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MIT Used a Laser to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person’s Ear

Posted by Mike Ruban in innovation, media & arts

Jun 12
2019

Scientists have figured out how to use a laser to transmit audio, ranging from music to speech, to a person across a room without any receiver equipment — a potential breakthrough for the future of audio and communication.

“Our system can be used from some distance away to beam information directly to someone’s ear,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology research Charles M. Wynn said in a press release. “It is the first system that uses lasers that are fully safe for the eyes and skin to localize an audible signal to a particular person in any setting.”

Neuromorphic Computing Breakthrough May Disrupt AI

Posted by Quinn Sena in innovation, robotics/AI

Jun 10
2019

Scientists create a brain-like organic transistor that can learn and evolve.

Linking Chips With Light

Posted by Richard Christophr Saragoza in computing, innovation

Jun 9
2019

IEEE Spectrum recently summarized a major breakthrough out of DARPA’s Photonically Optimized Embedded Microprocessors (POEM) program:

Breakthrough quantum dot hybrid LED is inexpensive and delivers vibrant color

Posted by Quinn Sena in innovation, quantum physics

Jun 9
2019

LED lighting systems could soon gain mainstream adoption with a new cost-effective hybrid LED and its solution-based process.

The foundation of the computing industry’s innovation is faltering. What can replace it?

Posted by Paul Battista in computing, innovation

Jun 8
2019

Shrinking transistors have powered 50 years of advances in computing—but now other ways must be found to make computers more capable.

Everything as Code: The future of ops tools

Posted by Quinn Sena in futurism, innovation

Jun 7
2019

How do we manage our complex, multi-cloud, hybrid infrastructures? Seth Vargo maps the operations tooling ecosystem you need to know in order to maintain your sanity, but he also looks into the future of infrastructure as code tools and what cool innovations we can expect.

In2Chess — The chess board of the future

Posted by Quinn Sena in futurism, innovation

Jun 7
2019

A radical new innovation helping you to learn and excel in chess quickly with real time learning and progression.

Guy Invents Real Life Spider-Man Web Shooter

Posted by Quinn Sena in entertainment, innovation

Jun 7
2019

Some people simply dream of having superhero powers – but one man made it a reality by inventing a real life Spider-Man web shooter.

I’m sure there’s a lot of people out there who have been envious of Spider-Man’s nifty web-shooting trick; people who eventually had to come to terms with the fact that the closest they were going to get to having those powers was through Spider-Man video games.

But one guy has given the world the opportunity to control webs without a PS4, and instead with a device that really shoots webs. The best part is, they’re willing to share it with the world and have made the invention available for purchase.

Chinese scientists make breakthrough in injectable cartilage

Posted by Genevieve Klien in innovation, space

Jun 5
2019

(ECNS) — The Chinese team that constructed the world’s first ear in a lab and grafted it onto a patient last year has made new progress by developing injectable cartilage that can be used in human tissue repair and plastic surgery.

The regeneration technique involves taking a small part of cartilage tissue from behind the ear of a patient, culturing seed cells in the lab and reproducing cells in a sufficient amount to fill a biodegradable mould made by 3D-printing.

Professor Cao Yilin, director of National Tissue Engineering Research Center, said it marks a breakthrough from previous technology as the cultured cells can be injected into a patient’s body parts like the nose and chin where they continue to develop into normal tissue, a minimally invasive treatment similar to natural growth.

Atom lasers

Posted by Quinn Sena in innovation, particle physics

Jun 4
2019

Soon after the invention of the laser in the late 1950s many dubbed the discovery as a solutYou’ve reached the limit of what you can view on Physics World without registering If you already have an account on Physics World, then please sign in to continue reading If you do not yet have an account, …