Synapse Program Develops Advanced Brain-Inspired Chip
By DARPA.
New chip design mimics brain’s power-saving efficiency; uses 100x less power for complex processing than state-of-the-art chips
DARPA-funded researchers have developed one of the world’s largest and [...]
Northrop Grumman developing XS-1 Experimental space plane design for DARPA
By Alton Parrish.
Northrop Grumman Corporation with Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic is developing a preliminary design and flight demonstration plan for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Experimental Spaceplane [...]
Ground X-Vehicle Technology with more armor
By DARPA.
GXV-T seeks to develop revolutionary technologies to make future armored fighting vehicles more mobile, effective and affordable
For the past 100 years of mechanized warfare, protection for ground-based [...]
3D printed interactive speakers
By Alton Parrish.
If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it just might be a loudspeaker
Forget everything you know about what a loudspeaker should look like. Scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh have developed methods [...]
New fast charging nano-supercacitors for electric cars
By Alton Parrish.
Innovative nano-material based supercapacitors are set to bring mass market appeal a good step closer to the lukewarm public interest in Germany. This movement is currently being motivated by the advancements in [...]
Technology that protects against bomb attacks
The Daily Journalist.
A new type of steel-reinforced concrete protects buildings better from bomb attacks. Researchers have developed a formula to quickly calculate the concrete’s required thickness. The material will [...]
‘Nanocamera’ takes pictures at distances smaller than light’s own wavelength
By Alton Parrish.
How is it possible to record optically encoded information for distances smaller than the wavelength of light?
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated that an array of novel [...]
Drone Lighting For Perfect Photography
By MIT.
Autonomous vehicles could automatically assume the right positions for photographic lightingLighting is crucial to the art of photography. But lights are cumbersome and time-consuming to set up, and outside the studio, it can [...]