If you haven’t used a 3-D printer yet, you may be surprised to learn that it isn’t fully automated the way your office’s inkjet is. With paper printers, users queue documents from…
3D-printing Bricks using Moondust and Sun’s Heat.
Bricks have been 3D printed out of simulated moondust using concentrated sunlight. This ESA project took place at the DLR German Aerospace Center facility, with a 3D printer table attached to a…
Hands with Eyes – Hand that Sees offers new hope to amputees
A new generation of prosthetic limbs which will allow the wearer to reach for objects automatically, without thinking – just like a real hand – are to be trialled for the first…
MOF Water Harvester – Pulling Drinkable Water out of dry Air using the power of the sun
A solar-powered water harvester was constructed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology using a special material — a metal-organic framework, or MOF — produced at the University of California, Berkeley. This water…
MucoJet – A painless way to give Vaccines. Lollipops can replace Needle Injections in Future.
According to a proof-of-concept study conducted at UC Berkeley, Patients could one day self-administer vaccines using a needleless, pill-sized technology that jet-releases a stream of vaccine inside the mouth,. The study did…