Last month, the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper published a report according to which the U.S. Air Force has purchased something like 2200 PlayStation 3, to be connected together in form of a cluster to carry out some not further specified urban surveillance tasks. It is not the first time that the popular videogame console is [...]

There are iPhone applications to do basically anything that can come to your mind, and it was an easy bet that one day, the Apple phone could step into the radio controlled unmanned helicopters field. In fact, manufacturer Parrot has just introduced its AR.Drone, a small helicopter equipped with two digital video cameras, which can [...]

During the past month of December, at International Electron Devices Meeting which was held in Baltimore, Belgian researchers from IMEC, the largest European research centre in the fields of nanotechnologies and nanoelectronics, have presented a small piezoelectric sensor which can harvest power from vibrations caused by pressure or motion. Thanks to its characteristics, this sensor [...]

For many patients suffering from almost total blindness, the lack of hope is often as hard as their illness, since there are no medical solutions which can provide them with an almost normal eyesight, and an almost normal everyday life. A solution might be coming from California, and more specifically from Stanford University, where a [...]