Type a few words, get a finished 3D design. Modern AI makes that easy, and it also hides how the result was made. A University of Sydney team says that is a problem for learning, and on November 4, 2026 it announced a tool built to fix it.
The system, called Treellis, was developed in the university's Faculty of Engineering with the University of Cambridge and Singapore Management University. The paper describing it won a Best Paper Award at ACM UIST 2026, the Symposium on User Interface So...
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Energy Harvesting Soccer Ball
New soccer ball, called the sOccet ball, generates enough energy to light up a home.
This invention was developed by four students from Harvard University in partnership with the Laboratory at Harvard Think-Tank; it's a soccer ball which they call the sOccet that generates electricity from normal kicking during game play.
The ball has a built-in inductive coil that collects kinetic energy. After about 15 minutes of kicking the ball around it will produce enough electricity to charge LED li...
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