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NASA Tests Flexible Airplane Wings

It’s official: NASA has completed the first tests for its newly-developed airplane technology. The new airplane wing, which can change shape mid-flight, successfully passed 22 test flights in a six-month period. “We are thrilled to have accomplished all of our flight test goals without encountering any significant technical issues,” said Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) […]

Augmented Reality to go With Your New Mini Cooper

The automotive industry has been working a lot recently to bring digital innovations to their products. The latest of a long list of cool new collaborations comes from the union of the MINIni, Qualcomm and a San Francisco-based designer, the fruit of which is a pair of augmented reality glasses that connect drivers and their […]

The New Aluminum Battery That Can Charge Your Phone In One Minute?!

An international team of Scientists, led by Stanford University’s Hongjie Dai, have accidentally discovered a solution for the ongoing problem of creating an ultrafast rechargeable battery that’s also cheap and long-lasting. Researchers have always had their gaze focused on aluminum as an ideal material for creating batteries: it’s cheap, flexible and has a high charge-storage […]

Innovative New Virtual Reality Gloves Let You “Feel”

The newest frontier in gaming technology is virtual reality (VR). In what might be the most exciting piece of news to emerge from the field recently, a group of mechanical engineering students at Rice University has focused their efforts on the tactile aspect of the VR gaming experience – producing a prototype VR glove that […]

HTC’s New Virtual Reality Headset

HTC, the Taiwanese giant of the smartphone manufacturing industry, has just that it will release the “Vive,” a virtual reality headset, produced in cooperation with Valve. The device is expected to be released later in 2015. The first of its kind, the headset will comprise two 1200 x 1080 displays that refresh at 90 frames […]