Owning a Jet Pack had been long been most men’s childhood dream. You saw them in the movies, you saw them in the TV series, and you have always noted they either ran on plutonium or on garbage. However, you can now own one for real, a real one which runs on gasoline, and not anything as light as feet-worn roller skates.

There’s little stopping Bluetooth from making its way into more and more devices everyday, but its battery drain is many times that of, say, tried and true IR. But a new, lower power Bluetooth is coming next year.
By Texas Instruments, a new, 6mm-square Bluetooth system-on-a-chip can operate for “more than a year” on a small button-cell battery (like you see in watches or very tiny remotes). Everything from cellphones to laptops could get a battery boost from the technology, but low power, low cost Bluetooth also opens to door to …

BMW packed the new 7-Series sedan with optional gadgets ranging from radar-assisted cruise control to blind spot detection. There’s even a heads-up display. But the coolest feature is the new night-vision system that likens a twilight drive to a Special Forces recon mission.

The system was developed by the Swedish firm Autoliv Electronics. It is the latest evolution of technology that Lexus and Mercedes-Benz also have offered since Cadillac brought it to the automotive sector in the 2000 Deville sedan. Since then, thermal imaging has made way for far- and near-infrared …

The Earthquake Early Warning System is the Holy Grail of seismology, something that earthquake scientists have sought for more than a century: the ability to provide advance warning of a sizable earthquake, so the public can react before it unleashes its rolling thunder upon the land.

Earthquake warning systems consist of arrays of seismic motion sensors arranged throughout a region. High speed communications systems and computers collect the sensor readings and the computers are programmed to detect the likely strength and progression of the seismic event. If a dangerous event is …

What is the key feature a robotic designer looks for when designing a mobile robot? Locomotion and movement, which turn out to be the core parts of an animal’s life. Animals have to find food, shelter; move towards water or away from a predator.
The wonders of the animal kingdom are not just for fans of National Geographic and Animal Planet. According to Robotic designer Sangbae Kim, a professor at the MIT, the animal kingdom provides the best ideas for creating mobile robots. Kim is trying to understand how he can …