Csound is a computer programming language for sound, also known as a sound compiler or an audio programming language, or more precisely, an audio DSL. It is called Csound because it is written in C, as opposed to some of its predecessors. Csound was originally written at MIT by Barry Vercoe, based on his earlier system called Music 11, which in its turn followed the MUSIC-N model initiated by Max Mathews at the Bell Labs. Its development continued throughout the 1990s and 2000s, led by John f...

GE Healthcare released high-resolution 3D CT scans. These realistic photographs allowed doctors to see inside the human body quite literally in living color. Now, GE’s latest body scanners instead use ultrasound technology to focus on capturing breathtaking shots of one particular muscle: the heart. Ultrasound scanning, also known as sonography, uses high-frequency waves to create an image. They are used to help doctors to see what is occurring in a patient’s body in real time. It is a non-in...

A team member at Nankai University In Tianjin China tested a mind controlled car wearing an electroencephalo-graph acquisition equipment that orders a mind-controlled car to go forward. A Nankai University research team led by Duan Feng, associate professor of College of Computer and Control Engineering, developed a mind-controlled car which could be drove forward, reversed, braked, started, locked and unlocked all by human's mind. When wears an electroencephalo-graph acquisition equipment with ...

S-512 Supersonic Jet - set to become the world’s fastest airliner, capable of hitting a supersonic cruising speed of Mach 1.6 (1,963 km or 1,220 mph) and a maximum speed of Mach 1.8 (2,205 km/h or 1,370 mph). At least, that's what Spike Aerospace, the US-based aerospace engineering and design firm behind the concept, is claiming, and they’re ready to spend the $80 million or so it costs to make it happen. Spike Aerospace unveil the latest update to the Spike S-512 Supersonic Jet, a stunningly...

iBeacon is the name for Apple’s technology standard, which allows Mobile Apps (running on both iOS and Android devices) to listen for signals from beacons in the physical world and react accordingly. In essence, iBeacon technology allows Mobile Apps to understand their position on a micro-local scale, and deliver hyper-contextual content to users based on location. The underlying communication technology is Bluetooth Low Energy. What is Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)? Bluetooth Low Energy is a...

MIT has created a robot cheetah that is futuristic, innovative, and is pushing the boundaries in robotics. Technology is evolving at a rapid pace. Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a particularly interesting field. Many important innovations and breakthroughs arguably are in this area. MIT researchers have created a robot cheetah which has the ability to jump over obstacles (almost like humans jump over hurdles for track and field). "I really wanted to... The cheetah uses a sy...

Energy conservation through innovation was one of the primary goals of watchmaker F. P. Journe when it revealed its first ladies watch known as the élégante. The watch is unique in that it can quite literally stop working after one takes it off his/her wrist and can automatically adjust itself to the correct time after it is put back on. The electromechanical watch is the “only electromechanical movement conceived and created for the luxury market.” (http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonydemarco...

The electrophoresis market has recently seen the entry of a new series of safer DNA electrophoresis solutions by Cleaver Scientific. These products have been specifically designed to not only improve the safety of electrophoresis procedures but also to reduce the cost and make them more convenient for medical professionals. More conventional DNA gel electrophoresis have the ability to damage both eyes and skin, due to the usage of Ethidium Bromide stain and UV illumination. ‘Combining Cleaver...

Lit Motors has cut their cars in half. Literally. Lit Motors has created a self-balancing, two-wheeled car that won one of Popular Science’s 2015 Invention Awards. “With fuel efficiency crucial to easing climate change, founder Daniel Kim believes that most commuters drive around in way too much auto—especially for daily activities like commuting and grocery shopping. Motorcycles make more sense for single-passenger trips, but they are more dangerous to operate than cars, expose riders to the...

Google describes Project Tango as something that gives “mobile devices a human-scale understand of space and motion.” Essentially, sensors in a Project Tango tablet can track the user’s body movements. Usually, virtual reality headsets “are dependent on external technology — in the case of Oculus, the headset is tethered to a PC, while the Vive requires special ‘lighthouse’ base stations that use lasers to scan your immediate environment.” This reliance poses limitations. Project Tango tablet...

Environmentally conscious? The TZOA Pollution Monitor might interest you. It’s a wearable device that detects air pollution, an environmental issue that plagues many modern cities. It’s simple: “A fan directly beneath TZOA’s triangular cover sucks in air. As pollutants cross a laser, they scatter light onto a sensor that counts them. TZOA then glows a color corresponding to the air safety level. A smartphone app also displays that data, along with daily UV light exposure and crowdsourced polluti...

Legos aren't just child's play. The world's most affordable Braille printer is made out of them and won one of 10 of Popular Science’s 2015 Invention Awards in the Category of Communication. Originally conceived by Shubham Banerjee at twelve years old, the printer was meant to be a cheaper alternative to Braille printers that costed over $1,800. The first prototype, called Braigo, was finished in February 2014 but was “limited to printing on narrow rolls of paper.” “In summer 2014, Banerje...

Hush earplugs lets you block out all the noise that keeps you up at night while letting you rest easy knowing that you’ll still be woken up by the things that matter most. You can block out snoring, city traffic, loud neighbors and more.. It can be a Personal Alarm and can notify you and you alone, that way when your alarm goes off, you don’t wake up anyone else. It also allows you to play your favorite songs from your smartphone.  You can play soothing Sounds that can help you fall asleep. ...

QardioBase is the next generation of weighing scale that gives you a broader view of your fitness goals by measuring your body mass index (BMI), muscle mass, body fat percentage, water and bone composition in addition to your weight. It allows you to track your progress with smart charts, trends and stats via wireless on your smartphone. In addition to automatically recognizing an individual and other members of your family, QardioBase scale can be used with PREGNANCY MODE tot help expecti...

While the Intel® Compute Stick can fit in the palm of your hand, it’s what we fit inside of it that is truly remarkable. A quad-core Intel® Atom™ processor and your choice of operating systems: Windows* 8.1 with Bing* or Ubuntu* 14.04 LTS. The Windows version includes 2 GB memory, 32 GB of on-board storage and comes with McAfee® Antivirus Plus for comprehensive protection from Trojans, viruses, spyware and more. The Ubuntu version has 1 GB memory and 8 GB of on-board storage. Both devices com...

NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University, discovered that we can build gigantic spaceships, big enough to live in. These free-space settlements could be wonderful places to live; about the size of a California beach town and endowed with weightless recreation, fantastic views, freedom, elbow-room in spades, and great wealth. In time, we may see millions of free-space settlements in our solar system alone. Building them, particularly the first one, is a monumental challenge. Space set...

Mars has been the next frontier, and while we work on rockets that will get us to our red neighbor, scientists are thinking hard about how to build a sustainable colony on Mars. What would we need to bring to survive? That's the question NASA is asking the public through a new competition. \ NASA lists "shelter, food, water, breathable air, communication, exercise, social interactions and medicine" as potential topics areas to tackle. And since there’s only so much space and weight on the roc...

Thync (company) is developing a wearable brain stimulation device with the potential to replace habits. One of the primary technologies Thync is based on is transcranial direct current stimulation, or tDCS, which uses a weak electrical current to change the sensitivity of neurons in the brain. Neurons are cells in the brain that send electrical signals to each other, resulting in the release of chemicals that impact what a person is thinking or feeling. When targeted to the right area, the tD...

BLOODHOUND SSC is a Supersonic Car! It is supersonic car designed to go faster than the speed of sound. BLOODHOUND SSC is a jet and rocket powered car designed to go at 1,000 mph (just over 1,600 kph). It has a slender body of approximately 13.4m length with two front wheels within the body and two rear wheels mounted externally within wheel fairings. It weighs 7.5 tonnes and the engines produce more than 135,000 horsepower - more than 6 times the power of all the Formula 1 cars on a start...

Many of us have heard the claims that dogs – with their acute sense of smell – have “sniffed out” disease in their owners. So, what if a technology could be developed that allowed humans the same type of “superpower"? In fact, such a technology is not very far-fetched at all. Dr. Andrew Koehl, a researcher who originally started to develop the sensor-based technology at the University of Cambridge and has since continued to develop it at Owlstone Nanotech, has invented a microchip spectromete...

A tech entrepreneur has developed a low-cost seismic warning system that could save thousands of lives. It's called the Grillo (the Spanish word for cricket) early warning system. The compact device -- a cube about the size of an alarm clock -- taps into the special frequencies that SASMEX operates on and relays that information to its users. Grillo is a tiny orange device that contains a sensitive movement detector, microprocessor and a WiFi module to transmit a signal. When seismic ac...

The concept of wireless transmission of electrical energy — or power beaming — is not new. The idea has been around for decades, proposed primarily for space-based solar farms to supply energy to Earth or the surface of another world, or for wireless power on Earth. The two technologies that appeared suitable for power beaming involved microwave or laser energy. Researchers in several countries flew a variety of model aircraft using beamed microwave energy 20 years ago. However, the nature of...

In space there's no atmosphere, it's never cloudy, and in geosynchronous orbits it's never night: a perfect place for a solar power station to harvest uninterrupted power 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The United States and the world need to find new sources of clean energy. Space Solar Power gathers energy from sunlight in space and transmits it wirelessly to Earth. Space solar power can solve our energy and greenhouse gas emissions problems. Not just help, not just take a step in the righ...

A number of agencies, including, NASA, are focusing solar system exploration efforts on Mars. While Mars is getting a lot of attention from space exploration organizations around the world, NASA has just announced a mission to colonize the atmosphere of Venus, our other neighboring planet. The surface of Venus is like a much hotter version of Mordor. The average temperature is around 900 degrees F, atmospheric pressures are 90 times that of Earth’s, and it’s full of very active volcanoes. ...

A few weeks ago, NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan made news by saying, “I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years.” It was a bold statement, but NASA is now backing those words with action. The goal of NExSS — short for Nexus for Exoplanet System Science — is to improve our understanding of extrasolar planets, and how their stars and neighboring planets interact to support life....

Robots now have a variety of purposes through technological innovation, one of them being parking your car when you get to the airport. Germany-based Serva Transport Systems has created a robot, dubbed RAY, that takes the form of an automated forklift truck capable of picking up vehicles and moving them into pre-designated parking spots The machine is currently being used at Dusseldorf Airport and works with an app, requiring travelers to only drop their cars off in a designated area and c...

Floating bridges are in many ways an anomaly. One particularly exciting example was built by Waagner-Biro in Dubai. It is the first of its kind in the emirate and carries six lanes over the Dubai Creek. This pontoon bridge has a width of 2 x 22m and a total length of 365m. The challenge lies in balancing the shifts in height caused by waves and differing traffic loads. An independent bridge structure was built for each of the two traffic directions. Between the two 115m long concrete pontoons...

Designed by Alexander Asadov, this incredible floating Aerohotel features a lighter-than-air aesthetic that sits serenely atop an elegant system of supports. Conceived as an elevated aquatic structure replete with hanging gardens, the space-age floating island preserves the entire extent of the ecosystem beneath it, contrasting with man-made islands that disrupt their immediate environment with tons of gravel fill. Aerohotel consists of a 200 meter wide circular hub lofted by an interlacing n...

ETH researchers have found a way to store information in the form of DNA, preserving it for nearly an eternity. Scrolls thousands of years old provide us with a glimpse into long-forgotten cultures and the knowledge of our ancestors. In this digital era, in contrast, a large part of our knowledge is located on servers and hard drives. It will be a challenge for this data to survive 50 years, let alone thousands of years. Researchers are therefore searching for new ways to store large volumes ...