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WeWALK: Smart Cane Incorporates Google Maps for Easier Navigation

If smartphones can fit a whole world of functionality within our pockets, why can’t the same features be incorporated into useful tools for people with disabilities? In a particularly cool ...

Adversarial Fashion Designed to Trick Automated License Plate Readers

As it turns out, surveillance cameras that have been "trained" to spot and read license plates aren't all that good at discerning real ones from fakes. That makes it pretty easy to trick ...

Wooden Wonders: Innovative Updates to an Ancient Building Material

Despite the fact that wood has been in use as a primary building material for millennia, it’s being hailed as the material of the future. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new ...

Anthropomorphic Drones Tell the Stories of Immigrants & Refugees in Milan

In Milan, the eyes and voices of immigrants, refugees and marginalized citizens take on a surprising form to interact with the public, telling people their stories. While drones are typically ...

3D-Printed Sushi Nutritionally Customized Based on Diner’s Biodata

Not many sushis restaurants ask their patrons to provide urine and saliva samples upon entrance, but in our era of hyper-personalization, maybe we shouldn't be surprised. From the Japanese ...

How Smart Home Technology Could Change Architecture

Whether you're an early adopter or believe smart technology could invite a host of new headaches into our most private spaces, connectivity and automation are coming for us all. We’re still in ...

Who Owns Your Face? Welcome to a New World of Hacking Headaches

The question of who owns your face sounds absurd on the surface - of course you own it, it's attached to your body after all. But in an era of facial recognition technology, in which your face ...

Nera: The World’s First Fully 3D-Printed Motorcycle Features Airless Tires

All black, electric and completely 3D-printed: BigRep's Nera Motorcycle is here, and ready to change the game. The electronic components of this brand new, futuristic-looking motorbike are the ...

From Saving Lives to Raining Candy: Drones Do a Lot of Good, Too

We haven't quite reached the predicted point at which drones become an intrinsic part of our daily lives, but small autonomous flying machines are learning how to do a lot more than spook people ...

Trash Bot Game & Professor Water Wheel: Gadgets Devour Floating Plastic Waste

Plastic pollution is worse than ever, with scientists recently announcing horrific levels of micro plastics found in Arctic sea ice, but innovative new ways of cleaning it up may give us a sliver ...

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