Cool Stuff That's Coming

Hugh Herr is building the next generation of bionic limbs, robotic prosthetics inspired by nature’s own designs.

Spot, DARPA’s four-legged robotic pack mule, shows off nimbler moves and a quieter drive system than its predecessor.

Specifically, the magnetocaloric effect could play a role in futuristic refrigerators that wouldn’t need industrial coolants to run, which would be a boon in the fight against climate change. Sign me up.

"Even after years of paralysis, the brain can still generate robust brain waves that can be harnessed to enable basic walking,"

According to a company release, the Big Delta help accommodate the estimated 4 billion people worldwide that will lack adequate housing by 2030.

The move to the new cards may hasten the day when we don’t use physical cards for payments at all.

Wearing corrective eye glasses could soon be a thing of the past.

Argentinian scientists for the University of Tucuman have created REGEBONE, a biomaterial that could change medicine forever.

"I had said it would take about five years to see a product on the market," Jimenez told the paper. "The calendar is on track and we are already developing a technological lens prototype (that) should be tested on humans in 2016."

Now researchers at the Australian National University and the University of Sydney have, for the first time, developed a drone that does the labor-intensive work of tracking down a collared animal.