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...
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‘Sumle’ – karaoke singing, social music-making and collaboration app
Smule is an American mobile app developer with headquarters in San Francisco.[2] The company specializes in developing social music-making and collaboration applications for iOS, Android, and Web.
It allows you to connect with your friends from all over the world or sing with top artists!
Whatever kind of singer you are, you can sound great on Smule. Use music effects & video filters to smooth over imperfections.
Sing your favorite songs solo, have fun creating a duet or group...
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Senstroke – Play drums on anything, anywhere
Senstroke is an innovative solution that allows you to realistically play the drums on any surface.
Senstroke uses unique patented technology that allows you to play drums on the surface of your choice. It transcribes the real sensation of the experience, including rebounds, even the erratic ones.
You just need to connect the Senstroke sensors to our dedicated application via Bluetooth and define playing zones for each element of the virtual drum set.
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‘KYON’ is a pet collar with embedded GPS technology and it has LED display that makes communication with your pet even easier.
KYON is the first pet collar with embedded GPS technology and the only one with LED display that makes communication with your pet even easier.
What if you could know exactly what your little one is thinking about?
KYON Sense makes this possible today with unique algorithms that can interpret your pets needs.
KYON will immediately alert you if your pet is missing. Not only it will help you to track its location, but it will also display helpful contact information right on the collar, whe...
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‘Little Fish’ is a AI home assistant robot with tablet like screen, developed by Baidu, China’s leading search engine.
Baidu's new voice-controlled home robot is like an Amazon Echo with a screen called 'Little Fish' Conversational Computer - Baidu+"Little Fish" home assistant robot.
Baidu, China's leading search engine, and Ainemo Inc., China's top technology driven consumer electronic company, jointly unveiled "Little Fish" (Chinese name: Xiaoyu Zaijia), a voice-controlled family robot powered by Baidu's AI at Digital Experience. With the partnership of these two industry leaders, "Little Fish" is posit...
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Tapdo is a smart button that lets you control technology with single-touch, personalized biometric interactions.
Tapdo button is a shortcut to control all your favorite apps and devices more comfortably by just tapping a button.
A Fingerprint Sensor helps to assign dozens of functions to one button simultaneously.
New wearable fingerprint scanner called Tapdo now allows users to map different parts of their hands to a variety of shortcuts for different smart devices.
The tapdo button is connected to your smartphone via bluetooth.
In your tapdo app you can choose compatible apps and assign singl...
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Researchers at Nottingham Trent University (UK) have developed smart balaclava with electric-conductive yarns that can help athletes stay warm and avert chest infections in cold weather
Researchers have developed a smart balaclava which warms oxygen before it’s inhaled to reduce the risk of athletes contracting chest infections in winter.
Nottingham Trent University and German advanced knitting machine manufacturer Stoll GmBH created a prototype to help runners and skiers who can be exposed to increased risk of infections when exercising in the cold.
The technology centres on a knitted patch of electric-conductive yarn over the nose and mouth which emits heat when cha...
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‘LG Watch Sport’ is a new smart watch that makes smart phone optional as it has features like GPS, Music streaming, Phone, Google Assistant, Email, ePay, Texting…
Left your phone behind? You can always stay in touch with the LG Watch Sport™ on your wrist. This standalone smartwatch stays connected to your smartphone, no matter where it is, even if it's off.* Send and receive calls and texts. Stream music from Google Play™ Music. Monitor your heart rate and track your progress. Download apps easily, and customize the display with your important info. The LG Watch Sport is available in Titanium
Google and LG have teamed up to create a pair of smartwatche...
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‘Nucleus’ is a internet-connected ‘anywhere Intercom’ that is also amazon’s alexa enabled
'Nucleus' is an internet-connected intercom that supports voice and video and the founder Jonathan Frankel's vision is to change the way we live and communicate in digital world and make it easier.
Nucleus aims to reinvent the home intercom. It's also designed to be an all-in-one, voice-activated control panel for the connected home.
At a glance, the Nucleus is a device that looks very much like a tablet. It measures 9 by 7 inches and it is 0.9 inches thick. It weighs about 2.1 pounds. But...
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Basslet a wearable subwoofer for your body so that you can literally feel the music
The Basslet is a wearable subwoofer for your body. Using a whole new technology for sound, it delivers the beats and basslines of your music directly to you – so you can literally feel the music. The result is a powerful sound experience that headphones alone cannot provide.
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Werteloberfell have created the ‘basslet’, an innovative wearable accessory that provides an immersive music experience through the use of a haptic technology for sound. it recreates the ba...
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Amazon’s ‘Echo’ Virtual Assistant Has Many New ‘Skills’ to Voice Control All Walks Of Your Daily Life
Amazon's 'Echo' is a hands-free Virtual Assistant with speaker that you control with your voice. Echo connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, provide information, news, sports...
Amazon Echo (known in-development as Doppler or Project D and shortened and referred to as Echo) is a smart speaker developed by Amazon.com. The device consists of a 9.25-inch (23.5 cm) tall cylinder speaker with a seven-piece microphone array. The device connects to the voice-controlled intelligent person...
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‘Omate Rise’ Smart Watch With Amazon Alexa
Omate Rise is a very unique type of smartwatch that can play Android apps, you can install any of the hundred thousand Android apps from the Google Play Store but not all of them will work properly as they are firstly aimed to to work on Android smartphones and tablets.
The Omate Rise is part of a new generation of smartwatches called Smartwatch 3.0 as it can be used as both a Bluetooth companion or as a standalone device via WiFi or 3G.
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MIT Media Lab and Berklee’s Institute have started Open Music Initiative (OMI) to dramatically simplify the way music creators and rights owners are identified and compensated using blockchain-inspired open and interoperable digital rights management platform.
Berklee’s Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship (BerkleeICE) announced today a groundbreaking initiative called the Open Music Initiative (OMI) to dramatically simplify the way music creators and rights owners are identified and compensated—a thorny issue that has challenged the music industry and stifled creator incomes and industry revenues since the dawn of the digital era. The effort will combine BerkleeICE’s expertise in the music industry with the MIT Media Lab’s expertise in decentraliz...
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‘ZYLIA’ world’s first portable recording studio with recording sound-source separation technology
ZYILA is Poland based company which has developed world’s first spherical microphone which records and separates each instrument and vocals into a separate track.
ZYLIA is an innovative and patented recording sound-source separation technology, a complete Portable Recording Studio for multi-track in one integrated solution. It isolates every instrument playing around it and records the results via dedicated software and cloud processing.
Music band recording is a difficult task which requ...
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‘JamKazam’ is an online Live music global virtual platform for musicians to come together and play, broadcast and share.
Using JamKazam, you can now play music with other musicians from your homes across the Internet as if you were sitting in the same room. You can record your performances at the track level, share your recordings, and even broadcast your live sessions to family, friends, and fans.
Basically, JamKazam takes the music you play that is captured into your computer – either by a device you already use for recording or by your computer’s built-in mic and headphones – and then uses an ultra-low laten...
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‘C’ by GE LED lamp with ‘Amazon Echo’ that has voice controlled light source with microphones and a speaker.
Amazon debuted Alexa last year for handling what Amazon calls “skills” like checking the weather, turning on lights, reading news, playing music from Amazon’s streaming music service, and the latest sports scores.
GE has announced that it has developed voice-controlled lamp with embedded 'Alexa' and that it will be able to do everything that its Echo home automation cousin can do. For example, owners of the new lamp can ask for NFL scores by saying, “Alexa, tell me the latest score of the Bal...
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Enhancing the Superconducting Properties of an Iron-Based Material
Scientists pioneer method that enables material to carry more electrical current without resistance at a higher temperature
Brookhaven physicist Qiang Li (right) and materials scientist Lijun Wu in an electron microscopy lab in the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department at Brookhaven Lab. Li and his team used electron microscopes to examine the microstructural defects that appeared in an iron-based superconducting material after the material was bombarded with low-energy pr...
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New Tools for Preventing Hospital-Acquired Infections
As the focus on hospital-acquired infections intensifies, some medical device manufacturers are considering deep UV light emitting diodes for smaller, portable disinfection devices. Here's how the technology can be used in medical device design.
Mark Pizzuto
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) one in every 25 hospital patients in the United States will contract a hospital-acquired infection (HAI) during their visit. Often expensive and sometime...
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Amazon’s Echo Dot
Amazon's Echo Dot is a 360 degree speaker that uses far-field voice recognition powered by the Amazon Alexa voice service/assistant.
Design wise it looks like a hockey puck with two buttons on top and a rotating volume ring. If you've ever seen or own the original Echo, then it's basically the first inch and a half taken off the top of the Pringle can-like Bluetooth speaker.
Echo Dot has everything the Echo has including long range, far-field voice capabilities, a microphone off button, an...
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‘Iqbuds’ wireless Intelligent earbuds that let you hear what you want to hear
Welcome to the future of hearing with next-generation, intelligent earbuds by Nuheara. Totally wireless & let's you hear what you want.
They are wireless earbuds that connect to your smartphone and play music or take calls, but they do a lot more than that. Its co-founders came from Sensear, an Australian company that builds industrial hearing protection that happens to have sophisticated noise suppression, speech enhancement and bluetooth communications.
Sensear, a company that de...
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‘Cyrano’ is a “scent speaker” that allows you to “play” whatever scent you’d like.
Cyrano is an air freshener that wants to give your videos smell-o-vision. The device holds three capsules at a time, each containing four scents, like lilac, guava, peppermint, vanilla, and more, You use its app, oNotes, to “play” the scents and can watch specially made videos.
Cyrano is a "scent speaker" that allows you to "play" whatever scent you'd like.
Developed by Vapor Communications. Cyrano is a small cylindrical device that is connected to an app named oNotes, where ...
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Apple’s Home Kit protocol
HomeKit. HomeKit is a framework for communicating with and controlling connected accessories in a user's home.
HomeKit allows seamless integration between iOS devices and home automation accessories, by promoting a common protocol and providing a public API.
With HomeKit, Apple’s machinations go significantly further, aiming to turn your iPhone or iPad into an engine that drives potentially countless smart accessories about your home.
HomeKit allows seamless integration between iOS devi...
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Carnegie Mellon University smartwatch can predict what wearer is up to
Two new smartwatch prototypes developed at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, can guess what their wearer is up to by tracking subtle signals in their skin and muscles. The technology could allow the owner to answer calls, track activities, and more – all without needing to be touched.
The first, named EM-Sense, can figure out what object its owner is touching. By fitting the smartwatch with a radio receiver, EM-Sense can use its wearer like a living antenna, picking up o...
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The MUZO Cobblestone is a Wi-Fi audio receiver that is able to play high fidelity, lossless music in your home through your powered speakers.
MUZO Cobblestone is a Wi-Fi Audio Receiver that makes your speakers wireless. Now you can control music play to your speakers without having to connect your audio cable to your speakers. Cobblestone is easy to set-up.
Just connect your Cobblestone to your speaker, amplifier or receiver, and configure your Cobblestone to your home Wi-Fi network with our MUZO Player app and start streaming your favorite music. It’s as easy as that. AirPlay multi-room is supported for Cobblestones and not ye...
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‘FINIS’ Duo Underwater MP3 player
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.
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‘Skreens’ lets you connect multiple HDMI devices to one screen and play them all togther
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
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Soundbrenner Pulse Wearable Metronome
Metronome is any device that produces regular, metrical ticks (beats, clicks) — settable in beats per minute. These ticks represent a fixed, regular aural pulse; some metronomes also include synchronized visual motion (e.g. pendulum-swing). The metronome dates from the early 9th century, Abbas ibn Firnas (810-887 AD), was patented by Johann Maelzel in 1815 as a tool for musicians, under the title "Instrument/Machine for the Improvement of all Musical Performance, called Metronome".[1]
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NASA’s research on Solid-State Ultracapacitor for Improved Energy Storage
Solid-State Ultracapacitor for Improved Energy Storage
Novel, solid-state, dielectric materials design greatly enhances capacitor performance.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center has developed a solid-state ultracapacitor using a novel nanocomposite, dielectric material. The materials design is based on the internal barrier layer capacitance (IBLC) concept, and it uses novel dielectric and metallic conductive ink formulations. Novel processing methods developed by NASA provide fo...
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ZEEQ Smart Pillow
The Smart Anti-sore Pillow helps you and partner get the sleep you need with it’s patented snore-activated horizontal shifting motion that is gentle and effective. Endorsed by doctors and users, the Smart Anti-snore Pillow is specially helpful for people with snoring and sleep apnea.
ZEEQ Smart Pillow - Stream music, stop snoring, sleep smarter. Warrick Bell and Miguel Marrero are the inventors of the ZEEQ Smart Pillow.
he Smart Anti-snore Pillow has several unique features which will ...
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iPhone DJ Mixer
iPhone DJ Mixeris a small carry-around-anywhere gadget that lets you mix up and transform music from two sources. The mixer can be used with iPhones, iPods and mp3 players. Once you hook two of your sources, you can select the music you want and combine them to make them sound even better than before.
Similarly, djay transforms your iPhone into a full–featured DJ system. Seamlessly integrated with both your music library and Spotify, djay gives you direct access to all your favorite songs and...
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