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PowerVision launches the PowerEgg design challenge
A new global design contest is due to kick off this summer, as announced by PowerVision. The PowerEgg Design Challenge aims to inspire both professional and amateur designers to submit outstanding external designs for the pioneering and elegant PowerEgg flying robot, PowerVision’s first consumer drone.
A strategy for ‘convergence’ research to transform biomedicine
What if lost limbs could be regrown? Cancers detected early with blood or urine tests, instead of invasive biopsies? Drugs delivered via nanoparticles to specific tissues or even cells, minimising unwanted side effects? While such breakthroughs may sound futuristic, scientists are already exploring these and other promising techniques.
The largest neutrino telescope in the world
Deep-sea array will soak up signals from neutrinos travelling through the cosmos to study the evolution of the universe and to discover more about the fundamental properties of these prized sub-atomic particles. KM3NeT – a European collaboration pioneering the deployment of kilometre cubed arrays of neutrino detectors off the Mediterranean coast – has reported in detail on the scientific aims, technology and costs of its proposal in t...
MT-CONNECT: Nuremberg's new event for medical technology
The name says it all: MT-CONNECT is the new sector platform for medical technology. The trade fair held by NürnbergMesse in co-operation with the honorary sponsor, Forum MedTech Pharma e.V., brings together all the sub-sectors involved in the development and manufacture of medical products.
Researchers join together to extend MRI capabilities
Three Grenoble-based research and medical partners have been selected to join the EU funded IDentIFY project to significantly extend the capability of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in disease detection.
An alternative view on football coaching
There are few sports where technology has been a bigger catalyst for change over the last 15-20 years than football – driving a seismic shift in attitudes towards coaching, nutrition, player physiology and health – particularly in England.
Bio-ink for 3D printer could produce complex tissues
Scientists at the University of Bristol have developed a kind of bio-ink, which could eventually allow the production of complex tissues for surgical implants. The stem cell-containing bio ink allows 3D printing of living tissue, known as bio-printing. The bio-ink contains two different polymer components: a natural polymer extracted from seaweed, and a sacrificial synthetic polymer used in the medical industry, and both had a role to play.
Google Glass could help autistic children read emotions
Like many autistic children, Julian Brown has trouble reading emotions in people's faces, one of the challenging conditions of the neurological disorder. Now the 10-year-old San Jose boy is getting help from an experimental device that records and analyses faces in real time and alerts him to the emotions they're expressing. The facial recognition software was developed at Stanford University and runs on Google Glass, a computerised hea...
Google collaborates with researchers on AI safety
The Google Research Blog posted a message from Chris Olah of Google Research. He confirmed the publication of "a technical paper, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, a collaboration among scientists at Google, OpenAI, Stanford and Berkeley." This is great news for those who are alarmed over what limits may be over-stepped by AI systems in carrying out their actions, and whether we had better anticipate any event where an AI system does not behave acc...
Whitepaper simplifies small cell network synchronisation
A range of flexible options for how mobile operators meet the challenge of achieving accurate small cell network timing synchronisation are outlined in a whitepaper from CCS, titled Enhancing Small Cell Performance with Synchronised Backhaul.