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AI-Powered Backpack Helps Visually Impaired Navigate World

Researchers have designed an AI-powered, voice-activated backpack that can help the visually impaired navigate and perceive the world around them. The backpack helps detect common challenges such as traffic signs, hanging obstacles, crosswalks, moving objects and changing elevations, all while running on a low-power, interactive device.

Big Gains for Low-loss Materials in the 5G Market

The emphasis on low-loss materials in 5G has already started to take effect.

World's First Hydrogen Cargo Vessel Set For Paris Debut

The European innovation project Flagships will deploy the world's first commercial cargo transport vessel operating on hydrogen, plying the river Seine in Paris. Commercial operations are set to commence in 2021.

Elon Musk's Neuralink Taught a Monkey to Play Pong With its Mind

Neuralink is developing a fully-implanted, wireless, high-channel count brain-machine interface with the goal of enabling people with paralysis to directly use their neural activity to operate computers and mobile devices with speed and ease.

Saudi Arabia's First Utility Scale Renewable Energy Project

ACWA Power announces the official inauguration of the 300 MW Sakaka PV IPP, Saudi Arabia's first utility scale renewable energy project, at an investment value of 1.2 billion Saudi riyals.

NewMotion's Charging Network Joins Electric Juice Network

Octopus Energy and NewMotion have agreed that customers of the Electric Juice Network can now use the public charge points of NewMotion. NewMotion, a Shell group company, has thousands of charge points in the public charging network in Europe and the UK, including a growing amount of rapid charging at Shell Recharge.

Oppo Band Launches in the UK

OPPO has announced the launch of the OPPO Band, the smartphone brand's first wearable device designed to enhance and improve the fitness experience. It's the newest addition to OPPO's smart device line and follows the success of the OPPO Watch series last year.

HP

HP outlined how its multi-jet fusion 3D printing technology can be adapted for additively manufactured electronics at the recent FLEX2021 conference.

How a Moving Platform for 3D Printing Can Cut Waste and Costs

For the first time, researchers have created a low-cost reusable support method to reduce the need for 3D printers to print wasteful supports, vastly improving cost-effectiveness and sustainability for 3D printing.

First Human Use of High Bandwidth Wireless Brain Computer Interface

Brain-computer interfaces are an emerging assistive technology, enabling people with paralysis to type on computer screens or manipulate robotic prostheses just by thinking about moving their own bodies. For years, investigational BCIs used in clinical trials have required cables to connect the sensing array in the brain to computers that decode the signals and use them to drive external devices.

Nexperia: GaN for EV Power Electronics

SiC has been shown as an alternative to Si in electric vehicle power electronics, especially for high voltage applications. At a recent webinar, Nexperia detailed their GaN technology for on-board chargers, DC/DC converters and traction inverters.

Saab Tests 3D Printing for Battlefield Damage Repair

Saab has successfully conducted the trial which marked the first time an exterior 3D printed part has been flown on a Gripen, rather than internal 3D printed components. The purpose of the trial was to test how additive manufacturing could be used in battlefield damage repair.

Screening for Skin Disease on Your Laptop

In artificial intelligence, deep learning organizes algorithms into layers (the artificial neural network) that can make its own intelligent decisions. To speed up the learning process, the new network was trained using the parameters of MobileNetV2, a mobile vision application, pre-trained on the ImageNet dataset with 1.4M images.

New Approach Could be Key to Next-Generation Transparent Electronics

A new study, out this week, could pave the way to revolutionary, transparent electronics. Such see-through devices could potentially be integrated in glass, in flexible displays and in smart contact lenses, bringing to life futuristic devices that seem like the product of science fiction.

Amazon's Robot Arms Break Ground in Safety, Technology

Inside an Amazon facility, employees and robot work together to ready products for customers. On one side of the building, yellow tote bins bearing partially completed orders, ride down a conveyor. At the end of the conveyor, a robot arm called a palletizer/depalletizer stacks them on a pallet as if playing a three-dimensional game of Tetris.

Low Cost Solar Powered Water Filter Removes Lead, Other Contaminants

A new invention that uses sunlight to drive water purification could help solve the problem of providing clean water off the grid.

Source Technology for the Use of Wearable Devices Without Recharging

Despite the continued development and commercialization of various wearable electronic devices, such as smart bands, progress with these devices has been curbed by one major limitation, as they regularly need to be recharged. However, a new technology has become a hot topic, as it shows significant potential to overcome this limitation for wearable electronic devices.

SolarWindow Sets New Record, Doubling Its Power Conversion Efficiency

SolarWindow Technologies Inc has more than doubled its prior certified performance, also achieving the highest independently-certified power conversion efficiency of previous organic photovoltaic devices fabricated at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Many Routes to 1000 Mile Battery Vehicles

It is easy to make 1000-mile battery-electric vehicles, and the effect on market uptake will be profound.

Creative Materials Introduces Two-Component Silicone Compound

Creative Materials introduces 904-64A/B, a two-component silicone addition-cured potting compound. This high performance product is red in color, is thermally conductive, room-temperature curing, and low shrinkage.