Boeing has been given a patent for a new kind of amphibious drone that's like something straight out of a classic spy movie. The aeronautics giant has a novel design for an unmanned aerial drone that can spontaneously convert into an unmanned submarine and go for a dive. Boeing's take on a real world "transformer" begins with a drone that is launched aboard a large carrier aircraft and then separated near its target spot for entering the water. When the craft hits the water, some combination ...

After an extensive review process and passing a major development milestone, NASA is ready to proceed with final design and construction of its next Mars rover, currently targeted to launch in the summer of 2020 and arrive on the Red Planet in February 2021. The Mars 2020 rover will investigate a region of Mars where the ancient environment may have been favorable for microbial life, probing the Martian rocks for evidence of past life. Throughout its investigation, it will collect samples of ...

Each year in the United States, nearly 800,000 people suffer a stroke, or a brain attack. This occurs when an artery that supplies blood to part of the brain becomes blocked or ruptures and leads to bleeding in the brain. In ischemic strokes, a blood clot is the triggering event, while the remaining 10 percent of strokes are called hemorrhagic and a burst blood vessel or aneurysm is typically the cause. Strokes occur frequently: Once every 40 seconds, while every four minutes an American dies...

Spotter keeps you updated on what's going on at home-from anywhere. Monitor motion, sound, light, temperature, and humidity all from your mobile device. Use Spotter as a veritable extension of your senses, for anything from baby monitoring to washer/dryer notifications or perfecting your wine cellar; the possibilities are endless.   Spotter lets you monitor motion, sound, light, temperature, and humidity from your smartphone. Home is where the heart is; it's nice to have eyes and ear...

Prep Pad + Countertop Prep Pad is the smart food scale that gives real-time nutritional insight into your food through a customized Balance goal and beautiful visualizations of calories, carbs, protein, and more. Meet your kitchen nutritionist,skip the fads, get the facts. Get an accurate nutritional breakdown of the meals you make at home with the simple-but smart-food scale, Prep Pad, and its partner app, Countertop. Set nutritional goals, make and log your meals, and track your progress to h...

With its blue skies, puffy white clouds, warm beaches and abundant life, planet Earth is a pretty special place.  A quick survey of the solar system reveals … nothing else like it. But how special is Earth, really? One way to find out is to look for other worlds like ours elsewhere in the galaxy.  Astronomers using NASA’s Kepler space telescope and other observatories have been doing just that.  In recent years they have been finding other planets increasingly similar to Earth—but still no...

Our range of Kuchofuku cooling cushions keep office workers nicely un-sweaty in the summer months, and now comes this useful Air Cool Cushion AC Adapter Set, the medium version of the Air Cool Cushion plus an adapter so you won't have to worry about current or running out of power! Ideal for people who really put in the desk chair hours during the hot season, the cushion will drive cool 198 liters of air flow per minute through a quiet fan. Moisture and heat is cooled via the special uret...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) integrates domestic technologies of cutting-edge materials, sewing, clothing facilities, precision processing and other related industries, which are Japan's field of expertise, and promotes "Study on the Next Generation Advanced Space Suit" as an element technology research for an extravehicular suit that exceeds that of other countries. Here is a vest that can keep you cool in the summer. The JAXA Reikyaku Cooling Vest is water-cooled. Just ...

Italian footwear company Vibram recently released a pair of shoes that literally wrap around your foot. The idea came from Japanese designer Masaya Hashimoto, who took his inspiration from the Japanese tradition of Furoshiki. There are many techniques to wrap pretty much anything, likes boxes, flowers, or to make bags, but nobody thought of using this art to create shoes so far.     Shoe that actually adapts to your foot and provides great angle support. In terms of lo...

Patrick Taylor, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, says that one of the main factors for the Arctic's rapid warming is how clouds interact with frozen seawater, known as sea ice. These interactions influence the Arctic’s albedo feedback, which is a term scientists use to describe changes in the amount of solar energy absorbed by the Earth due to changes in the Earth's albedo caused by increased greenhouse gases. The Earth's albedo is basically ...

Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have developed a new imaging device that consists of a loose bundle of optical fibers, with no need for lenses or a protective housing. The fibers are connected to an array of photosensors at one end; the other ends can be left to wave free, so they could pass individually through micrometer-scale gaps in a porous membrane, to image whatever is on the other side. Bundles of the fibers could be fed through pipes and immersed in fluids, to image oil fields, a...

According to a patent granted to Apple on Tuesday, iPhones, iPads and other branded equipment could one day sport onboard smoke detection hardware to alert users, and interested parties, of a potentially dangerous situation. Apple iPhone Smoke Detector Apple's invention proposes building a smoke detectorsensor into the speaker grill of an iPhone or other devices. Apple's U.S. Patent No. 9,123,221 An electronic device may include a smoke detector. The electronic device may use the smoke...

Emitting the noise of a flushing toilet to spare a woman’s blushes, the Toto Otohime ("sound princess") is a standard fixture in many toilets around Japan. But what do you do when you enter a toilet that doesn’t have an Otohime installed? Enter the Keitai ("Mobile") Otohime. This slender pink device, which comes in two attractive designs, can be slipped into a ladies’ handbag or connected to your phone or purse. Japanese women often flush the toilet to hide embarrassing sounds but as each...

NASA is preparing to launch its first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth. The mission will help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as improve our understanding of asteroids that could impact Earth. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will travel to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and bring a sample back to Earth for intensive study. Launch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. E...

MIT biological engineers have devised a memory storage system as a DNA-embedded meter that is recording the activity of a signaling pathway in a human cell. MIT biological engineers have devised a way to record complex histories in the DNA of human cells, allowing them to retrieve “memories” of past events, such as inflammation, by sequencing the DNA. This analog memory storage system — the first that can record the duration and/or intensity of events in human cells — could also help scien...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved an expanded indication for the Sapien XT and Sapien 3 transcatheter heart valves for patients with aortic valve stenosis who are at intermediate risk for death or complications associated with open-heart surgery. These devices were previously approved only in patients at high or greater risk for death or complications during surgery. Edwards Lifesciences is an American medical equipment company specializing in artificial heart valves and he...

FINIS Duo Underwater MP3 player - This device uses revolutionary, patented Bone Conduction audio to transmit high-fidelity audio through the cheekbones directly into the inner ear. With a sleek, two-piece design , this waterproof MP3 player uses integrated control buttons and goggle brackets to make swimming to music easier than ever before. Newly engineered with a stronger magnetic connection, the USB magnetic dock prevents complications with device recognition and charging.   Ne...

Skreens lets every device stream at once. Your gaming console. Your cable box. Your blu-ray, Roku, PC and anything else you're switching between — now all Watch multiple sporting events at one time; Switch games between large and small skreens; Mix in internet content like team stats, fantasy stats, or team bios. The Skreens app puts all of your HDMI signals on one display Skreens turns your TV into a media hub with multiple simultaneous feeds Skreens is a two or four-port hub ...

Arineta provides innovative imaging solutions for improved cardiac care. They are have developed a unique CT scanner for cardiovascular imaging. Clinical In-hospital Evaluation of the Usefulness of a New Multi-detector Computed Tomography Scanner. Israel-based imaging equipment manufacturer Arineta said it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its SpotLight CT cardiovascular scanner. The proprietary design of the dedicated cardiovascular scanner is very diff...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first intraocular lens (IOL) that provides cataract patients with an extended depth-of-focus, which helps improve their sharpness of vision (visual acuity) at near, intermediate and far distances. Intraocular lens (IOL) is a lens implanted in the eye used to treat cataracts or myopia. The most common type of IOL is the pseudophakic IOL. These are implanted during cataract surgery, after the cloudy crystalline lens (otherwise known as a ...

Molecular Informatics and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) A fundamental big data challenge Microsoft is working on is related to Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, which generate data at a rate much faster than that of the growth of compute and storage capacity. Researchers predict that the amount of genomic data will exceed that of YouTube, and genomic computations will exceed 5 million compute days per year by 2020. By the end of 2016, Microsoft will host large, open Genomic...

Everyone knows the score with black holes: even if light strays too close, the immense gravity will drag it inside, never to be seen again. They are thought to be created when large stars finally spend all their fuel and collapse. It might come as a surprise, therefore, to find that physicists in the UK have now managed to create an “artificial” black hole in the lab. Originally, theorists studying black holes focused almost exclusively on applying Einstein’s theory of general relativity, whi...

HorseFly is an eight-rotor “octocopter,” designed to be used in tandem with WorkhorseGroup's EPA-approved electric work trucks. AMP Holding Inc. announced that its AMP Trucks subsidiary has successfully designed and flown a prototype of its new HorseFly™ battery-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Steve Burns, AMP CEO said, “HorseFly is the logical extension of our mission to help companies better manage their logistics operations. Whether a company wants to deliver its packages by truc...

NASA Goddard Tech Transfer -  the GPM mission is the first to coordinate a network of international satellites (current and planned) to produce the next generation of data on global precipitation. The star of the mission is the GPM Core Observatory, launched in February of 2014. It carries an advanced radar/radiometer system and serves as a reference standard that will unify precipitation measurements from the constellation. To do this, technology had to be developed that could link the data fro...

There’s a new tool in the push to engineer rechargeable batteries that last longer and charge more quickly. An X-ray microscopy technique recently developed at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has given scientists the ability to image nanoscale changes inside lithium-ion battery particles as they charge and discharge. The real-time images provide a new way to learn how batteries work, and how to improve them. The method was developed at Berkeley ...

Heracleion (Greek: Ἡράκλειον), also known as Thonis (Θῶνις), was an ancient Egyptian city near Alexandria whose ruins are located in Abu Qir Bay, currently 2.5 km off the coast, under 10 m (30 ft) of water. Its legendary beginnings go back to as early as the 12th century BC, and it is mentioned by ancient Greek historians. Its importance grew particularly during the waning days of the Pharaohs—the late period, when it was Egypt's main port for international trade and collection of taxes. Hera...

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have found that the amount of proteins excreted in the urine of preterm infants with acute kidney injury, or AKI, is different from that excreted by infants with healthy kidneys. The study, led by principal investigator David Askenazi, M.D., was published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. “The findings in this study could help physicians better diagnose kidney health in newborns,” said Askenazi, associa...

S+, the non-contact sleep sensor that helps you sleep better from the very first night. S+ combines a bedside sleep monitor, smartphone app and web-based app to help you track and better understand your sleeping patterns, and then creates personalized feedback and suggestions to help improve your sleep. Using advanced bio-motion technology and rigorous sleep science, S+: Measures your breathing and body movements throughout the night Analyzes light, noise and temperature levels in y...

Space exploration has created new markets and new technologies that have spurred our economy and changed our lives in many ways. This year, NASA unveiled two new complementary interactive Web features, NASA City and NASA @ Home, available at www.nasa.gov/city. The new features highlight how space pervades our lives, invisible yet critical to so many aspects of our daily activities and well-being. Health and Medicine Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) Red light-emitting diodes are grow...

Hexiwear is a wearable development kit for the Internet of Things era. A small and sleek, low-power device packed with sensors to quantify yourself and the world around you. Wirelessly enabled, it can connect both to devices nearby – or to cloud servers far away. Developed in collaboration with NXP Semiconductors and funded through Kickstarter, Hexiwear is chiefly aimed at developers who need a complete IoT toolkit – low power yet versatile hardware, compatible smartphone and iOS apps, and cl...