for stroke recovery by reconnecting brain pathways in mice.

Posted on March 28, 2026March 28, 2026 by IE Contributor

Key takeaways UCLA researchers identified a loss of brain connections that stroke produces that are remote from the site of the stroke damage. The UCLA team found that some of the connections lost after stroke occur in a cell called a parvalbumin neuron, which helps a brain rhythm function. The researchers found that a drug called DDL-920, developed in the UCLA lab of Varghese John, produced significant recovery in movement control in mice. A new study by UCLA Health has discovere...

‘OpenClaws.io’ –

Posted on March 28, 2026March 28, 2026 by IE Contributor

OpenClaw: The Emergence of Autonomous AI Agents That Act, Not Just Respond In the evolution of artificial intelligence, a fundamental shift is underway—from systems that merely generate responses to systems that can take action in the real world. At the center of this transition is OpenClaw official platform, an open-source AI agent framework designed to transform large language models (LLMs) into autonomous, task-executing digital assistants. Unlike traditional AI chatbots that remain co...

‘TurboQuant’ cuts LLM KV-cache memory use 6x, boosts inferencing speed

Posted on March 28, 2026April 4, 2026 by IE Contributor

TurboQuant and the Rewriting of Memory Economics in Large Language Models In the evolving architecture of large language models (LLMs), performance has long been constrained not by computation, but by memory. As models grow more capable and context windows expand into hundreds of thousands—or even millions—of tokens, a silent bottleneck has emerged: the key–value (KV) cache. It is within this hidden structure that models “remember” prior tokens during inference, enabling coherent and context...

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