For the past few years, Loog Guitars has been successfully crowdfunding a bunch of learner instruments for youngsters, and has now kicked off another campaign to fund three guitars with a built-in amp and speaker. And now students can literally teach themselves to play. Up until now, Loog acoustic and electric guitars have all had three strings instead of the […]

  Classic Volkswagens, like the Beetle and the Bus, are now iconic pieces of driving history throughout the world. Volkswagen wants to take that love a step further by adding an electrification option for restorers looking to bring new spark to their classic Beetle cars. The e-Beetle, as it’s been dubbed, debuts as Volkswagen’s collaboration with eClassics. Using components from […]

Kaia Health, a health technology company based in New York City, has developed a smartphone app that can guide users through exercises to help with back pain and COPD. The technology uses AI powered motion tracking technology to monitor users’ movements through a smartphone camera, and provides feedback on the exercises being performed. The app can help users to perform […]

Ordinarily, if a window goes around the corner of a building, it’s made of two flat panes of glass that are joined together by a metal rail or glue. Now, though, German scientists have developed a method of bending a single sheet of glass to a 90-degree angle – without affecting its optical properties. Although panes of glass can already […]

Whether you’re an athlete looking to improve your performance, or a rehabilitative therapy patient learning to walk again, it helps if you can be shown what to do differently as you’re in motion. Well, that’s exactly what a new augmented reality-based (AR) system is designed to do. The technology is being developed at Canada’s University of Alberta, by a team […]

Although the GoPro Hero may be one of the best compact video cameras you can buy, its form is different than the DSLRs or point-and-shoots that we’re used to. British startup Overlab is out to change that, though, with its Asokee case. Designed to fit Hero models 5, 6 and 7, the Asokee is made of a combination of 6061 […]

The company EXO Imaging out of Redwood City, CA recently emerged from stealth mode to announce the development of a novel technology called Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (pMUT) for ultrasound imaging. EXO Imaging is bringing together advances in micromachined materials and artificial intelligence to enhance both the ultrasound probe as well as the receiver that a clinician uses to visualize […]

In theory, ceramics are great materials for encasing electronics. They’re tough, they insulate against electricity, protect against heat, and in the case of implants in the body, they’re biocompatible. The problem is that fusing ceramics together requires high heat, which would destroy electronic components. Now, researchers have developed a new way to weld ceramics together at room temperature, using ultrafast […]

Researchers have developed an algorithm to match refugees arriving in the US with the city where they are most likely to find employment and a good quality of life. Developed by researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, Lund University in Sweden, and the University of Oxford in the UK, the algorithm aims to direct new arrivals to the US […]

For continuously gathering information on ocean conditions, one thing that’s been proposed is a network of sensors that would transmit data from the sea floor. Changing their batteries, however, could be quite challenging. That’s where a new MIT system is designed to come in. Created by a team led by Asst. Prof. Fadel Adib, the setup consists of two main […]